Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET January 2026 Political Science
Who proposed 'truth' as an 'incredulity towards metanarratives'?
AJean-Francois Lyotard ✓ Correct
BNiccolo Machiavelli
CRichard Brown
DSarojini Naidu
Correct answer: (A) Jean-Francois Lyotard — The thinker who described the postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives is Jean-Francois Lyotard, so the answer is option 1.
Explanation
★The thinker who described the postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives is Jean-Francois Lyotard, so the answer is option 1.
★He set out the idea in The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), originally written for the government of Quebec.
★His claim is that the grand, all-explaining narratives of progress, reason and emancipation have lost their credibility.
★In their place he saw knowledge as fragmented, plural, context-dependent and tied to language games.
★Niccolo Machiavelli (The Prince, 1513), Richard Brown and Sarojini Naidu have no link to this idea.
★Spotting cue: the phrase incredulity toward metanarratives is Lyotard's signature, found in The Postmodern Condition (1979).
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