Jean-François Lyotard

 Jean-Francois Lyotard French 10 August 1924 (died 21 April, 1998))He was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinarity-based discourse encompasses issues as epistemology and communication, the human body, postmodern and modern literature, art, critical theory, music, film memory and time, urban space and landscape, the sublime, and the connection between politics and aesthetics. The way he analyzed the impact of postmodernity on the human condition and his definition of postmodernism in the latter half of the 1970s are the reason he is most well-known. Lyotard was a major figure in contemporary Continental philosophy and was the author of 26 books and many articles. He was the director of International College of Philosophy, established by Francois Chatelet and Dominique Lecourt.