The triumph of market liberalism refuted Lyotard’s claim that grand narratives died

Evidence

With the sharp change of conjuncture in the eighties — the euphoria of the Reagan boom, and the triumphant ideological offensive of the Right, culminating in the collapse of the Soviet bloc at the end of the decade — this position lost all credibility. Far from grand narratives having disappeared, it looked as if for the first time in history the world was falling under the sway of the most grandiose of all — a single, universal story of liberty and prosperity, the global victory of the market. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 76

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The paradox Anderson sets up — that capitalism’s universal victory itself recapitulated the grandest grand narrative — is the kind of dialectical turn that rewards long sitting.
• XREF: connects to: Simple causal accounts of the decline of grand narratives are inadequate — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 293; Lyotard’s postmodern condition structurally resembles conservative ideology — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 373; Lyotard’s anti-totality stance stems from a French post-Marxist reaction — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 36

Broader Connections

• Simple causal accounts of the decline of grand narratives are inadequate #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 293
• Lyotard’s anti-totality stance stems from a French post-Marxist reaction #qualifies (0.75) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 36
• Lyotard’s postmodern condition structurally resembles conservative ideology #qualifies (0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 373