Jean-François Lyotard vs. Martin Heidegger
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jean-François Lyotard
1924 – 1998
Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art 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. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition.
"Legitimation is the process by which a legislator is authorized to promulgate such a law as a norm."
Martin Heidegger
1889 – 1976
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had a considerable impact on fields ranging from philosophy and theology to literary theory and political philosophy.
"Today we decide about metaphysics and about even more elevated things at philosophy conferences. For everything that is to be done these days we must first have…"
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