ABSTRACT
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-98) was born in Versailles, France and studied phenomenology under Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY. He began his career as a secondary school teacher in Algeria, and later taught philosophy at the University of Paris, from which he retired in 1989. He then went on to visiting professorships at several American universities, including Yale and Emory. He died of leukemia in Paris in 1998.
