LYOTARD, Jean Francois, postmodernist. Lyotard was professor of philosophy at a lycee in Constantine, in French-occupied East Algeria, where he went in 1950. In 1955 he became head of the Algerian section of the radical group Socialism or Barbarism and an active critic of the occupation. He has been professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Paris, the College International de Philosophie, professor of French and Italian at the University of California, Irvine. His books translated into English include Phenomenology (1954) The Libidinal Economy (1974), The Post-Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), The Differend: Phrases in Dispute (1983), Heidegger and 'the jews' (1988), Peregrinations (1988), The Inhuman (1988), and two collections Political Writings (1993) and the Lyotard Reader (ed Andrew Benjamin, 1989).
Post-structuralists and postmodernists