Jean-François Lyotard

Why Is Jean-François Lyotard Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Jean-François Lyotard 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 author of 26 books and many articles. He was a director of the International College of Philosophy founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye, and Dominique Lecourt.

Jean-François Lyotard's Published Works

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Published Papers

The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge (1979) (10700)
The Postmodern Condition (1979) (2593)
The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (1983) (1025)
La condition postmoderne (1979) (719)
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (1991) (416)
Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism? (2001) (254)
Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (1993) (254)
Heidegger and "the jews" (1990) (240)
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1991) (215)
The Lyotard Reader (1989) (164)
The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985 (1992) (156)
The Postmodern Explained to Children Correspondence 1982-1985 (1992) (145)
The Sublime and The Avant Garde1 (1985) (109)
Lessons on the analytic of the sublime : Kant's Critique of judgment, [sections] 23-29 (1994) (101)
Toward the postmodern (1992) (58)
Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (1987) (57)
Peregrinations Law, Form, Event: The Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine (1988) (50)
Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (1988) (46)
The Differend, the Referent, and the Proper Name (1984) (37)
Adorno as the Devil (1974) (36)
The Lyotard Reader and Guide (2006) (35)
Rules and Paradoxes and Svelte Appendix (1986) (35)
Never Say Why?@@@Economie Iibidinale Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1974 (1979) (30)
One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles (1978) (27)
Rephrasing the Freudian Unconscious: Lyotard's Affect-Phrase@@@"Emma."@@@Heidegger and "The Jews."@@@The Inhuman@@@Lectures D'Enfance (1994) (22)
Anamnesis: Of the visible (2004) (20)
That Which Resists, After All (1992) (20)
Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity (1984) (18)
The Hyphen : Between Judaism and Christianity (1999) (17)
What about the Postmodern? The Concept of the Postmodern in the Work of Lyotard (2001) (17)
Music/ideology : resisting the aesthetic (1998) (17)
The Tooth, the Palm (1976) (16)
THE CONFESSION OF AUGUSTINE (2000) (16)
Anamnesis (2004) (14)
1. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx (1987) (14)
Les transformateurs Duchamp (1977) (14)
Duchamp's trans, formers (1990) (14)
Re-Writing Modernity (1987) (14)
The Dream-Work Does Not Think (1983) (13)
Rephrasing the Political with Kant and Lyotard: From Aesthetic to Political Judgments@@@Le Differend (1984) (12)
A Postmodern Fable (2001) (12)
Interview: Jean-Francois Lyotard (1984) (11)
Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics (2001) (10)
A Svelte Appendix to the Postmodern Question : (1982) (2002) (7)
Scriptures: Diffracted traces (2004) (6)
The Phrase-Affect (From a Supplement to the Differend) (2001) (6)
It's as If a Line... (1988) (6)
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy* (1983) (6)
Plastic Space and Political Space (1985) (6)
Gesture and commentary (1993) (5)
Libidinal economy in Sade and Klossowski (1995) (5)
Sensus communis (translated by Marian Hobson and Geoff Bennington) (1988) (5)
For a Pseudo-Theory (1975) (5)
The Letter and the Line: Discourse and Its Other in Lyotard@@@Discours, Figure (1984) (5)
Notes on Legitimation (1987) (5)
Experiments in Postmodern Dialogue@@@Instructions Paiennes@@@Au Juste (1984) (4)
On Terror and the Sublime (1986) (4)
The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard (1998) (4)
Theory of the Avant-Garde (1985) (4)
Nietzsche and the inhuman (1994) (4)
Endurance and the Profession (1982) (4)
Going Back to the Return (1992) (3)
Voices of a Voice (1992) (3)
The Differends of Man@@@Heidegger et "Les Juifs." (Heidegger and "The Jews.") (1989) (3)
Europe, the Jews and the Book (1991) (3)
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren (1979) (3)
Lesson of Darkness (1993) (2)
Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus (1991) (2)
Bureaucracy: Resistance, Witnessing, Writing (1994) (2)
Up against the Wall: The Stage of Judgment@@@Le Mur du Pacifique (1984) (2)
Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game (1981) (1)
ANAGRAMS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS (2002) (1)
Scriptures (2004) (1)
The subject in the status of birth (1988) (1)
Die Transformatoren Duchamp (1987) (1)
Terror on the Run (1998) (1)
August: Double Justice@@@Au Juste (1984) (1)
Den intellektuelles grav (1970) (0)
Lesson Concerning the Secret Nature of Languages (Teacher's Manual) (1978) (0)
6. The psychoanalytical approach (1978) (0)
Performance : Text(e)s & documents : Actes du colloque "Performance et Multidisciplinarité : Postmodernisme" = Performance : Text(e)s & documents : Proceedings of the Conference "Multidisciplinary Aspects of Performance : Postmodernism" (1981) (0)
Lyotard's Neo-Sophistic Philosophy of Phrases@@@Lyotard: Writing the Event@@@Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida@@@Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event@@@The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (1994) (0)
The Confession of Augustine (2000) (0)
JAC Audio Interview: Jean-Francois Lyotard (1995) (0)
3.6 'Discussions, or phrasing "after Auschwitz"' (2001) (0)
substance. Genosko outlines benefits of a hybrid theory of semiotics and describes Guattari’s interpretation of Louis Hjelmslev’s production as immaterial creation (0)
Reflection in Kant’s Aesthetics (Translated by Charles Wolfe) (1993) (0)
Définitions. Notes du traducteur (1990) (0)
Somewhere in a Postmodern Time (2007) (0)
Soundproof Room (2002) (0)
Politics and history of philosophy (2006) (0)

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