The "Post-modern condition" is "incredulity toward meta-narratives" that arises from everyone's supposed disappointment that Marxism or even Democracy will produce a better society. These ideologies have disappointed because culture is constituted in some unexplained way by knowledge. Lyotard does
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
โ Scribed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, G. Bennington (Translator), B. Massumi (Translator)
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 135
- Category
- Library
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