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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Modern Subject"”.
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The hermeneutics of the modern subject.
Martin Heidegger was the first modern European philosopher to alert mankind to the dangers of modern technology. He argued that technology is an enframing or a limiting perspective of the possibilities for human existence. The philosopher Michel Foucault investigated the geneology of the way that …
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Humanization of the Refugee as the Modern Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s <em>Exit West</em>
… of two protagonists who are portrayed as the modern subject that Hamid comes to humanize, which reflects on current society’s representation of the refugee as dehumanized or “the Other.” Hamid takes his readers on a journey that represents his characters as normal everyday humans that are …
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The ideal of the modern subject? Exploring the limits of the 2004 Irish citizenship referendum debate
… thesis explores the limitations of how political subjectivity is conceptualized in existing analysis of the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum. By approaching this analysis through the work of R.B.J. Walker and his notion of the constitutive subject of sovereign politics, what is highlighted is how …
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Primitivism and The Animal in Shakespeare's Macbeth
… which the primitive figure confronts the early modern subject as opposed to being summoned from a retrospective sentimentality. To illuminate this reading, I look primarily at encounters with figures embodying the primitive sensibilities the early modern subject would have been expected to have …
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Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects
… a framework to consider the fragmentation of the modern subject in postmodernity. On one hand, I roll back the theoretical critique of the subject and, on the other, show that modernism's basic configuration of identity--alienation--has evolved but not vanished. Modeling the subject/object …
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
… by reframing sexual narratives of Brazil’s modern subject formation through contemporary queer cultural productions. It argues that the colonial employment of temporal terms such as origin, progress, development, and copy established longstanding narratives of Brazilian nationality, culture, …
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Modern Myth and Masculine Character: Revealing the fit 'self' in MTV's I Used to Be Fat
… as expressions of the coming into being of the modern subject within the contemporary culture of self-revelation. Through the cultural myth of fast transformation by overcoming the body, heroic narratives depict subjects renouncing their fat bodies in order to produce themselves anew. Drawing on …
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Freud, discourse analysis, and otherness: The historical hermeneutics of creativity and aesthetics in the subject formations of writing and psychoanalysis.
… Hermeneutics of Creativity and Aesthetics in the Modern Subject Formations of Writing and Psychoanalysis"; (b) "Part Two: Bridging Thesis: The Metaphor of Meaning: The Uncanny Nature of Discourse in Modern Narratives"; (c) "Part Three: Thesis: Psychoanalytic Theory and Creativity: Freud, …
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
… transition from the humoral body to the modern, anatomical body depended on constructions of gender/sex. I examine this process in The Faerie Queene Book 2, The Legend of Temperance (1596), Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's New Atlantis (1627), and Margaret …
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A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras
In the genealogy of the subject, Foucault analyses the constitution of modern subjectivity and how the practices of the self operate in Greco-Roman antiquity, in the field of ethics. In the relationship between power and freedom, Foucault analyses how the subjected subject to power exercises its …
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Building the Good Life: Architecture and Politics
… architecture and democratic politics in late-modernity. It identifies the refusal of architects to consider the political dimensions of their work following the failures of 20th century High Modernism and the scant attention that the intersection between architecture and politics has received …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… by transforming the divisions or splits in the modern subject into the enabling condition for renewed creativity. In contrast to the Modernist myth of Henry James the master reproached by recent scholarship, I offer a new critical fiction – what James calls the man of imagination – that models a …
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Algorithmic Love: Twenty-First Century Organizations of the Romantic
… circulates in neoliberal societies and in the subjective processes of the users, foregrounding the control of populations and the very much lamented “end of love” (Illouz 2019). My study of love supplements the neoliberalist critique of algorithmic love with a posthuman and media theory …
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
… growth in the artistic representation of the modern subject across eras and cultures. This dissertation focuses on the psychological implications of estrangement in the process of seeking self-knowledge as portrayed in three monumental novels of psychological prose: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina …
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Host Families’ Perspectives of the Impact of the Commodification of Education on the Student-Host Family Relationship in Study Abroad
… market logic, touristic orientation, and liquid modern subject formation that erodes the conditions for intercultural engagement before the study abroad experience begins. Families observed a significant increase in student international travel, diminished engagement with local culture and …
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Rabindranath Tagore and the Subject of Political Freedom
… reconstructs Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), modern India's foremost poet-philosopher and the first non-European recipient of the Nobel Prize, as a political thinker. Shirking simple binaries such as East and West, empire and nation, or poetry and politics, the objective is to recover the …
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Painting by Mouth: Art, Modernity and Disability. Bartram Hiles (1872-1927)
The subject of this thesis is the Bristol artist, Bartram Hiles (1872-1927) who lost both arms in a tram accident at the age of eight and subsequently taught himself to draw and paint by mouth. Using the themes of art, modernity and disability, this thesis recovers Hiles’ career as a mouth-painting …