Q. The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Lyotard dealing with
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
knowledge and power
Recent Development in Western Thought MCQs and Notes
Q. For Lyotard postmodernity as an age of
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
fragmentation
Q. Author of The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
jean-françois lyotard
Q. Lyotard's dictum 'I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives' means:
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
universal values are meaningless.
Q. Jacques Derrida's concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that:
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
involves a constant process of deferred meaning.
Q. The central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics;
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
language can be analysed as a formal system of elements.
Q. Derrida’s Deconstruction yields a critique of
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
logocentrism
Q. Which one of the following concepts is not given by Derrida
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
cultural capital
Q. To whom, the sign, firmly speaking, must always stand ‘under erasure’, as necessary but inadequate
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
jacques derrida
Q. In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature? Choose one answer.
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
no fixed, stable meaning is possible.