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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 about shoes are contrasted in a book identifying this movement as the (*) cultural logic of late capitalism. (10[2])The fracturing (10[1])of meta-narratives characterizes this movement according to a book titled for it. For 10 points, name this intellectual movement whose condition titles a Jean-Francois Lyotard book, often portrayed as an anti-objectivist reaction to modernity. ■END■

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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John MarvinChicago ANotre Dame7810
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