Mythologies by roland barthes6/1/2023 ![]() But as Lyotard himself explained in his book The Postmodern Condition, the loss of universal coherence-or the illusion of coherence-had taken decades, a “transition,” he wrote, “under way since at least the end of the 1950s.” ![]() In 1979, French theorist Jean-François Lyotard declared the end of all “grand narratives”-every “theory or intellectual system,” as Blackwell’s dictionary defines the term, “which attempts to provide a comprehensive explanation of human experience and knowledge.” The announcement arrived with all the rhetorical bombast of Nietzsche’s “God is Dead,” sweeping not only theology into the dustbin but also overarching scientific theories, Freudian psychology, Marxism, and every other “totalizing” explanation. ![]()
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