Jean-Francois Lyotard
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotardwas a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as knowledge and communication, the human body, modernist 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. He was co-founder of the International...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth10 August 1924
CountryFrance
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination