Top 80+ Solved Recent Development in Western Thought MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Author of The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge
a. kant
b. michel foucault
c. jean-françois lyotard
d. jacques derrida
Q. For Lyotard postmodernity as an age of
a. accumulation
b. fragmentation
c. legalizing
d. demolishing
Q. The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Lyotard dealing with
a. metaphysics
b. values
c. cognition
d. knowledge and power
Q. Lyotard famously defines the postmodern as
a. incredulity towards metanarratives
b. system of logic
c. system of metaphysics
d. system of idealism
Q. Lyotard sees the subject/human as
a. one element among others
b. pure matter
c. centre of all think
d. master of knowledge
Q. Deconstruction is
a. strategy for reading texts
b. understanding metaphysics
c. logical investigation
d. reductionism
Q. The opposition between speech and writing is a manifestation of the
a. cultural capital
b. logocentrism
c. deconstruction
d. difference
Q. Derrida notes the tendency in western philosophy and semiotics to value the signifier as opposedto the thing it signifies in
a. cultural capital
b. logocentrism
c. deconstruction
d. metaphysics of presence.
Q. Postmodernism put forward the notion of
a. death of the subject
b. reclaiming the subject
c. domination of subject
d. power of the subject
Q. Author of Elements of Semiology
a. ferdinand de saussure
b. jean-françois lyotard
c. jean jacques rousseau
d. roland barthes
Q. Baudrillard is trying to end the philosophy of
a. theological
b. subjectivity
c. narrative
d. normative
Q. According to Baudrillard the elimination of reality itself,
a. crime
b. perfect crime
c. method
d. practice