6 Quotes & Sayings By Jeanfrancois Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard was born in Paris, France, in 1948. He is a philosopher of science and theory of art, and has written on hegemonic power, the body, phenomenology, postmodernism, language games, technology, knowledge, science fiction and cinema. He is professor emeritus at the University of Paris V. His book "The Postmodern Condition" (1984) is considered to be one of the most influential works in philosophy in the last thirty years Read more

It was translated into English by Geoffrey Bennington and Brian Massumi.

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On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. JeanFrancois Lyotard
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. JeanFrancois Lyotard
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. JeanFrancois Lyotard
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. JeanFrancois Lyotard
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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. JeanFrancois Lyotard