In the 20 years since Jean-François Lyotard died, on 21st April 1998, the reputation of the idea most associated with him has plummeted. Most today see postmodernism as a busted flush. Its early, left ...

YALE FRENCH STUDIES, 99 Jean-François Lyotard: Time and Judgment Edited by Robert Harvey and Lawrence R. Schehr ISBN 0-300-08991-0 The work of the polymath Jean-François Lyotard has proven seminal in ...

This daring work argues that the traumas of the twentieth century formthe backdrop of a subjectivity marked by the drive for survival, andthat sublime figurations are the aesthetic marker of that ...

It's been more than 30 years since Jean-François Lyotard closed the historical door on Modernism. It was 1979, to be exact, when Lyotard published The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

Let My Country Awake: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj Novelist Svoboda follows up Dog on Fire with a ruminative, wide-ranging biography of her ...

Vol. 14, No. 3, Special Issue on the Work of Jean-Francois Lyotard (Autumn, 1984), pp. 39-49 (11 pages) Published By: The Johns Hopkins University Press Founded in 1971, Diacritics publishes original ...

Unless one acknowledges the complex nature and often unexpected connections among things, events and people, one might find it a smidgen astonishing that what the French poststructuralist philosopher, ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.