Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard

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 890,709 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Jean-François Lyotard is the 205th most popular philosopher (down from 192nd in 2019), the 472nd most popular biography from France (down from 401st in 2019) and the 29th 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).