UTT Postmodernism questions with verified solutions 2023/2024

UTT PostmodernismPostmodernism - correct answer a skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, which is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth claims are political power players Correspondence Theory of Truth - correct answer the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes the facts of reality. Modernism - correct answer a belief characterized by a strong belief in rationalism, empiricism, science, and technological progress as well as skepticism toward the supernatural, special revelation, and the authority of religion Postmodernism's reaction to Modernism - correct answer Suspicious of science and technologies ability, and religions ability, to satisfactorily answer life's ultimate questions Truth according to postmodernism - correct answer Truth is relative. We are limited by our experiences. Truth is relative to each individual society. The idea of objective truth is actually used to oppress others. Nihilist - correct answer someone who believes that everything is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value Postmodernism on existence - correct answer Nothing exists. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it. Even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others. Even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood. Friedrich Nitzsche - correct answer Father of Postmodernism Ludwig Feuerbach - correct answer Heavily influenced Nitzsche Michel Foucault - correct answer Rejected absolute truth and sought to liberate humanity from labeling, marginalization, and suppression. 2 Key Characteristics of Postmodernism - correct answer Language Subjectivity Structuralism - correct answer human knowledge is not based on an accurate understand of reality but is the product of linguistically constructed forms of grammars that societies have developed over time. Postructuralism - correct answer contends that human communication is not really about things but about the view and motivation of those involved in the conversation. Deconstruction - correct answer method of literary analysis that questions the ability of language to represent reality adequately and seeks to discern and expose the purported underlying ideologies of a text. Metanarratives - correct answer a single, overarching interpretation, or grand story, of reality anti-realism - correct answer used to describe the denial of the existence or accessibility of objective truth, Social Constructionism - correct answer the belief that human beings and society are social constructions shaped by language and subjective experiences Conclusions about Postmodernism - correct answer 1 Postmodernism takes valid concerns too far, 2 ignores power struggle created by language, 3 is self-contradictory, 4 view of personhood is disturbing Postmodernism vs. Islam - correct answer interested in this worldviews develiopment, but rejected because of its believes in objective truths