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| Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir |
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 |
Richard: Jacques Derrida and
deconstructionism.
Philippe: Not to mention Simone de
Beauvoir and feminism.
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| Jacques Derrida |
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
and expresses feeling
1a is correct
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2. existentialism b. women should be
treated as
intellectual equals to men
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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