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Jean-François Lyotard (1925–1998) was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Paris–VIII (Vincennes, Saint-Denis); a founder and council member of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris; and the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of French and Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the author of more than forty books and ninety articles of criticism and philosophy, including The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge; Postmodern Fables; The Differend: Phrases in Dispute; Signed, Malraux; The Postmodern Explained; Political Writings; Heidegger and “the jews”; and Just Gaming, all published by the University of Minnesota Press. Antony Hudek is a research fellow in the UCL Mellon Programme, University College London. Mary Lydon (1937–2001) was Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Her studies of twentieth-century French literature focus on psychoanalytic, feminist, and poststructuralist theory, and she is the author of Skirting the Issue: Essays in Literary Theory and Perpetuum Mobile: A Study of the Novels and Aesthetics of Michel Butor. John Mowitt is professor of English, cultural studies, and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He has written numerous books on culture, theory, and politics, including Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages (Minnesota, 2005). He is coeditor of The Dreams of Interpretation : A Century down the Royal Road (Minnesota, 2008) and of the journal Cultural Critique. ...

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