Comprehensive Vocabulary and Conceptual Review: The German Ideology, Visual Studies, Television Aesthetics, and Television Authorship

A comprehensive set of 500 practice fill-in-the-blank flashcards testing key theoretical vocabulary, philosophical concepts, scholars, programs, and critical debates across Marx & Engels' The German Ideology, James Elkins' Visual Studies, Sarah Cardwell's Television Aesthetics, and Newman & Levine's The Showrunner as Auteur.

The __________ of the Hegelian philosophy, which began with Strauss, has developed into a universal ferment into which all the 'powers of the past' are swept.

decomposition

The decomposition of the Hegelian philosophy, which began with __________, has developed into a universal ferment.

Strauss

The decomposition of the Hegelian philosophy has developed into a universal __________ into which all the 'powers of the past' are swept.

ferment

The universal ferment resulting from Hegelian philosophy's decomposition has swept away all the '__________ of the past'.

powers

In the general chaos __________ empires have arisen only to meet with immediate doom.

mighty

Heroes have emerged momentarily only to be hurled back into __________ by bolder and stronger rivals.

obscurity

Heroes have emerged momentarily only to be __________ into obscurity by bolder and stronger rivals.

hurled back

In the general chaos, heroes were hurled back into obscurity by bolder and stronger __________.

rivals

Principles __________ one another, heroes of the mind overthrew each other with unheard-of rapidity.

ousted

In the three years __________ more of the past was swept away in Germany than at other times in three centuries.

1842-45

More of the past was swept away in Germany in three years than at other times in __________ centuries.

three

All this rapid philosophical overthrow was supposed to have taken place in the __________ of pure thought.

realm

Certainly it is an interesting event we are dealing with: the __________ of the absolute spirit.

putrescence

The industrialists of philosophy, who till then had lived on the exploitation of the __________ spirit, now seized upon the new combinations.

absolute

The industrialists of philosophy now __________ the new combinations.

seized upon

Each with all possible __________ set about retailing his apportioned share.

zeal

Each philosopher with all possible zeal __________ retailing his apportioned share.

set about

Each philosopher set about __________ his apportioned share of philosophy.

retailing

Each philosopher set about retailing his __________ share.

apportioned

This naturally gave rise to competition, which, to start with, was carried on in moderately __________ bourgeois fashion.

staid

Later when the German market was __________, the commodity found no response in the world market.

glutted

When the commodity found no response in the world market, the business __________ in the usual German manner.

was spoiled

The philosophical business was spoiled in the usual German __________ by fabricated and fictitious production.

manner

The German philosophical market was spoiled by __________ and fictitious production.

fabricated

The spoiled philosophical business involved fabricated and __________ production.

fictitious

The deterioration in quality and the __________ of raw materials spoiled the business.

adulteration

The decline of the philosophical commodity was marked by __________ in quality.

deterioration

The philosophical trade suffered from __________ of labels and fictitious purchases.

falsification

The spoiled philosophical business was characterized by __________ and a credit system devoid of any real basis.

bill-jobbing

The philosophical business was ruined by a credit system __________ any real basis.

devoid of

The competition turned into a bitter struggle, which is now being __________ and interpreted as a revolution of world significance.

extolled

The bitter struggle is extolled as the __________ of the most prodigious results and achievements.

begetter

The philosophical struggle was proclaimed to be the begetter of the most __________ results and achievements.

prodigious

If we wish to rate at its true value this philosophic __________, which awakens a glow of national pride…

charlatanry

If we wish to __________ clearly the pettiness and narrowness of the Young-Hegelian movement…

bring out

Critique aims to bring out the __________, the parochial narrowness of this whole Young-Hegelian movement.

pettiness

Critique aims to expose the __________ narrowness of the whole Young-Hegelian movement.

parochial

There is a tragicomic contrast between the illusions of these heroes and their actual __________.

achievements

To understand the Young Hegelians, we must look at the whole __________ from a standpoint beyond Germany.

spectacle

We must look at the spectacle from a __________ beyond the frontiers of Germany.

standpoint

We must evaluate the Young-Hegelian movement from beyond the __________ of Germany.

frontiers

The whole body of Young-Hegelian __________ has actually sprung from the soil of Hegel's philosophical system.

inquiries

The whole body of Young-Hegelian inquiries has actually __________ the soil of a definite philosophical system.

sprung from

Young-Hegelian thought remained rooted in the philosophical system of __________.

