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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Human desire."”.
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Tragic philosophy and human desire : bringing Nietzsche and Plato into conversation with contemporary ethics.
… ethics, most importantly the limitation of human desire to the instrumental. In response, Brewer, drawing primarily from Aristotle, develops an account of human desire that finds fulfillment-without-ceasing within "dialectical" activity, that is, activity that has an object irreducible to a …
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Rise Tectonic Machines!: The Revitalization of the Relationship Between Architects and Machines as a Means of Restoring Intimacy, Immediacy, and Delight to the Act of Building
Architectural form is both an expression of human desire and built edifice directly related to construction methods. It follows that the responsibilities of the architect seeking new form must extend to the instrumentation of tectonic machines and devices, which are also appropriately new. This …
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Almost Level
… on a leveled surface is an intrinsic part of human nature. The bridge, a powerful invention realizes this human desire. It connects very directly otherwise separate locations and it saves time and energy while crossing the gap between them. Its elevated surface offers us different views to the …
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A study of the major science fiction works of Gene Wolfe
… Soldier of the Mist (1986), Wolfe presents the human desire for knowledge of the Self and of God and the near-impossibility of attaining this knowledge. Wolfe expresses obstacles to knowledge and fulfilment in his created fictional worlds, in the characters of his protagonists, and in the …
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The concept of authenticity in Heidegger's Being and Time: thoughts and revisions on a critical theme
… Heidegger's existential analytic and the all too human desire for deeper meaning meet. The result serves at once to clarify the concept and refine understanding of its place in larger histories.
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Another World Entire: the Posthumanism of Cormac Mccarthy
… experiments in what it might mean to write posthuman works of fiction. In a close reading of three of his novels, Child of God, The Crossing, and The Road , this project reveals how McCarthy's stories paradoxically unravel the dangerous human desire to make of our world a story. His characters, …
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'Enlarging the Text': a cultural history of William Ewart Gladstone's library and reading
… the thesis. By it he referred to the persistent human desire to acquire and transmit knowledge. This study analyses Gladstone’s personal efforts to achieve this through the collection, use and eventual ‘public’ endowment of a library. The phrase refers both to this endeavour and the concomitant …
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Dogmeat: New American Folktales
… social issues of perception, duality, and the human desire to feel belonging. Although each piece may stand alone as a separate work, the collection is meant to better function as a whole. In other words, the pieces in this collection are meant to "speak" to each other and in doing so, provide …
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Between reality and mystery : food as fact and symbol in plays by Ibsen and Churchill.
… actors and spectators and of an equally powerful human desire for symbolic significance. This thesis examines the depictions of both facets of human consumption in Ibsen's A Doll House and The Wild Duck and Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. By emphasizing the physical hunger and …
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Excursus: Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media
… attempts to provide different facets of human desire, thus propagating the continued use of the medium. The composition consists of three songs, each of which focuses on comedic, physical, or philosophical fulfillment. Current television programming attempts to satisfy these desires with …
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Tracing the Elusive Archetype: The Design of the Central Virginian Winery
… nature, architecture actually demonstrates the human desire to harness and cultivate the natural environment, thereby embracing the primal conflict between nature art. By acknowledging this dialectical relationship, the book chooses to stay clear of delving into any existential thought derived …
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ΟΙ ΕΠΙΠΤΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΟΥ ΜΑΗ ΤΟΥ 1968 ΣΤΗΝ ΨΥΧΑΝΑΛΥΤΙΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ
… 1970'S, WHICH SHOULD BE CALLED PHILOSOPHY OF DESIRE. IN FACT, OUR ESSENTIALEFFORT IS DELINEATED BY MEANS OF PROVIDING A PSYCHOANALYTICAL EXPLANATION TO THE POLITICAL PHENOMENON OF MAY 1968. APART FROM STUDYING THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OFMAY REVOLT IN A PSYCHOANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVE, WE WOULD LIKE TO …
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Space: Working and Living
… of spaces? what is the relationship of human scale to space elements? how can architecture be studied? Architecture is an combination of science and art to make spaces for human needs and activities. What can an architect do to make a project, a building, not only serve its purpose but …
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Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and the Historical Progression of Discourse: The Shifting of Social and Institutional Identity in Post-World War II America
… behavior have traditionally focused on observed human action to explain human behavior and the correlation of this behavior with possible remedial actions. Lacanian discourse theory, with its foundation in psychoanalytic theory, enables the formulation of a model of institutional behavior that …
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From sweetwater to seawater: An environmental history of Narragansett Bay, 1636--1849
… Modern people envisioned the boundary between humans and nature. By rewriting the history of an estuary from the ground up, so to speak, this work explores the ways people shaped a watery world and how it shaped them in return. It argues that at the confluence of sweetwater and seawater, in the …
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Development of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) system for integration with Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) application
… (BCI) is a communication tool that translates human desire for other devices. The intention is for the majority of patients who were not able to move as stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. The goal of this study was to develop and analysis of offline and realtime Brain …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… ideology relocates living things according to human desire. Most accounts view these exotics through the lens of ecological imperialism and “invasive” species. Both of these terms are twenty-first century metaphors that materialize the role of imperialism in circulating exotics, applying the …
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Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels
… twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Soliciting Desire takes as its primary subjects H.G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Theodore Dresier’s The “Genius,” Frederick Wakeman’s The Hucksters, Jonathan Dee’s Palladio, and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition and demonstrates that the ad-man character’s …
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Uncertainty Before and After Faith: The Dynamics of Belief in Theology and Literature
… in the presence of God's grace in creation and human life. I will approach this issue through the category of uncertainty, specifically uncertainty's relationship to faith, as this relationship emerges in novels by François Mauriac, Graham Greene, Flannery O'Connor, Muriel Spark, Mary Gordon, …
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Protein Assembly for a Functional Fibrous Product
… protein products with a better fit for human desire. The development of synthetic biology and molecular assembly methods illustrates possibilities for the production of functional structures in-situ, which provides better connections between the functional partners with the structural …
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