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Jean Froncois Lyotard (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
Jean Froncois Lyotard - Routledge Critical Thinkers Author:Simon Malpas This is an essential guide to an thinker. Frederic Jameson sees Lyotard as responding to a contemporary "crisis of representation" in the sciences -- a crisis which calls into question "an essentially realistic epistemology, which conceives of representation as the reproduction, for subjectivity, of an objectivity that lies outside it -- project... more »s a mirror theory of knowledge and art, whose fundamental evaluative categories are those of adequacy, accuracy, and Truth itself."« less