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Lyotard on The collapse of the "Grand Narrative"

Every belief system or ideology has its grand narratives, according to Lyotard; for Marxism, for instance, the "grand narrative" is the idea that capitalism ...

The Rise and Fall of the Grand Narrative - HowTheLightGetsIn

As the French philosopher Lyotard said: “There has been a collapse of grand narratives and totalizing theories.”

How Lyotard Predicted the Decline of the Humanities

It would be a future in which an abundance of easily available information would allow people to construct narratives confirming to almost any ...

Lyotard, Jean-François | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Through his theory of the end of metanarratives, Lyotard develops his own version of what tends to be a consensus among theorists of the postmodern – ...

The End of “Grand Narratives” and America's “Spiritual Recession”

As Lyotard himself admitted, the grand narratives of the modern era purported to be emancipatory tales designed to motivate the oppressed to ...

Coordinating Lyotard's Discussion of Modernity and the Sublime

First, postmodernity is a reaction to the collapse of the legitimating metanarratives that founded the modern period (progress, freedom, reason, ...

Jean-François Lyotard - Wikipedia

Contents ; 2.1 Academic legacy ; 2.3 Libidinal Economy (1974) ; 2.4 The Postmodern Condition (1979) ; 2.5 The collapse of the "grand narrative" and "language-games" ...

How is Lyotard's description of the "postmodern condition" any ...

The postmodern condition refers to modern (Western) society's incredulity towards metanarratives. emphasis on incredulity, because Lyotard doesn ...

Jean François Lyotard - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The narrative of The Postmodern Condition moves along two temporal periods, one being modernity and its adherence to certain metanarratives or ...

Did Francois Lyotard coin the word postmodernism?

Lyotard here is having a bit of fun (indeed, he is explaining, in the introduction, why the report is a failure): he has been asked to ...

12.7 Jean-François Lyotard - Literary Theory And Criticism - Fiveable

Jean-François Lyotard's work challenges traditional ideas about knowledge and truth. He argues that in the postmodern world, grand narratives no longer hold ...

Jean-François Lyotard - New World Encyclopedia

The collapse of the "Grand Narrative". Lyotard's work is characterised by a persistent opposition to universals, meta-narratives, and generality. He is ...

Jean-François Lyotard's work was the best of postmodernism

In the 20 years since Jean-François Lyotard died, on 21st April 1998, the reputation of the idea most associated with him has plummeted.

Metanarrative Obsolescence: On "Cynical Theories," Part 2

Did "Theory" make people skeptical of science, as Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay claim? Jean-François Lyotard's account of the decline of ...

Lyotard and the postmodern misunderstanding of physics

The work has taken on something of the status of a manifesto for postmodernity, even in the face of Lyotard's explicit and emphatic rejection of that reading.

The Crisis of the Fiction Its Implications in Lyotard (Paperback)

The Crisis of the Fiction Its Implications in Lyotard (Paperback) ... collapse of totalizing metatheories. While discussing any topic, a ...

The Postmodern Condition - Wikipedia

Cover of the French edition ; Cover of the French edition · Jean-François Lyotard · La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir · Geoffrey Bennington and Brian ...

Iain (M.) Banks, Jean-François Lyotard and Sublime Terror

If the key text shaping conceptions of postmodernity is Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition, then the crucial component in Lyotard's account is the collapse ...

Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Postmodern Explained - The Voice Imitator

One of the first letters notes the widespread contemporary interest in “liquidating the legacy of the avant-gardes.” But in a society where ...