Word: lyotard
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...genuflect before the gods of post modernism--Bakhtin, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan--or if you've been accompanying Umberto Eco during his walks in the fictional woods, you may want to take a look at this novel for its oppositional stance. Otherwise, you would be well advised to stay clear...
...students had read their Foucault, they would have known that repression is inscribed in all language, their own included, and so they could have saved themselves the trouble of facing the tanks in Tiananmen Square. But did Vaclav Havel and his fellow playwrights free Czechoslovakia by quoting Derrida or Lyotard on the inscrutability of texts? Assuredly not: they did it by placing their faith in the transforming power of thought -- by putting their shoulders to the immense wheel of the word. The world changes more deeply, widely, thrillingly than at any moment since 1917, perhaps since 1848, and the American...
...unidentified and perhaps nonexistent author would like to thank the following individuals for their seminal contributions to his thought: Jean-Francois Lyotard, Judith Barish, Maia Harris, Jennifer Mnookin and Joseph Penachio...
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