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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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