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Nietzsche’s Europeanism: A Critical Genealogy
Since his scholarly rehabilitation in the 1950s, Friedrich Nietzsche, once associated with National Socialism, has been rediscovered as a ‘good European’. For most commentators, he is the quintessential, philosophical critic of the nation-state, a lone cosmopolitan voice calling for the unification …
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The Genome, Genetic Genealogy Database (3g Database)
This is a qualitative research paper that used the content analysis method. Thirty-one sources which include journal articles, credible websites, and books were used to discuss the importance of having national and global genetic databases. DNA phenotyping is the technology used in criminal justice …
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Rhetorical Genealogy and the Ethics of Eugenics
… level of the gene. I employ Foucauldian genealogy to highlight how, despite marked differences over time in specific eugenic discourses and practices exist, the underlying rhetoric has remained unchanged. The conclusion this study reveals is that eugenics past and present rests on a …
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Genealogy as theatre of self-identity: a study of genealogy as a cultural practice within Britain since c. 1850
… and foremost as a branch of history, I analyse genealogy as a form of semi-autobiographical narrative about the self. Instead of viewing the use of archives primarily as a marker of historical scholarship, I investigate the archive as a shared space or horizon in which stories about the self and …
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EFFECTIVE HISTORY: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN RATIONALITY
… Adorno and Horkheimer and the poststructuralist genealogy of Michel Foucault. For the Adomo and Horkheimer of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, the historicity of rationality manifests itself in the form of a development, the development of instrumental rationality. This development stretches from …
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From Prometheus to Pistorius: a Genealogy of Physical Ability
(Fragile Frames + Monstrosities)ModernWar + (Flagged Bodies + Cyborgs)PostmodernWar = dis-AbilityCyborged
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‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach.
The research offers an elaboration of genealogy as an approach to knowledge from Friedrich Nietzsche's original work on method (1887) processed by Michel Foucault (1971). It provides an interdisciplinary version that integrates theoretical and analytical contributions from the philosophy of …
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Genealogy Extraction and Tree Generation from Free Form Text
<p>Genealogical records play a crucial role in helping people to discover their lineage and to understand where they come from. They provide a way for people to celebrate their heritage and to possibly reconnect with family they had never considered. However, genealogical records are hard to come …
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Footnotes to Coleridge: A Genealogy of Theology and Literature
… creative imagination. My objective is to trace a genealogy of Coleridge’s influence on theories of the relationship between literary and theological forms of knowledge. To this end, my study attends to competing conceptions of imaginative literature as an irreducible mode of doing theology or …
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From generation to generation : family stories, computers and genealogy
Telling stories about a family's common past solidifies its sense of community, and enriches member's sense of identity and belonging. In preindustrial times this information flowed orally thanks to continuous and prolonged cohabitation, but the dispersion of kinship in modern society has severed …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical and ecological theories and practices. My analysis studies their critical assessments and uses of rhetoric as it intersects with each figure's new investigations into natural philosophy, nature, and evolutionary …
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Bringing history to the public via genealogy and family history
Genealogy is at the cusp of acceptance as an academic discipline. However, there are no peer-reviewed scholarly journals in which to publish the outcome of research into, and upon, genealogy per se. While genealogy shares many techniques and attributes with history as a subject of study, it is …
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On the Stability of Software Clones: A Genealogy-Based Empirical Study
Clones are a matter of great concern to the software engineering community because of their dual but contradictory impact on software maintenance. While there is strong empirical evidence of the harmful impact of clones on maintenance, a number of studies have also identified positive sides of code …
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The Normalising Power of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945 – 2010
Marriage law is often conceptualised as an instrument of power that illegitimately imposes the will of the State on its citizens. Paradoxically, marriage law is also offered as a route to liberation. In this thesis, I question the efficacy of this type of analysis by investigating the actual power …
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Foucault's brain: discourse, matter, and the possibility of a plastic genealogy
… project describes a problem in Foucauldian genealogy centered on the relationship between discourse and matter, while coordinating a few related projects to indicate a possible resolution. It gathers a set of critiques of Foucault that coalesce around common articulations of the issue …
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Strategic spaces : towards a genealogy of women artists' groups in Canada
… pieces it is my hope to begin to trace a genealogy of women artists' groups in Canada. In documenting the activities of these spaces, perhaps the cycle can be slowed and the genealogy strengthened.
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