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Flashcards by Ayla de Klerk, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ayla de Klerk
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Social contract, social and political philosophy.a state become legitimate through its members freedom to enact their own laws, in response they yield their obedience to the state |
| William Wordsworth | I wandered lonely as a Cloudone of the first great poets of the inner life. rooted in psychological insight leading to self-realization and celebrating the growth of the mind |
| William Blake | the chimney sweeper, 2 poems, contrast between innocence and experience > early collection of poems: songs of innocence and experience, showing the two contrary states of the human soul. |
| Walt wHitman | Song of Myself, romantic perspective that can be compared to emerson's and thoreau's perspective on nature and the self. topics like nature the individual self, the social self, democratic brotherhood and the organic relationship betweeen life and death, humanity and the natural world |
| Emily Dickinson | Five Poems, major themes: love, death, faith, doubt, nature, and hope. linguistic intelligence, interpreting them requires much attention to every word |
| Charles Darwin | The descent of man, challenged christian beliefs, ideas of evolution, on the origin of spieces, darwinism |
| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | The Communist Manifesto, inescapable conflict between the classes in capitalist system (bourgeoisie vs proletariat) proletariat overthrow capitalists and redistribute the wealth evenly |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Brothers Karamazov, drama and interest, ironic tone of 'a nice little family' blends humor pathos and tragedy. implicates his readers in the action. |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, immortal novel, one of the worlds greatest works of fiction. explores family dynamics across a range of social standing, linked with the cycle of nature, against perversions and immorality of urban aristocrats |
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