Recent Development in Western Thought MCQs and Notes

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Rakesh Kumar • 28.44K Points
Instructor II

Q 31. The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Lyotard dealing with

(A) metaphysics
(B) values
(C) cognition
(D) knowledge and power

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Vikash Gupta • 33.56K Points
Instructor I

Q 32. For Lyotard postmodernity as an age of

(A) accumulation
(B) fragmentation
(C) legalizing
(D) demolishing

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Gopal Sharma • 38.32K Points
Coach

Q 33. Author of The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge

(A) kant
(B) michel foucault
(C) jean-françois lyotard
(D) jacques derrida

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Vinay • 28.75K Points
Instructor II

Q 34. Lyotard's dictum 'I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives' means:

(A) individual stories are suspect.
(B) the law is static.
(C) universal values are meaningless.
(D) literature reproduces repression

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Ram Sharma • 193.84K Points
Coach

Q 35. Jacques Derrida's concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that:

(A) mirrors our physical evolution as human beings.
(B) prevents us from communicating through writing or speech.
(C) involves a constant process of deferred meaning.
(D) evolved exclusively as a function of our individual psyche.

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Shiva Ram • 30.44K Points
Instructor I

Q 36. The central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics;

(A) language is inseparable from its historical context.
(B) there are five phases of linguistic development.
(C) language can be analysed as a formal system of elements.
(D) linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula.

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Gopal Sharma • 38.32K Points
Coach

Q 37. Derrida’s Deconstruction yields a critique of

(A) cultural capital
(B) logocentrism
(C) deconstruction
(D) difference

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Ram Sharma • 193.84K Points
Coach

Q 38. Which one of the following concepts is not given by Derrida

(A) cultural capital
(B) logocentrism
(C) deconstruction
(D) difference

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Gopal Sharma • 38.32K Points
Coach

Q 39. To whom, the sign, firmly speaking, must always stand ‘under erasure’, as necessary but inadequate

(A) louis althusser
(B) michel foucault
(C) husserl
(D) jacques derrida

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Gopal Sharma • 38.32K Points
Coach

Q 40. In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature? Choose one answer.

(A) no fixed, stable meaning is possible.
(B) language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning.
(C) there is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature.
(D) literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change.

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