Publication

1984 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

27,500 words, Guess

Page Count

110 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number83014717
  • WikidataQ110997837

Classifications

  • DDC001
  • LCCBD162 .L913 1984

Description

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 uf 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 emphasized 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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Theory and history of literature -- v. 10

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