Lyotard replaces grand narratives with little narratives and temporary contracts

Evidence

If the dream of consensus is a relic of nostalgia for emancipation, 26 narratives as such do not disappear, but become miniature and competitive: ‘the little narrative remains the quintessential form of imaginative invention’. Its social analogue, on which The Postmodern Condition ends, is the trend towards the temporary contract in every area of human existence: occupational, emotional, sexual, political — ties more economical, flexible, creative than the bonds of modernity. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 65

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lyotard’s ‘petit récit’ vs. ‘grand récit’ is a load-bearing distinction for the whole debate.
• XREF: connects to: Simple causal accounts of the decline of grand narratives are inadequate — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 293

Broader Connections

• Simple causal accounts of the decline of grand narratives are inadequate #qualifies (0.72) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 293