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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"alterity"”.
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Ballads, blues, and alterity
… and why nostalgic and essentialising visions of alterity were used to resist mass consumption, global capitalism, and the changes wrought by modernity during the twentieth century. I argue that folk music does not exist outside the discourse of revivalism and is therefore best seen as an …
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Art as a narrative of alterity.
… is recognised in philosophical discourse as alterity. The thesis posits that in art alterity has always been, and remains, tacit and integral to arts being. Thus, by exploring the ways in which “ through alterity “ art and philosophy intersect and interweave, the thesis aims to reveal a new …
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Organizing for alterity: a netnography of #AlteritOrg
This is a thesis about “organizing for alterity” which it conceptualises as organizing with a difference—that is, in terms of how we go about organizing and what the outcomes of organizing might be. The thesis presents a critical analysis of #AlteritOrg, a community of practice identifying as a …
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Inside is Outside: Nishida's Dialectic of Alterity and Identity
… be examined through the lens of temporality, alterity, and ethics as it emerges in this text and connects with his other works. These analyses will be bookended with an overview of Nishida’s early philosophy on one side and his entry into political thought late in his life, with an eye to how …
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Mediating alterity: Transitive Indianness in U.S. non-normative medicine
… medicine have reified what formations of alterity constitute appropriate non-normativity. This dissertation interrogates the mediation of non-normative medicine through indigenous alterity with respect to gender and racialization, specifically at the National Institutes of Health that, …
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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism
… othered status. In order to establish the alterity of the genetic posthuman, storytellers strategically recycle modes of dehumanisation applied in historical race- or gender-based struggles. In each case, genetic posthumans are described in a manner recalling other oppressed outgroups: they …
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The Prester John Legend and European conceptions of Alterity before 1800.
… of wider European conceptions of Eastern alterity. Figures of curiosity, such as Prester John, ‘existed’ in spaces of ignorance (Terra Incognita) that exhibited a different category of knowledge to that of the ‘known’ world, from the European perspective. As Europeans expanded their …
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A production of alterity: The Wayãpi of the Upper Oyapock and isolated groups
… or unknown Amerindians. Reviewing concepts of alterity and ontologies (Descola 2013), as well as Amerindian discourse on isolated groups, it identifies the foundational elements present in the Wayãpi’s alterity production processes concerning the isolated groups in the Upper Oyapock River …
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Ethics, politics, and alterity in selected plays and other works by Harold Pinter
… In order to so, I shall look at the question of alterity as that which structures the irreducible gap between ethics and politics in Pinter’s work. In particular, I approach the conception of otherness in Pinter in the double sense of the unknowable and that which always already inhabits the …
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The Space of Alterity: Language and National Identity in Theodor Adorno and W.G. Sebald
<p>The German Romantic monolingual paradigm of national identity emerged in the late eighteenth century to establish a mother tongue as a national backbone. This paradigm portrayed multilingualism as destabilizing, impoverishing, and unsuitable for aesthetics. Radicalized by the Nazis and …
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"Alterity and Hagiography in the Early Modern Captivity Narrative: ""Naufragios"", ""Wahrhaftige Historia"", and ""Peregrinação"""
The diverse strands and varied emphases of the rich hagiographic tradition inherited from the Middle Ages are used to express startlingly different world views in these three autobiographical narratives. The examination of the hagiographic discourse reveals the dialectical tensions characteristic …
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Disconsolate Subjects: Figures of Radical Alterity in the Twentieth Century Novel, From Modernism to Postcolonialism
… attention to the gaps and fissures opened by the alterity of these disconsolate subjects, these texts function as waiting rooms or holding spaces for a utopianism that is unrealizable in a world of political disillusionment.</p>
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
<p>In this dissertation, I closely examine Maurice Merleau-Ponty's treatment of non-human ("animal") subjectivities and his later conception of the relationship - or what he calls the "strange kinship'' - between 'the human" and "the animal." I argue that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy - especially …
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Exploring The Imaginary Domain: An Investigation Of The Interplay Of Alterity, Literature, And The Process Of Self-Definition
… an investigation of the ways the interplay of alterity, the radical difference between self and other, and literature study created imaginary domains where the students could fashion definitions and re-definitions of self. Over a twelve-week period the students read and responded to texts …
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Travelling in Language and Image: Representing Alterity in French Romantic Fiction, Travel Narrative, Journalism, and Art, 1830--1870
… of visual and discursive representations of alterity in the works by these authors is, therefore, an inquiry into an important cultural phenomenon of French society during the Romantic period. This study suggests that having appropriated the theme of the competition---or …
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
According to philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, alterity can exist only in its infinite and fluid nature in which the aspects of it that exceed the human ability to fully understand it remain unthematized in language. Levinas sees the encounter between self and other as the moment that instigates …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
… that the novel provides a ‘felt encounter with alterity’ through its representation of characterological otherness. Yet Hale also acknowledges that ‘a strong example of a counteraesthetic to the ethics of alterity can be located in the Proustian tradition’. This dissertation uses Hale’s …
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Towards a vegan jurisprudence : the need for a reorientation of human rights
… the nature of vegan claims in the ethics of alterity. It specifically utilises the argument that the basis of human rights recognises ethical responsibility to the precarious, mortal other. Upendra Baxi cautiously supports the application of Levinas’ philosophy to the ethics of law, and there …
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The mezzo-soprano as representation of 'the other' in nineteenth century opera
… the various templates delineated in theories of alterity? The roles will be classified and discussed according to four templates of alterity: social, religious, moral and emotional.
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