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Existentialism became popular among the younger generation of intellectuals in the 1950s – the Beat Generation. Existentialism focuses on the freedom to choose. If we realize that our choices are free, then we can act responsibly and with integrity. But if we fail to...
Women have been writing about philosophical issues since ancient times. However, until the late 20th-century philosophy was almost entirely dominated by men. Philosophers like Aristotle and Plato wrote about ethics and metaphysics. Female philosophers were not heard...
Linguistics emerged as a science in the late 1800s when scholars began to apply scientific methods of observation and experimentation to the study of language and signs. Semantics and phonetics were the first two fields of linguistics. They focused on the relationship...
After the Second World War, many Europeans embraced Existentialism. However, the next generation of thinkers rejected all forms of existentialism, including Jean-Paul Sartre's Marxism and Heidegger's Nazism. These thinkers were inspired by structuralism, a theory that...
Structuralists like Saussure, Barthes, and Foucaux argued that there were rules governing how we think, act and behave. Language is not just a means of expressing thoughts, they said, but also a tool to shape our minds. These theorists claimed that texts like laws,...
A completely and truly free course on Semiology (Semiotics). Learn about the meaning of signs, how and why did the field emerged. What is the relationship between the street signs and the signs that we use every day - words.
