The Postmodern Explained

Correspondence, 1982-1985

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by Jean-Francois Lyotard,

Afterword by Wlad Godzich

University of Minnesota Press

Due/Published December 1992, 104 pages, paper

ISBN 0816622116

A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers, including the actual children of some of Lyotard's colleagues, that inform the trajectory of his thinking in the period before The Postmodern Condition through The Differend.