How long does it take to read The Postmodern Condition?
Jean-François Lyotard
The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard takes about 2 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 11 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1979. 119 pages, about 32,725 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status uf science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information and knowledge are controlled in the Western world. Lyotard emphasized language; the world of postmodern knowledge can be represented as a game of language where speaking is participation in the game whose goal is the creation of new and ever-changing social linkages.
Subjects: Modern Civilization, Postmodernism, Theory of Knowledge, Learning and scholarship, Knowledge, Theory of., Connaissance, Théorie de la
