... 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 ... With his critique of Marx and others we find that this theory has its own traps like Marxism. Lyotard's desire functions much like Marx's labor, creating a world, becoming alienated and...

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... share (and perhaps a little more) of bad, tactless art. The prefix "post" has several contradictory hints and insinuations, one of which demonstrates the incessant struggle against stereotypes. The French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard has focused completely on the statement "the fetish of the new" concluding that "A work can become modern only if it is first Postmodern". Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at ... ...

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