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Just Gaming Jean-François Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud |
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Jean-François Lyotard's first book to appear in English, The Postmodern Condition, investigated the legitimation of knowledge when there is no unified public sphere, only discordant language games. In Just Gaming, Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thébaud use Wittgenstein's theory of language games to examine the problem of justice. Structured as an extended Platonic dialogue, Just Gaming was originally published in French as Au Juste and is considered a unique work among Lyotard's oeuvre. "Just Gaming, with its question and answer format, is particularly accessible to the uninitiated. J. L. Thébaud maintains an admirable simplicity and directness of questioning and, in response, Lyotard orchestrates a complex thought in a luminous conversational mode." —Gayatri Spivak Jean-François Lyotard (1925-1998) was one of the principal French philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. His works include The Differend (1989), The Postmodern Condition (1984), Heidegger and "the jews" (1990), The Postmodern Explained (1992), Political Writings (1993), Postmodern Fables (1997), and Signed, Malraux (1999). Jean-Loup Thébaud was editor of L'esprit. Wlad Godzich is professor of comparative literature at the University of Geneva. Samuel Weber is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. 135 pages | 6 x 9 | 1985 |
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