Jean-Francois Lyotard
A leading Post-Structuralist Critic and Philosopher.
History
Jean-Francois Lyotard earned his degree in
philosophy in 1958 and received
his Docteur des lettres in 1971.
After ten years of
teaching philosophy in secondary schools
(in Constantine, Algeria from
1950 to 1952), twenty years of
teaching and research in
higher education (Sorbonne, Nanterre,
CNRS, Vincennes), and twelve years
of theoretical and practical
work devoted to the
group "Socialisme ou barbarie," and later for
Pouvoir ouvrier, he taught
philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII
(Vincennes,
Saint-Denis). Professor Lyotard is a council member of the
College
International de Philosophie, Professor Emeritus at the
University
of Paris, and was for several years Professor of French at
the University of
California, Irvine. He moved from
that position to Emory University.
Movements
Post-Structuralism
Writings
- Phenomenology (Fr. 1954) (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991)
- Discours, figure (Fr. 1971) (translation in progress? Harvard?)
- Driftworks (NY: Semiotext(e), 1984) (partial translation of Derive et
partir de Marx et Freud , 1973)
- Libidinal Economy (Fr. 1974) (Bloomington: Indiana University, 1993)
- Pacific Wall (Fr. 1975) (Venice, CA: Lapis, 1990)
- Duchamp's Transformers (Fr. 1977) (Venice, CA: Lapis, 1990)
- Just Gaming (w/Jean-Loup Thebaud) (Fr. 1979) (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota,
1985)
- The Postmodern Condition (Fr. 1979) (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1984)
- The Differend (Fr. 1982) (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1988)
- The Postmodern Explained (Fr. 1986) (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1992)
- Heidegger and "the jews" (Fr. 1988) (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1990)
- The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (Fr. 1988) (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991)
- Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event (NY: Columbia, 1988)
- The Lyotard Reader (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1989)
- Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (Fr. 1991) (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1994)
- Toward the Postmodern (Atlantic Highlands,NJ: Humanities Press, 1993)
- Political Writings (Minneapolis: U. Minnesota, 1993)
This bibliography is taken from a page created by the Lyotard Discussion Group
at the University of Virginia.
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