Recent Development In Western Thought Set 4

Master of Arts in Philosophy (MA Philosophy)

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Q1 | The term Hyperreality characterizes the inability of
  • knowledge
  • power
  • capability
  • consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy
Answer: consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy
Q2 | A copy or image without reference to an original
  • simulacrum
  • perfect
  • ideal
  • illusive
Answer: simulacrum
Q3 | What are the ideological State apparatuses
  • the army
  • the police
  • the courts
  • the family
Answer: the family
Q4 | The State Apparatus
  • the religion
  • family
  • the courts
  • communications
Answer: the courts
Q5 | The tendency in western civilization to privilege the linguistic signifier over the signified
  • deconstruction
  • logocentrism
  • materialism
  • rationalism
Answer: logocentrism
Q6 | Author of Writing Degree Zero
  • roland barthes
  • michel foucault
  • husserl
  • jacques derrida
Answer: roland barthes
Q7 | In ‘Rhetoric of the Image’ Barthes asserting
  • demythologizing reading of the image
  • breakdown
  • interference
  • regularisation
Answer: demythologizing reading of the image
Q8 | The underlying syntactic structure of a sentence termed
  • deep structure
  • structure
  • form
  • matter
Answer: deep structure
Q9 | Barth described ‘message without a code’ to
  • movies
  • documents
  • photograph’s
  • music
Answer: photograph’s
Q10 | The structure open to observation and description termed
  • deep structure
  • structure
  • surface structure
  • matter
Answer: surface structure
Q11 | The distinction between langue and parole was first made by
  • roland barthes
  • michel foucault
  • ferdinand de saussure
  • jacques derrida
Answer: ferdinand de saussure
Q12 | The rules of sign system known as
  • concept
  • langue
  • form
  • parole
Answer: langue
Q13 | The articulation of signs
  • concept
  • langue
  • form
  • parole
Answer: parole
Q14 | Author of - Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
  • louis althusser
  • michel foucault
  • ferdinand de saussure
  • jacques derrida
Answer: louis althusser
Q15 | Author of Writing and Difference
  • louis althusser
  • michel foucault
  • ferdinand de saussure
  • jacques derrida
Answer: jacques derrida
Q16 | author of The Illusions of Postmodernism
  • louis althusser
  • michel foucault
  • ferdinand de saussure
  • terry eagleton
Answer: terry eagleton
Q17 | For Marx superstructure is
  • ideology
  • labour
  • infrastructure
  • revolutionary
Answer: ideology
Q18 | “There is nothing outside the text” articulated by
  • ferdinand de saussure
  • jean-françois lyotard
  • jean jacques rousseau
  • jacques derrida
Answer: jacques derrida
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