The Postmodern Condition

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A Report on Knowledge

By Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean-François Lyotard

Series: Theory and History of Literature

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The Postmodern Condition by Jean-Francois Lyotard explores the transformation in the status of knowledge, science, and technology in the post-industrial age. It analyses how information flows and control mechanisms shape contemporary Western societies, emphasising the role of language as a dynamic game that creates evolving social connections.
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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

INFORMATION

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

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Education & Reference Jean-Francois Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: Theory and History of Literature

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.