How did Enlightenment thinkers propose that societies would accumulate knowledge?

What role did reason play in Kant’s belief in ethical progress?

How did Marx feel that the social problems of industrialization and urbanization should be addressed?

What is hermeneutics?

What is meant by historicity?

What did philosopher Paul Ricoeur mean by “discourse?”?

According to Max Horkheimer, what are the three distinguishing marks of a plausible critical theory?

In what way did critical theory reject Kant?

How did Habermas define communicative action?

How does postmodernity differ from modernity?

Was Ferdinand de Saussure a structuralist or a post-structuralist? Why did you answer as you did?

What did Jacques Derrida mean by “deconstruction”?

On what grounds has psychoanalysis been criticized?

What is meant by the term genealogy as used by Foucault?

What was the importance of genealogy for Foucault?