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The Postmodern condition: a report on knowledge/ Jean-Francois Lyotard

By: Lyotard, Jean-Francois Material type: Text

TextSeries: (Theory and history of literature) ; v. 10.Publication details: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984Description: xxv, 110 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780816611669Subject(s): Modern Civilization | Postmodernism | Learning and scholarshipDDC classification: 001

Contents:

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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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	001 LYO/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P08302

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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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