Readings in Infancy

''Nobody knows how to write''. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French in 1991 as Lectures d''enfance, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of infantia, or the infancy of t...