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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Art of Living"”.
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A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory After Habermas and Foucault
… genealogies as an externalist critique of reflexive agency. Contrary to the interpretation that genealogy dispenses with agency and precludes critique, I argue that our constitution as reflexive agents, and our capacity for taking normative stances and critical action, concern Foucault …
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Recovering Leisure: Otium as the Basis of Education
This study examines the educational benefits of what the ancients called otium: the time and freedom from overt action that allows people to think about the world and their reasons for being. While leisure is not a new concept in philosophy of education, it is one to which not enough people pay …
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The Individual as Ecological: Reconstructing Identity in a Deweyan Vein
This dissertation will use the philosophy of John Dewey to develop a conception of the individual using an ecological model as an alternative to the atomistic type more typical of Western philosophy. An ecological model presents the individual as part of a biological and cultural milieu, but, …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
<p>This dissertation offers a prismatic view of John Fowles's novels. My approach accords with his major theme: that true perception is "seeing whole." My readings involve, first, a close textual analysis which demonstrates how Fowles uses patterning, counterpoint, symbol and image clusters to …
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The place of suffering in higher education: pedagogy of suffering revisited
… suffering through well-developed pedagogies of justice, yet they often fall silent, or turn to medicalization, when faced with the personal and existential suffering that inhabits students’ ordinary lives. Such curricular silence equips graduates to analyze structures while leaving them …
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There used to be order : Life on the Copperbelt after the privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
The thesis examines what happened to the texture of place and the experience of life on a Zambian Copperbelt town when the state-owned mine, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) was privatized beginning 1997 following the implementation of structural adjustment policies that introduced free …
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A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault
A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… France configured everyday life as a ground of human existence and a resource for ethical enquiry. If novelistic innovation in the 1950s and 1960s has been typically associated with a turn away from lived experience and history, I argue that experimental novels by Michel Butor, Georges Perec, …