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

ANSWER: postmodernism [or word forms like postmodernity; accept The Postmodern Condition] (The first line refers to Jürgen Habermas’s The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
William OrrYaleHarvard7410
Elliot RothTufts BBoston College B7810
Jonathan SchnipperBrandeis ABrandeis B8110
Yrwin BatanMITAmherst8510
Jenna LamBowdoin CClark Wilson10110
Blake JohnsonBoston College ATufts A11510
Derek FinoClark HouseBowdoin B11510

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2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y3100%33%0%76.33
2024 ARCADIA at GT2024-12-06Y5100%0%20%96.80
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick2024-12-06Y5100%0%20%95.40