Introducing Lyotard

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard''s interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. Bill Readings examines Lyotard''s relationship to structuralism, Marxism and semiotics, and contrasts his work with the literary deconstruction of Paul de Man; he positions Lyotard''s work so as to draw out the ...