On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
Jean Francois Lyotard Quotes
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
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| Birth: | 10th August, 1924 |
| Death: | 21st April, 1998 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Philosopher |
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Jean Francois Lyotard was born in Versailles, France. He was a French philosopher. 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. He was co-founder of the International College of Philosophy with Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, and Gilles Deleuze. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in the late 1940s. In 1971, he earned a State doctorate with his dissertation Discours, figure under Mikel Dufrenne- the work was published the same year. He taught at the Lycée of Constantine, Algeria from 1950 to 1952. He served as a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, VIII. He served as a professor of Critical Theory at the University of California at Irvine, and professor of French and Philosophy at Emory University. He wrote several books include: Discourse, Figure, Libidinal Economy, The Postmodern Condition, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, Phenomenology, Pacific Wall, The inhuman, The hyphen, Toward the postmodern, The Lyotard reader, The confession of Augustine, Why Philosophize?, and Enthusiasm.
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