Hendrik Hart Collection Copy 2 includes marginalia Translation of: La condition postmodern

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The field: knowledge in computerized societies -- The problem: legitimation -- The method: language games -- The nature of the social bond: the modern alternative -- The nature of the social bond: the postmodern perspective -- The pragmatics of narrative knowledge -- The pragmatics of scientific knowledge -- The narrative function and the legitimation of knowledge -- Narratives of the legitimation of knowledge -- Delegitimation -- Research and its legitimation through performativity -- Education and its legitimation through performativity -- Postmodern science as the search for instabilities -- Legitmation by paralogy -- Appendix: Answering the question: what is postmodernism?.

Citation: Lyotard, Jean Francois. The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge, translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. (ICS Library: BD 152 .L913 c.2--includes marginalia).