Discourse, Figure

Discourse, Figure

Author	Jean-François Lyotard
Original title	Discours, figure
Translator	Antony Hudek, Mary Lydon
Country	France
Language	French
Subject	Structuralism
Published	1971 (Klincksieck, in French) 2011 (University of Minnesota Press, in English)
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	512 (University of Minnesota Press edition)
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Discourse, Figure (French: Discours, figure) is a 1971 book by Jean-François Lyotard, his first major work.

Lyotard expresses dissatisfaction with structuralism and with theoretical approaches that seek to escape history through appeal to a timeless, universal structure of language divorced from experience.

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