Victor J. Vitanza UT-Arlington, Spring, '00 English 5311 Seminar on Foundations of Rhetoric and Composition

Week #15: My Lecture NO.tes used for the Seminar, Wednesday, 2000, April 26th. 1st two wks | 3rd week | 4th | 5th | 6th&6bth | 7th | 8th | 9th | 11th | 12th | 13-14th The Works (to be studied and discussed): Reading: Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition. Supplementary Readings: Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Discussion: I. Lyotard vs. Habermas, Crisis of Representation/Ligitimation (Nihilism, deligitimation), Metanarratives: The Liberation of Humanity & The Speculative Unity of all Knowledge, Pragmatics, Crisis of Consensus, Ligitimation by Paralogy (as opposed to performitivity of consensus), little narratives, Education? II. Postmodern Condition (realism, postmodernism, modernism). III. Absence of Culture and National Identity. Community of Dissensus. Globalization. And Education?       NOtes16 >>>>