Discours de La Methode/Discourse on the MethodNo text has defined the self understanding of the present time like Jean Franois Lyotards La condition postmoderne, Rapport sur le savoir (1979). But few participants in the dialogue between the moderns and the postmoderns can claim to understand exactly what modernity is. Yet one can hardly understand post modernism without adequately understanding what it is supposed to supersede. Thus there also arises one of the biggest difficulties in