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 which was founded by Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, Jean-Pierre Faye and Dominique Lecourt.

Jean-François Lyotard's Published Works

The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge (10446)
The Postmodern Condition (2550)
The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (1015)
La condition postmoderne (708)
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (411)
Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (250)
Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism? (242)
Heidegger and "the jews" (223)
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (214)
The Lyotard Reader (162)
The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985 (153)
The Postmodern Explained to Children Correspondence 1982-1985 (140)
Lessons on the analytic of the sublime : Kant's Critique of judgment, [sections] 23-29 (100)
The Sublime and The Avant Garde1 (84)
Toward the postmodern (57)
Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida (57)
Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (48)
Peregrinations Law, Form, Event: The Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine (48)
The Differend, the Referent, and the Proper Name (37)
Adorno as the Devil (35)
Rules and Paradoxes and Svelte Appendix (35)
The Lyotard Reader and Guide (33)
Never Say Why?@@@Economie Iibidinale Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1974 (30)
One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles (26)
Rephrasing the Freudian Unconscious: Lyotard's Affect-Phrase@@@"Emma."@@@Heidegger and "The Jews."@@@The Inhuman@@@Lectures D'Enfance (22)
Anamnesis: Of the visible (20)
Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History (20)
The confession of Augustine (18)
Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity (17)
That Which Resists, After All (17)
The Hyphen : Between Judaism and Christianity (17)
What about the Postmodern? The Concept of the Postmodern in the Work of Lyotard (17)
Music/ideology : resisting the aesthetic (17)
Can Thought Go On Without A Body (16)
Music and Postmodernity (15)
The Tooth, the Palm (15)
Duchamp's trans, formers (14)
Les transformateurs Duchamp (14)
The Dream-Work Does Not Think (13)
1. Judiciousness in Dispute, or Kant after Marx (13)
Re-Writing Modernity (13)
Rephrasing the Political with Kant and Lyotard: From Aesthetic to Political Judgments@@@Le Differend (12)
Interview: Jean-Francois Lyotard (11)
A Postmodern Fable (11)
Soundproof Room: Malraux's Anti-Aesthetics (10)
Anamnesis (10)
A Svelte Appendix to the Postmodern Question : (1982) (7)
It's as If a Line... (6)
Scriptures: Diffracted traces (6)
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy* (6)
The Postmodern (from The Postmodern Condition) (6)
The Phrase-Affect (From a Supplement to the Differend) (6)
Libidinal economy in Sade and Klossowski (5)
Sensus communis (translated by Marian Hobson and Geoff Bennington) (5)
The Letter and the Line: Discourse and Its Other in Lyotard@@@Discours, Figure (5)
Notes on Legitimation (5)
For a Pseudo-Theory (5)
Gesture and commentary (5)
Plastic Space and Political Space (5)
Theory of the Avant-Garde (4)
What to Paint (4)
On Terror and the Sublime (4)
Endurance and the Profession (4)
The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard (4)
Experiments in Postmodern Dialogue@@@Instructions Paiennes@@@Au Juste (4)
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren (3)
Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis (3)
Europe, the Jews and the Book (3)
Nietzsche and the inhuman (3)
Going Back to the Return (3)
The Differends of Man@@@Heidegger et "Les Juifs." (Heidegger and "The Jews.") (3)
Lesson of Darkness (2)
Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus (2)
Up against the Wall: The Stage of Judgment@@@Le Mur du Pacifique (2)
Voices of a Voice (2)
Freud According to Cezanne (1)
August: Double Justice@@@Au Juste (1)
ANAGRAMS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS (1)
The subject in the status of birth (1)
Die Transformatoren Duchamp (1)
Bureaucracy: Resistance, Witnessing, Writing (1)
Jean-francois Lyotard (1)
Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game (1)
Scriptures (1)
Den intellektuelles grav (0)
Textes dispersés II: artistes contemporains (0)
Reviews (0)
Concerning the Vincennes Psychoanalysis Department: Joint letter by Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze, Les Temps modernes , 1975 (0)
Music and Postmodernity1 (0)
Reflection in Kant’s Aesthetics (Translated by Charles Wolfe) (0)
Définitions. Notes du traducteur (0)
JAC Audio Interview: Jean-Francois Lyotard (0)
Diagnoses of ( Con ) temporality : (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)
‘In reading your work …’: with Georges Van Den Abbeele; including the short text ‘Decor’ by Jean-François Lyotard, Diacritics , 1984 (0)
Politics and history of philosophy (0)
On theory: An interview: with Brigitte Devismes, VH 101 , 1970. (0)
BENTON, MICHAEL. Literary Biography An Introduction.(London: Wiley-Blackwell). 2009. pp. 280.£ 60.00 (hbk). BERGMANN, SIGURD. In the Beginning is the Icon: A Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture.(London: Equinox Publishing Limited). 2009. pp. 256.£ 50.00 (hbk) (0)
Somewhere in a Postmodern Time (0)
Parachute : The Anthology : 1975 - 2000 : Vol. I (0)
Breakthrough into Comparison: "Moving" Stories, Local History, and the Narrative Turn (0)
Lesson Concerning the Secret Nature of Languages (Teacher's Manual) (0)
Sam Francis, leçon de ténèbres : like the paintings of a blind man (0)
The Contemporary Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge (0)
‘To Burdened Writing’ [À l’écrit bâté] (0)
6. The psychoanalytical approach (0)
A Brief Putting in Perspective of Decadence and of Several Minoritarian Battles To Be Waged (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 (0)
Artistes contemporains = Contemporary artists (0)
ANKER, STEVE, GERITZ, KATHY and SEID, STEVE (eds). Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000.(Berkeley: University of California Press). 2010. pp. 351.£ 20.95 (pbk) (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" (0)
Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Interviews and Debates (0)

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