For Lyotard the Enlightenment whose project Habermas wishes to continue
is simply one of the would-be authoritative 'overarching', 'totalising' explanations of things - like
Christianity, Marxism, or the myth of scientific progress. These 'metanarratives' ['super-narratives'], which
purport to explain and reassure, are really illusions, fostered in order to smother difference, opposition, and
plurality. Hence Lyotard's famous definition of postmodernism, that it is, simply, 'incredulity towards
metanarratives'. 'Grand Narratives'