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Libidinal Economy
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See moreFirst published under title âEconomie libidinale in 1974. First publication in Great Britain in 1993 by The Athlone Press, reissued in 2004 by Continuum.
A major work of continental philosophy by the author of The Postmodern Condition.
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First published in 1974, Libidinal Economy is a major work of twentieth-century continental philosophy. In it, Lyotard develops the idea of economies driven by libidinal ‘energies’ or ‘intensities’ which he claims flow through all structures, such as the human body and political or social events.
He uses this idea to interpret a diverse range of subjects including political economy, Marxism, sexual politics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. Lyotard also carries out a broad critique of philosophies of desire, as expounded by Deleuze and Guattari, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault, and de Sade.
Translated by Iain Hamilton Grant.
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ISBN: 9781474241120
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 October 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Contributors:
- Translated by Iain Hamilton Grant
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 136.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was Professor of Philosophy at several institutes of higher learning in Paris and at the University of California. A member of the radical group Socialisme ou Barbarie, he later went on to become one of the founding figures of postmodernism with his work The Postmodern Condition.
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