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Jean-François Lyotard (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher sociologist and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as knowledge and communication the human body modernist and postmodern art literature and critical theory music film time and memory space the city and landscape the sublime and the relation between aesthetics and politics.