Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the principal French philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Best known for having coined the term “post-modern,” he is the author of numerous works, including Postmodern Fables, The Postmodern Condition, The Differend, and The Postmodern Explained. All of these works are available from the University of Minnesota Press. Lyotard is professor emeritus at the University of Paris and professor of French at Emory University.

David Carroll is chair of the Department of French and Italian and a member of the Critical Theory Institute at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida.