TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lyotard,Jean-Francois
TI  - The Postmodern condition: a report on knowledge
SN  - 9780816611669
U1  - 001 
PY  - 1984///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Modern Civilization
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Learning and scholarship
N1  - 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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