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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Human embodiment"”.
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Bodies at play: On the ludic dimensions of human embodiment
… for play with which to explore notions of human embodiment, drawn from philosophical, theological, and theoretical works on play, ritual, and embodiment. In order to do this, I apply an understanding of play as a force that is a part of the world and its life and becoming. From such a view, …
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The Utilization of a Theology of Human Embodiment to Address Body Image
Despite the reality that spiritual aspects of the Christian faith are lived through the physical body, Christians historically neglected the body and elevated the soul. Old Testament believers valued body and soul, while New Testament believers fell prey to philosophical teachings that denigrated …
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Male and Female, He Created Them: Gender in the Context of Human Embodiment
… that (1) holds that men and women share a common humanity that is grounded in their mutual creation in the image of God and results in the expression of common human properties and common human capacities in ways that are fitting to their masculinity or femininity, respectively, and (2) maintains …
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The Implications of an Evangelical Theology of the Body for Christocentric Spiritual Formation
… failure to recognize the significance of human embodiment in this way neglects a fundamental aspect of the imago Dei. This thesis researches the biblical view of human embodiment and assesses how the physical body relates to spiritual formation. Often, the soul⎯or spiritual dimension of …
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From intellectualism to contextualism to metaethical realism : an exploration of our ethical language-games and their conditions of intelligibility
… dichotomy, and the relevance of human embodiment for conceptions of moral justification. The works of Charles Taylor, Martha Nussbaum, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger will play a central role in the articulation of this critical narrative.
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Limitations and Longing: Sacrifice in Global Anglophone Literature
… of narrative to adequately represent the real, human embodiment of the violence contained in the text but that also exists well beyond it, a violence foundational to global Anglophone literature. These novels self-consciously reach the limits of narrative, and, in the midst of their limitations, …
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New materialism and gender - (re) configuring human and robotic embodiment
… on gender (and the gender binary) and using posthuman new materialism (agential realism) as a theoretical framework this study engages with the constitution of myriad binaries, including the male/female, man/woman, heterosexual/homosexual, sex/gender, human/nonhuman and mind/body binaries. …
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The Problem of the "Virtual": Virtual Reality, Digital Dualism, and Religious Experience
… VR, specifically as they relate to notions of human embodiment, experience, and subjectivity that assume essential differences between mind and body. My fundamental contention is that VR should be conceived—like experiences deemed "religious"—as technology that catalyzes connections to oneself …
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Image Bodies, Avatar Ontologies: Rendering the Virtual in Digital Culture
… Avatarial interfaces position users in an embodiment of connections which in some ways evokes the cyborg body, but the avatar as a theoretical figure places greater stress on the relation between human embodiment and (digital) images, as well as suggesting a move from cyborg fragmentation …
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The Good Sport: Physical Literacy and a Moral Self
… out of concern for the seeming disregard of human embodiment, particularly in the education sector, and is firmly rooted in the philosophical concepts of monism, existentialism, and phenomenology. In accordance with existential philosophers such as Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, who argue human …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
… utilize and manipulate the organic aspects of human embodiment. Precisely because the chosen texts have not been traditionally studied under an affective lens before, the results render an innovative re-evaluation of their cultural and spectatorial dimensions.
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Bleeding Details
… reflected the flow of water or the fluidity of human embodiment? This thesis is as much a question as it is an answer. Can architecture cross and blur boundaries and binaries: queer and heteronormative, land and water, human and nature? When and how would it all dissolve? What happens to …
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Phenomenology in the works of Robbe-Grillet
… reduction, beginning in chapter three with the embodiment of consciousness which impacts upon the presentation of narrative perspective in Robbe-Grillet's film and fiction. The fourth chapter examines Robbe-Grillet's rendering of a lived experience of time, rather than an objective measurement …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… as appropriate producers and caretakers of human bodies, both living and dead, in relation to classically endorsed, gendered divisions of labor and embodiment. In contrast, idealized masculinity is achieved through the loss of corporeality. This configuration reiterates a platonic vision of …
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A transdisciplinary study of embodiment in HCI, AI and New Media.
… regarding the complexity of thinking about human embodiment in relation to machine embodiment. A practical dimension of this thesis is to elicit some principles for the design and evaluation of virtual embodiment. The transdisciplinary approach suggests, firstly, that a single discipline or …
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Boundaries of the Human: Identities, Ontologies and Transformations in Old Norse Literature
This dissertation examines the definition of the human in vernacular texts preserved and transmitted in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Iceland drawing on a variety of sources, from saga literature, mythological narrative and traditional poetics (eddic and skaldic) to legal compilations and …
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Migraine: An Existential Phenomenological Study
… aspects of the participants' lives, including embodiment of pain, self-understanding, relationships, perception, and the migraines' role as horizons for the individuals' experiences. The migraines affected embodiment, as the participants felt alienated from their bodies and affected directly by …
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The Celibate Christ: A Suggestive Reading of John 20:17 μή μου ἅπτου οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα (“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended”)
… illustrates his emphasis on the continued human embodiment of Jesus between his resurrection and ascension. Chapter One introduces the structure and themes of the thesis, and gives a justification for the pursual of my argument and grounds for my approach. The description of my method in …