Jean-François Lyotard
Biographic Data
| ID | 282067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-François Lyotard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-François |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyotard |
| SIGNATURE | LYOTARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Paris-VIII and Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2317 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 83 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism? (1983)
"Heidegger und „die Juden": Ergänzt um einen einführenden Vortrag von Jean-François Lyotard (Wien/Freiburg 1989)
In seiner ersten Publikation zu Martin Heidegger versucht Jean-François Lyotard die Entwicklungsschritte, die das Denken des deutschen Philosophen vor, während und nach der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus gegangen ist, kritisch nachzuzeichnen. Scharfsinnig nimmt er dabei Vermutungen vorweg, die erst 2014, durch die Veröffentlichung der „Schwarzen Hefte“, in ihrem vollen Ausmaß verifizierbar werden sollten. Heideggers Philosophie will das Verges…
The Crab's Efficacy
Invoking Laozi and Mencius, Jullien offers an oblique take on efficacy, one of China's most intriguing yet most influential notions formulated in Daoism, the practice of art, and military strategies. It circumvents the heavy philosophical apparatus of means versus ends and theory versus practice that jam the Western conception of efficacy
Pintura y deseo
Kyril Ryjik: Leçon d'Impouvoir
The Desire Called Marx
Réponses » à Philosophie philosophie (septembre 1993)
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Tale from irvine: Dol et dave
La Mêlée: La Guerre De Malraux
Il y a un fait, l'œuvre. Elle ne témoigne pour rien, elle atteste seulement d’un obscur démêlé avec le désœuvrement. D'une bataille de l’esprit déserté avec et contre le désert, d'une mêlée. De l’esprit ou de n'importe quoi. On ne sait pas pourquoi des œuvres, mais comment elles se font, Malraux là-dessus a ses idées
What to Paint
In this interview, originally given in 1988, Jean-François Lyotard discusses his then recently published book, Que Peindre? Adami, Arakawa, Buren (What to Paint?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren), situating it in the context of his broader interest in art and in terms of his insistence on painting as “presence” or “matter.” In addition to describing the composition and structure of What to Paint?, he links its concerns to the problematic of presentation/un…
Argumentation and Presentation
In this essay, Jean-François Lyotard revisits the question of the postmodern in relation to the “foundation crisis” in the mathematical sciences, arguing that this crisis should be conceived not in terms of the establishment of the foundations of scientific discourses but in terms of the foundation of sense experience in the given. He opposes Karl-Otto Apel's attempt to resolve the crisis through a metapragmatics that would ground reason accordin…
Veduta auf ein Fragment der Geschichte des Begehrens
Règles et Paradoxes
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Music and Postmodernity
I When there are no more rules at all, the time of atonalism has come. Of what precedes it, absolutely nothing remains. Yet, the sound remains . . . And the sound leaves immense remains. I would like to start with this simultaneously melancholy and joyful observation of Pierre Schaeffer's, written ten years ago, to identify, once again, the nature of the postmodern question. In The Postmodern Condition, which is a Report written some twelve years…
Jean-François Lyotard: Notes du traducteur
La télévision
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Contre Un
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Anamnesis: Of the Visible
Scriptures: Diffracted Traces
What about the Postmodern? The Concept of the Postmodern in the Work of Lyotard
The Phrase-Affect (From a Supplement to the Differend)
(2001). The Phrase-Affect (From a Supplement to the Differend) Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 32, Jean-Francois Lyotard, pp. 234-241
L'Algérie sept ans après
Lyotard Jean-François. L'Algérie sept ans après. In: Chimères. Revue des schizoanalyses, N°44, automne 2001. Clandestins. pp. 57-65
Can Thought Go On Without a Body?
