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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"existential philosophy"”.
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Vietnamese Existential Philosophy: A Critical Appraisal
… I present a new understanding of Vietnamese existentialism during the period 1954-1975, the period between the Geneva Accords and the fall of Saigon in 1975. The prevailing view within Vietnam sees Vietnamese existentialism during this period as a morally bankrupt philosophy that is a mere …
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Black Existential Philosophy: Truth in Virtue of Self-Discovery
In the past 20 years, within the discipline of philosophy there has been a burgeoning interest in the fields of Race theory, Africana, and African American philosophy, especially in the scholarship and questions concerning the experience and meaning of black existence; that is, within black …
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It's all uphill from here: Finding the concept of joy in existential philosophy and literature
<p>Current readings of existentialism are overly negative. It is not without reason that existentialism has a reputation of pessimism preceding it, to the point that the uninitiated cannot help but picture beatnik poets chain-smoking by the first syllable of the name "Sartre." Existentialism, while …
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Existential Thought: Its Contributions to Psychotherapy
… a basic introduction to the general concepts of existential philosophy and to illustrate how these concepts are integrated into psychology and psychotherapy.
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What does work, achievement and identity mean to black British women? The lived experience of professional black British women of Jamaican heritage
… This was a qualitative study from an existential phenomenological perspective, using the critical narrative analysis method (CNA). Two semi-structured interviews were undertaken to capture the participants’ narratives. The participants’ narratives were analysed using critical theories, …
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The Leap : Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective
‘The Leap: Existential Storytelling and the Knight's Perspective' is a creative writing PhD thesis. It consists of a science fiction novel which uses devices and ideas taken from existential philosophy, accompanied by a critical commentary. The protagonist of the novel is a young knight named …
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Kristevan theory: meanings, contexts, feminist "uses"
… and that her roots in, or resonances with existential philosophy are most important. I particularly stress connections between Kristevan, Sartrean, and Beauvoirian existentialism: Kristevan subjectivity and Sartrean Being, subjective non-specificity and existential nothing, nothingness, or …
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Toward a political ontology of Being and time: inauthenticity and authenticity
This thesis examines the claim that the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time necessarily leads to an authoritarian politics. Using the arguments of Jurgen Habermas and Richard Wolin, I examine the contention that Heidegger's dichotomy between "authenticity" and …
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"The Last of the True:" The Kid's Place In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… why the kid resists Judge Holden’s overbearing existential philosophy. In my introduction I set the stage for Judge Holden’s imperial philosophy and practice through a brief explanation of his character, both historical and fictional, and the novel’s success because of his tyrannical grandeur. I …
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"The Last of the True:" The Kid's Place In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… why the kid resists Judge Holden’s overbearing existential philosophy. In my introduction I set the stage for Judge Holden’s imperial philosophy and practice through a brief explanation of his character, both historical and fictional, and the novel’s success because of his tyrannical grandeur. I …
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‘Undetermined exiles’: a phenomenological exploration of transition out of Army life
… Army? Can psychotherapy, and specifically existential psychotherapy, help in the transition process? These have become increasingly important questions since the Strategic Defence and Security Review (2010) set a government target of 7,000 British Army redundancies to be made by 2015. …
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Transcending trauma: connecting to life in the face of death
… growth and PTSD and were consistent with existential philosophy on the nature of living and dying. It is argued that the participants’ powerful group identity and cohesion, strongly sustained by the British Army regimental system, may promote psychological well-being in combat. Limitations …
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EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: ITS THEORY, RESEARCH, CLINICAL PRACTICE, AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
… therapeutic experience. Meanwhile, educated in existential philosophy and phenomenology, Eugene Gendlin advanced this "new process conception" by clarifying the crucial distinction between "direct experiencing" as it is immediately given in awareness, and conceptualizations of that experiencing. …
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A community-based experience of being permanently excluded from secondary school: an existential reflection
… of the human condition, their lifeworld and existential predicament. This research provides an existential perspective to begin to address this lacuna and generate a new and much needed dialogue between professionals and excluded youth. Seven participants between the ages of 17-23 were …
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Emergent grace: Paul Tillich, existential ontology, and the ethics of acceptance
… of grace in conversation with secular moral philosophy, highlighting its relevance to virtue cultivation within and beyond religious contexts. This is an unusual connection, admittedly, but properly understood, grace addresses key ethical issues such as moral development, moral psychology, …
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Addressing otherness in and through sound arts to establish intimacy and proximity as a form of co-creativity and as critical terms for discourse production
… of binary otherness in phenomenological and existential philosophy as a first theoretical working ground. From there, and in critique of the binary definition, the otherness that comes to the fore in this thesis is a ‘non-binary otherness’, an otherness not caught in fixed oppositions, but …
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"Stratagems to unblind" : reflexivity and existentialism in three novels by John Fowles
… practice and its interactions with existential themes on the basis that critical commentaries have not fully accounted for the rigour of his reflexive approach, nor for the complexity of its interrelations with existential philosophy, as it is used in his work. In my introductory …
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Ethical decision making in the National Health Service: A theoretical analysis of clinical negligence with reference to the existential writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
… to them (Sartre 1987: 38, 39).<br/><br/>The Existential philosophy as outlined by Sartre, Levinas, and Kierkegaard cares about the lived experiences of individuals. Such a view is in contradistinction to other philosophical views which have a tendency to reduce human experience, or to lose …
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Mothers’ lived experience of maternal separation: a phenomenological exploration
… on the topic of maternal separation from an existential philosophical perspective. An existential-phenomenological approach provides a thorough and organised analysis of maternal separation by examining the various aspects of human experience, including the physical, social, personal, and …