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Jean-François Lyotard (UK: / ˌ lj ɔː t ɑːr /; US: / l iː oʊ t ɑːr d /; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.
Sep 21, 2018 · Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was a French philosopher whose best known work—often to his chagrin—was his 1979 The Postmodern Condition. Written at the request of the Council of Universities of the Provincial Government of Quebec on the state of knowledge in the contemporary world, this work brought the term “postmodernism ...
Jean-François Lyotard (born August 10, 1924, Versailles, France—died April 21, 1998, Paris) was a French philosopher and leading figure in the intellectual movement known as postmodernism. As a youth, Lyotard considered becoming a monk, a painter, and a historian.
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Jean-François Lyotard (1924—1998) French post-structuralist philosopher, best known for his highly influential formulation of postmodernism in The Postmodern Condition. Despite its popularity, however, this book is in fact one of his more minor works.
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( French: La condition 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 society as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity.
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Jul 26, 2017 · Jean-François Lyotard (b. 1924–d. 1998) is one of the most important critical thinkers of the last half-century. His work is closely associated with post-structuralism and postmodernism, and it has been influential across a wide range of disciplines and fields, including literary studies and critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and politics.
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It is a report on the state of knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge, in the contemporary world, by the French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98). In this book, Lyotard considers knowledge, including its ubiquity.
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