Foreign thinker
Jean-François Lyotard
Jean-François LyotardPostmodern PhilosophyFrench
"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."
Life and Thought
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher and one of the influential figures of postmodern thought. His fame primarily rests on the book *The Postmodern Condition*, a work in which he defined postmodernism as "incredulity toward metanarratives" and initiated a significant discussion about knowledge, legitimacy, and language in the contemporary world.
