Jean-François Lyotard is read about 339 times a day, in 55 languages.
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Something wrong?The philosopher who named the condition we're still arguing about: postmodernism. Lyotard mapped what happens when the grand stories lose their grip and culture splinters into a thousand local games, each with its own rules.
A life in dates
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, Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production...
Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables.
I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.
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About this person
Born 10 August 1924, Lyotard ranged across epistemology, aesthetics, the body, the city, the sublime - an interdisciplinary sprawl that resisted tidy borders. After the late 1970s he became the voice of postmodernity, analyzing how its arrival reshapes the human condition when old certainties fracture. He wrote 26 books, taught across continents, and co-directed the International College of Philosophy alongside Derrida, Châtelet, Faye, and Lecourt. He died 21 April 1998, leaving a vocabulary that stuck: we're still using his terms to describe the world he saw coming.
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