The Postmodern condition: a report on knowledge/
Jean-Francois Lyotard
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
- xxv, 110 p. ; 24 cm.
- (Theory and history of literature) v. 10. .
Translation of: La condition postmodern.
The field : knowledge in computerized societies -- The problem : legitimation -- The method : language games -- The nature of the social bond : the modern alternative -- The nature of the social bond : the postmodern perspective -- The pragmatics of narrative knowledge -- The pragmatics of scientific knowledge -- The narrative function and the legitimation of knowledge -- Narratives of the legitimation of knowledge -- Delegitimation -- Research and its legitimation through performativity -- Education and its legitimation through performativity -- Postmodern science as the search for instabilities -- Legitimation by paralogy -- Appendix : Answering the question : what is postmodernism.
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