The Wellek Library Lectures for 1986
The Critical Theory Institute
University of California, Irvine
Presents a Lecture Series by
Jean-François Lyotard
Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event
"Clouds"
"Touches"
"Gaps"
Published:Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event. The Wellek Library
Lectures at the University of California Irvine. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988.
Jean-François Lyotard became agrégé in
philosophy
in 1950 and received his Docteur ès lettres in 1971. After ten
years of teaching philosophy in secondary schools (including a stint
in Constantine, Algeria
from 1950 to 1952), twenty years of teaching and research in higher
education (Sorbonne, Nanterre, CNRS, Vincennes), and twelve years of
theoretical and practical work devoted to the group "Socialisme ou
barbarie," later for Pouvoir ouvrier, he taught philosophy at the
University of Paris-VIII (Vincennes, Saint-Denis). Professor Lyotard was
a
council member of the Collège International de Philosophie,
professor emeritus at the University of Paris, and was for several years
Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine. He
moved from that position to Emory University in Atlanta in 1995, where
he was Professor of French and Philosophy. He passed away in Paris during
the
night of April
20-21, 1998. For obituaries and articles occasioned by his death,
look under that heading in Texts about Jean-François
Lyotard.
Jean-François Lyotard: A Bibliography
Compiled by Eddie
Yeghiayan
Texts by Jean-François Lyotard
Texts about Jean-François Lyotard
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