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Instructions:
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Answer two questions only. Each answer should be no more than 1,000 words on the basis of the Theorising Modernity booklet.
Questions:
1. Arendt believes that Marx was too much a prisoner of the modern age. Reconstruct her reasoning and consider how Marx would respond to her critique? Who is the most convincing?
2. Compare and contrast Hegel and Marx in their analysis of civil society. Who has the most adequate analysis and why? (Students who have attempted Essay Question 3 should not do this question.)
3. Both Tocqueville and Nietzsche see modernity defined by a great contemporary struggle between the values of freedom and equality. Who is the most convincing and why? (Students who have attempted Essay Questions 4 or 5 should not do this question.)
4. Nietzsche's maintains that ‘a higher culture must give man a double brain, two brain chambers, as it were, one to experience science, and one to experience non-science’. Explain the reasoning behind this vision of culture? Is it compatible with Marx vision of socialism? Who has the most plausible view and why?
5. Hegel tells us in ‘Realisation of Spirit in History’: ‘A cultured man is one who knows how to impress the stamp of universality upon all his actions, who has renounced his particularity, and who acts in accordance with universal principles.’ Explain Hegel’s reasoning for this view and consider how Nietzsche might respond to it. Is either view of culture viable today?
6. Nietzsche explains that each age is characterised by its own ‘fruit of the season’. What are the implications of this line of thinking? To what extent are these ideas relevant to Tocqueville’s analysis of democratic culture?
Answer two questions only. Each answer should be no more than 1,000 words on the basis of the Theorising Modernity booklet.
Questions:
1. Arendt believes that Marx was too much a prisoner of the modern age. Reconstruct her reasoning and consider how Marx would respond to her critique? Who is the most convincing?
2. Compare and contrast Hegel and Marx in their analysis of civil society. Who has the most adequate analysis and why? (Students who have attempted Essay Question 3 should not do this question.)
3. Both Tocqueville and Nietzsche see modernity defined by a great contemporary struggle between the values of freedom and equality. Who is the most convincing and why? (Students who have attempted Essay Questions 4 or 5 should not do this question.)
4. Nietzsche's maintains that ‘a higher culture must give man a double brain, two brain chambers, as it were, one to experience science, and one to experience non-science’. Explain the reasoning behind this vision of culture? Is it compatible with Marx vision of socialism? Who has the most plausible view and why?
5. Hegel tells us in ‘Realisation of Spirit in History’: ‘A cultured man is one who knows how to impress the stamp of universality upon all his actions, who has renounced his particularity, and who acts in accordance with universal principles.’ Explain Hegel’s reasoning for this view and consider how Nietzsche might respond to it. Is either view of culture viable today?
6. Nietzsche explains that each age is characterised by its own ‘fruit of the season’. What are the implications of this line of thinking? To what extent are these ideas relevant to Tocqueville’s analysis of democratic culture?
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