Let one F. Lévi-Strauss

Author: Qin Xiqing (Compiler)
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Features: Lyotard's postmodern theory expresses the hesitation and despair of Western intellectuals. Faced with the challenge of social reality to theory, they no longer trust the power of active critique but seek possibilities for breaking free from the constraints of capital within (passive) deconstructive thinking. Although postmodernism has initiated a rethinking of the modern tradition formed by reason and the Enlightenment, and a rethinking of the direction of human civilization's development, it attempts to exclude comprehensive social ideals by arguing the illusion of totality and maintaining the ambiguity of "language," thereby reflecting, to some extent, the intellectual (dilemma) of the advanced capitalist period.