[HIST 80B] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 14 pages long Study Guide!
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Study guide: what is history, learning fromt he past, predicting, rise & fall of philosophical & social systems, story of the past; narratives (many, narrative, verifiable data, fundamental building blocks, authorial interpretation, own bias, personal stamp. Foucault: post structuralist - rejected structuralism, post modernist, power, discipline, punishment, power relations among humans evolved, interested in any power manifestation, rational inquiry = one of the foundations of the west, ideas based on other philosophies. Foucault"s later works: history of sexuality, archaeology of knowledge, epistemology: system of organizing knowledge, encyclopedias: wonder what he would have to say about. Freud: social relations education, relevant until recently, thrown out by neuroscience, nietzshe, social critic, rationalism, liked philosophical romanticism, emotion, rational investigation. Jaques derrida: influenced by freud, interested in lit: phd in comparative lit, deconstruction , analyze text in freudian manner, unconscious biases of author, rhetorical structure, of grammatology, gayatri chakravorty spivak - translated into english, made impact in 80-90s.
