The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and the one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible,… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the 'peace'… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