You philosophers ask questions without answers, questions that have to remain unanswered to deserve being called philosophical. According to you answered questions are only technical matters. That’s what they were to begin with. They were mistaken for philosophical questions. You turn to other questions that seem completely impossible to answer: which by definition resist every attempt at conquest by the understanding. Or what amounts to the same…
Signed, Malraux
Womanstruck
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world
Anamnesis: Of the Visible
Rules and Paradoxes and Svelte Appendix
involves a change in people's relation to the problem of meaning: simplifying a great deal, I would say that the modern is the consciousness of the absence of value in many activities. If we are interested in what is new in modernity, it is not knowing how to respond to the problem of meaning. Romanticism, as the absence of meaning and the consciousness of that absence, is modern; so is something like dandyism, orwhat Nietzsche calls active nihil…
Argumentation and Presentation
In this essay, Jean-François Lyotard revisits the question of the postmodern in relation to the “foundation crisis” in the mathematical sciences, arguing that this crisis should be conceived not in terms of the establishment of the foundations of scientific discourses but in terms of the foundation of sense experience in the given. He opposes Karl-Otto Apel's attempt to resolve the crisis through a metapragmatics that would ground reason accordin…
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy
And that figure I named matrix, is it coherent?' Can we say it is one: unified and unifying? What kind of unity does it have? The unity of a language? If so, is its unity that of a language-system (langue) or that of a discourse? What I want to show is this: that the matrix is not a language, not a linguistic structure (une structure de langue), not a tree of discourses. Of all the figural orders it is the most remote from communicability, the mo…
Scriptures: Diffracted Traces
Notes on Legitimation
I would like to take up here the question of totalitarianism from an apparently narrow point of view: that of the language of legitimation. I believe this approach to be more radical than any other — be it politico-logical, sociological, or historical — to the extent that it operates without recourse to certain received entities which often go unquestioned, such as power, society, the people, tradition, and so on. It seems to me, moreover, that t…
The Sublime and The Avant Garde
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren
Any work may be read, and there are many ways to read a work. This does not imply that all possible readings may be applied to every work, nor that every reading may be applied to all works. Neither does it mean that the act of interpretation has lost its value. Rather it announces the disintegration of critical typologies, a breakdown in the conventions that separate kinds of interpretation. As the contemporary arts can no longer be organized an…
What to Paint
In this interview, originally given in 1988, Jean-François Lyotard discusses his then recently published book, Que Peindre? Adami, Arakawa, Buren (What to Paint?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren), situating it in the context of his broader interest in art and in terms of his insistence on painting as “presence” or “matter.” In addition to describing the composition and structure of What to Paint?, he links its concerns to the problematic of presentation/un…
The Phrase-Affect (From a Supplement to the Differend)
(2001). The Phrase-Affect (From a Supplement to the Differend) Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 32, Jean-Francois Lyotard, pp. 234-241
Re-Writing Modernity
First of all let me point out how much indebted I am to Kathy Woodward, Carol Tenneson, Sydney Levy, and Mary Lydon for having suggested to me (or even imposed on me) the title Re-writing Modernity. It is better than any rubric such as Postmodernity, Postmodernism, Postmodern, and the like. The improvement lies in a double displacement: a lexical commutation from post- to re-; and a syntactical one dealing with the transfer of the prefix which is…
The Tensor
Plastic Space and Political Space
The Dream-Work Does Not Think
It should come as no surprise that the problematics of wo rk versus discourse is the nub of chapter six of The Interpretation of Dreams. In the course of this chapter Freud examines the dream-work and enumerates the essential operations by wh i ch it proceeds. It is easy to show that each of these operat ions is conducted according to rules wh ich are in direct opposi t ion to those governing discourse. The dream is not the language of desire, bu…
Endurance and the Profession
The Tooth, the Palm
A propos de Cl. Lévi-Strauss: Les Indiens ne cueillent pas les fleurs
