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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 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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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 …