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Just Benjamin
… members of his military and biological families. Benjamin “Benji” Davis grew up in the small town of Friendship, Arkansas, enlisted in the U.S. Army shortly after high school and served for six years, then came back to Arkansas and primarily lived in Little Rock until he moved to Denver, Colorado …
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The literary criticism of Walter Benjamin
… into the hands of the <em>Gestapo</em> Walter Benjamin committed suicide on September 27, 1940. Yet it can be argued that it is still too early to write a truly comprehensive study of his work. He belongs among those whom Nietzsche called “posthumously born.”</p> <p>At the time of his death he …
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Public Opinion in Benjamin Constant's Political Thought
… years have witnessed a revival of interest in Benjamin Constant’s (1767-1830) political thought. Most contributions have started from the premise that Constant was a ‘liberal’, despite his own elusive use of the term. As a result, scholars have often interpreted Constant’s thought in ways that …
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On well-posedness of Benjamin-Ono type equations
In this thesis we study two equations of Benjamin-Ono type and derive local well-posedness for the associated Cauchy problems.
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Random partitions and the quantum Benjamin-Ono hierarchy
… of the Hamiltonian ... of the quantum Benjamin-Ono equation with periodic boundary conditions, dispersion and quantization corresponding E1 + E2 and -E1E2 respectively. From this point of view, Jack measures are the random energy distribution of a coherent state around a classical …
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Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism
… the thought of Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin in critical constellation with German Idealism, specifically G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. I explore how Adorno and Benjamin deconstruct and refashion Idealist notions, while also providing the post-Idealist theoretical armature to …
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Style and mimesis in the name of Walter Benjamin
This study locates the consistency of Benjamin’s philosophy in its deployment of style. Since the style of his philosophy corresponds to its object, it always manifests differently. But the principle of its presentation remains the same: it is deployed to induce in the reader an act of mimetic …
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Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
… world. My methodological approach is built on Benjamin’s notion of historical materialism. Thus, I engage with the historical object(s) (e.g., arcades, fashion, technological reproductions etc.) not as “object(s) of experience” but as a “participant(s) in historical experience” (Caygill 2004, …
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Urban constellations: reading contemporary cityscapes with Benjamin and Baudrillard
… seeks to contribute to the literature on Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, but not to merely retread old debates. It is concerned instead with a re-evaluation of the work of both thinkers in a particular context: the experience of the new cultural spaces, of twenty-first century …
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A questão da escrita filosófica na obra de Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin has found that the issue of presentation (Darstellung) has historically proven to be a problem immanent to philosophical doing. The present work aims to understand how he confronted this problem in the scope of his philosophical writing. The thesis deals with this theme through …
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A Critical Edition Of Benjamin Hoadley's "the Suspicious Husband" (1747)
Benjamin Hoadly, M.D. (1706-1757), was the son of Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Winchester. His interest in theatre was chiefly manifested in his play The Suspicious Husband, first acted at Covent Garden on 12 Feb., 1747, for which David Garrick wrote a Prologue and acted the part of Ranger. The …
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Benjamin Britten: Text Setting as Cultural Custodian in Art Song
Proposing the thesis that, for Benjamin Britten, text-setting analysis is analogous to song analysis; this dissertation cautions that non-engagement in text-setting is to approach song as if it were instrumental music; likewise, to consider inadequately the wide-ranging musical implications of …
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The synthesis and stereochemistry of some azetidines / Mervyn Benjamin Jackson.
vi, 225 leaves : ill.
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Activities in the American Theatre (1797-1808)
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