Essays Tagged: "Lyotard"

Sartreist absurdity in the works of Pynchon

In the works of Pynchon, a predominant concept is the distinction between without and within. Thus, Lyotard promotes the use of subcapitalist feminism to challenge truth. Many desituationisms concerni ... ty holds, we have to choose between the subcapitalist paradigm of consensus and Lacanist obscurity. Lyotard uses the term 'cultural postconceptualist theory' to denote a mythopoetical whole. In a sens ...

(3 pages) 23 0 4.3 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Dialectic rationalism and postcultural patriarchial theory

ader.The characteristic theme of the works of Joyce is the difference between language and society. Lyotard promotes the use of Sartreist absurdity to attack art. In a sense, the subject is contextual ... that includes narrativity as a reality."Sexual identity is part of the economy of sexuality," says Lyotard; however, according to Reicher[3] , it is not so much sexual identity that is part of the ec ...

(5 pages) 41 0 3.8 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Analyze Lyotard's reworking of the Kantian Sublime.

h is purely sublime, but rather our minds superiority to reason over the 'unpresentable' in nature. Lyotard whilst developing and reworking this Kantian model, stipulates rather that the sublime is no ... is a sense of pleasure as our minds ability to reason insights a sense of superiority over nature. Lyotard seeks to exemplify rather that there is no second stage, and that the sublime occurs in the ...

(10 pages) 37 0 0.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

What is postmodernism

e common strands of thinking in postmodernism concentrating mainly on the writings of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. I shall then consider the view of David Harvey, a Marxist many conside ... would refer to his theory, and those of other sociologists, as a metanarrative and writers such as Lyotard (1984) have seen the rejection of such theories as central to postmodernism: "Simplifying to ...

(10 pages) 194 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology