"One can decide that the principal role of……" — 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 that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine"
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
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18 Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a…
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Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination
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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers
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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge…
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Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making…
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Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to…
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of…
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He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was…
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Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for…
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A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations…
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
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