Answers Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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

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

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard