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The Postmodern Condition
A Report on Knowledge
Series: Theory and History of Literature
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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world.
Lyotard emphasised language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9780816611737
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 June 1984
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Jean-Francois Lyotard is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vinecennes. He is best known for his studies of aesthetics and of the psycho-political dimensions of discourses. Among his books areDiscours, figureandEconomie Libidinale.
Fredric Jameson is professor of French Literature and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Translators Geoff Bennington and Brain Massuni are, respectively, lecturer in French at the University of Sussex and candidate for a Ph.D. in French at Yale University. Bennington is an editor ofThe Oxford Literary Reviewand has contributed essays and reviews to that journal and toDiacritics,Poetique, andFrench Studies.
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