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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Maurice Merleau-Ponty"”.
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Samkennd og samskipti: Turing-prófið í ljósi tungumálagreiningar Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… með vísan í fyrirbærafræðilega greiningu Maurice Merleau-Ponty á tungumálinu í bókinni Prósi heimsins. Tungumálinu er fundinn grundvöllur í samkennd, og tilraun er gerð til þess að yfirfæra þessa samkennd á form sem getur betur lýst þeim samskiptum sem eiga sér ekki stað augliti til …
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… existential phenomenology. In particular, this Merleau-Pontean existential phenomenological reading enhances understanding of the implicit theory of human communication and communication ethics informing McLuhan’s Media Ecology criticism. Once elucidated, McLuhan’s theoretical assumptions, aims …
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A Phenomenological Investigation of Sport and Fandom Through Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… of being in the world. Hans-Georg Gadamer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty are used to understand the conventions of play that manifest in sport, leading not only to the co-creation of the game experience due to the intertwining of spectators and players but also to the interplay of temporal realms …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
… group, namely, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and an artistic circle centering around Alfred Stieglitz. In the tradition of Western culture, touch is often regarded as the “lowest” sense while vision is privileged as the “intellectual sense.” Through a comparative …
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Cark
… in relation to theorists Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to articulate a poetics specific to the poems in the collection. The poetics is described via the literary and anthropological uses of metaphor, which are employed to unify text, writer, and reader. The phenomenology of ritual …
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A phenomenological account of Merleau-Ponty's notion of style : from embodiment to flesh
Abstract This thesis is an investigation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of style via the individual, artwork, and the world. It aims to show that subject-object, self-other, and perceiver-perceived are not contrary, but are reverses of one another each requiring the other for meaningful …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
… 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 Alfred Schnittke, one …
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Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence
… by Edouard Glissant, Antonio Benitez Rojo, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to four case studies of inter-genre, inter-national, multilingual dialogues unfolding over the course of the century to reveal dynamic figurations of bodies that are at once visual, poetic and performative. </p>
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A Phenomenology of Incarnate Experience
… innovations achieved by French phenomenologists Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Michel Henry, and Jean-Luc Marion allow for the study of both the body and the religious to be furthered. Given that the field of French phenomenology is vast, it is essential that we limit our study to but a few …
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Merleau-Ponty and the dialectic of perception
… of sense-data. I argue that the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty offers a detailed and sustained critique of the program implicit in every phase of this dialectic: each type of theory, in its turn, attempts to explain the event of perception in terms of an ontological commitment that is …
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Wild: Paintings Intertwining Body and Mind
… it visible through human experience. Inspired by Maurice Merleau-Ponty theoretical thinking on placing consciousness as the source of knowledge.</p> <p>Painting is my meditation, it is a tool to connect, dissolve, and release. Thread is the link to my ancestral consciousness and femininity. My …
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Made You Look: Moments of encounter with [ambient] advertising in everyday places
… by multiple voices, the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sara Ahmed and Kristadel McGregor, describing how we inhabit the world. It traces ideas of time through Yi-Fu Tuan, Kitaro Nishida, and Henry Bergson. It explores the construction of ambient advertising through Gilles Deleuze …
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A Sense of Time, A Sense of Self: The 'Lived Perspective' of the Walk
… these moments, through what phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty calls the "lived perspective" of walking, we experience a merging of our inner and outer worlds and achieve greater self-awareness. Although most of our experience in the landscape is through movement, we rarely design for such …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… the theory of Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger.
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Intencionalidade e dialética na fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty
… starts with Renaud Barbaras' critique of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological project, specifically in relation to the French philosopher's attempt to overcome the problem of the invulnerability of consciousness in relation to the lived world. By analysing Barbaras' critique and his …
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Butoh-Ballet
… considered in parallel to the philosophies of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. I also borrowed from Gayatri Spivak's notion of 'decolonising the imagination', to suggest that butoh may provide a means for ballet to re-imagine the body and its performance. This study acknowledges my subjective, …
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Towards a Phenomenology of Literary Language: Wyndham Lewis and the Expressions of Being
… Lewis shares these philosophical concerns with Maurice Merleau-Ponty as both thinkers contemplate human expression as the pragmatic solution to the ontological crisis brought forward by modernity. A great awareness of the dialectical analogies between the structures of language, perception and …
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The drawing of bodies and things - Embodiment, observation, and representation
… embodiment, and being as described by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and expanded upon by David Michael Levin; and recent neuroscientific understandings and neurophilosophical concepts of the transparent self-model and internal simulated world-model as described by Thomas Metzinger. These …
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Perceiving time through the ‘frame gap’ in experimental cinema
… by the ‘frame gap’, particularly drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological concept of ‘temporality’. The study also responds to Vivian Sobchack’s concept of ‘embodiment’ and Laura Marks and Jennifer Barker’s discussion of ‘tactile sensation’, which is reciprocal, …
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Fashion in an Age of Transindividual Disruption: Feeling the fashion milieu through fashion media and mobile phone technology
… the theoretical frameworks of Bernard Stiegler, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gilbert Simondon, this study examines fashion media as technological prostheses that mediate affective flows within digital networks, fundamentally shaping users' selfunderstanding and worldview. Through a …
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