Postmodernism, justice and silence

Lonergan, Lyotard, and Lindbeck: Bringing Method in Theology into Dialogue with Postmodernity

“…In Lyotard's later work he fixes on the theme of justice, which for him signifies a respect for the heterogeneity and plurality of language games in the postmodern condition. 13 Philosophy must function with justice in mind, and becomes an aesthetic and reflective practice on the variety of language games, which has the inevitable defect of being unable to discriminate between them. 14 In this sense, like many of those influenced by Wittgenstein, Lyotard thrusts philosophy back onto the study of language and away from metaphysics and attempts to ground other sciences.…”