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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Non-being"”.
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Non-Being and Memory: A Critique of Pure Difference in Derrida and Deleuze
… context of this discussion is Plato's problem of non-being. That is, Kant's reading of affinity and Derrida's and Deleuze's respective readings of pure difference all function as failed attempts to solve the problem of non-being. Taking Plato's Parmenides and Sophist as points of departure, I show …
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Blackness as a question of freedom: racial blackness in South African emancipatory thought
… death establishes the resilient forms of Black (non)being. This project centrally argues against locating a theory of the production of Blackness in the socio-political relations of colonial subjugation, and instead proposes that Blackness is a structure, an ‘abstract code', that must be …
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Aspects of the theory of negation
… In Chapter 3 I discuss the so-called paradox of non-being and the problem of giving an account of both singular and general negative existentials (i.e. negative existentials containing singular and general subjects respectively) that avoids this paradox. In Chapter 4 I deal with three related …
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Buddhism and the earth : environmental thought in early Buddhist philosophy
… existence is the interconnectedness of all beings and their subjection to the cosmic law of karma. Part of cultivating the Eight Fold path includes a deep compassion for all other living things, 'trapped' within this cycle of dependent origination. This compassion or empathy (karuna) is …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
… discrete, reflexive consciousness to the utter non-being of death. In the interest of exploring this spectrum, I read Cocteau, Huxley, and Benjamin’s work through the theory of Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger.
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Omnis Determinatio est Negatio: A Genealogy and Defense of the Hegelian Conception of Negation
… concepts are grounded as much in negation (and non-being) as in the bedrock of being. This groundedness of the concept in negation, which I call the problem of negation, is a defining concern of the Hegelian lineage.</p>
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Poverty and Apostolate
… a contradiction in terms - intrinsic goodness in non-being The object of a virtue - the matter about which it is concerned - must be some- I thing praiseworthy in itself. As a matter of fact the very excellence of a virtue is determined by that object. Material things, worldly possessions, even …
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Zanzibar Pizza Hut: Stone Town’s Duckorated Sheds
… a continuation of existing modes of thinking, being, and non-being—a continuation of slavery and of colonization in all its metastasized recapitulations. These objects ultimately lubricate the semiotic friction that occurs when a restructuring event alters the modes by which meaning is …
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Nothing Matters: Answering the Question ‘Where’s the Art?’ through Ma and Gen
… research explores the ontology of Gen, or the being of a ‘non-being’, through an examination into the Japanese concept of Ma. Ma is a Japanese word and concept whose English equivalent does not exist but is usually translated as the ‘conscious void/interval’, while Gen (variants: …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
… and the fragmented disfigurations of an Abject–non/Subject (the Native, the Slave, the Oriental). The abject subjectifications of mastery figured in the non-being of ‘Native≠Slave≠Oriental' are ontologically fixed and structurally fragmented within the colonial spheres of the split–off worlds of …
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Elle-memethe place of woman in the discourse of Jacques Derrida.
… Her -- and resolves to strive after her mode of being, though conveniently without ever surrendering his phallic, prescriptive power to it. Woman, meanwhile, is continuously pushed outside the discursive process for which she is taken as model, pinned on its hinge by the unrelenting, …
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Phenomenology of Death: The Religious Dimension in the Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas
… I argue that death is neither a pure phenomenon transparently intelligible in the noema-noesis structure of intentionality nor a mere non-phenomenon totally irrelevant to the phenomenological investigation. Rather, death is a para-phenomenon whose unfathomable feature calls into question …