让-弗朗索瓦·利奥塔（1924－1998），法国哲学家，后现代主义理论家。1950年至52年在阿尔及利亚的君士坦丁中学任教，1955年参加阿尔及利亚社会主义团体，抨击法国殖民。后任教于巴黎第八大学。他1979年出版的著作《后现代状况》是“后现代主义”的定名之作，书中认为现代科学的特点是排斥或压抑创建于叙事之上的合法性形式，强调叙事的节奏形式能够固定和容纳自然时间的无规律性。

Jean-François Lyotard (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as knowledge and communication, the human body, modernist and postmodern art, literature and critical theory, music, film, time and memory, space, the city and landscape, the sublime, and the relation between aesthetics and politics. He is best known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and the analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. He was co-founder of the International College of Philosophy with Jacques Derrida, François Châtelet, and Gilles Deleuze.