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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 60

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

Which of the following critics belong to the deconstructionist school?

  1. Jacques Derrida
  2. Paul de Man
  3. J. Hillis Miller
  4. Kate Soper

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Correct answer: (A) Jacques Derrida; (B) Paul de Man; (C) J. Hillis Miller

Explanation

Derrida, de Man and Hillis Miller are the central deconstructionists (the Yale school). Kate Soper is a philosopher and a humanist Marxist.