The Postmodern Condition: A Report on KnowledgeIn this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity. |
Contents
Knowledge in Computerized Societies | 3 |
Legitimation | 6 |
Language Games | 9 |
The Modern Alternative | 11 |
The Postmodern Perspective | 14 |
The Pragmatics of Narrative Knowledge | 18 |
The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge | 23 |
The Narrative Function and the Legitimation of Knowledge | 27 |
Delegitimation | 37 |
Research and Its Legitimation through Performativity | 41 |
Education and Its Legitimation through Performativity | 47 |
Postmodern Science as the Search for Instabilities | 53 |
Legitimation by Paralogy | 60 |
Answering the Question What Is Postmodernism? | 71 |
Notes | 85 |
Narratives of the Legitimation of Knowledge | 31 |
Common terms and phrases
addressee aesthetic Alain Touraine already analysis argumentation avant-gardes become called capitalism Cashinahua Claude Lefort cognitive communication competence consensus contemporary context crisis criterion Critique culture decision defined denotative statements determine dialectics discourse effect emancipation example fact formal Frankfurt Frankfurt School function high modernism human idea institutions J. L. Austin Jean-François Lyotard Josette Rey-Debove Jürgen Habermas kind L'Informatisation language games learning legitimacy legitimation logic Luhmann Lyotard Marxism means metalanguage metanarrative mode narration narrative knowledge nature norms object Paris performance philosophy political possible postmodern pragmatics of science prescriptive Presses Universitaires presupposition principle problem production proof question reality referent René Thom rules scientific knowledge scientists sender sense Seuil social bond société society speculative theory Thomas Kuhn tion tive traditional trans transmission truth Universitaires de France Université University Press unpresentable utterances validity Vladimir Propp words York
References to this book
Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture Professor Roland Robertson No preview available - 1992 |