Jean-Francois Lyotard

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

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These are some quotes by French author Jean-Francois Lyotard Philosopher, who lived between August 10, 1924 and April 21, 1998.

Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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