Philosophy and Social Theory: Key Concepts and Thinkers

Jaspers writes 'whatever philosophy may be...it is in the world.' Which philosophers share this interest in the world?

All of the above (Heidegger, Arendt, Gadamer)

Whose philosophy is Simmel borrowing when he says flirting has 'purposiveness without purpose'?

Immanuel Kant

Sloterdijk calls out which philosopher for making modern philosophy joyless?

Immanuel Kant

Benjamin's 'profane illumination' is an inversion of whose 'sacred illumination'?

Vladamir Lenin

Heidegger insists that modern scientific knowledge is ignorant of ______. Therefore it is ignorant of Dasein.

The nothing

According to Theodor Adorno, negative dialectics is thinking rooted in ______.

Contradictions

For Gadamer, statements relate to scientific methods as the word relates to

Poetry and translations

Which kind of social action for Habermas is rooted in shared validity claims?

Consent

When Mitch smokes a joint in Dazed and Confused, he encountered what Nietzche calls "the Apollonian".

False

In Hairspray if TV is the public sphere of production, the Motormouth Mabel's record store is a counterpublic sphere

True

When Jim says he doesn't want friends in Rebel Without a Cause, he comes close to Arendt's idea of caritas

True

Would Bloch see the polyphonic song in Last Days as a future-oriented We-encounter?

True

Hans Jonas says which branch of philosophy deals with principles governing actions?

Ethics

Schleiermacher's circle describes which branch of philosophy?

Hermeneutics

Husserl defines phenomenology as the study of what?

The appearance of things

Kant says which branch of philosophy studies the beautiful?

Aesthetics

Match: Sloterdijk's concept?

Kynicism

Match: Bloch's concept?

Attunement

Match: Hans Jonas' concept?

Responsibility

Match: Heidegger's concept?

Clairaudience

Match: Habermas' concept?

System vs Lifeworld

What makes good art good? (Adorno)

It resists manipulation and challenges society.

How does music awaken utopian self-encounter? (Bloch)

It activates hope and forms a We-encounter.

How does language foster solidarity? (Gadamer)

Through interpretation and shared understanding.

How can disenfranchised people reclaim social experience? (Negt & Kluge)

By forming counterpublic spheres.

How does culture benefit some and disenfranchise others? (Simmel)

Through cultivation and unequal opportunity.

How have culture and philosophy denied our true nature? (Marcuse)

By repressing Eros and privileging Logos.

How is it possible to love another person? (Arendt)

Through caritas — loving the world responsibly.

How can bodies be used philosophically? (Sloterdijk)

As tools for resisting cynical modern culture.