Jean-François Lyotard, the French philosopher, delivered four lectures, “Why Philosophize?” at the Sorbonne in 1964, arguing passionately that we philosophize out of desire, a sense of absence, and ...
In his classic 1979 book, "The Postmodern Condition," French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard argued that all grand ideas, universal narratives and overarching philosophies of the world should be ...