The writings of Lyotard were largely concerned with the role of narrative in human culture, and particularly how that role has changed as we have left modernity and entered a " postindustrial " or postmodern condition.

Jean-François Lyotard has argued that " knowledge has become the force of production over the last few decades ".

# Lyotard himself has ironically spoken of " the great narrative of the end of great narratives ", a point taken up against him by such thinkers as Alex Callinicos and Jürgen Habermas, who argue that Lyotard's universal skepticism toward metanarratives is itself a contemporary metanarrative, and thus self-refuting.

He has been a friend and collaborator to such eminent intellectuals as Pier Paolo Pasolini ( in whose The Gospel According to St. Matthew he played the part of Philip ), Italo Calvino ( with whom he collaborated, for a short while, as counsellor of the publishing house Einaudi and developed plans for a journal ), Ingeborg Bachmann, Pierre Klossowski, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Antonio Negri, Jean-François Lyotard and others.

His work has been compared to that of Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Ellul, and others, although many of these connections are problematic.

Among others the journal has published original contributions from Claude Lefort, Paul Feyerabend, Cornelius Castoriadis, Jürgen Habermas and Jean-François Lyotard.

Bennington has also written two monographs on Lyotard, Writing the Event and Late Lyotard, and has also written extensively on Rousseau and Kant, developing original accounts of the " paradox of the legislator " in the former and " interrupted teleology " in the latter.

A collection of essays by theoreticians such as Michel de Certeau, Alphonso Lingis, Jean-François Lyotard, as well as several previously unpublished texts written by Schreber after the publication of the Memoirs.

Habermas, Lyotard and Rorty are also philosophers who are influenced by Heidegger ’ s interpretation of Nietzsche.

Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard was also part of this movement.

Lyotard argues that, rather than relying on an objective truth or method to prove their claims, philosophers legitimize their truths by reference to a story about the world which is inseparable from the age and system the stories belong to, referred to by Lyotard as meta-narratives.

* Lyotard, Jean-François ( 1984 ) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( ISBN 0-8166-1173-4 )

* Jean-François Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Baudrillard himself, since 1984, was fairly consistent in his view that contemporary art, and postmodern art in particular, was inferior to the modernist art of the post World War II period, while Jean-François Lyotard praised Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art.

Lyotard was a frequent writer on aesthetic matters.

For Lyotard, in Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime, but drawing on his argument in The Differend, this is a good thing.

To mark the tenth anniversary of Lyotard's death, An international symposium about Jean-François Lyotard organized by the Collège International de Philosophie ( under the direction of Dolores Lyotard, Jean-Claude Milner and Gerald Sfez ) was held in Paris on January, 25-27th 2007.

* Jean-François Lyotard: Collected Writings on Art.

In 1979 Jean-François Lyotard wrote a short but influential work The Postmodern Condition: A report on knowledge.

In The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( 1979 ), Lyotard highlights the increasing skepticism of the postmodern condition toward the totalizing nature of metanarratives and their reliance on some form of " transcendent and universal truth ":

* Lyotard, Jean-François ( 1984 ) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge ( ISBN 0-8166-1173-4 )

He is a literary critic and philosopher, best known as an expert on deconstruction and the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard.

* The Inhuman: Talks on Time, ( ISBN 0-8047-2008-8 ) Jean-François Lyotard, 1991, w / Rachel Bowlby

Jean-François Lyotard, one of the group of students on the trip selected to visit Heidegger, wrote about the experience thus:

This crisis, insofar as it pertains to academia, concerns both the motivations and justification procedures for making research claims: unstated givens or values that have validated the basic efforts of academic research since the late 18th century might no longer be valid ( particularly, in Social Science & Humanities research, though examples from Mathematics are given by Lyotard as well ).

* Jean-François Lyotard ( 1924 – 1998 ) was a French philosopher and literary theorist well known for his embracing of postmodernism after the late 1970s.

Derrida's philosophical friends, allies, and students included Paul de Man, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Sarah Kofman, Hélène Cixous, Bernard Stiegler, Alexander García Düttmann, Joseph Cohen, Geoffrey Bennington, Jean-Luc Marion, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Raphael Zagury-Orly, Jacques Ehrmann, Avital Ronell, Samuel Weber and Catherine Malabou.

