La Condition postmoderne

Lyotard, J. -. (1979). La Condition postmoderne: Rapport sur le savoir. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1979

Link

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-postmodern-condition

Cited from

history_historiography, philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Grand Narrative (Metanarrative)
  • A Grand Narrative (Metanarrative) is a large-scale overarching story-structure that comprises four essential components: the comprehensive overarching story

    This sourceLes Éditions de Minuit. (English: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. G. Bennington & B. Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1984.) Defines the postmodern as 'incredulity toward metanarratives' (incrédulité à l'égard des métarécits), diagnosing the legitimation crisis of grand-narrative frameworks and proposing local, partial 'small narratives' (paralogy, heterogeneity) as the alternative—supporting the overarching-story, incredulity, and local-narrative-alternative claims.

• Narrative Construction (in History)
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    This sourceDefines the postmodern condition as "incredulity toward metanarratives," diagnosing the legitimation crisis of grand narrative frameworks.

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