JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD: KNOWLEDGE and EDUCATION The Postmodern Condition: Part Two “In contemporary society and culture–postindustrial society, postmodern culture–the question of legitimation of knowledge is formulated in different terms. The grand...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD (1927 – 1998) THE METANARRATIVE The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979) A brief book, a small study, “an occasional one” that Lyotard himself did not consider either important or a work of philosophy, The...
POSTMODERNISM AND HETEROGLOSSIA PART TWO Hybridity and Pluralism In her 1966 essay, “Word, Dialogue and Novel,” Julia Kristeva (1941-) privileged the term “Text,” insisting that the subject is composed of discourses, created by a signifying system. The...
THE LINGUISTIC TURN How do words mean? How is meaning constructed? These seemingly innocent questions are lethal to the entire edifice of knowledge. If we imagine knowledge, not as wisdom, but as an architecture of writing, then the foundation of “truth”...
POSTMODERNISM: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Part Two Defining Postmodernism is a difficult process. Even though it is now fashionable to declare Postmodernism as “dead” or “over,” one should proceed with caution before burying the body. Unlike...