by Jean-François Lyotard · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246459910
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«Signé Malraux» is the biography of André Malraux written by Jean-François Lyotard, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (364 pages, in French).
The philosopher Jean-François Lyotard analyses André Malraux, writer, adventurer and French Minister of Culture, with philosophical and psychoanalytical tools. It covers his periods in Indochina and Spain, his connection with art and the «imaginary museum», and political commitment, Gaullism, communism or the place of women in his life.
Published in France in 1996, with bibliographical references (pp. 357-361).
For readers interested in André Malraux, twentieth-century French culture and the intersection between philosophy and biography.
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles. He was a director of the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt.
