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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"French Philosophy"”.
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French Philosophy and New Media: Sartre, Foucault and Stiegler on the Technics of Existence
This thesis examines Bernard Stiegler’s revivification of the technologies of the self as an alternative to technologies of psychopower. It discusses the relevance of care as the exercise of freedom in the age of new media, which is seemingly reinforcing structures of control and …
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Identity in Flux: A Theoretical and Choreographic Enquiry into the Identity of The Open Dance Work
… analytic tradition, the second from contemporary French philosophy. The choreographic processes which led to the creation of two open dance works constituted a central strand of the debate. Each work interrogates the adequacy of these theories of identity to the artistic theories which underpin …
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
… of this project to contemporary materialist philosophy, but equally to show how this version of Kierkegaard is capable of offering some crucial correctives to contemporary materialism
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The invention of order: modern spatial concepts and the emergence of the Americas
… the Latin American, Caribbean, and 20th Century French traditions along with sixteenth-century Spanish theological, juridical, and philosophical texts: from Enrique Dussel to Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze to Michel Foucault, and Bartolomé de las Casas to Francisco de Vitoria. I situate …
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The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers
… This leads Levinas to develop ethics as first philosophy, which in turn implies that the reduction of the Other to the same is the unethical gesture par excellence. Levinas formulates eros as the ‘equivocal par excellence’; a profane relation with the radical alterity of the feminine. Eros, for …
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La vanguardia y sus retornos: confabulaciones del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos
La vanguardia y sus retornos: confabulaciones del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos [The Avant-garde and its Returns: Confabulating the Present in Four Latin American Writers] When reading contemporary Latin American writers from different countries and distinct cultural backgrounds, …
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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>
… 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 itself in the …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
This dissertation focuses on the intellectual history of a particular strand of European-Martiniquais political and philosophical writing on guilt between 1927 and 2007, combining archival work with intellectual historical analysis to reconceive the thinking of Martin Heidegger, Maurice …
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Thinking the Financial Subject with Contemporary French Thought: Ontology, Time, and the Critique of Capitalism in the Work of Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, and Frédéric Lordon
This thesis explores how contemporary French thought can make a novel theoretical contribution to financialisation studies, and more specifically, to the field’s interest in the relation between finance and the subject. Mobilising Catherine Malabou’s notion of the *schème moteur*, I argue that …
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La búsqueda de la redención individual como utopía en la narrativa de Gabriel García Márquez.
En la literatura latinoamericana existe un gran énfasis en lo social con respecto a la búsqueda utópica. Mientras la sociedad puede representar un vehículo o un obstáculo en la búsqueda utópica, a veces ésta resulta ser más individual que colectiva. En las novelas de Gabriel García Márquez …
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Finitude and Transcendence: A Study in Paul Ricœur’s Early Philosophy
… finitude by drawing on the early writings of the French philosopher Paul Ricœur (1913-2005). Ricœur’s concept of finitude has several unique features which distinguish it from many that were (and still are) prevalent in French philosophical discourse, almost all of which draw significantly on the …