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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Political science -- Philosophy"”.
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… aided by feminist historicism, legal studies, political science, philosophy, nonfiction studies, and biography. After an opening theoretical and historical chapter on women, consent, and marriage, three chapters and three literary case studies in the body expose laws dictating female marital …
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Kongzi, Rawls, and the sense of justice in the Analects.
This dissertation is a comparative study of the philosophy of John Rawls and the Confucian Analects regarding the idea of a sense of justice. The first aim of this work is to correct a view that has been advanced by several scholars of Chinese and comparative philosophy, namely, that the absence of …
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Nicholas Wolterstorff's Reformed epistemology and its challenge to Lockean and Rawlsian liberalism.
… Wolterstorff as it regards his epistemology and political philosophy. It seeks to unfold his theory of democracy, which he calls the consocial position. It begins by introducing the reader to Wolterstorff by relating events and experiences of his life. This background information is important as …
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The Ontopolitics of Complexity: Toward Agonistic Democracy and Ecological Political Economy
… and often misunderstood terms in sustainability science. In this text, I argue that the conventionalization of the concept of complexity has resulted in the conflation of “thin” (i.e., reductionist) complexity and “thick” (i.e., perspectivist) complexity, and the resultant confusion surrounding …
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Martin Heidegger's Mathematical Dialectic: Uncovering the Structure of Modernity
… to advance the larger aim of defending the prescience, structural coherence, and relevance of Heidegger’s diagnosis of Modernity as such.</p>
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Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
… claim that ‘the human being is by nature a political animal’ in light of his works on biology and poetics, I find that Aristotle displaces ideas concerning the role of human being in the cosmos prominent in the Ancient Greek world, binding the self-understanding of human beings to other …
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The Open City: A Grammatology of Migrant-Rights Movements and the Logic of Sovereignty
… give rise to novel and significant changes in political discourse, generating articulations of a democracy of strangers, common right, solidarity beyond citizenship, and an unprecedented notion of freedom. Using this unorthodox method, I find that a history of Western logocentrism is …
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Liberalism, self-determination, and secession.
… of what grounds the existing state's claim to political jurisdiction over its territory. With this in mind, I examine consent and teleological justifications for the state and find both inadequate. The consent account posits that a political state is justified just in case it has the consent of …
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Martin Heidegger's Critiques of Metaphysics
… Critiques of Metaphysics and Humanist-Political Critiques of Heidegger introduces the reader to the work and controversies of renowned German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). The dissertation aims to situate the critique of Heidegger in his writings as well the impactful …
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Speech, Law and Civil Society: Liberal Thought Against Democratic Politics
… state, but rather as a qualitatively different political form. The first thinkers to dedicate their attention to representative government in a systematic way were perfectly candid in contrasting this type of regime with democracy, which they viewed as an archaic form of politics that was at …
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From Freedom to Equality: Thinking Politics and Education with Jacques Ranciere
… is also a question that has motivated many other political reflections on education. In part, it is the prevalence of this common concern with the emancipatory capacity of education that inspired the first major claim of this dissertation: a general problematic of freedom and authority seems to …
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Citizen-Subjectivity, Experiential Evaluation, and Activist Strategies: Explaining Algerian Violence and Polish Peace under Authoritarian Rule
… material deprivation and authoritarian political exclusion. From narratives of state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evolution in postwar Poland and postcolonial Algeria a conditional model derives violent and non-violent opposition strategies from divergent …