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    Jean-François Lyotard (UK: /ˌljɔːtɑːr/; US: /liːoʊtɑːrd/; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist...
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  • Canadian politician Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998), French philosopher Jean-François Marceau (born 1976), Canadian judoka Jean-François Marmontel (1723–1799)...
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  • earlier in the 20th century, the term was brought into prominence by Jean-François Lyotard in 1979, with his claim that the postmodern was characterised precisely...
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  • The Postmodern Condition (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
    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...
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  • Libidinal Economy (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
    philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. The book was composed following the ideological shift of the May 68 protests in France, whereupon Lyotard distanced himself...
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  • (1979, English translation 1986), philosopher and cultural theorist Jean-François Lyotard defined performativity as the defining mode of legitimation of postmodern...
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  • exists, and appear to deny that there are objective moral values. Jean-François Lyotard defined philosophical postmodernism in The Postmodern Condition...
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  • The Differend (category Books by Jean-François Lyotard)
    philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. In The Differend, based on Immanuel Kant's views on the separation of Understanding, Judgment, and Reason, Lyotard identifies...
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    postmodernism as "a creation of modernism at the end of its tether." Jean-François Lyotard, in Fredric Jameson's analysis, does not hold there is a postmodern...
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    demonstrates Baudrillard's affinities with the postmodern philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard", who argued that in the late 20th century there was no longer any...
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