The Postmodern condition - Jean François Lyotard and Michel Foucault

This presentation of the thoughts of Jean-François Lyotard and Michel Foucault is a part of a course on French Postmodern thinkers which is given at the advanced level at Stockholm University. Lyotard is often perceived as one of the first thinkers who described the postmodern attitude consisting in analyzing the relation between power and knowledge. Foucault's methodology is introduced with the influence that he had on the development of discourse analysis.