La méthode qui guide Claude Lévi-Strauss dans la mise à jour de « la pensée sauvage » paraît jurer avec son objet : celui-ci, penser en tant qu'activité universelle et primordiale, peut-il être déterminé à partir de la pensée structuraliste, codage élaboré et particulier pas même à l'Occident, mais à notre temps ? Nous prendrons cette question pour foyer, nantis de la seule autorité que la pensée à l'état sauvage peut conférer à un esprit qui n'e…
Économie libidinale
For a Pseudo-Theory
The Tooth, the Palm
Lesson Concerning the Secret Nature of Languages (Teacher's Manual)
Since language is not meant to communicate but to conceal, publishing anything was treason. We spoke to people only in order to enlist them, and they paid attention only to be enlisted. So speech hid its proffered words; the interlocutor made himself privy to a secret One expressed oneself guardedly; what was said would have been said to no-one else, for otherwise there would have been no point in speakingo
One of the Things at Stake in Women's Struggles
It may be that you are forced to be a man from the moment that you write. Maybe writing is a fact of virility. Even if you write as a woman, femininely. Perhaps what we call feminine writing is only a variation on a genre that is masculine and remains so: the essay. It is said that the femininity of writing depends on content. Writing is feminine, for example, if it operates by seduction rather than conviction. But the opposition of these two eff…
Never Say Why
Imaginação e Paradoxo
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren
Any work may be read, and there are many ways to read a work. This does not imply that all possible readings may be applied to every work, nor that every reading may be applied to all works. Neither does it mean that the act of interpretation has lost its value. Rather it announces the disintegration of critical typologies, a breakdown in the conventions that separate kinds of interpretation. As the contemporary arts can no longer be organized an…
Analysing Speculative Discourse as Language-Game
The following analysis will appear to be guided by an interference: bet ween Hegel's discourse, which states what speculative language ought to be, and statements (my own) which, in presenting Hegel's discourse as a language-game or discursive genre, determine its rules. This in terference appears to be contingent, just as the meeting of two indepen dent series of events is contingent. Indeed, if the two families of statements, those of the ob…
Endurance and the Profession
The Dream-Work Does Not Think
It should come as no surprise that the problematics of wo rk versus discourse is the nub of chapter six of The Interpretation of Dreams. In the course of this chapter Freud examines the dream-work and enumerates the essential operations by wh i ch it proceeds. It is easy to show that each of these operat ions is conducted according to rules wh ich are in direct opposi t ion to those governing discourse. The dream is not the language of desire, bu…
Fiscourse Digure: The Utopia behind the Scenes of the Phantasy
And that figure I named matrix, is it coherent?' Can we say it is one: unified and unifying? What kind of unity does it have? The unity of a language? If so, is its unity that of a language-system (langue) or that of a discourse? What I want to show is this: that the matrix is not a language, not a linguistic structure (une structure de langue), not a tree of discourses. Of all the figural orders it is the most remote from communicability, the mo…
Passages from "Le Mur du Pacifique" (1979)
Pierre Brochet, Nick Royle, Kathleen Woodward, Passages from "Le Mur du Pacifique" (1979), SubStance, Vol. 11/12, Vol. 11, no. 4 - Vol. 12, no. 1, Issue 37-38: A Special Issue from the Center for Twentieth Century Studies (1982/1983), pp. 89-99
The postmodern condition: A Report on Knowledge
The postmodern condition: A Report on Knowledge
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world …
Up against the Wall: The Stage of Judgment
August: Double Justice
What's Happening
Experiments in Postmodern Dialogue
Interview: Jean-Francois Lyotard
Rephrasing the Political with Kant and Lyotard: From Aesthetic to Political Judgments
David Carroll, Rephrasing the Political with Kant and Lyotard: From Aesthetic to Political Judgments, Diacritics, Vol. 14, No. 3, Special Issue on the Work of Jean-Francois Lyotard (Autumn, 1984), pp. 73-88
The Letter and the Line: Discourse and Its Other in Lyotard
The Differend, the Referent, and the Proper Name
Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity
Research Article| December 01 1984 Philosophy and Painting in the Age of Their Experimentation: Contribution to an Idea of Postmodernity Jean-François Lyotard; Jean-François Lyotard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Maria Minich Brewer; Maria Minich Brewer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Daniel Brewer Daniel Brewer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1984) …
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