The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

The Post-modern condition is incredulity toward meta-narratives that arises from everyones supposed disappointment that Marxism or even Democracy will produce a better society. These ideologies have disappointed because culture is constituted in some unexplained way by knowledge. Lyotard does not define a condition, but it must be wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth in the academy.Knowledge he defines as competence (18) and he says knowledge comes in two types: scientific and narrative. (He provides no information about the empirical grounding for this distinction.) Scientific knowledge is verification about a referent... set apart from language games that form social bonds. Scientific knowledge requires a teacher who is uniquely qualified to determine what is falsifiable (Popperism)...