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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"care of the self"”.
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
This thesis discusses some of the critiques of modern moral theories (deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics) posed by Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Stocker, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. It focuses on Stocker’s challenge that when subjects try to act on such theories they become …
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The hermeneutics of the modern subject.
Martin Heidegger was the first modern European philosopher to alert mankind to the dangers of modern technology. He argued that technology is an enframing or a limiting perspective of the possibilities for human existence. The philosopher Michel Foucault investigated the geneology of the way that …
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Healing Interior: Using Eastern Design Principles in Hotel Design
The main goal of this thesis is to explore how interior spaces in hotel designs can provide a less stressful environment and promote health and harmony by using Feng Shui Principles. It will first discuss the principles of Feng Shui and general hotel design, and then move on to demonstrate how the …
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A Social Critique of Reflexive Reason: Relocating Critical Theory After Habermas and Foucault
… genealogies as an externalist critique of reflexive agency. Contrary to the interpretation that genealogy dispenses with agency and precludes critique, I argue that our constitution as reflexive agents, and our capacity for taking normative stances and critical action, concern Foucault …
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The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors
… in 1961, with 1.5 million people from around the world attending meetings every week today, Weight Watchers has become a socially and economically significant weight loss organization with the potential to affect the lives of many people. With that in mind, this study describes and analyzes …
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The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors
… in 1961, with 1.5 million people from around the world attending meetings every week today, Weight Watchers has become a socially and economically significant weight loss organization with the potential to affect the lives of many people. With that in mind, this study describes and analyzes …
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Curating the object: Art collection and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain
… claim that “all art is quite useless”—affirmed the “use” of art to human care and cultivation. By turning art and other artifacts into things to be acquired and arranged, mid-Victorian collectors transformed “Arts and Crafts” into a fashionable cult of the objet d’art. For instance, Charles …
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Exploring Subjectivity Through Safer Supply
In 2019, the Canadian government approved the prescription of medical heroin to people with severe opioid use disorder, not as a treatment for addiction, but as a harm reduction tactic to prevent overdose in the face of an increasingly toxic street drug supply (Health Canada 2019). This harm …
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Coming home to self: a first person action research inquiry
After 25 years of professional practice in leadership and change management, I came to doctoral inquiry in 2017. I realised early on that I had been living in a taken-for-granted positivist world with neoliberal expectations of utilisation and normative compliance. It became clear that challenges …
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Ideological dilemmas of alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous recovery
The present study aimed to map out how members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) construct themselves, in talk, as being in recovery. This study adopted a social constructionist epistemology and a Foucauldian discourse analytic research methodology. A total of nineteen …
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Hateful and Heartwarming Bonds: The Senses as Strategy in the South Korean Family
… investigates women’s strategizing around the senses in South Korea, tracing the ways that women move between sensory experience as an ideal and as an object to put into motion. I argue that the language of the sensory is invoked to stand up to state or societal pressures regarding …
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UNE ÉTUDE FOUCALDIENNE DE LA « FEMME EXOTIQUE » COMME FIGURE PÉDAGOGIQUE DU DÉSIR FÉMININ ALTERNATIF DANS LE ROMAN FRANÇAIS DE 1747 À 1997
This dissertation examines the exotic woman's character in four French novels, Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1747) by Françoise de Graffigny, Ourika (1823) by Claire de Duras, La jongleuse (1900) by Rachilde and Poisson d'or (1997) by J-M.G. Le Clézio. Its principal argument is to …
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Representations of the Care of the Soul in Early Christian Texts
… ancient Greco-Roman philosophies as the pursuit of abstract knowledge. He proposes instead conceiving of these philosophies more broadly as sets of practices that focused on “the care of the self/soul.” Such care involved exercises (“technologies of the self”) effecting both identity …
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Training Bodies: Performances of Ethos in 21st Century Sportswomen
This study reveals the ways in which previous cultural narratives about race, class, and gender may influence how one performs ethos and how that performance of ethos is received by an audience. Through a rhetorical analysis of the performances of ethos by elite female athletes such as Brandi …
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A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault
A Sceptical Aesthetics of Existence: The Case of Michel Foucault Emmanouil Simos (Hughes Hall) Michel Foucault's genealogical investigations constitute a specific historical discourse that challenges the metaphysical hypostatisation of concepts and methodological approaches as unique devices for …
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An ethics of coherence: self, knowledge, and religious authority among women Islamic scholars in Leicester, UK
This thesis is about Sunni Muslim female religious scholars (‘alimat sing. ‘alima) of Gujarati-Indian origin in the British Midlands city of Leicester. It investigates their efforts to live a good Muslim life and to guide others in doing so. These women studied a multi-year Islamic syllabus at …
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Youth Expression with Video Surveillance Technology
… five young Afro-Franco Caribbean males in the Diaspora and their experiences with systems of technology as a tool of oppression and liberation. The study utilized interpretive biography and participatory video research to examine the issues of identity, power/control, surveillance …
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Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the present
What is the nature of our society? What kinds of power regimes shape our existence? What forms of emancipatory resistance might chart the way towards a better future that responds to the dangers, injustices, and pathologies marking the present? These are just some of the questions my dissertation …
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Pākehā counsellors consider their positioning: Towards postcolonial praxis
The challenges of achieving the potential, which the Treaty of Waitangi offers for a postcolonial present and future, have shaped life in Aotearoa New Zealand over the last four decades. This thesis draws on this history and challenge to consider the practice possibilities for Pākehā counsellors …