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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Theodor Adorno"”.
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Critical ecologies: Violence and life in the work of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno
… of violence in the works of Jacques Derrida and Theodor Adorno. I argue that the conjunction of questions of violence and with those of “life” indicates a profound sympathy in their thinking and suggests the need to develop a critical dialogue between discourses of life (ecology, environmental …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
… to foreign languages and fuels violence. Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald secularize the notion of the mother tongue and rehabilitate multilingualism. Adorno advocates a philosophical and an aesthetic framework with one language open to foreign expressions, whereas Sebald promotes …
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Razón y normatividad. El debate entre Jürgen Habermas y Niklas Luhmann
… recurridos como el efectuado entre Karl Popper y Theodor Adorno. En esta investigación pretendemos mostrar que esta controversia (inserta en el contexto no tanto de la filosofía sino de las ciencias sociales) no es ajena al pensamiento filosófico, sino que representa una instancia de renovación de …
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Cark
… and Lyn Hejinian, in relation to theorists Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to articulate a poetics specific to the poems in the collection. The poetics is described via the literary and anthropological uses of metaphor, which are employed to unify text, writer, and reader. The …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… materialism), as well as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Critical Theory). Furthermore, the dissertation deals with the idea of metatheatre, and it discusses elements of metadrama (Karin Vieweg-Marks) in the selected plays. The symbolic boundaries of research are the Berlin Wall's …
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«Η ανθρώπινη αξία ανάμεσα στο Ιερό, την Ευπάθεια και τη Διαλεκτική του Διαφωτισμού: Μια σύγκριση της Σιμόν Βέιλ, της Τζούντιθ Butler και της κριτικής των Τέοντορ Αντόρνο και Μαξ Χορκχάιμερ»
… της Judith Butler και την κριτική ανάλυση των Theodor Adorno και Max Horkheimer. Κεντρικός άξονας της έρευνας είναι ο τρόπος με τον οποίο το υποκείμενο τοποθετείται ανάμεσα στην ιερότητα της ύπαρξης, τη θεμελιώδη ευπάθεια (vulnerability) και τις αλλοτριωτικές δυνάμεις που περιγράφονται στη …
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Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists
… study employs a discourse analysis informed by Theodor Adorno and other Frankfurt School thinkers' response to the 20th century's authoritarian demagogues, demonstrating their continued relevance to studies in nationalist extremism and democratic critique. Finally, the project concludes with …
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Building upon ruins : the evolution of an urban artifact from infrastructure to public space
… Aldo Rossi. David Lowenthal. Francoise Choay, Theodor Adorno, Manfredo Tafuri , and Giorgio Grassi. among others, have guided this exploration. The second part of the thesis is designed to test the proposition by linking the urban artifact with the present. This linkage would be achieved …
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Freedom and Nature in McDowell and Adorno
… of the Frankfurt School critical theorist Theodor Adorno. Adorno is, I argue, able to secure the appropriate connection between reason and freedom, and thus what McDowell himself describes as a distinctively human orientation towards the world. Convinced McDowellians should therefore be …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… by examining the philosophical critiques of Theodor Adorno and Eric Voegelin. It then extends these critiques into the ongoing discussion of post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, while introducing the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as a helpful and appropriate means for …
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Ideology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.
… Addressing critics such as Georg Lukács and Theodor Adorno, I argue that Woolf and H.D.’s goal of breaking the homogenous values of mass-produced art not only speaks to debates surrounding the political utility of modernism but also both writers’ belief that experimental aesthetics can …
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Survivor’s Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”
… guilt through fiction. Informed especially by Theodor Adorno and Elie Wiesel, I examine the ethics of fictionalizing the Holocaust. Furthermore, this thesis considers both trauma theory and the psychology of grief to investigate the ways in which the Jewish-American community at large responded …
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
… of Jean Francois Lyotard, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, I look at Western rationality through its manifestation in British colonialism. I argue that colonialism is a site where rationality's negative legacy is manifest, and that the paradoxical representations of rationality in the books …
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The Symbolic Form of Architecture: An investigation into its philosophical foundations and a discussion on the development of the perception of architectural form by modern heoreticians and symbolist architects
… Cassirer, Immanuel Kant, Conrad Fiedler, and Theodor Adorno. Then, the development of the modern perception of form in architectural theoreticians, where "modern" architectural theory evolved from an analogical state into a symbolic state, is examined: Karl Bötticher's concept of a Junktur and …
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Smell as Self-identity: Capitalist Ideology and Olfactory Imagination in Das Parfum’s Multimedia Storytelling
… of textual analysis and cultural studies on Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s discussion on Enlightenment, Martin Heidegger’s Existentialist philosophy, Foucouldian governmentality, and neoliberal language of self-sufficiency, the thesis analyzes how smell could be effectively visualized …
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How Hollywood Stole My Identity: African American Representation in the films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Get Out
… also interrogated. The works of James Baldwin, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer provide the theoretical background to this discussion of race as an element of identity, as well as within the framework of a culture industry. The second chapter explores the transition from Old Hollywood to New …
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Adorno, Hegel and the Philosophical Origins of Classical Social Theory
… claim of my dissertation is that the work of Theodor Adorno offers a valuable framework for reevaluating the philosophical heritage of classical social theory. In his ongoing engagement with the philosophy of German Idealism, and with Hegel in particular, Adorno’s philosophical, sociological, …
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Orchestration in the Operas of Richard Wagner
… the broader theorisation of scholars such as Theodor Adorno and Tobias Janz, or the performance-based practical experience of commentators such as Richard Strauss and Pierre Boulez. In addition, the dissertation embraces thought in other musicological spheres, such as the role of instruments …
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Freedom, Music and the RIAA: How the Recording Industry Association of America Shapes Culture by De-politicizing Music
… among fewer companies. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno described how the commodifying forces of the music industry lead to a predictable formulaic music that lacks any critical approach to society in their groundbreaking book, first published in 1944, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1972). …
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