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Showing 1 to 20 of 422 for “"dialectic"”.
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Dialectic
LORD, shall we not bring these gifts to your service? Shall we not bring to your service all our powers For life, for dignity, grace and order, And intellectual pleasures of the senses? The LORD who created must wish us to create And employ our creation again in His service Which is already His …
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Plato's Later Dialectic
This thesis proposes a new interpretation on what is called the method of collection and division prominent in Plato's certain later dialogues.
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The love dialectic
<p>The dialectic concerning romantic love and its place in the lives of men and women has for many centuries provided much of the matter of literature. How important is it, or should it be, the poets have asked; is it more important in the lives of women than in the lives of men; how do or should …
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Dialectic, Perspective, and Drama
… on "purification." In short, purified war is a dialectical activity which actively and perpetually pits divergent perspectives against each other. Such an activity keeps the conflictual nature of divergent perspectives in verbal and symbolic arenas rather than physical ones. Burke owes this …
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The Dialectic of Discovery
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Merleau-Ponty and the dialectic of perception
… of the program implicit in every phase of this dialectic: each type of theory, in its turn, attempts to explain the event of perception in terms of an ontological commitment that is essentially derivative from perception and hence a distorting abstraction from it. After developing each theory …
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A dialectic construct for the urban environment
This thesis examines the relationship between meaning in architecture and its role in defining urban space. The definition of meaning as it applies to this thesis is a designation for those essential qualities of the man-made environment which produce in man a cognition of place. Without meaning …
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Inside is Outside: Nishida's Dialectic of Alterity and Identity
… which is established within a complex dialectic of oppositions to others grounded in the non-dual foundation of absolute nothingness.
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Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem: dialectic and the chromatic middleground
… present study focuses specifically on the work’s dialectic: the presentation and resolution of a conflict between mortal suffering and eternal joy. It takes an Schenkerian approach to the tonal content of the piece, which provides a musical reflection of the human spiritual journey to the …
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A fractured dialectic: Søren Kierkegaard between idealism and materialism
This thesis aims to consider the contemporary relevance of the philosophical and religious project of Søren Kierkegaard by offering a systematic reading of his work against the backdrop of 19th century German idealism. Along with an emphasis on a systematic interpretation of a thinker usually …
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Martin Heidegger's Mathematical Dialectic: Uncovering the Structure of Modernity
… it, on the basis of what we call a “mathematical dialectic.“ The basis of our analysis is that Heidegger’s understanding of Modernity, both on its own terms and in the context of his theory of history [Seinsgeschichte], is best understood in terms of the interaction between two essential, …
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Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… studies and the practice of audio-walks. A "dialectic of aestheticization and commodification" runs through modernity that generates aestheticized forms of walking today. While walking is initially a form of aesthetic struggle against the rational principles of modernity and the forces of …
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The Dialectic of the Unhappy Consciousness in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction
This study provides a dialectical alternative to poststructuralist and postmodernist readings of J. M. Coetzee’s fiction, on one hand, and Levinasian interpretations of his works, on the other. Drawing on Hegel and Adorno, I explore the subject position of the Unhappy Consciousness in three of …
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Accounting for Sustainable Livelihoods: The dialectic between Fairtrade and Biodiversity
… of a co-operative of coffee farmers? A dialectic/historical materialist methodology is used in combination with multiple methods for a case study of a coffee co-operative in India. A theoretical framework was developed that incorporates the labour theory of value along with the science …
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The Dialectic of Naturgeist in Hegel’s Anthropology: Soul, World, and Bodiliness
… in the <em>Anthropology</em> in terms of the dialectic of <em>Naturgeist </em>and considers how human existence and life are understood under this dialectic.</p>
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Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society
… in contemporary political philosophy. Through a dialectical analysis of capitalist stability and instability, I criticize this abandonment and demonstrate that the concept of stability is essential for theorizations of justice. This dissertation, first, maps out a shift in political philosophy …
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… deployment of the stage as a model for dialectical thought, which they also conceive of as integral to the question of human subjectivity. The dissertation demonstrates how the formal divisions which give the theatre its specificity – its tension between dramatic text and the horizon of …
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The demise of the dialectic: historical consciousness and the American experience
… and continuously dependent upon the experiential dialectic of the universal and the particular. (4) The human perception of the relationship between the universal and the particular is of paramount importance in determining the limitations and potentialities of historical movement at any given …
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The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution
… for the paralysis of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, and thus of radical critique in relation to practice in general. It begins by demonstrating that there is a methodological problem in the connection of the dialectical method to Adorno and Horkheimer's philosophy of …
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