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 (-5[1])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 logic of late capitalism. The fracturing of meta-narratives characterizes this (10[1])movement (10[1])according to a book titled for it. (10[1])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[1])

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
Antoni KluzowskiWarwick BBristol49-5
Albert NyangLSE AImperial B8410
Andy HuffLSE BImperial A8510
Cormac StephensonSouthamptonWarwick C9210
Seraphina Charlotte FooCambridge AWarwick A10110
Kevin FlanaganBristolWarwick B11510

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