Political Science · Political Theory
Which of the following is a post-modernist thinker?
AJacques Derrida ✓ Correct
BImmanuel Kant
CHarold J. Laski
DKarl Marx
Correct answer: (A) Jacques Derrida — Jacques Derrida is a post-modernist thinker, so the answer is Derrida.
Explanation
★Jacques Derrida is a post-modernist thinker, so the answer is Derrida.
★He founded deconstruction, a method of reading that unsettles fixed meaning.
★He argued that texts contain no single, final meaning, only endless interpretation.
★His famous claim is that there is nothing outside the text.
★Immanuel Kant is an Enlightenment philosopher of reason and morality.
★Harold Laski was a twentieth century pluralist and democratic socialist.
★Karl Marx founded scientific socialism, a grand narrative post-modernism rejects.
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