Multiple Choice


1	Which is true of Jurgen Habermas?
		A)	He believes that human nature is a creation of God.
		B)	He thinks that humans should be studied as objective things in isolation from other humans.
		C)	He is a Marxist.
		D)	He is a Marxian.


2	What did Michel Foucault claim concerning epistemes?
		A)	They form a continuous series leading to the advancement of truth over superstition.
		B)	They are socially created realities that serve as the ground of truth for their eras.
		C)	They are discovered, not made.
		D)	They can be the basis of objective truth-claims.


3	For French structuralist anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, what is a culture?
		A)	A system of signs.
		B)	A conversation.
		C)	A common heritage.
		D)	A common language.


4	What would Jacques Derrida say about the essential meaning of a text?
		A)	It means whatever the author intended for it to mean.
		B)	It means whatever the reader understands it to mean.
		C)	It means whatever the majority of experts take it to mean.
		D)	A trick question, since he rejects the whole notion of essential meaning.


5	Which is not true of Richard Rorty?
		A)	He describes himself as a liberal ironist.
		B)	He uses American pragmatism as a medium to combine liberalism with Continental literature and philosophy.
		C)	He believes in necessary starting points for rational inquiry.
		D)	He maintains that we can never step outside the perspective of our own culture and its constraints on inquiry to find an objective point of view.


6	Which term is not generally associated with Jacques Derrida?
		A)	epistemes
		B)	deconstructive method
		C)	semiotics
		D)	the free play of signifiers


7	Who is most likely to have written this? "There is no method for knowing when one has reached the truth, or when one is closer than ever before."
		A)	Jacques Derrida
		B)	Michel Foucault
		C)	Richard Rorty
		D)	Jürgen Habermas


8	Modern linguistics is based on the work of which philosopher?
		A)	Michel Foucault
		B)	Ferdinand de Saussure
		C)	Jürgen Habermas
		D)	Richard Rorty


9	Critical theory is associated with which philosopher?
		A)	Jacques Derrida
		B)	Michel Foucault
		C)	Richard Rorty
		D)	Jürgen Habermas


10	Who is most likely to have written this? "The relation of technical progress and social life-world and the translation of scientific information into practical consciousness is not an affair of private cultivation."
		A)	Michel Foucault
		B)	Ferdinand de Saussure
		C)	Jürgen Habermas
		D)	Richard Rorty

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