hermeneutics - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

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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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	83%	17%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	25.00	100%	50%	100%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	67%	67%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	50%	50%	50%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	13.00	60%	30%	40%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%

Data


Florida A	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	0	0	0	0
Winona State	Wisconsin A	10	10	10	30
Wisconsin B	Carleton	0	0	0	0
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Bruin A	0	0	10	10
NYU C	Durham	0	0	0	0
Oxford C	Imperial B	10	10	10	30
Penn B	Columbia B	0	0	0	0
ESF A	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0
Cornell C	Cornell D	0	0	10	10
Florida B	UCF C	0	0	10	10
Florida State A	UCF B	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Michigan State	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech A	UNC B	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	UNC C	10	10	10	30
Illinois A	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Chicago B	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Iowa State	10	0	10	20
Harvard A	UMass Boston	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Georgetown A	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	10	10	10	30
Iowa	Purdue	0	0	0	0
Alberta	UW A	0	0	0	0
UBC	UW B	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Sheffield	LSE	0	0	10	10
Haverford A	Rutgers A	0	0	10	10
John Jay College	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Yale A	0	0	0	0
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Duke	Liberty B	0	0	10	10
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	UNC D	0	0	10	10
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	0	0	0
Tufts A	BU	0	0	0	0
Harvard B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Brandeis B	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Dartmouth A	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Oxford A	Bristol	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Manchester	10	10	10	30
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Cambridge E	0	0	10	10
NYU B	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	10	0	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Haverford B	10	10	10	30
RIT B	RIT A	0	0	0	0