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jean-françois lyotard

jean-françois lyotard -lrb- ; 10 august 1924 -- 21 april 1998 -rrb- was a french philosopher , sociologist , and literary theorist .
his interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as knowledge and communication , the human body , modernist 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 impact of postmodernity on the human condition .
he was co-founder of the international college of philosophy with jacques derrida , françois châtelet , and gilles deleuze .
