Exam 5: Exploding the Boundaries of Reason: Postmodernity

For Habermas, the ideas of the Enlightenment had

Time-space distanciation means

Modernism, as an aesthetic movement, is seen as a response to the _______ age

Ihab Hassan has provided a list of terms used to liberate the term from postmodern from modern. Which of the following does he use to describe postmodern?

Which of the following is a key dilemma that the modern individual does NOT face, according to Giddens?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of modernism:

One of the features of postmodernism, according to Hassan, is its focus on "the unrepresentable." What does this mean?

What good is communicative action? How will it benefit society?

How do Deleuze and Guattari characterize postmodern knowledge? How does it differ from modern knowledge?

Modernism can best be described as a reaction to the modern age

As technology changes time, space, and our interactions, society becomes characterized by a higher degree of

Zygmunt Bauman argues that postmodern theory needs to focus on the habitat of _______

The rise of new technologies has unified and centered knowledge

In his book The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard argues that there has been a radical shift in science toward a concern with

Like most postmodern theories, Jürgen Habermas' theory of communicative action is highly critical of modernity

Deleuze and Guattari classify desire into two categories:

For David Harvey, postmodernism is

What is a metanarrative? What is the fate of metanarratives in the postmodern age, according to Lyotard?

For Lyotard, the body is central to all knowledge

Lyotard argued that _________ is central to all knowledge and feeling-central to truth