Exam 8: The Continental Tradition

Who among the following thought it was impossible to totalize everything that exists as nothing is finite?

Claude Lévi-Strauss abandoned Saussure's methods while conducting his ethnographic research.

In his study on discourses, Michel Foucault discovered a steady advancement of truth over superstition as time goes by.

Identify a true statement about Jean-Paul Sartre.

In Jürgen Habermas' ideal speech situation, only those with the knowledge of and respect for the controlling ideology of a society should be allowed to participate in a debate.

For Jacques Derrida, the meanings of words are not stable.

What would Jacques Derrida say about the definitive meaning of a text?

Jacques Derrida followed the deconstructive method.

Which philosophical tradition includes existentialism and phenomenology?

_____ developed transcendental phenomenology, whose purpose was to investigate phenomena without making any assumptions about the world.

Who searched for a group of rules that accounts for the social complexities of even so-called primitive cultures?

Politically, Sartre considered himself a Marxist and accepted much of the Marxist view of historical events.

Edmund Husserl's "phenomenological reduction" is the process of investigating phenomena without making any assumptions about the nature or existence of an external, objective world.

Which term is NOT generally associated with Jacques Derrida?

What did Michel Foucault claim concerning epistemes?

An authentic existence can be found, according to Heidegger, only if one can _____.

According to Albert Camus, how can we give life meaning and value?

For Foucault, genealogy wasn't about power; it was about knowledge.

For Albert Camus, suicide is a better option than simply rebelling against the absurdity of life.

Heidegger and Sartre are quite different philosophically, despite the superficial resemblance.