Like every ideology or ism, postmodernism has its heroes. But unlike modernism, they are one too many here. Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Deleuze, Guittari and others. It was Jean Francois Lyotard, however, who emerges as a champion of difference and diversity, as well as plurality in all theoretical realms and universalizing theories and methods. His strong disgust and loathing of unity and unifying theories and rejection of the notions of universalizing and foundationalist theory made him a heretic in the world of theoretical intelligentsia. ‘To see the world in a grain of sand / and heavens in a flower’ as William Blake put it was not exactly Lyotard’s idea of representing reality. He uses words like ‘terroristic’ and ‘totalitarian’ for his description of unifying theories thereby resolutely championing a plurality of discourses and positions against unifying theories. His theories represent a severe ‘fracture’ from the modern discours

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