The Passagen Verlag, the name Passagen being an allusion to Walter Benjamin's most important text Passagenwerk, publishes besides Derrida authors such as Jean-François Lyotard, Gianni Vattimo, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Feyerabend, Peter Eisenman, Jacques Lacan, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Sarah Kofman, Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic, Slavoj Žižek, Emmanuel Levinas, Clifford Geertz, Ginka Steinwachs, Dennis Cooper, Wolfgang Schirmacher, etc.

Other writers important to visual culture include Stuart Hall, Roland Barthes, Jean-François Lyotard, Rosalind Krauss, Paul Crowther and Slavoj Žižek.

Jean-François Lyotard re-invokes the Kantian distinction between taste and the sublime.

Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as " beauty ," is that of the " sublime ," elaborated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

* Lyotard, Jean-François ( 1979 ), The Postmodern Condition, Manchester University Press, 1984.

* 1998 – Jean-François Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist ( b. 1924 )

" This concept of the instability of truth and meaning leads in the direction of nihilism, though Lyotard stops short of embracing the latter.

Philosophers commonly referred to as Post-structuralists include Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze ( all of whom began their careers within a Structuralist framework ), Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-François Lyotard, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and, sometimes, the American cultural theorists, critics and intellectuals they influenced ( e. g. Judith Butler, Jonathan Crary, John Fiske, Rosalind Krauss, Hayden White ).

Jonathan Kramer posits the idea ( following Umberto Eco and Jean-François Lyotard ) that postmodernism ( including musical postmodernism ) is less a surface style or historical period ( i. e., condition ) than an attitude.

In his vision of a solution to this " vertigo ," Lyotard opposes the assumptions of universality, consensus, and generality that he identified within the thought of Humanistic, Neo-Kantian philosophers like Jürgen Habermas and proposes a continuation of experimentation and diversity to be assessed pragmatically in the context of language games rather than via appeal to a resurrected series of transcendentals and metaphysical unities.

), Gender After Lyotard.

The most influential early postmodern philosophers were Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida.

Jonathan Kramer posits the idea ( following Umberto Eco and Jean-François Lyotard ) that postmodernism ( including musical postmodernism ) is less a surface style or historical period ( i. e., condition ) than an attitude.

Other prominent academics associated with the University include Geoffrey Bennington, the creator of the MA programme in Modern French Thought ( Derrida, Lyotard ); Homi K. Bhabha ( postcolonialism ); Rachel Bowlby ( feminism, Woolf, Freud ); Geoff Cloke FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Jonathan Dollimore ( Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies ); Katy Gardner ( social anthropology ); Gabriel Josipovici ( Dante, the Bible ); Michael Land FRS ( Animal Vision-Frink Medal )); Michael Lappert FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry ); Alan Lehmann FRS ( Genetics and Genome Stability ); ( Laura Marcus ( Woolf ); John Murrell FRS ( Theoretical Chemistry ); Peter Nicholls ( Pound, modernism ); John Nixon FRS ( Inorganic Chemistry )); Laurence Pearl FRS ( Structural Biology ); Guy Richardson FRS ( Neuroscience ); Jacqueline Rose ( feminism, psychoanalysis ); Nicholas Royle ( modern literature and theory ; deconstruction ); Alan Sinfield ( Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory ); Norman Vance ( Victorian, classical reception ); Richard Whatmore & Knud Haakonssen ( intellectual historians ); Gavin Ashenden ( Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, and Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ; Cedric Watts ( Conrad, Greene ); Marcus Wood ( postcolonialism ).

Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-François Lyotard, among others, all engaged in debate and disagreement about the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his Nazi politics.

For the 20th century philosopher Jean-François Lyotard the regicide was the starting point of all French thought, the memory of which acts as a reminder that French modernity began under the sign of a crime.

Lyotard says that postindustrial society makes knowledge accessible to the layman because knowledge and information technologies would diffuse into society and break up Grand Narratives of centralized structures and groups.

Lyotard denotes these changing circumstances as postmodern condition or postmodern society.