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Recent Development in Western Thought | Set 1

1. The main proponents of post-structuralism

Correct : D. all the above

2. Who are the most prominent theoretician and practitioner of ‘Deconstruction’

Correct : B. derrida

3. The linguist generally associated with the initiation of ‘Structuralism’ as a movement is:

Correct : A. ferdinand de saussure

4. Which of the following critics is associated with post-structuralism rather than structuralism

Correct : A. michel foucault

5. Post-structuralism is a movement that came to prominence first during the 1960s. the movement was basically a response against:

Correct : C. structuralism

6. The general science of sign is known as

Correct : C. semiology

7. The concept of ‘Metalanguage’ was mentioned in:

Correct : D. elements of semiology

8. The Open Work was created by:

Correct : B. umberto eco

9. The concept of ‘Metalanguage’ was developed by:

Correct : D. barthes

10. Speech and Phenomenon is written by

Correct : C. jacques derrida

11. The Death of the Author is the work of

Correct : A. roland barthe

12. One of the key terms in Derrida’s thought is

Correct : C. difference

13. Post-structuralism gets connected most commonly to structuralism. Nevertheless, it also gets related to another literary movement which is:

Correct : A. postmodernism

14. The concept which establishes an association between post-structuralism and postmodernism is:

Correct : D. humanism

15. Derrida calls ‘preference for presence over absence’ as

Correct : C. metaphysics of presence

16. Post-structuralism, as a movement, developed in:

Correct : B. france

17. Where did logical positivism originate

Correct : C. austria & germany

18. Author of The New Science

Correct : B. giambattista vico

19. Jacques Derrida cannonballed into the American academy with this paper, in 1966:

Correct : C. "structure, sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences"

20. Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology explains:

Correct : A. theory of "writing"

21. Which author-hating lit critic and cultural theorist described text as a "multi-dimensional space," and a "tissue of quotations"

Correct : B. roland barthes

22. Post-Structuralism emerged as a critique of Structuralism. Who founded Structuralism:

Correct : B. ferdinand de saussure

23. Which of the following was written by Jacques Derrida

Correct : D. of grammatology

24. Which Post-Structuralist philosopher came up with the concept of Deconstruction:

Correct : A. jacques derrida

25. Why does Jean Baudrillard think we live in simulated realities:

Correct : B. we can never know the truth, so we adopt ideologies which reshape the world in our minds.

26. Which Post-Structuralist philosopher stated, "Academics' lives are seldom interesting”:

Correct : D. gilles deleuze

27. Author of Capitalism and Schizophrenia:

Correct : D. gilles deleuze

28. Which Post-Structuralist philosopher was interested in the "power-knowledge relationship":

Correct : C. michel foucault

29. Which Post-Structuralist philosopher started in philosophy by studying "pataphysics"

Correct : B. jean baudrillard

30. Postmodernism rejects which of the following metanarratives;

Correct : D. all metanarratives are rejected

31. Baudrillard's simulacra means

Correct : B. the sign that creates the perception of reality than reality itself

32. Which French Philosopher argued that there were no meta or grand narratives, only micro narratives?

Correct : C. jean-françois lyotard

33. Author of, On humanistic education

Correct : C. jean-françois lyotard

34. According to vico Humanity

Correct : A. consequence of institution

35. For Vico human essence is

Correct : B. no pre-existent

36. According to Vico the structure is

Correct : B. transformable

37. Langue and parole are the concept of

Correct : C. ferdinand de saussure

38. According to Saussure a language is a system of

Correct : A. signs

39. Systematic study of meaning

Correct : A. semantics

40. Linguistic system, consists of

Correct : A. structures

41. According to Saussure two axis of language are

Correct : B. diachronic and synchronic

42. For Vico Language, is a kind of

Correct : D. collective intelligence

43. Author of Course in General Linguistics

Correct : A. ferdinand de saussure

44. Author of Mythologies

Correct : C. roland barthes

45. the reproduction of labour-power complete with

Correct : A. ruling ideology

46. Louis Althusser consider State institutions as

Correct : A. apparats

47. believed that the “unified self” was just a product of Western culture and that if there was a “self, it must be plural.”

Correct : D. jacques derrida

48. The philosophical school founded by Derrida is called

Correct : B. decentralism

49. Althusser considered the mode of production contains complex articulation of:

Correct : C. economic, political and ideological practices

50. Who has measured ‘modernity as an unfinished project’

Correct : D. habermas

51. In "The Death of the Author," Roland Barthes argues what about

Correct : B. a text and its author text are unrelated.

52. who popularised the conception of an ‘epistemological break’ in Marxian thought

Correct : A. l. althusser

53. Which among the following is not the work of Louis Althusser

Correct : C. madness and civilization

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

Correct : A. no fixed, stable meaning is possible.

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

Correct : D. jacques derrida

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

Correct : A. cultural capital

57. Derrida’s Deconstruction yields a critique of

Correct : B. logocentrism

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

Correct : C. language can be analysed as a formal system of elements.

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

Correct : C. involves a constant process of deferred meaning.

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

Correct : C. universal values are meaningless.

61. Author of The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge

Correct : C. jean-françois lyotard

62. For Lyotard postmodernity as an age of

Correct : B. fragmentation

63. The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Lyotard dealing with

Correct : D. knowledge and power

64. Lyotard famously defines the postmodern as

Correct : A. incredulity towards metanarratives

65. Lyotard sees the subject/human as

Correct : A. one element among others

66. Deconstruction is in terms of a critique of the

Correct : A. binary

67. Deconstruction is

Correct : A. strategy for reading texts

68. The opposition between speech and writing is a manifestation of the

Correct : B. logocentrism

69. Derrida notes the tendency in western philosophy and semiotics to value the signifier as opposed to the thing it signifies in

Correct : D. metaphysics of presence.

70. Postmodernism put forward the notion of

Correct : A. death of the subject

71. Author of Elements of Semiology

Correct : D. roland barthes

72. As Baudrillard, there is only

Correct : D. hyperreal

73. Hyperreal depicts

Correct : D. meticulous reduplication

74. Baudrillard is trying to end the philosophy of

Correct : B. subjectivity

75. According to Baudrillard the elimination of reality itself,

Correct : B. perfect crime

76. The term Hyperreality characterizes the inability of

Correct : D. consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy

77. A copy or image without reference to an original

Correct : A. simulacrum

78. What are the ideological State apparatuses

Correct : D. the family

79. The State Apparatus

Correct : C. the courts

80. The tendency in western civilization to privilege the linguistic signifier over the signified

Correct : B. logocentrism

81. Author of Writing Degree Zero

Correct : A. roland barthes

82. In ‘Rhetoric of the Image’ Barthes asserting

Correct : A. demythologizing reading of the image

83. The underlying syntactic structure of a sentence termed

Correct : A. deep structure

84. Barth described ‘message without a code’ to

Correct : C. photograph’s

85. The structure open to observation and description termed

Correct : C. surface structure

86. The distinction between langue and parole was first made by

Correct : C. ferdinand de saussure

87. The rules of sign system known as

Correct : B. langue

88. The articulation of signs

Correct : D. parole

89. Author of - Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Correct : A. louis althusser

90. Author of Writing and Difference

Correct : D. jacques derrida

91. author of The Illusions of Postmodernism

Correct : D. terry eagleton

92. For Marx superstructure is

Correct : A. ideology

93. “There is nothing outside the text” articulated by

Correct : D. jacques derrida