In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the arts to bear witness to and explain the links between modernity, progress and humanity, and the difficult transition to postmodernity.
Introduction: About the Human. 1. Can Thought go on without a Body?.
2. Rewriting Modernity.
3. Matter and Time.
4. Logos and Tekhne, or Telegraphy.
5. Time Today.
6. Newman: The Instant.
7. The Sublime and the Avant-Garde.
8. Something like: 'Communication ... without Communication.'.
9. Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable.
10. Speech Snapshot.
11. After the Sublime, the State of Aesthetics.
12. Conservation and Colour.
13. God and the Puppet.
14. Obedience.
15. Scapeland.
16. Domus and the Megalopolis.
Index.
