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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Jean-François Lyotard"”.
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Expressing the Inexpressible: Bearing Witness in Jean-François Lyotard and Pseudo-Dionysius
… the contemporary French father of postmodernism, Jean-François Lyotard, and the late antique, presumably Syrian father of Neoplatonist Christian mysticism, Pseudo-Dionysius, both intimately consider the inexpressible expression. Both are provoked by the witness who is silenced by the binding …
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La condición posmoderna y el absurdo en el cuento latinoamericano contemporáneo.
… elementos posmodernos, según los conciben Jean-François Lyotard y Gilles Lipovetsky, que configuran la imagen de un mundo absurdo. De acuerdo con Albert Camus, en este mundo absurdo emerge principalmente una ruptura entre la necesidad del ser humano de aclarar su existencia con orden y …
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Creating absence to acknowledge presence : relational subjectivity and postmodernism in Carol Shields’s 'The Stone Diaries'
… reflecting the postmodernist ideology of Jean-François Lyotard and Patricia Waugh, creates Daisy Goodwill Flett’s absence in The Stone Diaries. This absence, in turn, acts to acknowledge the gaps in knowledge that exist within self-legitimating grand narratives. It demonstrates that …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
… such as Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Ihab Hassan, Jean-François Lyotard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Carl Jung, we develop a cognitive narratological theory for postmodern music that is veracious both epistemologically and philosophically. We then analyze formally and contextually four concertos by …
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Exploring Colour in Contemporary Art – Epistemic Boundaries and Artistic Practices
… crisis of grand narratives as described by Jean-François Lyotard is evident in their attitudes towards universalist and transcendent notions of colour. From the 1990s onwards, the globalisation of the art market, the launching of the Internet and the availability of cheap air travel have …
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La trilogia de jorge volpi como ventana sitiada en la posmodernidad
… the concept of postmodernism as used by Jean-François Lyotard, I demonstrate how Volpi, through his trilogy, undermines the basis of modernity; that is, the trilogy subverts the metanarratives of science, theory, and progress characteristic of modernity and portrays the previous century …
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Novela histórico-posmoderna: Re-examinando el referente histórico – narrativo del Siglo de Oro en cuatro textos de Arturo Pérez-Reverte
… based on the interpretations of Umberto Eco and Jean François Lyotard. The latter part of the thesis examines the mix between fiction and history and studies the author as a Spanish contemporary writer who uses a particular narrative to represent social, political and cultural changes of Spain …
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Le marxisme et la question postmoderne au cours des années quatre-vingt : l'apport de Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey à l'étude des transformations culturelles et sociales du capitalisme avancé
… dépendante des interventions de Daniel Bell et Jean-François Lyotard et leur présence dans ce travail permettra de comprendre le contexte intellectuel et conceptuel avec, notamment, la nature de la transition entre le modernisme et le postmodernisme esthétiques, l’émergence d’une société …
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Poétique(s) de la révolution: construction d’identité au travers des littératures Algérienne et Haïtienne
… 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 interpretation, my …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… thesis analyses the ways in which the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillard develops Max Weber's analysis of the rise, nature, and trajectory of modem culture. Further to this, it examines the strategies which may be drawn from the work of each of these theorists …
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Os dias são maus : o ensino religioso cristão em dias pós-modernos o desafio de fazer crer perante a cultura da incredulidade
… and postmodernity, notably David Harvey, Jean - François Lyotard, Bauman Zygmunt and Fredric Jameson
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Lyotard's subline : its manifestation in the musical aesthetic of Toru Takemitsu and Leo Brouwer
… especially through the aesthetic writings of Jean François Lyotard. Instead of embarking on an analytical investigation in order to prove the aesthetic elements perceived in the music, existing analytical research is consulted and conclusions drawn from this material as it relates to the …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
… spirit of the Modernism (TJ Clark: 1986). Jean François Lyotard suggests that it is the sublime that has provoked this destructive, nihilistic tendency and given Modern and postmodern art its ‘impetus and axioms’ (Lyotard: 1979). As the 2010 Tate research project, The Sublime Object …
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Radiant divas: In pursuit of the queer sublime
… philosophies of Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Jean-François Lyotard, I contend that the sublime is always queer, and always racialized. These aesthetic philosophers, in speaking of the formless, disruptive power of the sublime, reveal its queer properties. While at the same time, Kant’s and …
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Re-evaluating Murakami's Superflat: toward a contextualized interpretation of contemporary Japanese art
"This thesis examines Murakami Takashi’s Superflat theory and exhibition as well as the ramifications of its success. Developed through the 1990s and the early 2000s, Murakami’s Superflat theory attempts to prove a direct connection between the aesthetics of Edo period (1603-1868) and contemporary …