Chapter 7 - Postmodernism questions and answers graded A+ 2023/2024 passed

Chapter 7 - Postmodernismtruth - correct answer Postmodernism declares that _____ is whatever you define it as. postmodernism - correct answer A skeptical worldview, founded as a reaction to modernism, that is suspicious of metanarratives and teaches that ultimate reality is inaccessible, knowledge is a social construct, and truth-claims are political power plays. modernism - correct answer A strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as skepticism toward religion. reality - correct answer Truth is socially situated/constructed, thus we cannot have unmediated, direct, or immediate access to _______. objective, universal - correct answer According to Postmodernism, truth is neither _________ nor _________. does not - correct answer Postmodernism (does trust/does not trust) [either] science [and/or] religion. sophists - correct answer group of people who practiced constructing persuasive arguments, regardless of whether they were true or not Friedrich Nietzsche - correct answer Father of Postmodernism Friedrich Nietzsche - correct answer Quote by _________ _________: "When God dies, then Morality and Oppression will die with Him." structuralism - correct answer Movement that believes human knowledge is not based on an accurate understanding of reality, but is the product of linguistically-constructed forms or grammars that societies have developed over time interpreted - correct answer The world cannot be directly known, but only personally ___________. views, motivations - correct answer human communication is not really about things but about the _____ and __________ of those involved in the conversation deconstruction - correct answer A 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 Jean-Francis Lyotard - correct answer "Incredulity toward metanarratives" metanarratives - correct answer The underlying stories about the world that supposedly explains everything; Postmodernism has a problem with this cannot - correct answer Words (can/cannot) accurately describe objects in the world. Correspondence Theory of Truth - correct answer The view that the truth of a proposition is determined by how accurately it describes the facts of reality. Gorgias (Glen) - correct answer Taught that because "nothing exists," philosophy and communication were pointless nihilism - correct answer belief that everything is without meaning, purpose, truth, or value anti-realism - correct answer The denial of the existence or accessibility of an objective reality poststructuralism - correct answer an intellectual movement that contends human communication is not really about things but about the views and motivations of those involved in the conversation pragmatism - correct answer contends that propositions don't mirror reality and should therefore be treated as tools and judged by their practical consequences