Jean-François Lyotard
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Jean-François Lyotard (; ; ; 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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