Jean-François Lyotard

A positive answer to the postmodern condition?

Follow-up to https://medium.com/inserting-philosophy/what-is-postmodernism-6bf15a8d9e71

French philosopher and sociologist Lyotard (1924–1998) was a fierce critic of universalizing theories and “metanarratives” (narratives about narratives). In his book, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), he proclaimed…