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  1. 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 ...

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  2. Mar 2, 2006 · The first comprehensive anthology of Jean-François Lyotard's writings together with a critical guide. The Lyotard Reader and Guide is designed as a one-stop companion to his thought. It covers the full range of Lyotard's work, from beginning to end, through his three main books ( Discours, figure , Libidinal Economy and The Differend ) and up ...

  3. May 25, 2017 · A French philosopher of the post-structuralist school, Jean Francois Lyotard (1925-1998) is perhaps best known for his book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979). In that work, Lyotard attempted to define the principle aspects of postmodernity in the wake of developing technology.

  4. Lyotard’s first book, published in 1954, is a short introduction to and examination of phenomenology. The first part introduces phenomenology through the work of Edmund Husserl, and the second part evaluates phenomenology’s relation to the human sciences (particularly psychology, sociology, and history).

  5. For Jean-Fran ois Lyotard's discussion of the consequences of the new views of scientific research and its paradigms, opened up by theorists like Thomas Kuhn and Paul

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  6. Article abstract: Writing on philosophy, politics, and aesthetics, Lyotard made the link between postmodernism and poststructuralism, engaged the problems of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and...

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  8. Jul 26, 2017 · A straightforward introduction to Lyotard’s work, broader in scope that Malpas 2003, covering the development of Lyotard’s thought from his early Marxist writings on Algeria and the struggle for Algerian independence to his writings on the postmodern.