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Jean-François Lyotard
(1924—1998) French philosopher and literary critic
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Alain Badiou
(1937– )FrenchMarxist philosopher, novelist and playwright. Born in Rabat, Morocco, Badiou completed high school in Toulouse before moving to Paris for undergraduate studies at the prestigious École ...
Cornelius Castoriadis
(1922–97)Paris-based Greek political philosopher and psychoanalyst. Born in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) and educated in Greece, Castoriadis lived in France from the end of the Second World ...
David Harvey
(1935–)British*Marxistgeographer. Born in Kent, Harvey completed both his BA and PhD at St Johns College, Cambridge. His first appointment was at the University of Bristol, where he remained for a ...
differend
A wrong or injustice that arises because the discourse in which the wrong might be expressed does not exist. To put it another way, it is a wrong or injustice that arises because the prevailing or ...
Empire
A prophetic and utopian concept which attempts to theorize in philosophical terms the nature of the new paradigm of power and right that emerged alongside globalization in the latter half of the 20th ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
(b Röcken, 15 Oct. 1844; d Weimar, 25 Aug. 1900).German philosopher. His influence on 19th- and 20th-century thought has been profound. He first met Wagner in 1868 and under ...
Gianni Vattimo
(1936– )Italian follower of Gadamer and Heidegger. Vattimo studied at Turin and Heidelberg, and taught aesthetics at the university of Turin, also pursuing a career as an administrator and ...
grand narrative
[French grands récits ‘big stories’]Lyotard's term for the totalizing narratives or metadiscourses of modernity which have provided ideologies with a legitimating philosophy of history. For example, ...
Jacques Lacan
(1901–81)French psychoanalyst and intellectual. Lacan was director of the École Freudienne de Paris from 1963, but his influence rested more on the series of seminars that he gave at the university ...
Jean Baudrillard
(1929–2007),cultural theorist and philosopher, born in Reims, France. His work was at the forefront of the postmodernist and deconstruction movements, and influenced sociological and communications ...
Jean-Luc Nancy
(1940–)Frenchpost-structuralist philosopher. A prolific author of books on the German Romantic tradition in philosophy, including its 20th century adherents such as Martin Heidegger.Born in Caudéran, ...
Jürgen Habermas
(1929– )Born in Düsseldorf, Habermas was educated at Bonn and Marburg, before holding posts at the Institute for Social Research, and eventually becoming professor of philosophy at Frankfurt. He is ...
language games
An analogy made by Wittgenstein between speaking a language and playing a game. Different uses of language (e.g. apologies or requests) have different rules which do not exist outside of social ...
Lyotard, Jean-François (1924–1998) Reference library
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
(1924–1998)
A French philosopher and social theorist best known in the Anglophone world for his role in debates
Lyotard, Jean‐François (b. 1924) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
(b. 1924).
French philosopher. His work came to international prominence with La Condition postmoderne (1979),
Lyotard, Jean-François (1924– ) Reference library
Christopher Norris
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
An exponent of so-called ‘post-modernism’, lately much in vogue among cultural and literary theorists. His arguments may be summarized briefly as follows. Our epoch has witnessed the ...
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Lyotard, Jean-François (b. 1925) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
(b. 1925), French philosopher.
Professor emeritus at the University of Paris and professor at the University of
Lyotard, Jean-François (1924–1998) Reference library
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
(1924–1998),
French philosopher and art theorist, author of a number of books outlining central characteristics and concerns
Manfred Frank
(1945–)Germanphilosopher and cultural critic. A prolific author of books on the German Romantic tradition in philosophy (especially the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Johann Gottlieb Fichte), ...
Narrative
To explore the role of the concept of narrative in aesthetics, art, and art history, this entry comprises two essays:Internal Narratives of Art HistoryNarrative and the Visual and Literary ArtsThe ...
