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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Philosophy -- History."”.
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Dramatization and philosophy of history in Orange Book explication of a site-responsive work and its research
… considers a process of research into drama and history in relation to contemporary performance: where narrative dramatic forms,whether organic or fragmented, show history as a fait accompli, an aesthetic orientation around open structures and non-narrative performance modes allows for a …
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Catholic Literary Theory: The Conditional Existentialism of Four Protagonists and Their Creators
… Divine Mystery, created her out of love, then philosophy, history, theology, and literature, itself, are in mortal danger. This is the appeal that writers like O'Connor and Percy conscientiously make and writers like Mary McCarthy and Cormac McCarthy confirm despite themselves.</p>
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An analysis of self constructs and self variables
… of a range of the general psychology-psychiatry-philosophy history texts gives merely a sketch of one or two of the main trends. This state of academic under-achievement is, in part, a function of a scarcity of source material and the complexity of the material available; yet it remains …
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An analysis of self constructs and self variables
… of a range of the general psychology-psychiatry-philosophy history texts gives merely a sketch of one or two of the main trends. This state of academic under-achievement is, in part, a function of a scarcity of source material and the complexity of the material available; yet it remains …
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The conscience of capital: philanthropy at the Chautauqua Institution
… it through personally identifying with its philosophy, history, and grounds. Donors join with the Institution through participation in its governance and programs, and through philanthropic activities. My argument/hypothesis is that there is a progression of ideological transference that …
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Bernini as the Seicento Michelangelo: Imitation and Identity in Art, Architecture and Biography
… and Biography Carolina Mangone Doctor of Philosophy, History of Art Department of Art University of Toronto 2012 Abstract This dissertation examines how Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), acclaimed the “Michelangelo of his age,” constructed his identity by imitating the art, practices and …
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Between Before and After: Architecture in a Time of Crisis
… available in the context of an architectural history. The aim of the thesis, therefore, is to interrogate the constitutive role of politics in relation to space and research how architecture is transformed during moments of political change. Each case study explores a moment of change …
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Health Equity Through Spatial Justice: A Critical Phenomenology of Urban Trail Makers
… parts of a clinical picture: Part I, Gathering a History; Part II, Sorting the Data and Part III, Summary and Recommendations.</p> <p>This study combines the methodologies of phenomenology and critical thematic analysis. It integrates insights and research from philosophy, history, critical race …
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Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). The thesis begins with an examination of the recovery of transcendence in …
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Presencing Absence
… is a 'big-picture' look at the course of Western philosophy and its eventual arrival at ideas that look remarkably similar to the revelations of Guatama Buddha 2500 years ago. I look at the roots of how the West has understood itself and understood "being" through the centuries and at the …
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Helene Stöcker, Weimar Germany and Prophylactics: An Investigation Into the Context and Effects of the Reichsgesestz zur Bekämpfung Geschlechtskrankheiten
<p>This paper investigates German gender studies in the Weimar Era. It looks at a specific law, passed regarding contraceptive devices. It seeks to show how women were presented with a guise of freedom, while living in a truly paternalistic society.</p>
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A Language-Game Justification for Narrative in Historical Explanation
The problem of historical explanation consists in how historical facts are put together. No mere collection of facts constitutes an explanation: there must be some underlying explanation for why those facts occurred in the way they did. Many competing theories of historical explanation have thus …
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Relations and Folds in Leibniz: Monadological Intimacy
<p>My goal is to provide a clear explanation of Leibniz’s notoriously difficult system of relations. Relations among ‘windowless’ substances that exert no causal power over one another seems like a pipe dream that should be abandoned. However, I demonstrate that each substance expresses its …
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A literary perspective on the notion of le hasard in twentieth century France
Through an examination of works from Dada and Surrealism, of Malraux's La Condition humaine, of some examples of the New Novel, and of Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique I observe the occurrence, over the course of the twentieth century, of a shift in attitude toward events which occur …
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From oppression to democracy : an argument for reparations for African Americans from a discourse ethics perspective
I argue that reparations for African Americans are justified because 1) the historical oppression suffered by the African American Community limits the possibility of equal participation of the community as a whole and individuals in the community to participate democratically in the political, …
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… and Walter Benjamin is a work of comparative philosophy addressing selected works of the Iranian novelist and political thinker Jalal Al-e Ahmad and the German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. I demonstrate that the perceived failure of utopian modern projects, particularly …
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Vincenzo Tedeschi Paternò Castello (1786-1858). Un cieco nella Sicilia della prima metà del XIX secolo
Con il presente lavoro abbiamo cercato di ricostruire e contestualizzare, attraverso anche il reperimento di materiale archivistico e bibliografico inedito, la figura dell intellettuale siciliano non vedente Vincenzo Tedeschi Paternò Castello (1786-1858). La tesi è articolata in tre capitoli. Il …
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Pierre Hadot's Holistic Philosophy of Communication
<p>Pierre Hadot’s holistic philosophy of communication attends to the health of the self and community through practice of spiritual exercises for the transformation of one’s entire being, working at the nexus of mind, body, soul, and cosmos. The task is ever-incomplete, works in an understanding …
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