Top 80+ Solved Recent Development in Western Thought MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Louis Althusser consider State institutions as
a. apparats
b. institutions for good life
c. ideological apparatus
d. social welfare institutions
Q. believed that the “unified self” was just a product of Western culture and that if there was a “self,it must be plural.”
a. ferdinand de saussure
b. jean-françois lyotard
c. jean jacques rousseau
d. jacques derrida
Q. The philosophical school founded by Derrida is called
a. structuralism
b. decentralism
c. phenomenology
d. semantics
Q. Althusser considered the mode of production contains complex articulation of:
a. only economic practice
b. only political practices
c. economic, political and ideological practices
d. economic and political practices
Q. Who has measured ‘modernity as an unfinished project’
a. jean baudrillard
b. john the baptist
c. jean-françois lyotard
d. habermas
Q. In "The Death of the Author," Roland Barthes argues what about
a. biographical information about the author must be considered when evaluating literature.
b. a text and its author text are unrelated.
c. it is possible to distil meaning from a work based on the author\s politics.
d. authorial intent must be considered when evaluating literature.
Q. who popularised the conception of an ‘epistemological break’ in Marxian thought
a. l. althusser
b. j. habermas
c. j. alexander
d. r. fahrendorf
Q. Which among the following is not the work of Louis Althusser
a. lenin and philosophy and other essays
b. on the reproduction of capitalism trans
c. madness and civilization
d. for marx
Q. 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.
Q. To whom, the sign, firmly speaking, must always stand ‘under erasure’, as necessary butinadequate
a. louis althusser
b. michel foucault
c. husserl
d. jacques derrida
Q. Which one of the following concepts is not given by Derrida
a. cultural capital
b. logocentrism
c. deconstruction
d. difference
Q. Derrida’s Deconstruction yields a critique of
a. cultural capital
b. logocentrism
c. deconstruction
d. difference
Q. 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.
Q. 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.
Q. 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