"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as……" — Jean-Francois Lyotard
"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
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18 Quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard
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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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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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