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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"finitude"”.
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Finitude and Transcendence: A Study in Paul Ricœur’s Early Philosophy
… to debates regarding the nature of human finitude by drawing on the early writings of the French philosopher Paul Ricœur (1913-2005). Ricœur’s concept of finitude has several unique features which distinguish it from many that were (and still are) prevalent in French philosophical …
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Precarious Theology: A Queer and Crip reading of Augustine's Theology of Finitude
… difficulties around how we talk well about our finitude, interdependence, and varied experiences of vulnerability. By attending to our precariousness, theologians alight on a central paradox of Christian thought: the simultaneous goodness of our created finitude, alongside the all-pervasive …
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The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa.
… explore these dynamics in turn, first, analyzing finitude and contingency as they are experienced paradigmatically in the flesh, and, second, tracing the relationship between finite nature and divine likeness. Chapter Five turns to phenomenological conceptions of finitude in Merleau-Ponty, Henry, …
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How to Factor Loss
… poems in this thesis are primarily responses to finitude. The first section turns toward an “other” as a strategy of placating desire and of reaching both inward and outward. The second section explores the potential failures of art as a means of touching objects. The final section acknowledges …
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A heuristic exploration into the lived experience of trying to “have it all” at 30: How do professional women experience desiring to mother and career planning against the backdrop of the finitude of their fertility?
… freedom, meaning, temporality, mortality and finitude. In this heuristic pilot study, the author reflects on their own experience of this choice alongside another woman’s in a similar situation as an investigation into the lived experience of the phenomenon, The study concludes with a …
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Opening a World From Categorial Intuition to Art
… follows the explicit necessity of human finitude as later understood as Dasein's thrown-being-in-the-world. This finitude leads to what I call the riddle of Gelassenheit, meaning how, faced with the inevitability of comportment and the concealing nature of all limited disclosure, we can …
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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… notion of the death drive, I argue that temporal finitude is not a lack of being that we are inherently driven to overcome. Rather, temporal finitude is the source of both the desirable and the undesirable. The theory of chronolibido provides the framework for thinking this double bind and thereby …
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...Da solidão e da condição... (por uma antropologia da solidão: uma abordagem a partir de Clarice Lispector e Martin Heidegger)
… e ser-com, angústia e nada, escrever e pensar, finitude e singularização como as entende a escritora e o filósofo Martin Heidegger. Nossa intenção é mostrar a compreensão de homem na obra da escritora a partir da experiência da solidão expondo o contributo dessa para pensarmos uma antropologia …
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DA PHILOSOPHIE UND RELIGION ALLA FREIHEITSSCHRIFT. IL FINITO, IL MALE, LA LIBERTA' UMANA NEL PENSIERO DI SCHELLING (1804-1809).
… chapter, the thesis discusses the problem of finitude, evil and human freedom in the wider context of Schelling’s system of identity, while stressing some theoretical as well as ethical issues, provoked by the doctrine of a metaphysical prohibition of a transition from the infinite realm (the …
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Driving with the Dead: Stories of Loss, Journey, and Wonder
… of our own mortality. Rather than accept finitude, we embrace ideas of boundlessness and perpetuity, and perceive ourselves as beings in constant motion, as<em> travelers</em>, in life as well as in death. We rely on metaphors of inner and outer journey to express life challenges and …
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Worship as Witness: The Subject and the Glory of God
… both wonderfully restrained by the ontological finitude of the subject yet unleashed in the symphonic witness of multiperspectival truth borne by the gathered ekklesia. Chapter 1 outlines the scope of this debate around subjective worship as it currently stands, contextualized within the …
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A inserção do desenvolvimento sustentável nos projetos de redução da pobreza rural do Banco Mundial no Estado da Paraíba
… system, given the perception of its finitude and the impacts caused by the period in which there were no limitations to its use. Thus, the sustainable development concept was built through debates, mainly on international conferences, and its insertion in cooperation projects in …
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'Not Infinite Enough': Experimental British Poetics, Industrial Ecology and Scarcity, 1969-Present
… poetic reckonings with questions of resource, finitude and exhaustion. As its central claim, this thesis theorises a poetics of scarcity as emergent from these landscapes. It offers the first sustained study of these poets in conversation, drawing on archival material to illuminate the …
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Diálogos sobre direito e diferença: o retorno a pergunta pelo sentido humano do direito que acontece na era da técnica
… esteticamente, e é capaz de tornar presente a finitude. A busca é por um direito enraizado, que se dá por uma prática que assume o peso e a responsabilidade de decisões calcadas em um modo de vida comum
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Eleusis contra delphi: the idea of eternal return in Nietzsche, Heraclitus, and the Greek mystery cults
… thyself,’ as an affirmation of mortality and finitude. To him, just like Nietzsche, one cannot overlook the certainty and the promise of death, which is the veiled promise of Apollonian religiosity. In the end, both eternal return and the Heraclitean αἰών come forward as the recognition of the …
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What is it like to survive near-death? An interpretative phenomenological study of the experience of surviving sudden cardiac arrest
… results. Existential themes of death, loss, and finitude, as well as an ontological awakening of conscious, meaningful and appreciative living, also proved useful. The clinical significance of the study included a recommendation to build awareness of the difficulty of emotional adjustment and …
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A poesia neomaneirista de Vasco Graça Moura
… agoniza perante a mutabilidade, a finitude e a morte, dimensões que a linguagem poética tenta nomear e preservar. Neste estudo, adotou-se um enquadramento metodológico hipotético-dedutivo e dialético, complementado por procedimentos de ordem fenomenológica inspirados, sobretudo, em …
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From philosophy to practice: A hermeneutic analysis of existential-phenomenological psychotherapy
… as choice, freedom, responsibility, meaning, and finitude. Furthermore recall and in-session evidence indicated that these concepts were applied in such practices as the use of metaphor, addressing the client holistically, and facilitating the multidimensionality of the clients' experience. …
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… formidable resources in a battle against the finitude that attends every relinking of dialectical division, and which grounds the ideological shadow play that sustains power in our current conjuncture. Running against the grain of those critical tendencies that would reduce the theatre to an …
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Da palavra à imagem : representações da família em Mrs. Doubtfire, Ordinary People, Brokeback Mountain e Babel
… sustentada na autoconsciência, transcender a finitude humana e perspetivar um redimensionamento que encaminha para a busca de novos paradigmas. Por conseguinte, procuramos salientar que a individuação pode favorecer o (re)equilíbrio das relações familiares, se o poder dos afetos positivos …
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