Talk:Jean-François Lyotard

message: I don't know his earlier work very well except for the political writings.  With some additional research, I could cover Heidegger and "the jews", The Differend, The Postmodern Condition, Postmodern Fables, and some selections from the Political Writings.  Anyone want to take on the earlier work or the Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime?  Lyotard's Kant probably needs to be treated in some detail. Buffyg 13:27, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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message: It is worth pointing out that the (too) much quoted observation, that the postmodern condition could be described as "incredulity with regard to metanarratives" (incrédulité à l'égard des métarécits in the original, which might be more simply or elegantly translated as 'disbelief') is almost always quoted out of context: from memory (I do not have a copy of the book with me) Lyotard remarks that this is how we might term the postmodern condition if we were to describe it in simplistic terms.
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I am in no position to write about Lyotard but how about a bibliography?--Taramenos 11:40, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incredulity with regard to metanarratives 

message: I don't see where in the article the "clean up tone" box is justified. Most of the language is straightforward but none would I call informal. I suggest the box be removed, or its complaint specified. Ccoll 02:55, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up tone? 

message: I was thinking that the treatment of "The Differend" and "Just Gaming" was pretty scant, considering that the former especially is his most substantial work.  Then I noticed what else is missing.
No reference to his first two big books, which made his reputation: "Discours, Figure" and "Economie Libidinale".  This is like an article on Derrida skipping "Of Grammatology" and "Writing and Difference".  Less importantly - but should still be here - nothing on his late studies of Malraux, and nothing on his work in pure phenomenology at the beginning of his career.
KD Dec 2006
Could we get more discussion on his *biography* -- i.e., where did he go to school, with whom did he study, in what fields did he develop competence, etc.?
Not to mention it doesn't talk at all about his later repudiations of The Postmodern Condition. Orpheus42 05:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article omits major parts of Lyotard's work 

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message: This article could be improved by a section on precursors and influences. No thinker is an island, after all. 
As one small part of that section, one might mention Vannevar Bush, not necessarily as an "influence", because I have no solid information that Lyotard was aware of him, but as a precursor who helped create the Zeitgeist in which Lyotard might conceive of his theories.  If interested, please see Talk:The Postmodern Condition#As We May Think.  Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:26, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Precursors and influences 

message: While obviously Lyotard did write about Judaism occasionally, it is very far from a main interest of him, especially not on the same level as the sublime or sociology. A. Rosenberg (talk) 16:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Asher, agreed, dropped; I wouldn't put it in his top ten. Added in March 2011 in this edit by . Would rather see some of: postmodernism, Language and discourse, "the" sublime, ethics and justice, impact of technology, postcolonialism and globalization, etc. (with sources, of course). Mathglot (talk) 01:41, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main interest Judaism?