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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in which the author analyzes the notion of knowledge in postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity.
Jean-Francois Lyotard at European Graduate School (Biography, bibliography, quotes and web resources) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (The first 5 chapters) International symposium. Collège International de Philosophie January 25–27, 2007 (in French) Les Immatériaux: A Conversation with Jean-François Lyotard
"Meta" is Greek for "beyond"; "narrative" is a story that is characterized by its telling (it is communicated somehow). [6]Although first used earlier in the 20th century, the term was brought into prominence by Jean-François Lyotard in 1979, with his claim that the postmodern was characterized precisely by mistrust of the "grand narratives" (such as ideas about Progress, Enlightenment ...
Philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard, photo by Bracha L. Ettinger, 1995. Jean-François Lyotard is credited with being the first to use the term "postmodern" in a philosophical context. This appeared in his 1979 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. In this influential work, Lyotard provided the following definition: "Simplifying to the ...
Jean-François Lyotard's seminal 1979 The Postmodern Condition stated that its hypotheses "should not be accorded predictive value in relation to reality, but strategic value in relation to the questions raised". Lyotard's statement in 1984 that "I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives" extends to incredulity toward science.
Libidinal Economy (French: Économie Libidinale) is a 1974 book by French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.The book was composed following the ideological shift of the May 68 protests in France, whereupon Lyotard distanced himself from conventional critical theory and Marxism because he felt that they were still too structuralist and imposed a rigid "systematization of desires". [1]
Lyotard considered the metanarrative an essential feature of modernity. Hence the postmodern condition is the replacement of metanarratives with a multiplicity of micro-narratives, or to call them the appellation Lyotard gave them, language games. Lyotard maintained that these language games lack any all-embracing structure but were brought ...
Arthur Danto argues explicitly in After the End of Art that contemporaneity was the broader term, and that postmodern objects represent a subsector of the contemporary movement which replaced modernity and modernism, while other notable critics: Hilton Kramer, [1] Robert C. Morgan, Kirk Varnedoe, [2] Jean-François Lyotard and others have ...