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1) A professor of Literary Theory is giving a lecture and he says that: "...In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are. But then as a kind of AFTERMATH of that movement IN figures like Marx and Freud - and you will notice that Foucault REVERTS to such figures when he turns to the whole question of founders of discursivity"... What does "aftermath of that movement IN figures..." mean? What about "reverts"?
2)Do you say "a very consumerist society" or "a very consumer society"? What about "You are too consumerist" or "You are too consumer"? Or both sound odd?
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Questions (Please!)
1) A professor of Literary Theory is giving a lecture and he says that: "...In other words, we said that in intellectual history, first you get this movement of concern about the distance between the perceiver and the perceived, a concern that gives rise to skepticism about whether we can know things as they really are. But then as a kind of AFTERMATH of that movement IN figures like Marx and Freud - and you will notice that Foucault REVERTS to such figures when he turns to the whole question of founders of discursivity"... What does "aftermath of that movement IN figures..." mean? What about "reverts"?2)Do you say "a very consumerist society" or "a very consumer society"? What about "You are too consumerist" or "You are too consumer"? Or both sound odd?
Thank you very much!
Aftermath is an event that takes place after something has happened or the conditions you can observe. For example, a typhoon crossed over Taiwan. News coverage shows the aftermath. Trees are down, houses are up-turned and 17 people were killed. The figures that this person is referring to are Marx and Freud, meaning these people.
When someone reverts to anything, they are simply referencing back to someone or some other thing. So, Foucalt references Marx and Freud as he talks about that whole question of "the founders of discursivity".
Consumerist or consumer - I wouldn't use either. It's not a good blend. "A society teeming with consumerism". Worst case, you could probably say consumerist society but it doesn't sound good.
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