Jean-François Lyotard
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Writing on philosophy, politics, and aesthetics, Lyotard made the link between postmodernism and poststructuralism, engaged the problems of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and deconstruction, and examined the way society legitimizes knowledge and discourse.
Early Life
Jean-François Lyotard was an intellectual committed to political action whose life’s work in philosophy emerged slowly. He was a secondary school teacher in French Algeria from 1950 to 1952 before the start of the Algerian war for national liberation, a cause he actively and...
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