{"product_id":"9781350167346","title":"Readings in Infancy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eReadings in Infancy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jean-Francois Lyotard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nobody knows how to write'. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one the most important writer-philosophers of the twentieth century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). First published in French, in 1991 as \u003ci\u003eLectures d'enfance\u003c\/i\u003e, and investigating Lyotard's idea of \u003ci\u003einfantia\u003c\/i\u003e, or, the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, be it human or technological, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach essay responds to works by writers and thinkers who are central to cultural modernism, such as James Joyce; Franz Kafka; Hannah Arendt; Jean-Paul Sartre; and Sigmund Freud. Although published between 1986 and 1991 in several different English publications, the pieces are no longer in print and have been given scant critical attention as a cohesive body of thought. This volume – with a new introduction and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford – contextualises Lyotard's thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350167346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40816768155854,"sku":"9781350167346","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350167346","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}