Jean-François Lyotard

Lyotard photographed by Jane Dulfaqar, 1989.
Born	August 10, 1924(1924-08-10) Versailles, France
Died	April 21, 1998(1998-04-21) (aged 73) Paris, France
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Jean-François Lyotard (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 1924–1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.

Works

(in French unless noted otherwise)

Books

• La Phènomènologie, Paris: PUF, 1954; 1999; 2004, PDF, ARG.
  • Phenomenology, trans. Brian Beakley, SUNY Press, 1991, PDF, ARG. (English)
  • Fenomenologie, trans. Milada Hanáková, Prague: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 104 pp. (Czech)

• Discours, figure, Paris: Klincksieck, 1971, PDF, ARG. Dissertation.
  • Discourse, Figure, trans. Antony Hudek and Mary Lydon, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, Log, ARG. (English)

• Dérive à partir de Marx et Freud, Paris: 10/18, 1973; new ed., Paris: Galilée, 1994, 203 pp, PDF, ARG.

• Des dispositifs pulsionnels, Paris: 10/18, 1973; new ed., Paris: Galilée, 1994, PDF, ARG.

• Économie libidinale, Paris: Minuit, 1974.
  • Economia libidinal, 1990, PDF. (Spanish)
  • Libidinal Economy, trans. Iain Hamilton Grant, Indiana University Press, 1993, Log. (English)
  • Libidinöse Ökonomie, trans. Gabriele Ricke und Ronald Voullié, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes, 2007, ARG. (German)

• Rudiments païens, Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1977.

• Les Transformateurs Duchamp, Paris: Galilée, 1977.
  • Die Transformatoren Duchamp, trans. Regine Bürkle-Kuhn, Stuttgart: Galerie Kubinski, 1986, 138 pp. (German)
  • Duchamp’s TRANS/formers, trans. Ian McLeod. Lapis Press, 1990, Log. (English)
  • I transformatori Duchamp: studi su Marcel Duchamp, trans. Elio Grazioli, Cernusco L: Hestia, 1992, xiii+129 pp. (Italian)

• La Condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir, Paris: Minuit, 1979. First published as the report Les problèmes du savoir dans les sociétés industrielles les plus développées, 1979, PDF, PDF.
  • La condizione postmoderna. Rapporto sul sapere, trans. Carlo Formenti, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1981; 2014, Log, PDF. (Italian)
  • The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1984, Log, PDF. (English)
  • O pós-moderno, trans. Ricardo Correa Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1986; 3rd ed., 1988, Log, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • O postmodernismu. Postmoderno vysvětlované dětem. Postmoderní situace, trans. Jiří Pechar, Prague: Filosofický ústav, 1993, 206 pp, Log, PDF, PDF. (Czech)
  • Η μεταμοντέρνα κατάσταση, trans. Κωστής Παπαγιώργης, Γνώση, 1993, Log, PDF. (Greek)
  • Postmodernus būvis: šiuolaikinį žinojimą aptariant, trans. Marius Daškus, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 1993, 164 pp, Log, PDF. (Latvian)
  • Postmoderno stanje: izvještaj o znanju, trans. Tatiana Tadić, Zagreb: Ibis, 2005, 115 pp, PDF. (Croatian)

• with Jean-Loup Thébaud, Au juste, Paris: Christian Bourgois, 1979.
  • Just Gaming, trans. Wlad Godzich, University of Minnesota Press, 1985, ARG. (English)

• Le mur du pacifique Paris: Galilée, 1979.
  • Pacific Wall, trans. Bruce Boone, Lapis Press, 1989, ARG. (English)

• La pittura del segreto nell’epoca post-moderna: Baruchello, Milan: Feltrinelli, 1982. (Italian)

• Le Différend, Paris: Minuit, 1983, ARG.
  • Il dissidio, Feltrinelli, 1985, PDF. (Italian)
  • The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele, University of Minnesota Press, 1988, PDF, ARG; Manchester University Press, 1988, PDF. (English)
  • Rozepře, trans. Jiří Pechar, et al., Prague: Filosofia, 1998, 323 pp. (Czech)

• L’Assassinat de l’expérience par la peinture, Monory, Bègles: Castor Astral, 1984.
  • The Assassination of Experience by Painting – Monory, trans. Rachel Bowlby, London: Black Dog, 1998. (English)

• Driftworks, ed. Roger McKeon, New York: Semiotext(e), 1984, ARG. Essays and interviews dating from 1970-72. (English)

• Tombeau de l'intellectuel et autres papiers, Paris: Galilée, 1984, ARG.

