1979年,让-弗朗索瓦·利奥塔负责编写一份关于发达国家知识状况的报告, 这就是随后出版的《后现代状况——关于知识分子的报告》一书。“后现代”不仅是利奥塔对上世纪70年代末震撼了整个西方社会的合理性危机的总体命名,也是他对这些情况得出的自我判断:在那些脆弱的崇高价值(真实,正确,高尚等等)的 In 1979, Jean-François Lyotard was responsible for preparing a report on the state of knowledge of developed countries, which was subsequently published in the book, The Postmodern Situation - A Report on Intellectuals. Not only is Lyotard the general nomenclature of the crisis of legitimacy that has rocked the entire Western society in the late 1970s but also his own self-judgment on these circumstances: in those fragile and noble values ​​(real, correct, Noble, etc.)