Jean-François Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350081314
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Additional information
- Bringing together interviews and debates with Jean-François Lyotard - one of the most important French philosophers of the Twentieth Century - for the first time, enables a new perspective to be taken on his work. Bamford was responsible for the proposal, selection, securing of rights and overseeing translation of the twenty-four documents, previously out of print, hard to find or untranslated; interlocutors include Gilles Deleuze; Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. The edited volume is presented with detailed notes and a significant introduction by Bamford: ‘Publish or Perish! An introduction to the interviews and debates’. This introduction proposes that Lyotard’s experience as a member of the militant Marxist group Socialisme ou Barbarie is integral to the role of debate in his philosophy, manifest through rigorous analysis, playful dialogue, experimental essays, and an extensive engagement with the visual arts. This complex inter-relationship remains significantly unacknowledged in Lyotard scholarship.
Research undertaken at the Lyotard archive and L’institut national de l’audiovisuel, Paris was made possible by a British Academy Small Research Grant. This enabled the selection from a wide range of sources together with consultation of background documentation: correspondence, recordings, drafts and proofs. Correspondence with interviewers, Lyotard’s family and translators added further insights, with significant involvement from the translators Roger McKeon and Georges Van Den Abbeele. In addition, care was taken to restore previously truncated interviews, annotated debates, and to research the modifications made when interviews and debates were adapted for reprints or circulation in the mass media.
Bloomsbury Academic publishes both translations of Lyotard and related critical works, with a wide interdisciplinary reach. Bamford has disseminated aspects of this research verbally at symposia and conferences in the United States and United Kingdom, including at the University of California, Irvine and Stony Brook University, New York, where Lyotard was visiting professor.
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