Lyotard and Politics - (Thinking Politics) by Stuart Sim (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>It is Jean François Lyotard's political focus that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'thinking politics': finding ways of translating philosophical thought into a basis for political action. Stuart Sim explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in our cultural climate, especially in light of the dramatic resurgence of right-wing extremism. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Establishing the relevance of Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophy to contemporary politics It is largely the political dimension to Jean-François Lyotard's work that singles him out from his poststructuralist and postmodernist contemporaries. He is invariably 'thinking politics', concerned to find ways of translating philosophical thought into a basis for political action. Lyotard's work as a whole represents a consistent critique of the power structures of contemporary culture; this book ranges through his extensive oeuvre to establish him as the most politically-committed of contemporary sceptical thinkers. Sim applies the 'little narrative' notion to current ideological struggles, and explores how Lyotard's brand of pragmatism can provide a focus for political theory and action in a cultural climate featuring a resurgence of right-wing extremism. Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. He has edited <i>The Lyotard Dictionary</i> (2011) and <i>The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory<i> (2016), and has written several monographs including <i>The End of Modernity</i> (2010) and <i>Addicted to Profit</i> (2012).<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Stuart Sim is retired Professor of Critical Theory at Northumbria University. He has published widely on critical theory, and is a Fellow of the English Association. Amongst his recent publications are The Lyotard Dictionary (2011), Addicted to Profit: Reclaiming Our Lives from the Free Market (2012), Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), and, with Brett Wilson and Barbara Hawkins (eds) Art, Science & Cultural Understanding (2014).<p>
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