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It is highly recommended to keep a separate list (or files) of all these
terms and their definitions throughout the semester, adding information
and
references as we go along. These are key notions that will be considered
throughout the course. Obviously, the Dictionary of Critical Theory should
be consulted in addition to class discussions.
General Terms:
continental philosophy
aesthetics
hermeneutics
hermeneutics of suspicion
cogito ergo sum
Cartesian dichotomy
empiricism
rationalism
the subject-object problem
Kantian
Terms:
critique
concept (Begriff)
judgment (Urteil)
a priori
a posteori
purposiveness
(Zweckmäßigkeit)
representation (Vorstellung)
intuition (Anschauung)
Hegelian Terms:
dialectic
Aufhebung
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics I:
phenomenology
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
intentionality (Intentionalität)
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Dasein
facticity (Faktizität)
authentic/authenticity (eingentlich/Eingentlichkeit)
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
bad faith
existentialism
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-95)
other
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics II:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
Gianni Vattimo (1936- )
postmodernism
Enlightenment
Marxism and the Frankfurt School:
Marxism:
Karl Marx (1818-83)
Friedrich Engels (1820-95)
base/superstructure
ideology
historical materialism
dialectical materialism
alienation
reification
commodity fetishism
mode of production
contradiction
Maxist criticism
Western Marxism
Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
Louis Althusser (1918-90):
interpellation
ideological state apparatus
problematic
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940):
aura
Frankfurt School:
Theodor Adorno (1903-69)
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Dialectic of the Enlightenment
culture industry
Jürgen Habermas (1929- ):
communicative action
Fredric Jameson (1934- ):
late capitalism
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