Libidinal Economy

Lyotard Jean-Francois (Iain Hamilton Grant trans.)

ISBN 10: 0485120836 / ISBN 13: 9780485120837

Published by The Athlone Press London 1993, 1970

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23.0 x 15.0cms 276pp very good paperback & cover The chapters are: the great ephemeral skin; the tensor; the desire named Marx: trade; capital; economy of this writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Libidinal Economy
• Publisher: The Athlone Press London 1993
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0485120836
• ISBN 13: 9780485120837
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

This is a philosophical development of the Freudian concept of "libidinal economy" and one of Lyotard's most important works. In part a response to Deleuze and Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (English translation Athlone, 1984), it can also be seen as culminating a line of modern thought ranging from de Sade, Nietzsche and Bataille, to Deleuze, Klossowski, Irigaray and Cixous. It is thus important in the context of modern French philosophy, and also in its relevance to contemporary thinking on a broad range of questions, including sexual politics, semiotics and literary studies. Jean-Francois Lyotard's other translated works include "The Postmodern Condition", "Just Gaming" and "The Differend".

About the Authors

Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century. He was the author of classic philosophical texts such as Discourse, Figure; Libidinal Economy; The Differend and The Postmodern Condition: a report on knowledge.

Iain Hamilton Grant is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. He has written widely on post-Kantian European philosophy and is translator of Lyotard's Libidinal Economy and Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death.