Jean-François Lyotard (UK: /ˌljɔːtɑːr/; US: /liːoʊtɑːrd/; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist...
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Metanarrative (section Lyotard's thesis)
The term was popularized by the writing of French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard in 1979. Metanarrative is considered a foundational concept of postmodernism...
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The Postmodern Condition (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in which the author analyzes the notion of knowledge in postmodern...
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Libidinal Economy (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. The book was composed following the ideological shift of the May 68 protests in France, whereupon Lyotard distanced himself...
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Canadian politician Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher Jean-François Marceau (born 1976), Canadian judoka Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799)...
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Postmodern philosophy (section Jean François Lyotard)
exists, and appear to deny that there are objective moral values. Jean-François Lyotard defined philosophical postmodernism in The Postmodern Condition...
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Performativity (section Jean-François Lyotard)
(1979, English translation 1986), philosopher and cultural theorist Jean-François Lyotard defined performativity as the defining mode of legitimation of postmodern...
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postmodernism as "a creation of modernism at the end of its tether." Jean-François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold there is a postmodern...
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Late Capitalism, by Fredric Jameson The Postmodern Condition, by Jean-François Lyotard Postmodernism Generator, a computer program All pages with titles...
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The Differend (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. In The Differend, based on Immanuel Kant's views on the separation of Understanding, Judgment, and Reason, Lyotard identifies...
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philosophical lexicon by Jean-François Lyotard in his 1979 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. In this influential work, Lyotard offers the following...
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demonstrates Baudrillard's affinities with the postmodern philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard", who argued that in the late 20th century there was no longer any...
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an expert on deconstruction and the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard. Bennington has translated many of Derrida's works into English...
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under the supervision of Gérard Granel. The jury was composed of Jean-François Lyotard and Jacques Derrida. It was published as L'expérience de la liberté...
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overarching metanarrative to history. Key postmodern thinkers include Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Baylis & Smith 2005, pp. 285–287...
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Literature. In 1979 Jean-François Lyotard wrote a short but influential work The Postmodern Condition: A report on knowledge. Jean Baudrillard, Michel...
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member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and Pierre Souyri. Guillaume's name is associated with La Vieille...
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Knowledge (1979), which helped establish the term "postmodernism", Jean-François Lyotard described a shaken or failed public trust in the promise of enlightenments...
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Passagenwerk, publishes besides Derrida authors such as Jean-François Lyotard, Gianni Vattimo, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Feyerabend, Peter Eisenman, Jacques...
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Lacan Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Ernesto Laclau Jean-François Lyotard Achille Mbembe Todd May Chantal Mouffe Jean-Luc Nancy Avital Ronell Bernard Stiegler Gayatri...
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Chéreau, Bernard Kouchner, François Châtelet, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jean-François Lyotard. Notably, the signatories did...
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. The book received positive reviews following the appearance of its English translation in 1994. Lyotard discusses the...
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Discourse, Figure (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
book by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. The philosopher Alan D. Schrift described the book as Lyotard's first major work. According to the...
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Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Monod, Louis Althusser, Victor Turner, Jean Oury, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, R. D. Laing, David Cooper,...
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Colonialism and Neocolonialism (category Books by Jean-Paul Sartre)
Earth. The book influenced later writings by Albert Memmi, and Jean-François Lyotard. Sartre argues that colonialism and neocolonialism are oppressive...
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2006. Jean-François Lyotard (1995), "Anamnesis: Of the Visible", Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 21(1), 2004; ISSN 0263-2764 Jean-François Lyotard (1993)...
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the Other Woman (1974), the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1974), and the sociologist Jean Baudrillard's Symbolic Exchange and Death...
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process and generate information for efficient society functioning. Jean-François Lyotard has argued that "knowledge has become the principle [sic] force...
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history, for which he mourned. For the 20th century philosopher Jean-François Lyotard the regicide was the starting point of all French thought, the memory...
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