• L'enthousiasme, la critique kantienne de l'histoire, Paris: Galilée, 1986.
  • Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History, trans. George Van Den Abbeele, Stanford University Press, 2009, ARG. (English)

• Que peindre? Adami, Arakawa, Buren, 1987; new ed., Paris: Hermann, 2008.

• Le Postmoderne expliqué aux enfants. Correspondance 1982-1985, Paris: Galilée, 1988.
  • The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982–1985, eds. Julian Pefanis and Morgan Thomas, trans. Don Barry, University of Minnesota Press, 1993. (English)

• L'Inhumain: causeries sur le temps, Paris: Galilée, 1988, ARG.
  • The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby, Stanford University Press, 1991, PDF, ARG. (English)
  • Putování a jiné eseje, trans. Miroslav Petříček, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2001, 149 pp. (Czech)

• Heidegger et les Juifs, Paris: Galilée, 1988.
  • Heidegger and "the jews"., trans. Andreas Michael and Mark S. Roberts, University of Minnesota Press, 1990, PDF. (English)

• Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event, Columbia University Press, 1988, 112 pp. (English) Review: Bogue (1989).
  • Pérégrinations: Loi, forme, événement, Paris: Galilée, 1990.
  • Putování a jiné eseje, trans. Miroslav Petříček, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2001, 149 pp. (Czech)

• The Lyotard Reader, ed. Andrew Benjamin, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. (English)

• with J. Derrida, V. Descombes, G. Kortian, et al., La faculté de juger, Paris: Minuit, 1989, PDF, ARG.

• Leçons sur l'Analytique du sublime: Kant, "Critique de la faculté de juger," paragraphes 23–29, Paris: Galilée, 1991.
  • Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime: Kant’s Critique of Judgment, §§ 23–29, trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg, Stanford University Press, 1994, PDF, ARG. (English)

• Un trait d’union. Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Le Griffon d’argile, 1993.
  • The Hyphen: Between Judaism and Christianity, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1999. (English)

• Political Writings, trans. Bill Readings and Kevin Paul Geiman, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, PDF. Texts written 1956-89. (English)

• Moralités postmodernes, Paris: Galilée, 1993.
  • Mulighedernes monument, trans. Kasper Nefer Olsen, Copenhagen: Det kgl. danske Kunstakademi, 1995, 31 pp. (Danish)
  • Moralidades posmodernas, Madrid: Tecnos, 1996, PDF. (Spanish)
  • Postmodern Fables, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele, University of Minnesota Press, 1997. (English)
  • Postmoderne Moralitäten, Vienna: Passagen, 1998. (German)
  • Hou xian dai dao de [后现代道德], Shanghai: Xue lin chu ban she, 2000. (Chinese)

• Toward the Postmodern, eds. Robert Harvey and Mark S. Roberts, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1993, ARG/EPUB. Essays written 1970-91. (English)

• Signé Malraux, Paris: Grasset, 1996.
  • Signed, Malraux, trans. Robert Harvey, University of Minnesota Press, 1999, 326 pp, PDF, ARG. (English)

• Questions au judaïsme, Paris: DDB, 1996.

• Collected Writings on Art, London: Academy Editions, 1997. (English)

• La Confession d'Augustin, Paris: Galilée, 1998.
  • The Confession of Augustine, trans. Richard Beardsworth, Stanford University Press, 2000. (English)

• Chambre sourde: L’Antiesthétique de Malraux, Paris: Galilée, 1998.
  • Soundproof Room: Malraux’s Anti-Aesthetics, trans. Robert Harvey, Stanford University Press, 2001. (English)

• Misère de la philosophie, Paris: Galilée, 2000.

