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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Lyotard"”.
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Expressing the Inexpressible: Bearing Witness in Jean-François Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
… French father of postmodernism, Jean-François Lyotard, and the late antique, presumably Syrian father of Neoplatonist Christian mysticism, Pseudo-Dionysius, both intimately consider the inexpressible expression. Both are provoked by the witness who is silenced by the binding limits of …
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El problema de la escritura en las relaciones entre filosofía y literatura : Lyotard, Bajtín y Derrida
… de un examen de la noción de Archipiélago de Lyotard. Lyotard propone una comprensión del lenguaje como la multitud de las formas de constitución de los discursos. La obra literaria se toma como la posibilidad de la convivencia de la multitud de los discursos. Entonces se examinan las …
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The expressionist debate in the light of the concerns of postmodernity : Lukacs, Brecht, Lyotard and Habermas
… Debate and the controversy between Jean-Francais Lyotard and Juergen Habermas. which took place in the 1980s. The two debates. both of which took place among writers of the Left are juxtaposed in order to shed more light on the issues at stake in the Expressionist Debate when looked at in the …
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Lyotard's subline : its manifestation in the musical aesthetic of Toru Takemitsu and Leo Brouwer
… through the aesthetic writings of Jean François Lyotard. Instead of embarking on an analytical investigation in order to prove the aesthetic elements perceived in the music, existing analytical research is consulted and conclusions drawn from this material as it relates to the philosophical ideas …
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Above all, shut up : a study of Lyotard's ethical genre
A common critical evaluation of Jean-Francois Lyotard's work is that it is concerned to find new ways of speaking, or of expression. This thesis argues that Lyotard's work, particularly Just Gaming and The Differend, is concerned with finding new ways to listen. Those motifs are considered that …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… the ways in which the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard develops Max Weber's analysis of the rise, nature, and trajectory of modem culture. Further to this, it examines the strategies which may be drawn from the work of each of these theorists to enable …
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La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… posmodernos, según los conciben Jean-François Lyotard y Gilles Lipovetsky, que configuran la imagen de un mundo absurdo. De acuerdo con Albert Camus, en este mundo absurdo emerge principalmente una ruptura entre la necesidad del ser humano de aclarar su existencia con orden y significado y la …
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Creating absence to acknowledge presence : relational subjectivity and postmodernism in Carol Shields’s 'The Stone Diaries'
… the postmodernist ideology of Jean-François Lyotard and Patricia Waugh, creates Daisy Goodwill Flett’s absence in The Stone Diaries. This absence, in turn, acts to acknowledge the gaps in knowledge that exist within self-legitimating grand narratives. It demonstrates that Daisy’s performance …
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
… of cuisine, the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard is used to define the postmodern condition. Using the seven common themes found in postmodernism, a textural analysis of cultural artifacts is undertaken of the equal representation, multiplicity and simulacra found in the lives of three …
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Intense Singularities: Dieter Roth's and Henning Christiansen's Processual Aesthetics
… each interaction. Informed by Jean-Francois Lyotard and Julia Kristeva, this research shifts the perspective from a fixed systematic approach that is concerned with the works objective qualities, inherent essence, or material properties, to a processual approach that works through the …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
… theory of “effacement” and Jean-François Lyotard’s “postmodern condition” to investigate the spread of the magical realist genre and techniques beyond its postcolonial beginnings and into a postmodern means to insert an element of the unknown back into a scientifically bound, prosaic …
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Transcending the metanarrative: the postmodern spirituality of Shirazeh Houshiary's sculpture
… era, and what philosopher Jean- François Lyotard theorized as the collapse of the "metanarrative". Transcending the Metanarrative: The Postmodern Spirituality of Shirazeh Houshiary's Sculpture will discuss how Shirazeh Houshiary portrays a hybrid spirituality in her sculptures, which in …
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
… Morris, Lucien Henry, Stuart Hall, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Grace Cohrane, Nicolas Pevsner, Faith Ringgold, Joan Snyder, Miriam Schapiro and Cynthia Carlson. My final conclusion will be drawn from my personal visual practice that uses pattern
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An ideological analysis of filter blogs : how Daily Kos and Powerline construct biased news
… This thesis utilized theory from Jean Francois Lyotard to explain how images and text were used by the blogs to legitimate their ideological narrative. Edwin Black's theory of second . ' persona was used to analyze the intended audience of the blogs. The ideology of the two blogs was described …
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Stratégie et consensus : les articulations stratégiques et consensuelles de la règle constitutive de langage comme structure processuelle de communication.
… de la communication sont Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jurgen Habermas et Francis Jacques. Ces derniers nous proposent des schemes structurels de relations qui de prime abord semblent a opposer. Ainsi, la strategie de jeux de langage agonistique de Lyotard configure une structure de la relation …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
… of the Modernism (TJ Clark: 1986). Jean François Lyotard suggests that it is the sublime that has provoked this destructive, nihilistic tendency and given Modern and postmodern art its ‘impetus and axioms’ (Lyotard: 1979). As the 2010 Tate research project, The Sublime Object attests, the sublime …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
… Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Ihab Hassan, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Jung, we develop a cognitive narratological theory for postmodern music that is veracious both epistemologically and philosophically. We then analyze formally and contextually four concertos by Alfred …
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Création théâtrale, inhumain et postmodernité.
… de l'inhumain elaboree par Jean-Francois Lyotard dans sa reflexion sur la postmodernite. Les ecrits de Theodor W. Adorno sont aussi examines pour etablir la valeur de l'art dans le contexte explicite ci-haut. Finalement, c'est au niveau du theatre de la cruaute d'Antonin Artaud que la …
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Exploring Colour in Contemporary Art – Epistemic Boundaries and Artistic Practices
… grand narratives as described by Jean-François Lyotard is evident in their attitudes towards universalist and transcendent notions of colour. From the 1990s onwards, the globalisation of the art market, the launching of the Internet and the availability of cheap air travel have granted artists …
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Materializing the hole
… here in relation to Merleau-Ponty, Virilio, Lyotard, Goodman, Hansen, Barthes, Beckett, Cézanne, Plato, and other theorists and practitioners.
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