Toward the Postmodern by Jean-François Lyotard
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this collection of essays you get to experience the intellectual prowess of one Jean-Francois Lyotard. I’ve only read one of his other works; but here you get to see him as he varies his approaches from the literal, transfigural to the metaphorical. Although, all relations are possible, as he shows us. He is able to connect disparate parts together and get a larger shape of how we compile sense making. No wonder he was the one to mark our epoch as the post-modern, he kind of sits outside common sense already, and thus can reflect on what we are up to.
I’m not sure why the sections are partitioned in the way they are, perhaps this is not a good introductory text of his works. In a way, reading him was like riding a bucking bronco, I wasn’t sure what he was going to say or connect with next. I would urge patience in reading this book, it’s not one to skim lightly through.
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