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Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir |
Richard
and Philippe discuss French abstract thinking…
Richard: We French appreciate thinkers.
Philippe: Look at all the –isms we’ve
invented.
Richard: Jean-Paul Sartre and
existentialism.
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| Claude Levi-Strauss |
Philippe: Claude Levi-Strauss and
structuralism.
Richard: Jacques Derrida and
deconstructionism.
Philippe: Not to mention Simone de
Beauvoir and feminism.
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| Jacques Derrida |
Richard: But would you include a
painter? Like Claude Monet and impressionism?
Philippe: Hmm, is painting on the same
level as abstract verbal concepts?
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Voice-over
Two philosophers, an anthropologist and a
sociologist revered by the French. Perhaps in other countries great thinkers
are not always valued as highly.
Match the –ism with the definition…
For example…
1. impressionism a. style of painting in which color
captures light
and expresses feeling
1a is correct
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2. existentialism b. women should be
treated as
intellectual equals to men
3. structuralism c. writing does not have
just one meaning,
it depends on the reader
4. deconstructionism d. people are free but responsible
for their
actions
5. feminism e. elements are understood in
relation
to a larger system
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