The Postmodern Condition

1979 non-fiction work by Jean-François Lyotard
Book written_work Q2186033
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The Postmodern Condition

Summary

The Postmodern Condition is a written work[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (105 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Postmodern Condition authored Jean-François Lyotard[3].
  • The Postmodern Condition's instance of is recorded as written work[4].
  • The Postmodern Condition's instance of is recorded as monograph[5].
  • The Postmodern Condition's genre is recorded as essay[6].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 121077603[7].
  • The Postmodern Condition's language of work or name is recorded as French[8].
  • The Postmodern Condition's country of origin is recorded as France[9].
  • The Postmodern Condition's publication date is recorded as +1979-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ghtl_[11].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Open Library ID is recorded as OL566230W[12].
  • The Postmodern Condition's has edition or translation is recorded as Q131715313[13].
  • The Postmodern Condition's work available at URL is recorded as https://www.sergiofreire.pro.br/ad/LYOTARD_ACPM.pdf[14].
  • The Postmodern Condition's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 12952[15].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/The-Postmodern-Condition[16].
  • The Postmodern Condition's title is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir'}[17].
  • The Postmodern Condition's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge'}[18].
  • The Postmodern Condition's different from is recorded as The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change[19].
  • The Postmodern Condition's OCLC work ID is recorded as 479005640[20].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 244822[21].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 398995[22].
  • The Postmodern Condition's Yale LUX ID is recorded as text/1c4b5c50-460b-4e82-b439-6df9b72a7159[23].

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Authorship and Creation

The Postmodern Condition authored Jean-François Lyotard[3].

Publication

The Postmodern Condition's publication date is recorded as +1979-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as French[8]. Its genre is recorded as essay[6].

Why It Matters

The Postmodern Condition ranks in the top 6% of written_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (105 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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  19. [21] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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