Auschwitz demonstrates the failure of any totalizing master narrative

Evidence

For Jean-Francois Lyotard (1984, 1988,1990), “the Jews” become the clearest example of a postmodern people; Auschwitz thus provides the most unimpeachable sign of the failure of any single, totalizing discourse to encompass history and politics. Life now confronts us with heterogeneous and often unintelligible signs — rather than facts that can be verified and systematized. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 259

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking Lyotard’s actual argument — how ‘the Jews as a postmodern people’ relates to the vault’s own usage of Lyotardian postmodern doubt.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 259