Political Science · Political Theory
Who defined post-modernism as 'incredulity towards meta-narratives'?
AMichel Foucault
BJean-Francois Lyotard ✓ Correct
CJacques Derrida
DJean Baudrillard
Correct answer: (B) Jean-Francois Lyotard — Jean-Francois Lyotard gave this definition, so the answer is Lyotard.
Explanation
★Jean-Francois Lyotard gave this definition, so the answer is Lyotard.
★He set it out in The Postmodern Condition in 1979.
★A meta-narrative is a grand story that legitimises knowledge and society as a whole.
★Examples are the Enlightenment story of progress and the Marxist story of emancipation.
★Post-modernism, for Lyotard, is the loss of faith in such universal stories.
★In their place it accepts many small, local and competing narratives.
★Baudrillard is known for simulation and hyperreality, a different theme.
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