Final IDs Part 4

Question 1

World War I

Answer 1

caused a critique in liberalism. End of laissez faire, lost of individuality from the draft, anomie of veterans, loss of progress and reason (lots of irrationality)

Question 2

Cynicism

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lots of mourning in Europe and Cultural Pessimism (great sense of loss)

Question 3

Wilfred

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soldier who died 1 week before the end of World War I. Wrote many poems during the war. Important because his poems showed the growing cultural pessimism that Europeans felt

Question 4

Dadaism

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Poetry that puts random words together, nonsense. Shows the chaos that many Europeans felt in the nonsensical world

Question 5

Surrealism

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representation of the unconsciousness

Question 6

Post War Literature

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Fictional representations of external and internal realities. Art is superior to science. Shows non linear time

Question 7

Proust

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French writer, everyone is alone but art is where the individual consciousness can be formed and everyone can relate to something about the art. Important because it shows how artists can construct experiences that speaks to an audience. (twenty one pilots)

Question 8

Joyce

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French Writer that contributed to the modern avant garde movement. Important by how he expanded time. He wrote a book on all of his thoughts in one day

Question 9

Pink Decade

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Decade where you had to choose a political philosophy to agree with. Fascism or Liberalism

Question 10

Left Hegelianism

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Studying fascism from America. Anti-Stalinism. Important because it talks about the problem of alienation, when people are alienated they tend to be drawn towards authoritarian figures.

Question 11

Gramsci

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Italian theorist arrested by Mussolini who argued for an Anti-Stalinist form of communism. Left Hegelianism. Important because he created idea that the gov. should not impose people on belief on people but instead listen to them

Question 12

Exisentialism

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explores human existence through experience and sexual encounters

Question 13

Satre

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existential writer who said existence exceeds essence. Important because he went against Marxism and said you define yourself by actions not spiritual essence. Individual freedom

Question 14

Simone de Beauvioir

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French existentialist who said power of sexism was left out of existentialism. Important because she started 2nd wave feminism which was concerned with the social dimension of feminism (family structures and job types)

Question 15

Levi-Strauss

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A Jewish philosopher that was interested in defining cultures in other parts of the world like Brazil, which he traveled to and spent time with the villagers there. Important because he said structure of language defines thoughts, also was structuralist = went against existentialism, said there is constant binary opposition

Question 16

Foucalt

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Challenged structuralism and existentialism. Internalized discourse structures own self-hood. Example: Only know sexuality through structured experts

Question 17

Impressionism

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Art movement representing the play of light. Way object appears not stable. Important because redefined art in age of photography that represents people in a non-literal way

Question 18

post-impressionism

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colors and objects that are not literal. Vincent Van Gogh

Question 19

abstract expressionism

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experiments with color; no objects or defining shapes, art represents music. Kandisky

Question 20

modernism

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art that is a reaction against the enlightenment. Looks inside vision of the artist

Question 21

post-modernism

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argues idea of individual is problematic. We all come from cultures that shape us

Question 22

Lacan

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psychoanalysis post modern thinker. Everyone has multiple selves. People care more about consumerism than politics. Important because he stated that you need the language of the father to break from the mother, showing gender shapes selfhood

Question 23

Derrida

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interpreted language through structuralism. Critiqued binary opposition. No world outside of text. Important because he says every identity has to have its other to give it meaning, went against Levi-Strauss

Question 24

Julia Kristeva

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Feminism critique of Lacan. There are multiple selves but it does not rely on father. Important because she states that women can move beyond the language they are given.