正是利奥塔把“post-modernity”一词引入了法国的学术界,从而引起了现代性与后现代性的争论。他怀疑现代性的元叙事并认为元叙事的合法性已经动摇,因此提出了人类必须通过一些包括民主政治和文化多样性以及承载异议这样一些手段来完成人类解放的宏伟蓝图,以此而建立一个公平的社会。利奥塔的后现代性是对现代性的再书写,目的就在于提醒我们避免去犯历史以前所发生的错误。 It is Liotta who introduced the word “post-modernity” into the French academic community, which sparked the debate between modernity and postmodernity. He doubted the meta-narrative of modernity and considered the legitimacy of the meta-narration to have shaken. Therefore, he proposed that mankind must establish a grand blueprint for human emancipation through such means as democratic politics and cultural diversity as well as carrying opposition. In this way, Fair society. Lyotard’s postmodernity is the rewriting of modernity. The purpose of Lyotard is to remind us to avoid the mistakes made before the invasion of history.