Philosopher
Jean-François Lyotard
Overview
Jean-François Lyotard (; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) 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.
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Philosophers who discussed Jean-François Lyotard
- Richard Rorty
- Jean Baudrillard
- Giorgio Agamben
- Martin Heidegger
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Jacques Derrida
- Alain Badiou
- Bracha L. Ettinger
- Michel Serres
- Maurizio Ferraris
- Jean Beaufret
- Joseph Margolis
- Tran Duc Thao
Ideas Jean-François Lyotard discusses
- Noumenon
- Faith
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Opposite
- Republic (Plato)
- Jacques Lacan
- Human condition
- Karl Marx
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Positive psychology
- Far-left politics
- Sociology
- Literature
- Stoicism
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Nirvana
- Aesthetics
- Common sense
- Nihilism
- Well-being
- Frankfurt School
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.