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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 55

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple choice

Which of the following thinkers does not belong to the school of Existentialism?

  1. Jean Paul Sartre
  2. Albert Camus
  3. Roland Barthes
  4. Søren Kierkegaard

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Correct answer: (C) Roland Barthes

Explanation

Sartre, Camus and Kierkegaard are existentialists. Roland Barthes is a structuralist and poststructuralist critic.