12.1 Enlightenment Social Theory
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How did Enlightenment thinkers propose that societies would accumulate knowledge?
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What role did reason play in Kant’s belief in ethical progress?
12.2 The Marxist Solution
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How did Marx feel that the social problems of industrialization and urbanization should be addressed?
12.3 Continental Philosophy’s Challenge to Enlightenment Theories
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What is hermeneutics?
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What is meant by historicity?
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What did philosopher Paul Ricoeur mean by “discourse?”?
12.4 The Frankfurt School
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According to Max Horkheimer, what are the three distinguishing marks of a plausible critical theory?
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In what way did critical theory reject Kant?
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How did Habermas define communicative action?
12.5 Postmodernism
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How does postmodernity differ from modernity?
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Was Ferdinand de Saussure a structuralist or a post-structuralist? Why did you answer as you did?
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What did Jacques Derrida mean by “deconstruction”?
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On what grounds has psychoanalysis been criticized?
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What is meant by the term genealogy as used by Foucault?
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What was the importance of genealogy for Foucault?