Bonus
An essay on “Existence and” this field argues that this field’s purpose is to “conquer a remoteness” to allow for the creation of meaning. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this field that is applied to phenomenology in Time and Narrative by Paul Ricœur (“ree-CURR”). Many thinkers in this field conceptualize it as an interplay between the whole and its parts in a namesake “circle.”
ANSWER: hermeneutics [accept “Existence and Hermeneutics”; prompt on interpretation]
[10h] Ricoeur coined a hermeneutical school named for this concept that aims to find hidden meanings within texts. Ricoeur named Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche as the “masters” of this concept for their views on false consciousness.
ANSWER: suspicion [or soupçon]
[10e] Rita Felski built on the school of suspicion to theorize a “critique” denoted by this prefix. Thomas Pynchon belongs to a movement containing this prefix that Frederic Jameson called the “cultural logic of late capitalism.”
ANSWER: post [accept postcritique or postmodernism]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 1 | 55 | 12.73 | 73% | 29% | 26% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 11.67 | 83% | 17% | 17% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 50% | 100% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 13.00 | 60% | 30% | 40% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 8 | 13.75 | 75% | 38% | 25% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |