People
Famously said "God is dead."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress as a well as skepticism toward religion.
What is Modernism?
True or False: Postmoderns believe in objective knowledge
What is false?
True or false: According to Postmodernism, words can adequately describe reality.
What is false?
According to Postmoderns, science can only tell us ...
What scientists believe?
These people were known for practicing rhetoric without a regard for truth.
Who are Sophists?
A method of literary analysis that seeks to expose the underlying ideologies of a text
What is deconstruction?
One of the following does NOT describe truth, according to Postmodernism:
Socially constructed, subjective, neutral, or culturally-conditioned.
What is neutral?
Poststructuralism teaches that words are not about things but ...
What is people and their agendas?
This is the fundamental problem with humanity.
What is our desire to create and believe in metanarratives?
A Sophist who is sold arguments and is believed to have inspired Postmodern thought.
Who is Gorgias?
Define anti-realism.
What is "the denial of the existence or accessibility of an objective reality?"
These worldviews make biased truth-claims about reality.
What are all worldviews?
Objective truth claims do this, according to Postmodernism.
What is oppress (or manipulate) others?
According to Postmodernists, human beings are not body and soul, but this.
What are social constructs?
... described Postmodernism as "incredulity towards...(this)"
Who is Jean-François Lyotard ... metanarratives?
Define nihilism.
What is "the view that the world and human existence are without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth or essential value?"
What culture, language, and gender have in common.
What is: They affect the way we see the world?
Language shapes thought and behavior, creates our reality, and is the best way of understanding the world describes this position.
What is structuralism?
This is what Nietzsche meant when he said "God is dead."
What is "people stopped believing in him?"
Is credited for popularizing the literary technique of deconstruction.
Who is Jacques Derrida?
Define Postmodernism.
What is: "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?"
"Things do not have..." (the term for those qualities, if taken away, would prevent something from being itself)
What is an essence?
Ultimately, Postmodernists believe that texts have no ... in themselves
What is meaning?
This is Gorgias' argument.
What is "Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it cannot be communicated with others; even if it can be communicated, it cannot be understood?"