Lyotard,Jean-Francois

The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge/ Jean-François Lyotard. - 1st ed. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1984. - xxv, 110p.

1. The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies
2. The Problem: Legitimation
3. The Method: Language Games
4. The Nature of the Social Bond: The Modern Alternative
5. The Nature of the Social Bond: The Postmodern Perspective
6. The Pragmatics of Narrative Knowledge
7. The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge
8. The Narrative Function and the Legitimation of Knowledge
9. Narratives of the Legitimation of Knowledge
10. Delegitimation
11. Research and Its Legitimation through Performativity
12. Education and Its Legitimation through Performativity
13. Postmodern Science as the Search for Instabilities
14. Legitimation by Paralogy
Appendix: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?

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Postmoderne.
Philosophy -- Science.

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