The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book 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...
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Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book 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 is controlled in the Western world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780816611737 (0816611734)
Publish date: June 21st 1984
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 144
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...
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