Jean-Francois Lyotard

About Jean-Francois Lyotard

The Postmodern Condition defined postmodernism as incredulity toward metanarratives. Grand stories of progress and emancipation no longer command belief. Knowledge becomes a commodity in the information age. A differend is a wrong that cannot even be phrased in the court judging it. Taught in Paris and in California. His early Marxist years ended in disillusion after Algeria.