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Which of the following terms is not preferred by Post-Modernist thinkers?

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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