An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university and the future.

This useful guidebook will introduce students to a range of key thinkers who have sought to question the contemporary situation, and should enable readers to begin to approach the primary texts of post-modern theory and culture with confidence.

Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines, this text encourages the reader to develop a deeper understanding of how to approach the written word. It includes almost 200 fully cross-referenced dictionary entries; illustrations drawn from literature, film and contemporary culture; a dictionary of terms and thinkers; and more.

Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines, this text encourages the reader to develop a deeper understanding of how to approach the written word. It includes almost 200 fully cross-referenced dictionary entries; illustrations drawn from literature, film and contemporary culture; a dictionary of terms and thinkers; and more.

An essential student guide to Lyotard and issues in his work, including modernity and the postmodern, the sublime, ethics, history and representation, art and the unpresentable, knowledge and the university and the future.

This text introduces modernity, postmodernism and postmodernity through a series of debates between prominent thinkers in literary theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It explores this topic through thinkers who are at odds, considering the wider implications of postmodern thought.