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My intellectual history students read Lyotard's, "The Postmodern Condition" (1979) for our final class meeting today.

Lyotard says the chief characteristic of postmodernity is its skepticism toward grand narratives.

He writes about the need for intellectual inquiry that challenges the rules and orthodoxies of the age and what disasters await if we allow ourselves to be guided by nothing more than uncritical consensus.

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