Discourse, Figure

Short description: 1971 book by Jean-François Lyotard

Discourse, Figure

Cover of the first edition

Author| Jean-François Lyotard
Original title| Discours, figure
Translators| Antony Hudek, Mary Lydon
Country| France
Language| French
Series| Cultural Critique Books
Subject| Structuralism
Publisher| Klincksieck, University of Minnesota Press

Publication date

| 1971

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]

## References

### Footnotes

1. ↑ Schrift 2017, p. 619.
2. ↑ Grant 1993, p. xx.

### Bibliography

Books

* Grant, Iain Hamilton (1993). "Introduction". Libidinal Economy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-20728-2.
* Schrift, Alan D. (2017). "Lyotard, Jean-François". The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-64379-6.

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