论信息社会的知识转向——利奥塔后现代知识理论评介

On Change of Knowledge in Information Society ——Comments on Postmodern Knowledge Theory of Leota

后现代主义学者利奥塔的知识理论认为 ,后现代信息社会的知识 ,已不再追求工业社会的理性、思辨和理想 ,而是走向高度的技术化、商品化和权力化 ,并呈现出异质、多元和悖谬性的特点。它反映了科学知识在不同时期的发展变化特点及其内在矛盾冲突 ,但对不同科学知识之间的内在继承关系则重视不够 。

According to postmodernist Leota, the knowledge in the postmodern information society no longer pursues rationality, speculation, and ideal as it did in the industrialized society, but goes toward high technology, commercialization and power, characterized by heterogeneity, multi factor and absurdity. These reflect the different characteristics of science knowledge in different period. But the attention paid by the theory to inherit relationship among different kinds of knowledge is not enough. This is the manifest methodological shortcoming of the theory.