The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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U of Minnesota Press, 1984 - 110 Seiten
In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.
 

Inhalt

Knowledge in Computerized Societies
3
Legitimation
6
Language Games
9
The Modern Alternative
11
The Postmodern Perspective
14
The Pragmatics of Narrative Knowledge
18
The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge
23
The Narrative Function and the Legitimation of Knowledge
27
Delegitimation
37
Research and Its Legitimation through Performativity
41
Education and Its Legitimation through Performativity
47
Postmodern Science as the Search for Instabilities
53
Legitimation by Paralogy
60
Answering the Question What Is Postmodernism?
71
Notes
85
Urheberrecht

Narratives of the Legitimation of Knowledge
31

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Autoren-Profil (1984)

Jean-Francois Lyotard is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vinecennes. He is best known for his studies of aesthetics and of the psycho-political dimensions of discourses. Among his books are Discours, figure and Economie Libidinale. Fredric Jameson is professor of French Literature and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Translators Geoff Bennington and Brain Massuni are, respectively, lecturer in French at the University of Sussex and candidate for a Ph.D. in French at Yale University. Bennington is an editor of The Oxford Literary Review and has contributed essays and reviews to that journal and to Diacritics, Poetique, and French Studies.

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