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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"ethical encounter"”.
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
… unthematized in language. Levinas sees the encounter between self and other as the moment that instigates ethical responsibility, a moment so vital to avoiding mastering what is external to oneself that it should replace Western philosophy’s traditional emphasis on being as philosophy’s …
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Preparing for the ethical encounter investigating the role and type of citizen education to encourage participation in local government
… dissertation looks at the possibilities for an ethical encounter' at a local government level. Much has been written on the problems and challenges of local government in its structure, its politicisation and the dynamics within these invited spaces. This is compounded by service delivery …
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Preparing for the ‘ethical encounter': investigating the role and type of citizen education to encourage participation in local government
… notion of ubuntu and can be conceptualised as an ethical encounter'. I argue that this notion is informed by both a recognition of another's humanity and a redistribution of resources and power so that people can live a life of dignity. This dissertation looks at the possibilities for an ‗ethical …
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
… lyric subjectivity and reformulates it as ethical insofar as it is "circumspective" or "other-oriented"; that is, the lyric "I" is depicted as constituted through its relations with alterity. I apply contemporary literary-ethical methodology, notably the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel …
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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
… this supremely personal literary project for the ethical encounter, arguing for the framing of reading as an inherently political and ethical activity. Throughout history, people have been utilizing writing as a technology of the self—what does that mean for the reader?</p>
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A Necessary Difficulty: The Poethics of Proximity in John Ashbery and Michael Palmer
… are noticeably absent from recent surveys of the ethical turn in innovative American poetry during the latter half of the twentieth century. By analysing the work produced during the first half of their careers as they write a poetic subject into existence, this thesis will demonstrate that the …
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Choran community: The aesthetics of encounter in literary and photographic modernism
… interconnective community through art. The ethical encounter, enacted in the choran moment, invites both contemporary audiences and the present scholarly community to read modernism as an attempt at rebuilding interconnectivity. Through my intervention into established critical categories of …
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We - For The Other: Solidarity as an Enactment of Ethical-Empathetic Subjectivity (An Analysis of the Philosophical Projects of Emmanuel Levinas and Edith Stein, and the Concept of Solidarity)
… exploring the work of Emmanuel Levinas and his ethical presentation of the human person. Here we find the human person not concerned with his or her own state of being, but rather turning toward the other in ethical responsibility. However, Levinas' work presents us with a peculiar problem - …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
… modes of representation, but rather as an ethical encounter between the poet and the work of visual art. The openness and fluidity of such encounters for Yeats and Boland affirm the dignity of individuality and re-frame ekphrasis as a mode capable of the aesthetic and ethical creativity …
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Unresolved Differences: Choreographing Community in Cross-Generational Dance Practice
… of models of difference, and introduces how an ethical encounter with others can avoid the totalising impulse of community in subsuming these differences. The methodology of ‘relational choreography’ underpins the phenomenological emphasis on process and relationships in choreography over more …
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Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental Film
… from the Orient, producing films that model an ethical encounter with the Other at odds with the prevailing aesthetic of orientalist cinema. This decorative aesthetic set her in uneasy relation to the avant-garde, whose strenuous attempts to distance abstraction from ornament took the form of …
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Camera Mortis: Ethics and Aesthetics in Emmanuel Levinas and Richard Mosse
… political awareness and to facilitate an ethical encounter between the viewer and the other through a questioning of the other’s death and the viewer’s self. The depiction of the other’s death gives rise to a contemplation of moral responsibility and a movement from the viewer’s self …
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Being Good Women: The Rise and Appeal of Femininity Among Globalist Women
… a digital and non-digital interface mean as an ethical practice? As I observed this ethical self-cultivation that necessarily, for my interlocuters, mediated between their online and offline selves, it became clear that the discourse upon which their feminine ideal was born was itself a …
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Phenomenology of Death: The Religious Dimension in the Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas
… order to unveil the religious dimension in his ethical thought through examining the political moment of the third party. I argue that death is neither a pure phenomenon transparently intelligible in the noema-noesis structure of intentionality nor a mere non-phenomenon totally irrelevant to the …
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Through the lens of Levinas: An ethnographically-informed case study of pupils’ practices of facing in music-making
… overtaken notions of professional judgement and ethical practice. This study opens by introducing current strands of international meta-policy priorities in education, and explores moves to redress the emphasis on standardisation and accountability through the rediscovery of notions of …