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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"human subjectivity"”.
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Empathising With Animals: Non-Human Subjectivity In Documentary Film
This practice-based research explains how non-human subjectivity can be suggested in documentary film and identifies film techniques that allow a spectator to empathise with an onscreen animal. It argues that a spectator cannot be told to feel empathy, and instead should be offered an experience …
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Toward a New Conception of Human Subjectivity for the Age of Globalization: Revisiting the Hegelian Vision of “Spiritual Subjectivity”
… in this dissertation is that Hegelian spiritual subjectivity can and should serve as a philosophical basis for envisioning a new conception of human subjectivity for the age of globalization. Why, then, does globalization demand a new conception of human subjectivity at all? What constitutes the …
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Four Phases of Subjectivity: A Rhetorical and Phenomenological Analysis of Aimé Césaire And Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal
… rhetorical and phenomenological analysis of the subjectivity that Césaire portrays in his epic poem <em>Cahier d’un retour au pays natal</em>, or <em>Notebook of a Return to My Native Land</em>. Césaire published and republished <em>Cahier </em>four times in a 17-year period and the modified …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict Resolution.
… epistemologies has confined the understanding of human mind to social/cultural orientations and left a comprehensive and qualitative analysis of the potential of individual human mind underdeveloped. Buddhist epistemology, the central theme of which is to address human suffering that is mainly …
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Worship as Witness: The Subject and the Glory of God
… acute, and as a result, many have rejected subjectivity in worship in pursuit of a “pure” and objective view of God. Rather than being a debate about relativity and objectivity, this dilemma is symptomatic of an underdeveloped view of the finite subject in worship. This dissertation seeks to …
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Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot And The Invention Of Medieval Literary Character
… text, rather than an unmediated reflection of human subjectivity.
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The 'monstrous Other' speaks: Postsubjectivity and the queering of the normal
… of "the Other" is in wide circulation in the humanities and social sciences, the concept has only recently been modified with the adjective "monstrous" to highlight a special case of the Other that plays an important role in the formation of human subjectivity. In order to better understand …
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Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities
The present PhD-thesis seeks new definitions of human subjectivity in an age of technoscience and a networked, globalized, Information Society. The perspective presented relates to Philosophy of Science, which includes the Human, the Natural, the Social and the Life Sciences. The project is …
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
… such as the dualisms of subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, and corporeality/language, I claim that the reader is an embodied subject whose embodiment contextualizes this sensory-engaging drama, rendering the Book of Job a phenomenal experience. Backing this perspective, I appeal to …
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A Critical Analysis of Harms Experienced by Transgender Individuals
… in combination with a theory of the formation of human subjectivity that begs scrutiny of the insufficiency of the social framework produced by the neo-liberal socio-political economic environment in generating harmful subjectivities. The theoretical analysis is made praxis via use of a theory of …
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Human As We All Are: Posthuman Subjectivity in The Paper Menagerie and The Three-Body Problem
… this thesis is to examine the formulation of posthuman subjectivity in contemporary science fiction through stories that collapse the distinction between humans and machines. I draw upon contemporary research on the sociological implications of such technologies as artificial intelligence, virtual …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
… Portfolio”)—developed new ways of representing human subjectivity and the self that integrated the influences of Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism, but were not defined by these movements. In an era when notions of autonomous art and human identity became fractured, they picked up the …
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… - and through a renewed commitment to human subjectivity - many modernist writers consciously disrupted traditional modes of narration. In doing so, their writing simultaneously engaged ethical questions about responsibly representing the alterity of the other. With particular attention …
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The notion of the self with special reference to Karl Rahner and Julia Kristeva
… of contemporary theological understanding of subjectivity, with specific reference to ideas of relationality, and with a particular interest in the possibility of dialogue with post-structuralist ideas. From separate disciplines, with different tools and to different effects, Rahner and …
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Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte and Heidegger
… guided by the fundamental question, "What is the human being?" Kant himself, and even more so his Idealist successors, addressed this question by offering transcendental theories of human subjectivity. My dissertation explores the philosophical development of the Kantian and post-Kantian theories …
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"An essay concerning subjectivity and scientific realism: Some fancies on Sellarsian themes and onto-politics"
… making visible the impacts that science has on human subjectivity, along with demonstrating how these transformations support the existing social order. In order to develop this framework, I critique the work of Wilfrid Sellars. Sellars is one of the few analytic philosophers of science who …
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When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation
… Clare’s poetry through his violent reordering of subjectivity — what I call the annihilative turn — by way of disability studies and ecocriticism in his pre-asylum and asylum-era poetry. Disability studies allows Clare’s mental non-normativity to be understood as capacity rather than limitation, …
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Uno specchio frammentario. La soggettività umana in H. G. Gadamer tra determinazione storica e responsabilità al singolare
… hermeneutics considered the idea of human subjectivity. The way that has been developed at first took up again the fundamental gadamerian text, Truth and Method, finding in it the lines of an overcoming the subjectivity and of its heterodetermination by the historical and …
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The productive unconscious : architecture, experimental psychology and the techniques of subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935
… of experimental psychology in order to transform human subjectivity during the Interwar period, particularly in the years defined by the First Five-Year Plan of Economic Development (1928-1932). In this program of forced modernization, every resource-including human muscular, intellectual, and …
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… 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 live performance, its mimetic and spatial disjunctions, its opposition of …
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