Question

This movement is criticized for its “Dionysian messianism” in a work accusing its members of performative contradictions. An appendix about this movement discusses how it defies Kant by forgoing beautiful form to put forward the unrepresentable. A book titled for this movement contrasts language games between the expert who knows and the philosopher who questions. Artworks by Van Gogh (15[1])and Andy Warhol (15[1])about shoes are contrasted in (15[1])a book identifying this movement as the (*) cultural logic of late capitalism. (10[4])The fracturing (10[1])of meta-narratives (10[1])characterizes this movement according to a book titled for it. For 10 points, name this intellectual movement whose condition titles (10[1])a Jean-Francois Lyotard book, (10[1])often portrayed as an anti-objectivist reaction to modernity. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: postmodernism [or word forms like postmodernity; accept The Postmodern Condition] (The first line refers to Jürgen Habermas’ The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.)
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