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Revisions Number 1 - The Assassination of Experience by by Sarah Wilson
Nobody writed about art and philosophy like the French, as the new Revisions series proves. In the first installment, a translation of the Lyotard's famed essay on the experience of viewing art is accompanied by a historical and critical interpretation of the Gallic critics commitment to writing and art by series editor and art historian Sarah Wilson. Includes 60 color reproductions.
- GenresPhilosophy
Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1984
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Jean-François Lyotard
123 books341 followersJean-François Lyotard (DrE, Literature, University of Paris X, 1971) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition.
He went to primary school at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand and later began studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. After graduation, in 1950, he took a position teaching philosophy in Constantine in French East Algeria. He married twice: in 1948 to Andrée May, with whom he had two daughters, and for a second time in 1993 to the mother of his son, who was born in 1986.
He went to primary school at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand and later began studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. After graduation, in 1950, he took a position teaching philosophy in Constantine in French East Algeria. He married twice: in 1948 to Andrée May, with whom he had two daughters, and for a second time in 1993 to the mother of his son, who was born in 1986.
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