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Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
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Original title | Discours, figure |
Translators | Antony Hudek, Mary Lydon |
Language | French |
Series | Cultural Critique Books |
Subject | Structuralism |
Publisher | Klincksieck, University of Minnesota Press |
Publication date | 1971 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 2011 |
Media type | Print ( Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 512 (University of Minnesota Press edition) |
ISBN | 978-0816645657 |
Discourse, Figure ( French: Discours, figure) is a 1971 book by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. The philosopher Alan D. Schrift described the book as Lyotard's first major work. [1] According to the philosopher Iain Hamilton Grant, Lyotard regarded it as one of his key works, alongside Libidinal Economy (1974) and The Differend (1983). [2]