{"product_id":"readings-in-infancy-by-jean-francois-lyotard-9781350167346","title":"Readings in Infancy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNobody knows how to write\u003c\/em\u003e. Thus opens this carefully nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important writer-philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in French in 1991 as \u003cem\u003eLectures d'enfance\u003c\/em\u003e, these essays have never been printed as a collection in English. In them, Lyotard investigates his idea of \u003cem\u003einfantia\u003c\/em\u003e, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, either human or technological.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000722800876,"sku":"9781350167346","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19585743482668.jpg?v=1763300511","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/readings-in-infancy-by-jean-francois-lyotard-9781350167346","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}