Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) is one of the most important French philosophers of the 20th century. Libidinal Economy (1974) is one of the philosopher's three "major" books. In it, responding to what he considered an insufficient critique of capitalism in Deleuze and Guattari's topical philosophical bestseller Anti-Oedipus, he undertakes not so much a critique as a radical deconstruction of not only capitalism but also all its critics, from Marx to Baudrillard, and indeed any economy, including Freudian or Lacanian, except for the economy of libidinal intensities he proclaimed. Largely misunderstood by his contemporaries, Libidinal Economy has found new interpretations in the early 21st century, primarily in the works of English-speaking scholars and thinkers.