Bonus
A 1965 work of philosophy identifies Marx and Nietzsche as two of the three “masters” of this stance. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this stance in which signs are treated as unreliable and texts are treated as disguising rather than disclosing meaning. Paul Ricœur (“ree-KURR”) contrasted that “hermeneutics of” this stance with the “hermeneutics of faith.”
ANSWER: suspicion [or soupçon; accept hermeneutics of suspicion; accept herméneutique du soupçon; accept masters of suspicion; accept maîtres du soupçon]
[10e] Ricoeur introduced those ideas in a book titled for this thinker “and Philosophy.” This thinker’s idea of repression is the main subject of Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization.
ANSWER: Sigmund Freud
[10h] This author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics attempted to redescribe “critique” as a form of the hermeneutics of suspicion in her 2015 book The Limits of Critique.
ANSWER: Rita Felski
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Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Chicago B | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia B | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Florida | British Columbia | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech | Toronto C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Illinois A | Toronto A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Illinois B | Winona State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Minnesota | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Michigan | Ohio State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| NYU | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Ottawa | Georgia State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| RIT | North Carolina B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Texas | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| UCF | Maryland | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Virginia | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Virginia Tech | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| WUSTL B | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo A | Northwestern | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo B | LSE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Yale | Penn State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 ACF Nationals | Yes | 24 | 13.75 | 96% | 42% | 0% |