Jean-Francois Lyotard lived from 10 August 1924 to 21 April 1998 and was a French philosopher, sociologist and literary theorist whose interdisciplinary work spans epistemology and communication, the human body, modern 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 his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition, was a key figure in contemporary continental philosophy, authored twenty-six books and many articles, and directed the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, Francois Chatelet, Jean-Pierre Faye and Dominique Lecourt.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Defining MomentSourced to the subject's own accountIn The Postmodern Condition (1979), Lyotard argued that people have grown incredulous toward totalizing metanarratives, a thesis that became the touchstone statement of postmodern philosophy. 1 Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Notable PublicationSourced to the subject's own accountThe Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979) 1 Office HeldSourced to the subject's own accountDirector, College International de Philosophie, Paris, from 1985 1 Death YearSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own account TraditionSourced to the subject's own accountContinental philosophy; postmodernism in his later work, following an earlier period of phenomenology and post-Marxism 1 Connections
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Wikipedialead sentence
10 August 1924-21 April 1998
Early life section
Jean François Lyotard was born on 10 August 1924, in Versailles, France, to Jean-Pierre Lyotard, a sales representative, and Madeleine Cavalli.
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death_place = Paris, France
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school_tradition = [[Continental philosophy]] [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|Phenomenology]] (early) [[Post-Marxism]] (late) [[Postmodern philosophy|Postmodernism]] (late)
The Postmodern Condition (1979) section
According to his 1979 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, the impact of the postmodern condition was to provoke skepticism about universalizing theories.
The collapse of the grand narrative section
Lyotard proposes what he calls an extreme simplification of the "postmodern" as an 'incredulity towards meta-narratives'.
Academic career section
In 1982-83 Lyotard was involved in the foundation of the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, serving as its second Director in 1985.
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10 August 1924
lead sentence, death date
21 April 1998
lead sentence, death year
21 April 1998
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WikipediaAssociated With: Jacques Derrida, Academic Career sectionQuote, Associated With: Jacques Derrida, Academic Career section
In 1987 he took a part-time professorship at the University of California, Irvine where he held a joint post with Jacques Derrida and Wolfgang Iser in the Department of Critical Theory.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationTraditions Founded: Postmodernism, Section 1, The Postmodern ConditionQuote, Traditions Founded: Postmodernism, Section 1, The Postmodern Condition
The term 'postmodernism' first entered the philosophical lexicon in 1979, with the publication of The Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard.
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