Continental Philosophies Quiz

Who founded Phenomenology?

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Edmund Husserl

• Michel Foucault

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Which philosophy emphasizes personal responsibility and the anxiety of true freedom?

• Structuralism

• Existentialism

• Post-Structuralism

• Phenomenology

Who developed the concept of 'deconstruction' in Post-Structuralism?

• Jean-François Lyotard

• Martin Heidegger

• Albert Camus

• Jacques Derrida

Which philosophy critiques modern society and its capitalist structures?

• Hermeneutics

• Existentialism

• Postmodernism

• Critical Theory

Who expanded Hermeneutics to encompass the interpretation of all human experience?

• Hans-Georg Gadamer

• Claude Lévi-Strauss

• Michel Foucault

• Jean-Paul Sartre

Which philosophy questions the grand narratives and ideologies of modernity?

• Phenomenology

• Structuralism

• Existentialism

• Postmodernism

Who explored how power and knowledge are interconnected in Post-Structuralism?

• Theodor Adorno

• Michel Foucault

• Ferdinand de Saussure

• Edmund Husserl

Which philosophy focuses on the structures of experience and consciousness?

• Critical Theory

• Hermeneutics

• Phenomenology

• Post-Structuralism

Which philosophy emphasizes the plurality of perspectives and the fluidity of truth?

• Hermeneutics

• Structuralism

• Existentialism

• Postmodernism

Who declared that 'existence precedes essence' in Existentialism?

• Jean-Paul Sartre

• Jacques Derrida

• Hans-Georg Gadamer

• Jean Baudrillard