The Postmodern Condition / A Report on Knowledge - Manchester University Press, 1992 - 118

The First English Translation of Lyotard's report on the state of knowledge in the Western World. Introduction, The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies, The Problem: Legitimation, The Method: Language Games, The Pragmatics of Narrative Knowledge, The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge, Research and its Legimitation through Performativity, Education and Its Legimitation through Performativity, Postmodern Science as the Search for Instabilities, Legimitation by Paralogy, Notes, Index.

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