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 terms is not preferred by Post-Modernist thinkers?
APost-structuralism
BDeconstruction
CModernism ✓ Correct
DSubjectivity
Correct answer: (C) Modernism — The term postmodernists do not prefer is modernism, so the answer is option 3.
Explanation
★The term postmodernists do not prefer is modernism, so the answer is option 3.
★Postmodernism defines itself against modernism, rejecting its faith in reason, objective truth and inevitable progress.
★Post-structuralism is its close ally, sharing the critique of fixed structures and stable meaning.
★Deconstruction, Derrida's method, is one of its central tools for unsettling texts and binaries.
★Subjectivity is welcomed, since postmodernists hold that all knowledge is perspectival and constructed.
★Spotting cue: modernism is the worldview postmodernism opposes, so it is the term that does not belong to its vocabulary.
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