sle3pe3bumz said:
For english we're doing all this historical stuff (good decision I made of hating history !) which I am completely clueless about and I'm wondering if any of you guys could explain them to me in VERY simple terms or give me a link to where I could find explanations.
Marxism, modernism, modernity, post modernism, politcal & literary theory, naturalism, existentialism, absurdism, aestheticism, Taylorism, Fordism, New Hedonism, Primitivism, Socialolgy
I think I've covered a few of them but if anybody can just try and explain it so that its understandable for me, id really appreciate it ALOT ! i mean REALLY ALOT !
Wow thats quite a bit. Heres some ideas:
marxism - theory developed by karl marx and fredrich engels, that the state has been a device throughout history for the upper class to dominate the working class, that class stuggles have been the main cause of social change and eventually a socialist, classless society will take over
modernism - this has a few meanings, but mainly it is movement of philosophical ideas that developed in the late 19th century and early 20th century
modernity - the quality of being modern (wtf!!) i think it has to do with the characteristics of modernism
post modernism - a reaction to modernism, pretty tricky to get your head around. it sometimes takes ideas from other texts and appropriates them to be valuable to modern audiences, like the romeo and juliet with leonardo dicaprio and clare danes, with the guns and shit
political theory - looks at fundamental aspects of politics. three main areas of pt are political economy (the relationship between politics and economics), justice and punishment
literary theory - theory of the interpretation of literature and its criticism. so how readers, audiences react to different texts etc
naturalism - describing human actions and character with everyday reality. its more organic and portrays more feeling
existentialism - idea that stresses the importance of existance and the freedom and responsibility of individuals
absurdism - idea that people attempts to find the meaning of the universe will fail, because no such meaning exists that relates to humanity
aestheticism - sort of the British version of symbolism
taylorism - a way of doing buisness catering for the individual who is working, Fredrick Winslow Taylor
fordism - in the US, it is an economic theory that high corporate profits can be acheived by high wages for workers so they can purchase the output. it relates to mass production as well. In europe, it is the process of labour discipline and workshop organisation
new hedonism - not sure, but hedonsim is the philosophy of increasing pleasure, so maybe its a later movement of this
primitivism - it believed that society was moving away from its 'primitive' human condition. developed by rousseau, the later romantics, (e.brontes wuthering heights and shelley's frankenstein)
sociology - study of society and human social interaction
hope thats what your looking for.
