Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes on Truth
Jean-Francois Lyotard was a 20th-century French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist, one of the leading figures of post-structuralism and a central exponent of postmodernism in philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean-Francois Lyotard on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.”
p. xxiv -
“Let us wage a war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable.”
p.82 -
Attributed to Jean-Francois Lyotard:
“There is no language in general.”
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“Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.”
xxii -
“True knowledge, in this perspective, is always indirect knowledge; it is composed of reported statements, that are incorporated into metanarratives of a subject that source their legitimacy.”
p.35