Deck 2: Philosophy and Linguistics: A Compilation of Post-Structuralist and Humanistic Ideas

Question 1

Which Post-Structuralist philosopher stated, "Academics' lives are seldom interesting":

A)michel foucault
B)jacques derrida
C)jean baudrillard
D)gilles deleuze

Answer 1

gilles deleuze

Question 2

Author of Capitalism and Schizophrenia:

A)michel foucault
B)jean baudrillard
C)ferdinand de saussure
D)gilles deleuze

Answer 2

gilles deleuze

Question 3

Which Post-Structuralist philosopher was interested in the "power-knowledge relationship":

A)gilles deleuze
B)jacques derrida
C)michel foucault
D)ferdinand de saussure

Answer 3

michel foucault

Question 4

Which Post-Structuralist philosopher started in philosophy by studying "pataphysics"

A)gilles deleuze
B)jean baudrillard
C)michel foucault
D)jacques derrida

Question 5

Postmodernism rejects which of the following metanarratives;

A)science/ secularism
B)christian
C)muslim
D)all metanarratives are rejected

Question 6

Baudrillard's simulacra means

A)something unique and individual
B)the sign that creates the perception of reality than reality itself
C)truth
D)a lie

Question 7

Which French Philosopher argued that there were no meta or grand narratives, only micro narratives?

A)jean baudrillard
B)john the baptist
C)jean-françois lyotard
D)jean jacques rousseau

Question 8

Author of, On humanistic education

A)jean baudrillard
B)giambattista vico
C)jean-françois lyotard
D)jean jacques rousseau

Question 9

According to vico Humanity

A)consequence of institution
B)presupposition
C)cause
D)relation

Question 10

For Vico human essence is

A)pre-existent one
B)no pre-existent
C)inherited
D)irrational

Question 11

According to Vico the structure is

A)static
B)transformable
C)idle
D)idea

Question 12

Langue and parole are the concept of

A)jean baudrillard
B)john the baptist
C)ferdinand de saussure
D)jean jacques rousseau

Question 13

According to Saussure a language is a system of

A)signs
B)logic
C)symbols
D)numbers

Question 14

Systematic study of meaning

A)semantics
B)logic
C)signs
D)epigraphy

Question 15

Linguistic system, consists of

A)structures
B)prejudice
C)symbols
D)numbers

Question 16

According to Saussure two axis of language are

A)compound and simple
B)diachronic and synchronic
C)rigid and flexible
D)noumena and phenomena

Question 17

For Vico Language, is a kind of

A)knowledge
B)power
C)dominance
D)collective intelligence

Question 18

Author of Course in General Linguistics

A)ferdinand de saussure
B)kant
C)jean-françois lyotard
D)jean jacques rousseau

Question 19

Author of Mythologies

A)ferdinand de saussure
B)jean-françois lyotard
C)roland barthes
D)jacques derrida

Question 20

the reproduction of labour-power complete with

A)ruling ideology
B)economics progress
C)economic reproduction
D)social enriching

Question 21

Louis Althusser consider State institutions as

A)apparats
B)institutions for good life
C)ideological apparatus
D)social welfare institutions

Question 22

believed that the "unified self" was just a product of Western culture and that if there was a "self, it must be plural."

A)ferdinand de saussure
B)jean-françois lyotard
C)jean jacques rousseau
D)jacques derrida

Question 23

The philosophical school founded by Derrida is called

A)structuralism
B)decentralism
C)phenomenology
D)semantics

Question 24

Althusser considered the mode of production contains complex articulation of:

A)only economic practice
B)only political practices
C)economic, political and ideological practices
D)economic and political practices

Question 25

Who has measured 'modernity as an unfinished project'

A)jean baudrillard
B)john the baptist
C)jean-françois lyotard
D)habermas