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Political Writings
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Jean-Francois Lyotard introduced the term postmodern into current discussions within philosophy, politics, society and social theory. His The postmodern condition is seminal within the current debates over the relationship of theory and epistemology to history and political practice. For Lyotard, the postmodern condition is one in which the meta- narratives of legitimation the enlightenment, Hegelian thought, Marxism have fallen into disuse and can no longer analyze myriad labyrinthine social texts that have been forged from their ruins. Meta- narratives assume the role of privileged discourses not inflected by historical contingencies, and each situate local social and political practices within a broader totalizing and legitimizing framework. Lyotard claims that various local practices can no longer be legitimized by these meta-discourses; legitimation itself descends to the level of praxis as practitioners assume the responsibility for legitimizing their own practices.; Political writings is a collection of Lyotard's writings mostly published between 1956 and 1969 in Socialisme ou Barbarie, the influential journal of the non-Communist French left. The political Motivation Implicit In Lyotard's Arguments In The Postmodern Condition become quite explicit in this collection. The articles outline the Read More chevron_right
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