1. Biographical Sketch
Born in Vincennes, France on August 10, 1924, Jean-François Lyotard was the son of Jean-Pierre Lyotard, a salesman. As he reports in an autobiographical essay that opens Peregrinations: Law, struktur, Event (1988), while schooling in Paris lycées, he had dreams of becoming a Dominican monk, a novelist, a painter, or even a historian. During the second world war, he acted as a medic during the liberation of Paris and he became a father soon after studying literature and philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris (he failed ingång twice into the more prestigious École Normale Supériour), which certainly cut off any dreams of becoming a monk. As for being a novelist or artist, he says he had an “unfortunate lack of talent”, and an “obvious weakness of memory” meant he could never be a good historian (Peregrinations, 1–2). He met Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) while s
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Quick facts for kids Jean-François Lyotard |
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Jean-François Lyotard.
Photo by Bracha L. Ettinger, 1995. |
| Born | (1924-08-10)10 August 1924
Versailles, France |
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| Died | 21 April 1998(1998-04-21) (aged 73)
Paris, France |
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| Nationality | French |
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| Education | University of Paris(B.A., M.A.)
University of Paris X (DrE, 1971) |
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| Spouse(s) | Dolores Djidzek |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
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| School | Continental philosophy
Phenomenology (early)
Post-Marxism (late)
Postmodernism (late) |
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| Institutions | Lycée of Constantine [fr] (1950–52)
Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche [fr] (1959–66)
University of Paris (1959–66)
University of Paris X (1967–72)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (1968–70)
University of Paris VIII (1972–87)
University of California, Irvine (1987–94)
Emory University (1994–98)
Johns Hopkins Unive • Jean-François Lyotard - by
- Keith Crome
- LAST REVIEWED: 26 July 2017
- LAST MODIFIED: 26 July 2017
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780190221911-0041
Bennington, Geoffrey. Lyotard: Writing the Event. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1988. A seminal work: the first general introduction to Lyotard to be published, it is still influential. Organized around Lyotard’s three major works (Discourse, Figure; Libidinal Economy; The Differend), it is thoughtful and challenging, clearly written, and rigorous. Bennington has himself called into question the hermeneutic privilege he accorded to the linguistic pragmatics of The Differend, presenting Lyotard’s earlier work in its light; nevertheless, it remains a standard reference. Butler, Christopher. Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. A good place to start for an overview of postmodernism. It covers a lot of ground, surveying in a brief comp 
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