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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"aporia"”.
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Coping with uncertainty : aporia and play in actuarial and financial practices
This thesis aims to bring into sharp focus a contradiction that seems to persist in actuarial and financial practice. Specifically, how efforts to manage the uncertain and potentially catastrophic future, via actuarial and financial calculative modeling, fail precisely where they succeed. The …
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Writing against democracy: anarchist literature and the aporia of representation, 1880-1940
… and its governance. This logic produces the aporia of representation, a paradox that has obscured the era’s widespread fascination with anti-government politics. By recovering a fractured, yet sustained tradition of anarchist literature, this study reveals the difficulties inherent in writing …
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Aristotle's Aporia about Being and the One: The Background, Discussion and Solution of a Metaphysical Dilemma
… formulation and discussion of the eleventh aporia in Metaphysics Beta: "Are being (to on) and the one (to hen) the substance(s) of all things or are they just attributes of some other underlying thing?". It focuses on a particular characteristic of aporia 11, namely its allocation of the two …
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Intuitions and adequate philosophical solutions
… many principles" problem. Finally there is are aporia; this is a set of individually plausible and yet jointly inconsistent propositions. My thesis is that if one's solution to either a too many principle problem or an aporia crucially relies on intuition, then the solution is not an adequate …
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The Courage to Attune: The Promise of the Poetic for Naming the Experience of God in the Context of the Self-Other Relation
… poetic language offers for bringing to light the aporia of concurrent attunement and alienation in inter- and intra-subjective experience, as well as the theological significance of that aporia. A constructive case study method is employed, which analyzes eros in John Donne's love poetry (chapter …
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The Ends of Utopian Thinking: Marx, Adorno, Bloch
… Bloch’s ideas can be valuable in resolving the aporia of utopian thinking in Critical Theory. While important in its own right, this aporia is highly significant due to the enormous influence it exerted on the death of utopia in Western political thought, which can be seen as one of the key …
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Plato’s Lysis and Aristotle’s Notion of Friendship
… Although Socrates leaves each of these issues in aporia, Aristotle’s account of friendship offers systematic and philosophically illuminating responses. These responses together yield a comprehensive picture of Aristotelian friendship. Friendship is grounded more in loving than in being loved; …
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Trauma at the Limit: Bearing Witness to the Impossible of Survivor Testimony
… we continue to explore the concept of the aporia as well as its deconstructive implications for approaching survivor testimony. Turning to the heroic interpretations of traumatic death and suffering offered by existential psychology, I argue that theodicy does indeed persist in our modern …
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Reading Ineffability and Realizing Tragedy in Stuart Moulthrop's <i>Victory Garden</i>
… and is precipitated by the need to resolve aporia.</p>
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A critical evaluation of Kantian themes in Habermas’s critical theory
… tendencies, or in the case of Adorno, with aporia and fatalism. These “misreadings” lead him to reject dialectical logic and to jettison a thicker conception of critique opened up by Hegel’s critique of Kantian formalism, and Adorno’s continuation of it. As a result, Habermas retreats into …
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‘D’un usage de la donation en théologie’: the question of revelation through the prism of givenness in the phenomenological work of Jean-Luc Marion
… given of a response yet to be formulated: aporia constitutes, from the outset, the locus of revelation. Strictly speaking, not only is a revelation unspeakable and even unthinkable, but a revelation would have to contradict its own revealability to appear as such. And yet, is it not …
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Writing the behind: Schreber, Genet, Joyce, and the poetics of the penetrated male body
… masculinity. This articulation of a discursive aporia and corporeal liminality is shown to generate a specifically modern 'poetics'. This poetics will help to re-state a logic of the neither/nor as expressed by Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Kristeva, in particular. One major consequence of such …
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'Exorcising the curse of Sisyphus': English Catholic education and the possibiity of authenticity. A philosophical study after Heidegger, Derrida, Lonergan and Boeve
… way towards their possible exploration with the aporia providing a particular focus upon a number of cul-de-sacs in practice. This serves as a basis for re-thinking and taking responsibility for pathways required for aspects of practice. Identifying an on-going tension existing between …
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Contextual thesis Part I & Part II : Book of poems, "Looking off the Southern Edge" ; Stage play (full-length): Ecstasis
… by addressing the areas of Apophasis and the Aporia of 'the story', An Ecstatic Dramaturgy and the Undecidable Subject, and Ecstasis and an Endemic Specificity. This play was written, workshopped and enjoyed a partially moved reading (as late as the 11th, November) in the course of this year. …
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Sul problema dell'astratto. La Meditatio Mortis nella filosofia di G. Gentile
… primary ontological status leads to the deepest aporia in actualism: if the concrete is defined from the outset as "eternal", and if the abstract abstractly conceived, being nothing, is designed as what is "always dead", the question becomes more complex as regards the existence of the abstract …
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Where is Socrates going? : the philosophy of conversion in Plato's "Euthydemus".
… even when his protreptic dialogues terminate in aporia.
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Using Museomics to Investigate Extinction and Decline in British Butterflies
… demographic histories: the Black-veined White (Aporia crataegi), a locally extinct species; the Wood White (Leptidea sinapis), a declining butterfly species; and the Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), a species with stable demographic trends. This was achieved using whole genome shotgun …
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Helena Araújo, el devenir afuera: de la Colonia al exilio, de la confesión a la auto-ficción
… drawn either as a paradox or as an aporia.</p> <p>Using Michel Foucault′s concept of ‘archeology of knowledge’, this study ultimately reconsiders Araújo′s tradition in the context of Colombian feminine writing inasmuch as it revises feminine discourses and their relation to power′s …
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An Exploration of Affect as a Methodology for Examining Experience and Writing as a Practice in the Context of Fine Art
… of experience for any inconsistencies and/or aporia that might delimit its efficacy as both content and as interpretative register in the context of Fine Art. That is, to explore the reasons why experience, as opposed to other modes of consciousness, (understanding, knowing, perceiving, …
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El Psicoanálisis como práctica de discurso: perspectiva de la prevención en ámbitos socio-educativos
… as a discourse practice dissolves the aporia between the individual and the social. This thesis develops a novel aspect of this concept of Psychoanalysis by approaching it from the perspective of prevention. The problem opens the question of what would be the response of Psychoanalysis …
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