This latest offering from one of the most important philosophers of our time isa collection of fifteen fables that ask in the words of JeanFrancoisLyotard how t... » 

This latest offering from one of the most important philosophers of our time isa collection of fifteen fables that ask in the words of JeanFrancoisLyotard how to live and why? Here Lyotard provides a mixture ofanarchistic irreverence and sober philosophical reflection on a wide range oftopics paying particular attention to issues of justice and ethicsaesthetics and judgment.Acerbic critical relentlessly ironic continually burning bridges and burningrubber always at high risk and in high gear Postmodern Fables throws down thegauntlet to any and all who idealize comfort. In sections titled Verbiages System Fantasies Concealments and Crypts Lyotard unravels andreconfigures idealist notions of subjects as various and fascinating as theFrench Revolution the Holocaust the reception of French thought in the AngloAmerican world the events of May 1968 the Gulf War academic travelers asintellectual tourists the collapse of communism and his own work in thecontext o others. «