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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Jean-Luc Nancy"”.
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"""Imagines Mundi"": The Aesthetics of Globality in Jorge Luis Borges, A. R. Ammons, and Jean -Luc Nancy"
… aesthetics and globality in Borges, Ammons and Nancy. It also indicates the relevance of studying the aesthetics of globality for discussions of globalization's impact on the humanities.
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Hoc est enim corpus meum: christian art and passion inonography in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard
… thesis I examine how Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard deploy images from Christian art, particularly in relation to the Passion, in their respective oeuvres. Using the work of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy on the image and post-Christianity as a methodological touchstone, I discuss …
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Staging community: a non-philosophical presentation of immanent social experience
… community, in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, which attempt to grasp such a social experience departing from a philosophical ground, and it argues that each of these approaches constitutes a circular logic that places the reality of its “object” beyond the reach of signifying …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… of Bildung or development. Adapting the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, I argue that the development narratives of “high modernism” attempt to accommodate an ontology of “being-with” through what I am calling a “becoming-with.” Thus, the most significant intervention of the modernist novel within the …
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“But from my lie this did come true”: The fall of Atom Egoyan’s 'The sweet hereafter and hook tender'.
… and its effects? In dialogue with Paul de Man, Jean Luc Nancy, Sigmund Freud, and Cathy Caruth, I argue that The Sweet Hereafter reveals how one fall can powerfully reference another. My aim is not simply to apply theory to a film, but also to explore how the film reconfigures the theory. Just …
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Drawn together: illustration, community and collective world-making
… Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy whose work discusses question of worldmaking, sociality, relationality and the political – this PhD interweaves my collaborative illustration practice with philosophy in order to expose and delineate aspects of our social …
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Despertar el pujar silencioso de los debates feministas del cuerpo y la maternidad: cuerpo materno como materialidad y práctica política en el marco de los discursos de la nación
… de lo corporal de Merleau Ponty (1945) el tacto Jean-Luc Nancy (2003), en relación con lo trabajado por Luce Irigaray (1974, 1981,1994) sobre el cuerpo materno exiliado de la dimensión simbólica. Con estas articulaciones entre teorías feministas y filosóficas, se propone una epistemología del …
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An investigation into the relationship between the individual and the collective in emerging performance ensembles
… ontology surrounding community as articulated by Jean-Luc Nancy (2000). This embodied practice, reveals new ways of articulating a phenomenology of ensemble practice, understood as a continuous state of fluidity between individual and collective states of being. The thesis traces the emergence of …
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Unresolved Differences: Choreographing Community in Cross-Generational Dance Practice
… the philosophies of Adriana Cavarero, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Given its perceived agenda to bring people of distinct ages together into a harmonious totality, Cross-generational Dance provides a particular opportunity to discuss community, examined here through case-studies of key …
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Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial
… been rethought more recently by Bruce Robbins, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Seyla Benhabib. I read literature alongside documentaries and memorials to discover the way cultural texts model these methods of pushing back against neoliberal projects in the wake of 9/11 and Katrina by bringing ethics, as …
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A Question of Listening: Nancean Resonance and Listening in the Work of Charlie Chaplin
… <br/> examine a question of listening posed by Jean-Luc Nancy, “Is listening <br/> something of which philosophy is capable” (Nancy 2007:1)? Drawing on the <br/> work of Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Gayatri Spivak, I consider a claim that <br/> philosophy has failed to address the topic of …
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Community Unclaimed: Plurality and the Problem of Sovereignty in Bataille, Nancy, and Blanchot
… the question of “community”: Georges Bataille, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Maurice Blanchot. Taken together, and starting with Bataille’s prewar writings and communitarian activism in the 1930s, the exchange between them now spans nearly a century. Georges Bataille’s importance as a political thinker …
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The Painted Double: Figuration, Language, and the Limits of Representation
… of post-structuralists such as Roland Barthes, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida, and artists such as Piero della Francesca, Philip Guston, Simon Hantai, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, and Luc Tuymans. The theoretical and practice driven aspect of the project grapple with examples …
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
… ideas of plurality through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy are drawn upon to conceptualise ways plurality can be enacted. Listening to plurality in this project is a listening to multiple voices which leads to an exploration of polyphony, the simultaneous sounding of multiple voices. …
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The Painted Double: Figuration, Language, and the Limits of Representation
… of post-structuralists such as Roland Barthes, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida, and artists such as Piero della Francesca, Philip Guston, Simon Hantai, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, and Luc Tuymans. The theoretical and practice driven aspect of the project grapple with examples …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… aspects of well-known thinkers, such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, as their thought develops through their participation in a collaborative, periodical publication, and introduce lesser known thinkers who have not received an extended readership in Anglophone …
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Cinema of the Self: A Theory of Cinematic Selfhood & Practices of Neoliberal Portraiture
… in contemporary culture. Via Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gerhard Richter and the method of deconstruction of language, I theorise selfhood through the figurative and literal analysis of duration, the frame, and the mirror. In this approach, selfhood is understood as aesthetic-ontological …
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The status of love in philosophy : an examination of the role of love (eros) in the work (or works) of selected French thinkers
… of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to fully appreciate this, however, I must necessarily also provide a summary overview of the central theme which …
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Time of the Telling: Affective Temporalities in the Chansons de geste
… crozada</i> through selections from philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy with a focus on ‘mythic thinking’ and community-formation. Through its analysis of the unfinished manuscript decorations and the presence of two politically opposed poets, it shows that the creation of myth in <i>chansons de geste</i> …
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