Incredulity Quote by J.F.Lyotard The POstmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

“Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that can easily…

— David Bentley Hart

“Lyotard. The assertion that postmodernity is “incredulity toward metanarratives” is ultimately a claim to be affirmed by the church, pushing us to recover (a)…

— James K.A. Smith

“Postmodernism has turned into this devil's vortex where no matter what you do, your neck will be turned and your face shoved into a…

— Brian Celio

“Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles…

— Simona Panova

Without a thorough and deeply rooted understanding of the biblical view of truth as revealed, objective, absolute, universal, eternally engaging, antithetical and exclusive, unified…

— Douglas Groothuis

I always am in a role, lovely for you, for them even for myself. Yeah... Even when Im alone, I am still in a…

— Anonymous

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent…

— Anonymous

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism…

— Bell Hooks

“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their…

— Larry McCaffrey

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that…

— Jonathan Raban

Postmodernism represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange…

— Lyman Abbott