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Original french title: La Condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir. Commissioned by the Québec government's Conseil des Universités. Translated into english by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi.
"Sets out to show how the authority of science rests on stories or, in the more technical language employed by critical theorists, how it is 'legitimated' by 'narratives'. Lyotard's ideas are not easy to understand -- some even harder to accept -- but at their centre seems to lie the notion that science must ultimately rely for its authority on the potency of the myths, or 'metanarratives', that underlie it, and it is Lyotard's task to isolate and examine these myths". --Benjamin Woolley (in Virtual Worlds, 1992).
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