| Claude Levi-Strauss | French anthropologist who adapted and applied Saussure's structuralist approach to ethnographic research.
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| Critical theory | A philosophical method that seeks to provide a radical critique of knowledge by taking into account the situation and interests involved.
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| Ding-an-sich | German for "thing-in-itself" a thing as it is independent of any consciousness of it.
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| Ferdinand de Saussure | Swiss thinker who laid the foundations for modern linguistics.
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| Hermeneutics | Interpretive understanding that seeks systematically to access the essence of things.
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| Jacques Derrida | Influential French deconstructionist.
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| Jurgen Habermas | One of the major German contributors to critical theory.
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| Logical positivism | The philosophy of the Vienna Circle, according to which any purported statement of fact, if not a verbal truism, is meaningless unless certain conceivable observations would serve to conform or deny it.
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| Michel Foucault | French philosopher who provided a critique of conventional social attitudes regarding madness and sexuality.
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| Richard Rorty | American philosopher who interprets Continental philosophy through a pragmatic perspective.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education