Jean-François Lyotard, the French philosopher, delivered four lectures, “Why Philosophize?” at the Sorbonne in 1964, arguing passionately that we philosophize out of desire, a sense of absence, and ...
Dans sa jeunesse, Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) entretint trois vocations : « Je me sentais hésitant : dominicain, peintre, ou historien ? […] Le moine annonçait la loi, le peintre la forme (et la ...
Postmodernism means different things in different contexts. In philosophy the term refers to certain currents in French philosophy since the 1960s, including especially thinkers such as Jacques ...