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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Self-referentiality"”.
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Destabilizing Machismo: Masculine and Feminine Constructions in the Theater of Susana Torres Molina
… that men have the power to define, from a self-referential standpoint, their masculine identity, through contrast with a construction of the female. Rather than consider masculine and feminine as two parts of the same whole, gender, Torres Molina's works represent machismo as a two-part …
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Essays on Self-Referential Games
<p>This dissertation studies self-referential games in which agents can learn (perfectly and imperfectly) about an opponents' intentions from a private signal. In the first chapter, my main focus is on the interaction of two sources of information about opponents' play: direct observation of an …
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Paul Auster's writing machine: A thing to write with
… this thesis explores the intratextuality and self-referentiality of contemporary American author Paul Auster's work, with a focus on his films and collaborative projects, which so far have suffered critical neglect. In Auster's self- and cross-referential body of work (the so-called …
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Solidarity, saviors, and the scales of authority : (social) media practices of the U.S.-Mexico border
… authority through the appearance of control, self-referentiality, and a sole savior narrative. Although the agency’s messaging tends to reify national scales of the border, I find that social media has allowed them to embody the border and selectively share this embodiment, scaling their …
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A psychotherapeutic perspective of the lived experience of leaders during a period of transition
… of personality cult leadership and egocentric self-referentiality. The need for individual proactive self-actualisation, development at an emotional-transferential level and the undoing of identity following demotion/transfer was indicated by the arising themes. The Training Manual, focusing on …
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CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND PERIPHERAL SCHOLARSHIP: HEGEMONY, DISCIPLINARY SOCIOLOGY AND IR IN BELARUS AND UKRAINE
… hegemonies. The second formulates the double self-referentiality thesis. The latter concerns the sociology of IR’s treatment of its object of research, namely the discipline of IR, in the same manner as its parental discipline treats its object of study, namely the international. The third …
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The Transformation of Kant's Transcendental Idealism: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre
… understands Kant better than Kant understands himself. This dissertation maintains that the issue of Fichte's relationship to Kant is a controversial one. It argues that Fichte's philosophical system is identical with and yet different from Kant's position. To the extent that Fichte rejects a …
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Practice, Communication and Space: A reflection on the materiality of social structures
… not just as contingent location but also in itself encapsulating an essential constituent of the communicative condition of the social. The aim of this thesis is to focus on this theoretical deficit in a number of ways. First, existing theories of society and space relations as found in social …
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Beauty of Form and Concept: The Aesthetics of Late Euripidean Tragedy
… texts themselves, with a particular emphasis on self-referential and self-conscious passages. Comparison with the work of other tragedians and with non-dramatic lyric, especially the New Music, and readings of contemporary comic reception also feature prominently. In doing so, I consider the …
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Max Bill in Italia . Lo spazio logico dell'architettura
… in Europe, Asia and Americas, confronting himself with the most influencing personalities of the twentieth century. In such a vast scenery, the need to limit the investigation field combined with the necessity to address and analyse the unpublished and original aspect of Bill’s relations with …