后现代状况

简介

A short report commissioned by the Council of Universities of the Quebec government and published in Paris in 1979 with the subtitle “A Report on Knowledge”. Lyotard asks how knowledge is legitimated in computerised societies. Modern science justified itself through “grand narratives” – the emancipation of humanity, the self-realisation of Spirit; under postmodern conditions these lose credibility, and knowledge splits into many “language games” in Wittgenstein’s sense, increasingly judged by “performativity”, the efficiency of the system. Lyotard prefers the small narratives and the search for “paralogy”, moves that unsettle established rules. The book made “postmodern” a key term of debate in philosophy and the humanities in the 1980s.

联系

承接了

• 哲学研究1953 · 路德维希·维特根斯坦

批评了

• 精神现象学1807 · 格奥尔格·威廉·弗里德里希·黑格尔
• 共产党宣言1848 · 卡尔·马克思

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