• Návrat a jiné eseje, ed. & afterw. Přemysl Maydl, trans. Ladislav Šerý and Miroslav Petříček, Prague: Herrmann & synové, 2002, 231 pp. (Czech)

• Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists, 6 vols., Leuven University Press, 2009ff. [1]. Review: Keith Crome (Cultural Politics). (French)/(English)
  • 1. Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur / Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour, intro. Herman Parret, trans. Vlad Ionescu and Peter Milne, 2009, 272 pp. [2] (French)/(English)
  • 2. Sam Francis, Leçon de ténèbres / Sam Francis, Lesson of Darkness, trans. Geoffrey Bennington, 2010, 224 pp. [3] (French)/(English)
  • 3. Les Transformateurs Duchamp / Duchamp's TRANS/formers, intro. Dalia Judovitz, 2010, 255 pp. [4] (French)/(English)
  • 4.I-II. Textes dispersés I: esthétique et théorie de l’art; II: artistes contemporains / Miscellaneous Texts, I: Aesthetics and Theory of Art; II: Contemporary Artists, trans. Vlad Ionescu, Erica Harris and Peter W. Milne, afterw. Jean-Michael Durafour and Dolorès Lyotard, 2012, 264 & 720 pp, Log. [5] (French)/(English)
  • 5. Que peindre? Adami, Arakawa, Buren / What to Paint? Adami, Arakawa, Buren, 2012, 512 pp, Preface, [6]. (French)/(English)
  • 6. L'assassinat de l'expérience par la peinture, Monory / The Assassination of Experience by Painting, Monory, intro. Sarah Wilson, 2013, 336 pp. [7] (French)/(English)
  • Textes dispersés II: artistes contemporains / Miscellaneous Texts II: Contemporary Artists, ed. Herman Parret, afterw. Dolorès Lyotard, 2012, 720 pp. ARG. [8] (French)/(English)

• Pourquoi philosopher? [1964], Paris: PUF, 2012.
  • ¿Por qué filosofar?, Paidós Ibérica, 1985, PDF. (Spanish)
  • De ce să Filosofăm?, trans. Ciprian Mihali and Lelia Marcău, Cluj‐Napoca: Casa Cărții de Ştiință, 2013. (Romanian)
  • Why Philosophize?, trans. Andrew Brown, Polity Press, 2013, ARG. (English).

Interviews

• "Langage, temps, travail. Entretien avec Giairo Daghini", Change International 2, May 1984, pp 42-47, PDF [9]
• "Mieux Lyotard que jamais," and other reviews, special section in Libération about Les Immatériaux, with reviews by Hervé Gauville and Jacques Roubaud, and an interview with Jean-François Lyotard conducted by Daniel Soutif, 28 March 1985, p. 28-31.
• "Interrogativi della post-modernitá." Jean-François Lyotard interviewed by Maurizio Ferraris and Ezio Manzini. Modo, No. 78, 1985, p. 36-41.
• "Jean-François Lyotard." In: Florian Rötzer: Französische Philosophen im Gespräch. München: Boer, 1986, p. 101-118.
• "Jean-François Lyotard, Les Immatériaux", Le Magazine du Centre, January-February 1997, p. 21.

Bibliography

• compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan
• on EGS.edu

Literature

Books

• Geoff Bennington, Lyotard: Writing the Event, Columbia University Press, 1988. (English)
• Bill Readings, Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics, London and New York: Routledge, 1991. (English)
• Pierre Billouet, Paganisme et postmodernité: J.-Fr. Lyotard, Paris: Ellipses, 1999.
• Andrew Benjamin, Judging Lyotard, 1992, PDF. (English)
• Chris Rojek, Bryan S. Turner (eds.), The Politics of Jean-François Lyotard, Routledge, 1998, PDF. (English)
• Simon Malpas, Jean Francois Lyotard, London and New York: Routledge, 2003. (English)
• Keith Crome, Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. (English)
• Stuart Sim (ed.), The Lyotard Dictionary, Edinburgh University Press, 2011, PDF. (English)

Journal issues

• Cultural Politics 9(2): "Rewriting Lyotard: Figuration, Presentation, Resistance", eds. Peter W. Milne, with Heidi Bickis, Rob Shields, and Kent Still, Duke University Press, Jul 2013. [10]

Bibliography

• compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan

See also

• Les Immatériaux exhibition, 1985.