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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Jacques Derrida"”.
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Derrida's Institutions: The Political Philosophy of Jacques Derrida
This thesis examines the role of institutions in Jacques Derrida’s philosophy. It argues that there is an intimate connection between Derrida’s political engagements and his philosophy which has hitherto been neglected. Drawing on a range of unexamined television, print and radio contributions by …
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Signifikantenpraxis: die Einklammerung des Signifikats im Werk von Jacques Derrida
Auf Grundlage der Werke, die Derridas Ruhm im Wesentlichen begründet haben (besonders Die Stimme und das Phänomen, Grammatologie und Die Schrift und die Differenz), analysiert und erläutert die Dissertation Derridas Dekonstruktion des abendländischen Zeichenkonzepts. Dabei erweist sich die …
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Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion on the (im)possibility of negative theology.
… a conference organized by Villanova University, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion argue the impossibility of negative theology. For Derrida, negative theology operates via “denegations” that lead to a hyper-theology affirming God as hyperousious. “Mystical theology” embodies this hyper-movement …
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RETHINKING ABSENCE: ART PRACTICE AND THE CRITICAL METAPHYSICS OF JACQUES DERRIDA AND JACQUES LACAN
The methodology aims to demonstrate that absence is not reducible to one approach or another but plays on the incommensurabilities, commensurabilities and gaps between the different concepts presented. The 'motions of absence', which are textual insertions interspersed between the sections, …
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Critical ecologies: Violence and life in the work of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno
… with the question of violence in the works of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno. I argue that the conjunction of questions of violence and with those of “life” indicates a profound sympathy in their thinking and suggests the need to develop a critical dialogue between discourses of life …
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Jacques Derrida, the sacred other and Seventh-day Adventism stumbling on the creative play of différance in Genesis 1
This thesis searches for that which is sacred to Jacques Derrida and ultimately concludes that if anything is sacred to him it is the other. This concern for the sacred is an attempt to ascertain Derrida’s relevance and value for religious traditions. Derrida’s ideas serve to destabilise (sacred) …
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
… Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris
… Vernant, Marcel Detienne, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida are read, among others, within this study.
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Konstruktive Dekonstruktion? : zur theologischen Rezeption Jacques Derridas im deutschsprachigen Raum
… Auseinandersetzung des französischen Philosophen Jacques Derrida mit der Tradition des abendländischen Denkens besaß in den vergangenen Jahren einen nachhalti-gen Einfluss auf verschiedene Bereiche nicht nur der Philosophie sondern auch der Literatur, Soziologie oder Architektur. Kann die …
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Poétique(s) de la révolution: construction d’identité au travers des littératures Algérienne et Haïtienne
… but also utilizes concepts of testimony (Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard), nationalism (Benedict Anderson), terrorism (Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas) and psychoanalysis (Nicolas Abraham, Sigmund Freud, and Maria Torok). Using these diverse models of …
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Deconstruction in landscape architecture
… based largely upon the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, and the architectural work of Bernard Tschumi. Deconstruction is described in its philosophical context and as a form of literary criticism. This deconstruction is compared with recent architectural projects influenced by Derrida’s …
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
… Blanchot, Paul de Man, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. While focusing on the irony performed in the texts of Jacques Derrida, and using his engagements with these thinkers as a frame, this is not a theory of “Derridean” irony, but an irony (primarily) elaborated through a deconstructive …
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Corporate Social Responsibility To-Come: A Derridean Interruption of Transparency
… of a better world.</p> <p>Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, the research first lays out his often overlooked contribution to the philosophy of communication, and then moves towards possible applications in deconstructing the perceived benefits of CSR, particularly in its transparent nature. …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
… and concepts of ruins in the theoretical work of Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, and Julia Kristeva, I argue that ruins underscore the arbitrariness—and, thus, the fragility—of symbolic systems of signification. Ruins, by virtue of their fragmentation, invite nostalgic projections of totality …
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Distanz, Nähe, Gewalt : soziale Interaktion in den Romanen von Horacio Castellanos Moya
… einerseits der Begriff des „Epitaphs“, wie ihn Jacques Derrida in seiner Politiques de l’ amitié entwickelt und andererseits die „Theorie des kommunikativen Rabens“, welche Ottmar Ette in seinem Band ÜberLebenswissen: die Aufgabe der Philologie darstellt. Die Arbeit hofft außerdem dazu …
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"Oh, Must We Dream Our Dreams And Have Them Too?": Transformation Through Reading In Elizabeth Bishop's "Questions Of Travel," Carol Shields' Swann, And Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others
… Poststructuralist critics Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida open up the idea of "text," allowing us to apply our phenomenology of reading beyond words on paper. I apply the work of these and other critics not to the readers of texts but to characters depicted within texts who are readers. …
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
… the postmodern view using Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to draw out the fundamental grounding for the concern for the other. In chapters two and three, St. Thomas' theology of nature and then grace are examined focusing on his particular focus on the other. In his work we find that there …
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Sue
… undecidability of language noted by philosopher Jacques Derrida. This collection also employs several vectors of derivation, including erasure of text lifted from the 2002 strategy video game <em>Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade </em>and a sequence of responses to Suzanne Vega’s 1990 album <em>Days …
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Here tunggë made here slayn: Dangerous speech acts in four exempla from Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s <i>Handlyng Synne</i>
… the theoretical texts of Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and Mary Douglas, as well as others, and conclude that speech acts, whether deviant or sanctioned, make identity at any level (de)constructable. I hope to show that while this is particularly noticeable against the …
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Global Migration and the Ethics of Hospitality
… figures, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. I explore how Husserlian phenomenology reveals the cognitive disposition to categorize through acts of intentionality. I then turn to a Levinasian account of ethics to show that being hospitable amounts to a non-totalizing relation …
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