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Lyotard to sketch a narrative analysis of the older forms of scientific legitimation, whose collapse in our own time imposes such desperate solutions, such remarkable last-minute salvage operations.
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Nov 29, 2010 · Translation of: La condition postmoderne Includes bibliographical references and index
The object of this study is the condition of knowledge in the most highly developed societies. I have decided to use the word postmodern to describe that condition.
In "The Postmodern Condition," Jean-François Lyotard embarks on a profound exploration of the shifting landscape of knowledge and cultural narratives in an increasingly decentralized and pluralistic world. With striking acuity, Lyotard dissects the decline of grand narratives—the overarching stories that once provided unified explanations of ...
Jean-François Lyotard. U of Minnesota Press, 1984 - Philosophy - 110 pages. In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political...
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- Jean-François Lyotard
- U of Minnesota Press, 1984
Lyotard's seminal work The Postmodern Condition has been considered one of the most influential works of postmodernism. It has inspired thinkers and scholars in its criticism and report of the knowledge and its suggestiveness of paralogies.
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This postmodern justice results from the freeplay of free information, and remains impossible while those who own information keep it to themselves. Given Lyotard's injunction, "give the public free access to the memory and data banks," compliance requires postmodern oppressors to become postmodern liberators, to give up power in the name of ...
