Question 1

For Habermas, the ideas of the Enlightenment had

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A)   Potential for creating progress
B)   Fatal flaws
C)   Thwarted progress
D)   Harmed social integration A

Question 2

Time-space distanciation means

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A)   That the physical sciences have proven the relationship between time and space renders premodern forms of social interaction useless.
B)   Space and time are no longer connected through place as they have been in more traditional societies
C)   Space and time are more connected through place now than they were in traditional societies
D)   Time will always be bound by space, which presents problems for further globalization B

Question 3

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

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A)   Premodern
B)   Modern
C)   Postmodern
D)   None of the above B

Question 4

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?

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A)   Play
B)   Purpose
C)   Metaphysics
D)   Structure

Question 5

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

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A)   Fragmentation of the self vs. unification
B)   Powerlessness vs. appropriation
C)   Authority vs. uncertainty
D)   Structure vs. agency

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of modernism:

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A)   Self-consciousness
B)   Individualism
C)   Decentering
D)   Rejection of traditional forms of art

Question 7

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

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A)   A rejection of a division between the real and the artificial, or the imagined from the perceived
B)   The loss of the modern notion of the stable self in which there exists both a subject and an object
C)   Opposition to totalization because of the trust only of fragments.
D)   Thought constructs reality and fiction is as vital as fact.

Question 8

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

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Question 9

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

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Question 10

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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

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A)   Constitutive Reflexivity
B)   Alienation
C)   Social harmony
D)   Fragmentation

Question 12

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

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A)   Agency
B)   Structure
C)   Objectivity
D)   Mental life

Question 13

The rise of new technologies has unified and centered knowledge

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

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

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A)   Positivism
B)   Categories
C)   Language and narrative
D)   None of the above

Question 15

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Deleuze and Guattari classify desire into two categories:

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A)   Constructive and destructive
B)   Proactive and reactive
C)   Social and psychological
D)   Reactive and productive

Question 17

For David Harvey, postmodernism is

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A)   A decentering of social relations
B)   A marginal movement aimed at remedying injustices
C)   A legitimate reaction to the monotony or universal modernism vision of the world
D)   Really no different than modernism, it is best described as "late modernism."

Question 18

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

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Question 19

For Lyotard, the body is central to all knowledge

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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

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A)   The mind
B)   The body
C)   Consciousness
D)   Imagination

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