Jean-François Lyotard: Quotes about knowledge

Jean-François Lyotard was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on knowledge.
Jean-François Lyotard: 52   quotes 4   likes

“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major-perhaps the major- stake in the world wide. It is conceivable the nation state will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled over territory, and afterwards for control of access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor. A new field opened for industrial and commercial strategies on the one hand, and political and military strategies.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p. 5

World , Knowledge , Fight

“The relationship of the suppliers and users of knowledge to the knowledge they supply and use is now tending, and will be increasingly tend to, to assume the form already taken by the relationship of commodity producers and consumers to the commodities they produce and consume--that is, the form of knowledge.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.5

Knowledge

“Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter the postmodern age.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.3

Age , Knowledge

“True knowledge, in this perspective, is always indirect knowledge; it is composed of reported statements, that are incorporated into metanarratives of a subject that source their legitimacy.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.35

Knowledge

“…Scientific knowledge does not represent the totality of knowledge; it has always existed in addition to, and in competition and conflict with, another kind of knowledge, which I will call narratives in the interest of simplicity.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.7

Knowledge

“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production…”

Jean-François Lyotard

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Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.4

Knowledge

“For the mercantilization of knowledge is bound to affect the privilege the nation-states have enjoyed, and still enjoy, with respect to the production and distribution of learning. The notion that learning falls within the purview of the State, as the brain or mind of society, will become more and more outdated with increasing strength of the opposing principle.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), P.5

Knowledge , Learning

“The moment knowledge ceases to be an end in itself—its realization of The Idea or the emancipation of men—it’s transmission is no longer the exclusive responsibility of scholars and students.”

Jean-François Lyotard

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.50

Men , Idea , Knowledge