Political Science · Political Theory
Which one of the following is incorrect with regard to post-modernism?
APrimacy of consumption instead of knowledge
BDeconstruction of totality
CCommonality in place of greatness
DBelief in a historical tendency ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Belief in a historical tendency — Post-modernism rejects any belief in a fixed historical tendency, so that statement is incorrect.
Explanation
★Post-modernism rejects any belief in a fixed historical tendency, so that statement is incorrect.
★It denies grand narratives that claim history moves toward a single goal.
★There is no inevitable march of progress or universal law of history for post-modernists.
★Post-modernism does stress consumption and the play of signs over fixed knowledge.
★It engages in the deconstruction of totalities and unified systems of thought.
★It favours plurality and the ordinary over claims to greatness and universality.
★Thus the belief in a historical tendency is the one idea foreign to post-modernism.
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