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Jean-François Lyotard

Born

in Versailles, France

August 10, 1924

Died

April 21, 1998

Genre

Philosophy, Fiction, Literature

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Jean-François Lyotard (DrE, Literature, University of Paris X, 1971) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition.

He went to primary school at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand and later began studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. After graduation, in 1950, he took a position teaching philosophy in Constantine in French East Algeria. He married twice: in 1948 to Andrée May, with whom he had two daughters, and for a second time in 1993 to the mother of his son, who was born in 1986.

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	The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson (Foreword), Geoffrey Bennington (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 5,768 ratings — published 1979 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Libidinal Economy 3.92 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1974	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985 by Jean-François Lyotard, Wlad Godzich (Afterword) 3.53 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	لماذا نتفلسف by Jean-François Lyotard, يوسف السهيلي (Translator) 3.37 avg rating — 245 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inhuman: Reflections on Time 3.99 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1988 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The differend: Phrases in dispute by Jean-François Lyotard, Georges Van Den Abbeele (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1983 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Just Gaming (Volume 20) (Theory and History of Literature) by Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Loup Thebaud (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1979 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phenomenology by Jean-François Lyotard, Gayle L. Ormiston, Brian Beakley (Translator) 3.58 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1954 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime by Jean-François Lyotard, Elizabeth Rottenberg (Translation) 3.88 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1991 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postmodern Fables by Jean-François Lyotard, Georges Van Den Abbeele (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.”
― Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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“…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking for leftovers, who brandishes unconsciousnesses, lapses, limits, confines, goulags, parataxes, non-senses, or paradoxes, and who turns this into the glory of his novelty, into his promise of change?”
― Jean-François Lyotard

tags: philosophy, postmodernism

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“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.”
― Jean-François Lyotard

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