Q. Hyperreal depicts
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
meticulous reduplication
Recent Development in Western Thought MCQs and Notes
Q. As Baudrillard, there is only
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
hyperreal
Q. Author of Elements of Semiology
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
roland barthes
Q. Postmodernism put forward the notion of
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
death of the subject
Q. Derrida notes the tendency in western philosophy and semiotics to value the signifier as opposed to the thing it signifies in
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
metaphysics of presence.
Q. The opposition between speech and writing is a manifestation of the
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
logocentrism
Q. Deconstruction is
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
strategy for reading texts
Q. Deconstruction is in terms of a critique of the
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
binary
Q. Lyotard sees the subject/human as
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
one element among others
Q. Lyotard famously defines the postmodern as
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
incredulity towards metanarratives