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Author |
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| Name | Steinkamp, Niklas |
| Research field | Intellectual History |
| Career stage | doctoral researcher |
| Home university/institution | Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) |
| Department/Research unit at home university/institution | History |
| Chair/Working group at home institution | Institute for Social Movements |
International activity |
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| Country | France |
| Location | Paris |
| University | Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet |
| Fund Research School | PR.INT |
| Type of activity | other |
| Period |
starts 06-05-2024 ends 12-07-2024 |
| Keywords | Philosophy; History; History of ideas; post-structuralism; post-modernity; french history; intellectual history |
| Report |
The PR.INT gave me the opportunity to conduct archival research on the literary estate of 20th century French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998). The literary estate is located at the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet at Paris. My doctoral thesis connects the work of Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), famous for his philosophical notion of postmodernity as “disbelief in grand narratives” (Lyotard 1979:7-8), to the political context of his time. Its main argument is that his philosophical project can only be understood as a revision of revolutionary thought and politico-theoretical intervention in the political context of the immense societal changes in France after 1944 in which the inherited concepts of Marxism lost their plausibility. At the BLJD I could analyse the literary estate of Lyotard (signature: JFL 1-464) thanks to PR.INT. It enabled me to look into the notes, manuscripts, correspondences, and other unedited writings. The literary estate proofed to be an invaluable historical source for my thesis. The unpublished writings like notes, drafts, notes of lectures, manuscripts and letters included in the literary estate render indeed an account on political motives that are only implicitly present in the published philosophical works. I also was able to meet several researchers working on Lyotard, famous and young scholars alike, and to enter into a lasting exchange with them. Literature Lyotard, Jean-François: La condition postmoderne. Rapport sur le savoir, Paris 1979. |