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Jean-François Lyotard
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<p>Jean-François Lyotard was a <a href="/facts/French_people/984axQ8y">French</a> <a href="/facts/Philosophy/zAH5PVD6">philosopher</a>, <a href="/facts/Sociology/d2Fd0N87">sociologist</a>, and <a href="/facts/Literary_theory/CK3TAHoN">literary theorist</a>. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as <a href="/facts/Epistemology/NsDwpcYH">epistemology</a> and communication, the human body, <a href="/facts/Modern_art/8JrMbrVA">modern art</a> and <a href="/facts/Postmodern_art/faBPaCTR">postmodern art</a>, literature and <a href="/facts/Critical_theory/2R9f1DNe">critical theory</a>, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the <a href="/facts/Sublime_(philosophy)/htfVoJ3E">sublime</a>, and the relation between <a href="/facts/Aesthetics/FSD8f7oF">aesthetics</a> and <a href="/facts/Politics/1gDNy3RP">politics</a>. He is best known for his articulation of <a href="/facts/Postmodernism/aBgbw8QJ">postmodernism</a> after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of <a href="/facts/Postmodernity/D4wEBYuJ">postmodernity</a> on the <a href="/facts/Human_condition/trY462FK">human condition</a>. Lyotard was a key personality in contemporary continental philosophy and authored 26 books and many articles. He was a director of the <a href="/facts/International_College_of_Philosophy/cMvcYegP">International College of Philosophy</a> founded by <a href="/facts/Jacques_Derrida/ln1TBjEn">Jacques Derrida</a>, <a href="/facts/Fran%25C3%25A7ois_Ch%25C3%25A2telet/GmrvnR9I">François Châtelet</a>, <a href="/facts/Jean-Pierre_Faye/vI8rHM8E">Jean-Pierre Faye</a>, and <a href="/facts/Dominique_Lecourt/3MAbUsII">Dominique Lecourt</a>. </p>