Hegel

Not only in their answers but in their __________ there was a mystification.

very questions

In both the answers and the questions of the Young Hegelians, there was a __________.

mystification

Not one of these modern critics has even attempted a __________ criticism of the Hegelian system.

comprehensive

None of the critics attempted a comprehensive critique, however much each __________ to have advanced beyond Hegel.

professes

Their polemics against Hegel and against one another are __________ to extracting one side of the Hegelian system.

confined

Each critic turns one side of the system against the whole and against the sides __________ by the others.

extracted

They initially extracted pure unfalsified Hegelian categories such as 'substance' and '__________'.

self-consciousness

Later they __________ these Hegelian categories with more secular names such as 'the Unique' and 'Man'.

desecrated

The Young Hegelians desecrated Hegelian categories with secular names such as 'the Unique' and '__________'.

Man

What religious consciousness and a religious __________ really meant was determined variously as they went along.

conception

Their advance __________ subsuming dominant political and moral conceptions under religious conceptions.

consisted in

Their advance consisted in __________ metaphysical, political, and juridical conceptions under religious categories.

subsuming

They subsumed the __________ dominant metaphysical, political, and moral conceptions under religion.

allegedly

Conceptions subsumed under religion included metaphysical, political, moral, and __________ conceptions.

juridical

They pronounced political, juridical, and moral man—'man' in the __________—as religious.

last resort

In Young-Hegelian thought, the dominance of religion __________.

was taken for granted

The world was __________ to an ever-increasing extent until Saint Max canonised it.

sanctified

The world was sanctified to an __________ extent.

ever-increasing

The text ironically refers to Max Stirner as our __________ Saint Max.

venerable

Saint Max was able to __________ the world en bloc and dispose of it once for all.

canonise

Saint Max was able to canonise the sanctified world __________.

en bloc

Only, __________ attacks this dominion as usurpation, while the other extols it as legitimate.

the one party

One party attacks this __________ as usurpation, while the other extols it as legitimate.

dominion

One party attacks the dominion of religion as __________.

usurpation

While one party attacks religious dominion as usurpation, the other __________ it as legitimate.

extols

While one party sees religious dominion as usurpation, the other praises it as __________.

legitimate

The Young Hegelians logically __________ men the moral postulate of exchanging their present consciousness.

put to

The Young Hegelians put to men the moral __________ of changing their consciousness.

postulate

They demanded exchanging present consciousness for human, critical, or __________ consciousness.

egoistic

The Young-Hegelian ideologists, in spite of their allegedly '__________' statements, are the staunchest conservatives.

world-shattering

Despite their radical claims, the Young-Hegelian ideologists are described as the __________ conservatives.

staunchest

The most recent Young Hegelians declare they are only fighting against '__________'.

phrases

They forget that they are __________ combating the real existing world when merely combating its phrases.

in no way

They are in no way __________ the real world when merely opposing phrases to phrases.

combating

The only results this philosophic criticism achieved were a few one-sided __________ of Christianity.

elucidations

All the rest of their assertions are only further __________ of their claim to have made universal discoveries.

embellishments

They claim __________ discoveries of universal importance in their unimportant elucidations.

to have furnished

No Young Hegelian inquired into the relation of their criticism to their own __________ surroundings.

material

The premises of the materialist method are not __________ ones, not dogmas, but real premises.

arbitrary

The materialist premises are real premises from which __________ can only be made in the imagination.

abstraction

The writing of history must always __________ from these natural bases and their modification.

set out

Men begin to distinguish themselves from animals as soon as they produce their means of __________.

subsistence

What individuals are __________ with their production, both with what they produce and how they produce.

coincides

Production in its turn __________ the intercourse [Verkehr] of individuals with one another.

presupposes

The development of productive forces is shown __________ by the degree to which division of labour has been carried.

most manifestly

The relative position of individual groups is determined by methods in agriculture, industry, and __________.

commerce

Social stages are reflected in forms like patriarchalism, slavery, __________, and classes.

estates

Private property initially developed as an __________ form subordinate to communal ownership.

abnormal

In early stages, private property was __________ communal ownership.

subordinate to

Communal private property __________ active citizens to associate over against their slaves.

compels

The feudal starting-point was determined by the __________ of the population scattered over a large area.

sparseness

The feudal population at the outset was __________ a large area.

scattered over

In contrast to Greece and Rome, feudal development at the __________ extended over a wider territory.

outset

During the fall of the Roman Empire, industry had __________ for want of a market.

decayed

The armed bodies of __________ gave the feudal nobility power over the serfs.

retainers

The feudal hierarchical structure gave the __________ power over the serfs.

nobility