Literary scholars first used this term in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term has only come into broad use since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies has increasingly been influenced by European philosophy and social theory.

From the 1960s and 1970s onward, language, symbolism, text, and meaning came to be seen as the theoretical foundation for the humanities, through the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ferdinand de Saussure, George Herbert Mead, Noam Chomsky, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and other thinkers in linguistic and analytic philosophy, structural linguistics, symbolic interactionism, hermeneutics, semiology, linguistically oriented psychoanalysis ( Jacques Lacan, Alfred Lorenzer ), and deconstruction.

The free software philosophy at the core of the movement drew on the essence and incidental elements of what was called hacker culture by many computer users in the 1970s, among other sources.

This philosophy left the 1970s with the promise that the use LSD or acid unveiled the true and the real self.

Although philosophers of science and philosophers generally have long been interested in biology ( e. g., Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz and even Kant ), philosophy of biology only emerged as an independent field of philosophy in the 1960s and 1970s.

Until the 1970s, literary critics dismissed Thoreau's late pursuits as amateur science and philosophy.

In the 1970s an instructional philosophy called whole language ( which explicitly de-emphasizes teaching phonics ) was introduced, and it became the primary method of reading instruction in the 1980s and 1990s.

French postmodern philosophy | postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who influenced the periodical in its late 1970s anarchist phase.

Masanobu Fukuoka started his pioneering research work in this domain in 1938, and began publishing in the 1970s his Fukuokan philosophy of " Do Nothing Farming ", which is now acknowledged by some as the tap root of the Permaculture movement.

In the 1970s, Mengistu embraced the philosophy of Marxism-Leninism, which was increasingly popular among many nationalists and revolutionaries throughout Africa and much of the Third World at the time.

In the 1970s, as these movements grew in influence, green politics arose as a new philosophy which synthesized their goals.

Evans-Pritchard's empirical work in this vein became well-known through philosophy of science and " rationality " debates of the 1960s and 1970s involving Thomas Kuhn and especially Paul Feyerabend.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the university invested US $ 150 million in the campus to construct buildings for the library, foreign languages, social sciences, communications, philosophy, electrical and petroleum engineering, art, and architecture.

Although utilitarian philosophy traces itself back to the nineteenth century British thinkers John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham, the application of these principles to contemporary bioethics originated in the work of Peter Singer in the 1970s and 1980s.

The term " continental philosophy ," in the above sense, was first widely used by English-speaking philosophers to describe university courses in the 1970s, emerging as a collective name for the philosophies then widespread in France and Germany, such as phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, and post-structuralism.

However, philosophy departments began offering courses in continental philosophy in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Those militants who follow a version of sharia based on the classical fiqh (" jurisprudence ") as interpreted by local ulema (" jurists "), were the most prominent of several competing trends in modern Islamic philosophy in the 1970s and 1980s.

She taught philosophy and classics at Harvard in the 1970s and early 1980s, where she was denied tenure by the Classics Department in 1982.

Throughout the 1970s, Lévy taught a course on epistemology at the Université de Strasbourg and he taught philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure.

In the 1970s Donald Davidson was the first to use the term to describe a broadly physicalist ( and non-reductive ) approach to the philosophy of mind.

As a nod to the fashion-forward philosophy established by the designs of Emilio Pucci, the now-defunct Braniff International Airways envisioned their air hostesses wearing a more revealing version of a sari on a proposed Dallas-Bombay ( conceivably via London ) service in the late 1970s.

In his younger days he was an athlete, a talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, where the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr's social philosophy led him to become a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.

The system was first discovered at the end of the 19th century, and first excavated and studied in the 1970s.

Braudel's work came to define a " second " era of Annales historiography and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of Philip II of Spain.

By the 1970s the shift was underway from the earlier economic history to cultural history and the history of mentalities.

This claw-shaped anchor was designed by Peter Bruce from the Isle of Man in the 1970s.

The Concord School of Philosophy, which closed following Alcott's death in 1888, was reopened almost 90 years later in the 1970s.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

This program culminated in the proofs of the Weil conjectures, the last of which was settled by Grothendieck's student Pierre Deligne in the early 1970s after Grothendieck had largely withdrawn from mathematics.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

In the 1970s Korner's main career was in broadcasting.

During much of the 1970s Roma's appearance in the top half of Serie A was sporadic.

Most of the drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1950s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

The park was a popular attraction during the 1970s but was abandoned in 1993 due to financial difficulties.

The town was redeveloped in the 1970s with a new town centre layout and traffic system.

for torpedo manufacture ( which were test-fired in Loch Long ) and then in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.