Q.7 Examine Jean Francois Lyotard’s views on Post –Modernism.
Post –Modernism,
Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was a French philosopher whose best known
work—often to his chagrin—was his 1979 The Postmodern Condition. Written at the
request of the Council of Universities of the Provincial Government of Quebec
on the state of knowledge in the contemporary world, this work brought the term
“postmodernism”, already in use in other fields, such as the arts and
literature, to the forefront of debates in Western philosophy, especially when
published in English in 1984.
Post –Modernism,
The book was more prescient than realized at the time, as described below,
though soon critics of Continental philosophy used the term “postmodernism” to
hold together a variety of thinkers often at odds with one another (Julia
Kristeva, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and so on).
