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.
Who among the following is not a Post-Modernist thinker?
ARichard Ashley
BJenny Edkins
CMichel Foucault
DJ. Burton ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) J. Burton — The thinker who is not a postmodernist is J. Burton, so the answer is option 4.
Explanation
★The thinker who is not a postmodernist is J. Burton, so the answer is option 4.
★John Burton was an Australian scholar of international relations, known for conflict resolution and human needs theory, not postmodern philosophy.
★Richard Ashley is a post-structuralist scholar of international relations who applied postmodern critique to the discipline.
★Jenny Edkins is a post-structuralist international relations theorist working on trauma, sovereignty and biopolitics.
★Michel Foucault is a foundational postmodern and post-structuralist thinker on power and knowledge.
★Further facts NET groups here: postmodernism in IR also runs through R.B.J. Walker and James Der Derian, alongside Ashley and Edkins.
★Spotting cue: Burton means conflict resolution and human needs, not postmodernism, which marks him out here.
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