Postmodernism Test fully solved graded A+2023/2024

Postmodernism TestPostmodernism is a skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to - correct answer Modernism What Postmodernism is suspicious of - correct answer Metanarratives Postmodernism teaches that ultimate reality is - correct answer Inaccessible According to Postmodernism, what is a social construct - correct answer Knowledge Postmodernism believes truth-claims are what - correct answer Political power plays Modernism followed what time period - correct answer The Enlightenment Why Postmodernism says that we cannot see issues objectively - correct answer We are limited by our experiences Postmodernism denies that we have access to what - correct answer Reality What Postmodernism claims to use to oppress others - correct answer Objective truth What is biased in all their notions of reality and claims of truth - correct answer Worldviews Postmodernism assumes that all we can really know is what - correct answer Individual experiences Objective knowledge is what - correct answer A myth What is too complex to be explained by any worldview - correct answer The world What did Gorgias believe was more important than truth - correct answer Effectiveness Gorgias' philosophy - correct answer "Nothing exists" Nihilism is the view that the world and human existence are without what - correct answer meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, and essential value A pre-Socratic school of philosophy that taught the art of rhetoric and held skeptical views of truth, knowledge, and morality - correct answer Sophism Friedrich Nietzsche thought that once we abandoned our belief in God this would happen - correct answer God would die Postmodernists thinkers tried to show that there is no necessary relationship between what two things - correct answer Description and what is being described Structuralism believes that language shapes what - correct answer The way we think and approach life Poststructuralism states that human communication is not really about things but really about what in our conversations - correct answer Views and motivation Deconstruction believes what is more important than the author's intent - correct answer The reader's interpretation What type of language are Postmodernists trying to deconstruct - correct answer Metanarratives Postmodernism believes that whatever is "real" cannot be known because everyone has their own what - correct answer Interpretation Postmodernists use what term to describe the suspicious approach to the "real world" - correct answer Anti-realism