Political Science · Political Theory
About Knowledge, which is Not a view as per post-modernism?
AKnowledge is linked to power
BNo knowledge is impartial
CKnowledge is technocratic and free from ideology ✓ Correct
DKnowledge is Not objective
Correct answer: (C) Knowledge is technocratic and free from ideology — Post-modernism does not view knowledge as technocratic and free from ideology.
Explanation
★Post-modernism does not view knowledge as technocratic and free from ideology.
★On the contrary, it holds that knowledge is always shaped by power and ideology.
★Michel Foucault argued that knowledge and power are bound together as a power knowledge nexus.
★Post-modernists deny that any knowledge is neutral, impartial or purely objective.
★They reject the Enlightenment faith in objective, value free scientific truth.
★For them every claim to knowledge reflects some interest and standpoint.
★So the idea of ideology free technocratic knowledge is exactly what post-modernism rejects.
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