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This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard. Affect indeed traverses Lyotard's philosophical corpus in various ways and under various names: "figure" or "the figural" in Discourse, Figure, "unbound intensities" in his "libidinal" writings, "the feeling of the differend" in The Differend, "affect" and "infantia" in his later writings. Across the span of his work, Lyotard insisted on the intractability of affect, on what he would later call the "differend" between affect and articulation. The singular awakening of sensibility, affect both traverses and escapes articulation, discourse, and representation. Lyotard devoted much of his attention to the analysis of this traversal of affect in and through articulation, its transpositions, translations, and transfers. This volume explores Lyotard's account of affect as it traverses the different fields encompassed by his writings (philosophy, the visual arts, the performing arts, literature, music, politics, psychoanalysis as well as technology and post-human studies).
Minima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-Francois
Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the
twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works across
a wide array of fields: philosophy, literature, political theory,
gender theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. Particular attention
is paid to Lyotard's repeated warnings regarding the way in which
the complexity of events can be occluded in the very attempt to
represent them. Indeed, through the contributors' careful and
critical analysis, Lyotard's complex intellectual trajectory--all
the way up to the posthumously published works The Confession of
Augustine and The Misery of Philosophy--is traced in different and
often conflicting manners, which bring out the different currents
that traverse his writings and the sites of tension that such terms
as "different," "affect," and "infancy" mark. What emerges is not a
grand narrative that would organize Lyotard's life and work around
one unifying idea, but multifaceted approaches that extend in new
and unforeseen directions.
Minima Memoria attests to the impact of the works of Jean-Francois
Lyotard, one of the most influential French philosophers of the
twentieth century, and the continuing effects of these works across
a wide array of fields: philosophy, literature, political theory,
gender theory, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. Particular attention
is paid to Lyotard's repeated warnings regarding the way in which
the complexity of events can be occluded in the very attempt to
represent them. Indeed, through the contributors' careful and
critical analysis, Lyotard's complex intellectual trajectory--all
the way up to the posthumously published works The Confession of
Augustine and The Misery of Philosophy--is traced in different and
often conflicting manners, which bring out the different currents
that traverse his writings and the sites of tension that such terms
as "different," "affect," and "infancy" mark. What emerges is not a
grand narrative that would organize Lyotard's life and work around
one unifying idea, but multifaceted approaches that extend in new
and unforeseen directions.
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