If we wish to discuss knowledge in the m... | Jean-Francois Lyotard

Society

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Jean-Francois Lyotard

Society

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Knowledge Will

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Decision Will

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Discrimination

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Age

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

Losing

What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.

- Jean-Francois Lyotard

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