TY - BOOK AU - Lyotard,Jean-Francois TI - The postmodern condition: a report on knowledge SN - 9780719014505 U1 - 149.97 PY - 1984/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Postmoderne KW - Philosophy -- Science N1 - 1. The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies 2. The Problem: Legitimation 3. The Method: Language Games 4. The Nature of the Social Bond: The Modern Alternative 5. The Nature of the Social Bond: The Postmodern Perspective 6. The Pragmatics of Narrative Knowledge 7. The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge 8. The Narrative Function and the Legitimation of Knowledge 9. Narratives of the Legitimation of Knowledge 10. Delegitimation 11. Research and Its Legitimation through Performativity 12. Education and Its Legitimation through Performativity 13. Postmodern Science as the Search for Instabilities 14. Legitimation by Paralogy Appendix: Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism? ER -