... onward, sublime feeling is, instead, constantly rearticulated in a complex interaction with musicality. It takes as the point of departure Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment and Jean-François Lyotard's aesthetic writings of the 1980s and 1990s. Kant framed the sublime narratively...

...The chapter argues that the structure evident in recent discussions of mysticism can also be found in modernist and postmodernist critical theory. It draws attention to a structure to be found repeatedly in the arguments of Jean-François Lyotard, Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Derrida and Theodor W. Adorno...

...Though a typically Hegelian concept, this chapter adopts form-contrariness (as the possibility of form undoing itself) to read Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern sublime musically. It suggests that form-contrariness cuts both ways in the romantic and postmodern “directions” of the aesthetics...

...Jean-François Lyotard is seen today as the first philosopher of the postmodern condition. His thinking developed from phenomenology to postmodernism. Due to the changing circumstances that he witnessed, he realized it was necessary to review radically the nature of history and politics...

... of reference in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, who theorizes the co-presence in language of the figure and discourse: Lyotard's figure relates to discourse as image emerges in description, as sense accompanies signification, and as energies shape texts from within. The original essays invited...

... imagery and similar interests in media studies and the history of art. At the same time, it draws attention to important role played in this context by the criticism of linguistics in authors such as Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. actor network theory Callon Michel Center...

... hegemony Marbury v Madison ratio U S Supreme Court Kahn Paul Marshall John U S Constitution Jefferson Thomas morality abolition Arendt Hannah Holmes Oliver Wendell stare decisis foundation Jean-François Lyotard Marbury v. Madison Martha Nussbaum polis violence Inaccessible in the depths...

...This chapter focuses on postmodernism as a revolt against modes of rationality that make foundational claims, that is, as an attack upon what Jean-François Lyotard calls “grand narratives”, by which he means comprehensive epistemological schema, as well as all-encompassing theories of emancipation...