Exam 3: Postmodern Philosophy and Literary Theory

Derrida's Deconstruction yields a critique of

The central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics;

Jacques Derrida's concept of différance challenges us to think about language as a system that:

The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge Lyotard dealing with

The opposition between speech and writing is a manifestation of the

Which among the following is not the work of Louis Althusser

Author of The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge

Hyperreal depicts

Postmodernism put forward the notion of

who popularised the conception of an 'epistemological break' in Marxian thought

Author of Elements of Semiology

In Of Grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature? Choose one answer.

Derrida notes the tendency in western philosophy and semiotics to value the signifier as opposed to the thing it signifies in

Lyotard's dictum 'I define postmodern as incredulity toward meta-narratives' means:

As Baudrillard, there is only

According to Baudrillard the elimination of reality itself,

Baudrillard is trying to end the philosophy of

To whom, the sign, firmly speaking, must always stand 'under erasure', as necessary but inadequate

Which one of the following concepts is not given by Derrida

Lyotard famously defines the postmodern as