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Jean-François Lyotard

1924 - 1998

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Jean-François Lyotard (; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art 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 the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-François Lyotard is the 204th most popular philosopher (up from 206th in 2019), the 474th most popular biography from France (up from 502nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Philosopher.

Jean-François Lyotard is most famous for his work in postmodernism. He was a philosopher who was born in France and died in 1998. He was a professor at the University of Paris VIII and the University of California, Irvine. He wrote many books on postmodernism, including The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979) and The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (1988).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 204 out of 1,267. Before him are Christian Wolff, Diotima of Mantinea, Slavoj Žižek, Karl Kautsky, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and Diogenes of Apollonia. After him are Rudolf Carnap, Hasan al-Basri, Alcmaeon of Croton, Moses Mendelssohn, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Georgi Plekhanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 16. Before him are Robert Mugabe, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Eli Cohen, James Black, Süleyman Demirel, and Khamtai Siphandon. After him are Benoit Mandelbrot, Maurice Jarre, Sarah Vaughan, Georges Charpak, Lauren Bacall, and Roger Guillemin. Among people deceased in 1998, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 14. Before him are Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, Carlos Castaneda, and Octavio Paz. After him are Yang Shangkun, Florence Griffith Joyner, Derek Barton, Niklas Luhmann, Conrad Schumann, and Frederick Reines.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 474 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaspard Monge (1746), Louis III of France (863), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Lazare Carnot (1753), and Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769). After him are Albert Lebrun (1871), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Pytheas (-380), Louis Néel (1904), Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Jean-François Lyotard ranks 27. Before him are Jean Baudrillard (1929), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pierre Bayle (1647), Ernest Renan (1823), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714). After him are Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Joseph de Maistre (1753), Gaston Bachelard (1884), Gabriel Marcel (1889), Roger Garaudy (1913), and Nicole Oresme (1323).

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