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