Q. Which of the following was written by Jacques Derrida
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
of grammatology
Recent Development in Western Thought MCQs and Notes
Q. Post-Structuralism emerged as a critique of Structuralism. Who founded Structuralism:
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
ferdinand de saussure
Q. Which author-hating lit critic and cultural theorist described text as a "multi-dimensional space," and a "tissue of quotations"
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
roland barthes
Q. Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology explains:
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
theory of "writing"
Q. Jacques Derrida cannonballed into the American academy with this paper, in 1966:
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
"structure, sign, and play in the discourse of the human sciences"
Q. Author of The New Science
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
giambattista vico
Q. Where did logical positivism originate
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
austria & germany
Q. Post-structuralism, as a movement, developed in:
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
france
Q. Derrida calls ‘preference for presence over absence’ as
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
metaphysics of presence
Q. The concept which establishes an association between post-structuralism and postmodernism is:
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
humanism