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Also Known As	post-modernism

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Michel Foucault, wearing glasses and a striped shirt with a blazer, smiles in a close-up black and white portrait.

Jacques Derrida

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philosophy Aristotelianism Humanism Analytic philosophy Marxism Platonism Existentialism Atomism Positivism Hegelianism Scholasticism

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Jean-François Lyotard

French philosopher and writer