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The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge/ Jean-François Lyotard.

By: Lyotard,Jean-FrancoisMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1984Edition: 1st edDescription: xxv, 110pISBN: 9780719014505Subject(s): Postmoderne | Philosophy -- ScienceDDC classification: 149.97

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	149.97 LYO/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P17760

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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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