Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780719014543 (0719014549)
Publish date: December 28th 1984
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Academic,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
France,
Theory
Series: Theory and History of Literature (#10)
After the fall of the grand narratives, and the establishment of chaos as the philosophical reference to 'small truths,’ how can we succeed to find something accurate enough to last a long long time? For Lyotard, the age of the ‘universal’ the ‘one-transcending-truth’ ‘I-understood-it-all’ fell down...