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Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:
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1. Explain both the similarities and differences between existentialism and phenomenology. |
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2. Describe the human existential predicament as Camus and Sartre see it as well as any recommendations they may have for dealing with it. |
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3. Give a general description of phenomenology. |
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4. Describe the basic features of Heidegger's phenomenology. |
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5. Explain why the later Heidegger thought that poetry represents a deeper kind of thinking than philosophy. |
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6. Explain what Jurgen Habermas has to say about the human sciences, human identity, ideology, and the ideal speech situation. |
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7. Describe what Michel Foucault meant by discourse and what he thought an archaeology of discourse reveals about notions such as truth, reality, and progress. |
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8. Distinguish the structuralist methodology of Ferdinand Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss from the deconstructive approach of Jacques Derrida. |
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9. Explain how Richard Rorty unites American liberalism with Continental literature and philosophy through the medium of American pragmatism and what this implies for concepts like objectivity and objective truth. |