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Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François Lyotard (; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) 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
like 'episteme' and 'genealogy' in order to explain the relationship between meaning, power, and social behavior within social orders (see "The Order of Things", "The Archaeology of Knowledge", "Discipline and Punish", and "The History of Sexuality").
Philosophy Jean-François Lyotard.
Jean-François Lyotard is credited with being the first to use the term in a philosophical context, in his 1979 work "". In it, he follows Wittgenstein's language games model and