The Postmodern Condition

恰恰是對形成了現代性之重要組成部分的宏大敘事（進步、啟蒙解放、马克思主义）的懷疑 。 利奥塔在《后现代状况：关于知识的报告》（The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge，1979）中強調了一種與日俱增的懷疑，即后现代主义對宏大敘事的普遍性以及仰賴某种形式的「超越性和普遍真理」之懷疑：

"The Postmodern Condition." Understanding society: a survey of modern social theory. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2008. Parker, Noel. The

Knowing in the Technological Age. JAI Press. Lyotard, Jean-François (1984) The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge（英语：The Postmodern Condition）. University

5–7.  Garretts-Petts, WF. Reading, Writing and the Postmodern Condition: Interpreting Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Open Letter. Seventh. 1988,

pp. 3–21; McHale, Brian: Postmodern Fiction, London: Methuen, 1987. See Lyotard, Jean-François, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Minneapolis: