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March 04, 2020 • 17:17 pm 0 points
  • UGC NET
  • Political Science

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Post modernist thinkers hold the view that there cannot be objective knowledge of social issues.

For the Post-Modernist, knowledge is not simply a cognitive factor : knowledge is also normative and political. Power and knowledge are mutually supportive and they directly imply one another. The Post Modernist are critical of classical liberals as well as contemporary positivist who believed in objectivity and superiority of science. Through deconstruction, the post modernist want to look at every accepted or settled idea with now lenses. 
Which one of the following statement is incorrect according to Post Modernist thinkers?

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    Knowledge, reality, and truth are the products of language. There is no language-independent reality that can make our thoughts true or false. Michael Foucault is best known for giving postmodernism a distinctive characteristic. He is also poststructuralist, and postmodernist. He gives importance to economy and other social institutions. To him social structure is micro-politics of power. Knowledge-power relationship is Foucault's major contribution to postmodernism. Power and knowledge entail one another. Knowledge ceases to be liberation and becomes enslavement. 

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