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Jean-François Lyotard

1924 - 1998

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Jean-François Lyotard (UK: ; US: ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-François Lyotard has received more than 940,840 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Jean-François Lyotard is the 206th most popular philosopher (down from 205th in 2019), the 502nd most popular biography from France (down from 472nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean-François Lyotard is most famous for his work in postmodernism. He was a philosopher who was born in France and died in 1998. He was a professor at the University of Paris VIII and the University of California, Irvine. He wrote many books on postmodernism, including The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979) and The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (1988).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 206 out of 1,267. Before him are John Scotus Eriugena, Hasan al-Basri, Marshall McLuhan, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Paulo Freire, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. After him are Bias of Priene, Georgi Plekhanov, Julia Kristeva, Gabriel Marcel, Joseph de Maistre, and Gaston Bachelard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 12. Before him are Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Kim Dae-jung, Robert Mugabe, Eli Cohen, Süleyman Demirel, and Sarah Vaughan. After him are Ezer Weizman, Jacques Le Goff, Benoit Mandelbrot, Lauren Bacall, Sergei Parajanov, and Paul Feyerabend. Among people deceased in 1998, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 10. Before him are Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, Todor Zhivkov, Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, and Octavio Paz. After him are Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, Vladimir Prelog, Raymond Cattell, Alan Shepard, and Konstantinos Karamanlis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 502 out of 6,770. Before him are William II of England (1056), Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse (1045), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), André Citroën (1878), Frédéric Bazille (1841), and Paul Sabatier (1854). After him are Henry I, Duke of Guise (1550), Paul Langevin (1872), Aristide Briand (1862), William of Rubruck (1220), Carlos Gardel (1890), and Elisa Bonaparte (1777).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 28. Before him are Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881). After him are Gabriel Marcel (1889), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Roger Garaudy (1913), Guy Debord (1931), and Georges Sorel (1847).

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