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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Philosophy of history"”.
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Hegel's Philosophy of History
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The Philosophy of History of Pompeius Trogus
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
… dissertation presents a materialist inheritance of the idealist theory of universal history that descends from Immanuel Kant through Early German Romanticism to Walter Benjamin. I show that the division between the idealist and the materialist interpretations of universal history results from …
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Dramatization and philosophy of history in Orange Book explication of a site-responsive work and its research
The explication presents Orange Book as a piece of site-responsive public space performance, showing how similar patterns of thought and feeling emerging in both research and artwork led to elaborating the notion of an art methodology for the work. The explication further considers a process of …
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The historicity of things: a study in the philosophy of Samuel Alexander
There is no part of Alexander's system which he anywhere explicitly characterises as a "philosophy of history".
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Politics, history, critique: An interpretation of Kant's political philosophy in light of his critical-regulative method.
<p>My dissertation offers the following three benefits with regard to a renewed interpretation of Kant's political philosophy:</p> <p>1)I will demonstrate that Kant's essays on history and politics are not dogmatic, unimportant, or of minor significance, but employ a critical principle of …
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The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution
… attempts to account for the paralysis of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, and thus of radical critique in relation to practice in general. It begins by demonstrating that there is a methodological problem in the connection of the dialectical method to Adorno and …
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The philosophies of history of Herder and Hegel
… unwittingly contributed to the political strands of Marxism and Fascism, respectively, but also to the gently progressing secularisation of Christian values that pervades the contemporary age. While Herder conceived of God traditionally, as a transcendent Being, he also sowed the seeds for Hegel’s …
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At the limit of the concept: logic and history in Hegel, Schelling, and Adorno
In this thesis I show how the challenges of producing a philosophy of history responsive to the negativity of the world benefits from working through the difficulties of G. W. F. Hegel’s systematic philosophy. By revealing the powerful and intricate ways that Hegel gives an illegitimate primacy to …
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John Dewey, Historiography, and the Practice of History.
… Dewey was America's foremost authority on many of the critical issues in the twentieth century. Dewey dedicated his professional career as an expert on the major branches of philosophy.</p><p>A neglected aspect of Dewey's philosophy is his writings on historiography, the philosophy of history, …
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The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing.
<p>A perennial question in the philosophy of history is whether history is a science or an art. This thesis contests that this question constitutes a false dichotomy, limiting the discussion in such a way as to exclude other possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical …
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Wupperthal: listening to the past
The community of the Wupperthal Mission Station and its satellite stations, forms the focus of this text. The mission is situated in the Tra-Tra River Valley in the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. In this text, I have sketched a series of vignettes to portray the lives of certain …
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COUNTER-PROPAGANDA EDUCATION: A CRITICAL POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
<p>Philosophy of education not only forms the background for curriculum construction and pedagogy but there is a connection between epistemology and education within the economic power structure of society in the United States (Aronowitz & Giroux, 1993/1991, p. 88). Public education in the United …
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… both a central political authority and colonies of their own. We know from the work of scholars such as Susanne Zantop that German intellectuals were fascinated by encounters with non-European cultures, and German genres of travel writing, popular drama, and the philosophy of history all manifest …
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Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
<p>In the wake of the post-structuralist skepticism of language and language's ability to represent reality, the philosophy of history has likewise been questioned, since we gain our knowledge and understanding of the past primarily through language—through written and spoken testimony, and through …
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On Foot: Pathways Through Contemporary Literature
… and ethical relationships among practices of walking, writing, remembering, and haunting. By contemplating the ways in which contemporary authors reimagine the walking narrative as a historically embedded and physically embodied site of experimental spatial and social practices and radical …
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Territory and history: the justification of detachment from the land as a stage in the development of human agency
The aim of this thesis is to research the ontology of human agency that informs the structure of most contemporary theories of territorial rights. Rather than establishing a new normative approach to the issue of the allocation of territories to subjects, my work focuses on a descriptive conceptual …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
… including by extending lifespan in one of three ways: (1) a biological approach that focuses on reducing the effects of aging, (2) a cybernetic approach that focuses on replacing the body with mechanical equivalents, and (3) a digital approach that focuses on reproducing human minds …
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Manfredo Tafuri's notion of history and its methodological sources : from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes
… sources: the theories, and their mode of reception, that have directly influenced his thought. The period examined starts with Theories and History of Architecture, first published in 1968 and ends with "The Historical 'Project"', the introductory essay of The Sphere and the Labyrinth, …
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Not the way it really was : constructing the Tolai past
This study is an attempt to write a history of the colonial past of the Tolai in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The history consists of seven parts, each of them dealing with a particular theme or episode: the Toma killings in 1902 (chapter 1). prophecies of the arrival of the white people …
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