Principles of knowledge efficiency and performance in J. Lyotard's conception

Scientific discourse alteration and,consequently, knowledge transformation has become urgent since the Modern Age. In this respect, the issue arousing well-groundedinterest is of mutual relations between knowledge and other traditions of reality comprehension, the methodological and metaphysicalstatus of which both in the first and second cases indicates the impossibility of objectified ''priority'' against them. J. Lyotard'sconception of modern state of knowledge as post-modernist discourse is stated in retrospection terms that enabled him to word a wellreasonedconclusion of inability of the old principle of knowledge attainment which ''…is inseparable from mind and… personalitymoulding'' (Lyotard). Lyotard's comparative analysis of grounds of myth, narrative and statement proved inconsistency of claims of thelatter (statement) on exceptionality of its soundness. For the post-modern state, in Lyotard's opinion, a continuous ''effort'' of keeping ofa certain state is quite natural, i.e. an effort of system preservation as a global network of relations: game directives change is fraughtwith disappearance of a cultural-historical type, but not certain expression forms of the state of affairs (myth, narrative, statement) thathave existed for thousand years. Therefore the ''implementation'' of efficiency and performance principles in mass consciousness asprinciples aiming at stability of the integrated ''intellectual system'', the utilitarianism of which is consciously ignored by the intellectualWestern community, looks so natural and explainable. A currently prevailing attempt of knowledge transformation into a globalinformation system, on the one hand, is an absolutely logical development stage of positivist view of knowledge nature (''knowledge ispower''), and, on the other hand, is an outcome indicating the state of a global crisis of the current system (tradition), since knowledge,as well as information, is deprived of its key feature - viewing aspect (grounds do not condition conclusion - the post-modern state asthe reverse side of consequence out of contradiction). The problem of knowledge and other traditions grounds has also been consideredin terms of impossibility of the grounds validity, according to Wittgenstein. Axiomatic provisions character [of science] is also ratherdisputable as their transcendental description is not possible. Different ways of reality understanding/comprehension have beenconditioned by one and the same referent.

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