Jean-François Lyotard

1924–1998

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Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary work spanned epistemology and communication, the human body, modern and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, the city and landscape, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism from the late 1970s and his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. A key figure in contemporary continental philosophy, he authored 26 books and many articles and served as a director of the International College of Philosophy.

Born

1924