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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Continental Philosophy"”.
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Death in life: approaches to the contemporary denial of death in theoretical & experimental psychology and continental philosophy
… and Five, the thesis turns to representatives of continental philosophy, who advance an alternative way of relating to death. These philosophers explain that it is because we die that we can take hold of the possibilities of our lives. They suggest that we have the possibility of authentically …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… dissertation analyzes the relationship between continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship …
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Disrupting Traditional Narrative: Navigating Preservice Early Childhood Education Through Hospitality, Time and Dialogue
… dialogue with key thinkers in education and continental philosophy, the dissertation conceptualizes hospitality, time, and dialogue as potentially transformative, disrupting dominant narratives by foregrounding ethical responsibility and openness to the Other. It concludes with a series of …
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Fear of a Blank Planet
… are established. The second chapter reads across Continental philosophy to extract and expand upon the undertheorized spatio-temporalities of affect in terms of what Bergson and Deleuze call 'the virtual.' In the third chapter, the major emphasis is on the work of Sigmund Freud and his earliest …
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A Phenomenology of Incarnate Experience
Despite the burgeoning field of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion and the surfeit of literature on the philosophy of the body, little discusses the connections between the religious practice and the body in any phenomenologically rigorous way. However, one might argue that the …
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The Courage to Attune: The Promise of the Poetic for Naming the Experience of God in the Context of the Self-Other Relation
… the same time, religious thought as informed by continental philosophy has tended more and more toward language of void, impossibility, fragment, and absence. This project surfaces the unique (and in many ways untapped) resources poetic language offers for bringing to light the aporia of …
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Estetikos sampratos transformacija: B. Croce ir H. G. Gadameris /
… of the concept of aesthetics in Western continental philosophy of the 20th century. In contemporary thought the need to review the modernist concept of aesthetics becomes more and more evident as on the basis of this concept it is impossible to explain how revelation of unique …
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Continuums and Conjunctions: An assemblage of Eastern and Western architectural and philosophical perspectives
… Chinese traditional spatial theory with Western continental philosophy. The aim of the research is to create architectural assemblages that operate in harmony with regional characteristics, climates, and lifestyles. The research explores the intersection and integration of Eastern and Western …
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“das ungewisse”: the Uncertain Time of Paul Celan’s “Grabschrift für François”
… works from the fields of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and contemporary literary theory. Through this analysis we come to the intervention of “uncertain time,” time that has encountered loss and loses its linearity, predictability, and measurability. This is “time out of joint” …
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Plasticity Against Plastic: Synthetics In The Practice, Theory, And Conservation Of Art Since The 1960s
… at this time. Drawing on cultural anthropology, continental philosophy, transgender studies, and polymer chemistry, this study parses out the relationship between plastic and plasticity as a dialectic of becoming plastic, or hardening into a stable form or category, and the movement of …
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Hallowed ground: literature and the encounter with god in post-reformtion england, c. 1550 - 1704
… developments in religious studies deriving from Continental philosophy can offer a fresh perspective when considering the phenomena of religious experience. Chapter one, "John Dee: Mysticism, Technology, Idolatry," considers the career of early modern polymath John Dee and his conversations with …
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‘wall sandwich’ - The architectural gesture in art practice from destruction to non-construction
… ideology, infrastructure and architecture, continental philosophy, and current practices of theory. Particular attention has been paid to the work of Georges Bataille and Walter Benjamin, accompanied by modern and contemporary thinkers and practitioners in art and architecture, often set in …
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Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture
… Carlyle's role as a critic and interpreter of Continental philosophy to the English-speaking world, and his influence on Emerson and, indirectly, Nietzsche, bespeaks Carlyle's importance as a participant in this dialogue. Finally, restoring Carlyle to his context can obviate the tendency of …
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The In/Authentic Subject: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Selfhood
<p>This dissertation represents an attempt to understand the self, what it is, what it means, and how it provides subjective identity. These concerns are situated within a personal narrative that describes the loss of self and its rediscovery subsequent to that loss. In critically examining the …
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Illusions for life: on the importance of illusions for our life and the role of cinema in creating these illusions
… aspects. I chose to base my research project on continental philosophy rather than classic film theory or analytic philosophy in order to stimulate a new debate in film studies and philosophy that links traditional aesthetic concepts with contemporary thoughts on society and cinema. To begin with …
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Tensions of the self and discourses of being: Californian medicine, embodiment, metaphysics, and the absence of love
… one’s physical appearance arise. Inspired by Continental philosophy, my analysis of the soul-body-culture-praxis nexus is achieved by utilising and interweaving: a) the embodiment theories of Bourdieu, Nietzsche, Foucault, Freud, and Lacan, and b) poststructural and psychoanalytic discourse …
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Creating Society as a Work of Art: Towards an Imaginative Logic of Action in Sartre's <i>Critique of Dialectical Reason</i>
… select tendencies from recent trends in Continental Philosophy. The result is that a renewed understanding of the ‘living logic of action’ in Critique of Dialectical Reason emerges as an ‘imaginative logic of action’, whereby the imagination becomes a latent, embedded moment of praxis …
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Untimely meditations: female mysticism in medieval culture and modern scholarship
… so-called 'religious' or 'apophatic turn' within Continental philosophy and the humanities more broadly, the thesis hopes to usefully reflect on the role of the medieval mystical tradition and its contribution to an emerging women's history. This thesis is fundamentally preoccupied with the impact …
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Heidegger and the Meaningfulness of Questioning and Thinking
… activities which we consider imperative to doing philosophy and the two activities that we involve ourselves in most of the time, albeit without much thought given to that involvement. Are questioning and thinking those activities normally thought of as those belonging to reason alone and among …
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The Problem of Nature in the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
<p>In my dissertation, I show that Merleau-Ponty’s idea of nature yields a double meaning: nature as ensemble of genetic and productive processes that are attainable in experience (phenomenal nature) and nature as that which enables this experience (transcendental nature). My thesis is that the two …
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