The text introduces the somewhat forgotten ideologue of so-called "knowledge society", produced by Bologna Declaration on Higher Education. From perspective most lucid criticism same, which at one time was "enlightened" Konrad Paul Liessmann, opens horizon re-examination "crisis humanities". Liesmann's Theory Uneducatedness is only a peculiar introduction to possible re-affirmation role philoso...

For the past two decades, the postmodern debates dominated the cultural and intellectual scene in many fields throughout the world. In aesthetic and cultural theory, polemics emerged over whether modernism in the arts was or was not dead and what sort of postmodern art was succeeding it. In philosophy, debates erupted concerning whether or not the tradition of modern philosophy had ended, and m...

This paper demonstrates Jean-Francois Lyotard's theory of knowledge in postmodern societies. Lyotard explores the nature knowledge, including how it is generated, structured, and used contemporary society. He questions who has access to utilized, controls it, influences our lives perceptions world. rejects meta-narrative theories that posit as serving universal human goals instead argues societ...

In her essay ‘Translation as Culture’, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak sketches an account of something she refers to as ‘originary translation’. By this, she means the developmental process through which a child comes to terms with the wider world, negotiating ‘private and public grammars’ in a manner that is constitutive of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Aristotle, Lyotard, Bachelard...

The topic of knowledge creation (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995) will be analysed from a philosophical perspective. To begin with, the key motivations behind the discourse of knowledge creation and management are briefly discussed. The contemporary distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge is then explored. Following this, the work of Lyotard on knowledge in a (post)modern economy will be sum...