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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 65

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

Who among the following developed the notion of intersubjectivity on which Stanley Fish’s idea of ‘interpretive communities’ rests?

  1. Friedrich Nietzsche
  2. Henri Bergson
  3. Rene Descartes
  4. Charles Baudelaire

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Correct answer: (A) Friedrich Nietzsche

Explanation

Among the four, Nietzsche's perspectivism, which holds that knowing is always from a shared standpoint, is the nearest to the base of Fish's interpretive communities.