The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter Publisher: Routledge - Jean Francois Lyotard PDF



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 projects a mirror theory of knowledge and art, whose fundamental evaluative categories are those of adequacy, accuracy, and Truth itself.