Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET December 2019 Political Science
Passage
Post-modernist thinkers hold the view that there cannot be objective knowledge of social issues. For the post-modernist, knowledge is not simply a cognitive factor; knowledge is also normative and political. Power and knowledge are mutually supportive and they directly imply one another. The post-modernists are critical of classical liberals as well as contemporary positivists who believed in objectivity and the superiority of science. Through deconstruction, the post-modernists want to look at every accepted or settled idea with new lenses.
Which of the following is a Post-Modernist thinker?
AJacques Derrida ✓ Correct
BImmanuel Kant
CH.J. Laski
DKarl Deutsch
Correct answer: (A) Jacques Derrida — The postmodernist thinker among the options is Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).
Explanation
★The postmodernist thinker among the options is Jacques Derrida (1930-2004).
★Derrida founded deconstruction, the critical reading that uncovers the hidden contradictions and unstable meanings within texts.
★His major works include Of Grammatology (1967), Writing and Difference (1967) and Margins of Philosophy (1972).
★His ideas are central to postmodernism and post-structuralism, challenging fixed notions of truth, meaning and hierarchy.
★Immanuel Kant is an Enlightenment philosopher of reason; H.J. Laski is a British pluralist and socialist; Karl Deutsch is a behaviouralist known for communication theory and nationalism studies.
★Further facts NET groups here: Derrida belongs with Foucault, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Jameson, the postmodern set the passage describes.
★Spotting cue: deconstruction always signals Derrida, the giveaway in any postmodernism question.
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