Recent Development In Western Thought Set 2
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This set of Recent Development in Western Thought Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Recent Development In Western Thought Set 2
Q1 | Which Post-Structuralist philosopher stated, "Academics' lives are seldom interesting”:
- michel foucault
- jacques derrida
- jean baudrillard
- gilles deleuze
Q2 | Author of Capitalism and Schizophrenia:
- michel foucault
- jean baudrillard
- ferdinand de saussure
- gilles deleuze
Q3 | Which Post-Structuralist philosopher was interested in the "power-knowledge relationship":
- gilles deleuze
- jacques derrida
- michel foucault
- ferdinand de saussure
Q4 | Which Post-Structuralist philosopher started in philosophy by studying "pataphysics
- gilles deleuze
- jean baudrillard
- michel foucault
- jacques derrida
Q5 | Postmodernism rejects which of the following metanarratives;
- science/ secularism
- christian
- muslim
- all metanarratives are rejected
Q6 | Baudrillard's simulacra means
- something unique and individual
- the sign that creates the perception of reality than reality itself
- truth
- a lie
Q7 | Which French Philosopher argued that there were no meta or grand narratives, only micronarratives?
- jean baudrillard
- john the baptist
- jean-françois lyotard
- jean jacques rousseau
Q8 | Author of, On humanistic education
- jean baudrillard
- giambattista vico
- jean-françois lyotard
- jean jacques rousseau
Q9 | According to vico Humanity
- consequence of institution
- presupposition
- cause
- relation
Q10 | For Vico human essence is
- pre-existent one
- no pre-existent
- inherited
- irrational
Q11 | According to Vico the structure is
- static
- transformable
- idle
- idea
Q12 | Langue and parole are the concept of
- jean baudrillard
- john the baptist
- ferdinand de saussure
- jean jacques rousseau
Q13 | According to Saussure a language is a system of
- signs
- logic
- symbols
- numbers
Q14 | Systematic study of meaning
- semantics
- logic
- signs
- epigraphy
Q15 | Linguistic system, consists of
- structures
- prejudice
- symbols
- numbers
Q16 | According to Saussure two axis of language are
- compound and simple
- diachronic and synchronic
- rigid and flexible
- noumena and phenomena
Q17 | For Vico Language, is a kind of
- knowledge
- power
- dominance
- collective intelligence
Q18 | Author of Course in General Linguistics
- ferdinand de saussure
- kant
- jean-françois lyotard
- jean jacques rousseau
Q19 | Author of Mythologies
- ferdinand de saussure
- jean-françois lyotard
- roland barthes
- jacques derrida
Q20 | the reproduction of labour-power complete with
- ruling ideology
- economics progress
- economic reproduction
- social enriching
Q21 | Louis Althusser consider State institutions as
- apparats
- institutions for good life
- ideological apparatus
- social welfare institutions
Q22 | believed that the “unified self” was just a product of Western culture and that if there was a “self,it must be plural.”
- ferdinand de saussure
- jean-françois lyotard
- jean jacques rousseau
- jacques derrida
Q23 | The philosophical school founded by Derrida is called
- structuralism
- decentralism
- phenomenology
- semantics
Q24 | Althusser considered the mode of production contains complex articulation of:
- only economic practice
- only political practices
- economic, political and ideological practices
- economic and political practices
Q25 | Who has measured ‘modernity as an unfinished project’
- jean baudrillard
- john the baptist
- jean-françois lyotard
- habermas