Political Science · Political Theory
Which of these thinkers is not related to post-modernism?
AJean-Francois Lyotard
BLouis Althusser ✓ Correct
CRichard Rorty
DJean Baudrillard
Correct answer: (B) Louis Althusser — Louis Althusser is not a post-modernist but a structuralist Marxist thinker.
Explanation
★Louis Althusser is not a post-modernist but a structuralist Marxist thinker.
★He reread Marx through structuralism, stressing ideology and the ideological state apparatuses.
★Jean-Francois Lyotard defined post-modernism as incredulity towards meta narratives.
★Richard Rorty is a post-modern pragmatist who rejected objective foundations for knowledge.
★Jean Baudrillard is a leading post-modernist known for simulation and hyperreality.
★Post-modernism distrusts grand theory, while Althusser builds a structural grand theory.
★So Althusser stands clearly outside the post-modern camp.
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