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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"nothingness"”.
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Heidegger and Nishitani: nothingness, nihilism, and the possibility of meaning
… of the relation between Being (meaning) and Nothingness (non-meaning) by way of a comparative dialogue between the German phenomenologist, Martin Heidegger and the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji. Nihilism is taken as the experience of existence as meaningless and phenomena as …
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Making beyond nothingness : an artistic challenge to the unaesthetic language of the public space
Submitted for the degree of PhD in Visual and Performing Arts, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Placing nothingness: An investigation of cross-cultural philosophical encounters centred on the architecture of courtyards
Nothingness or void is a key concept in East Asian philosophy. For the ancient Chinese it permeated every aspect of culture and was integral with senses of being rather than a quality antithetical to being as such. Key in this study is the manner through which traditional Chinese courtyard …
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Nothing
… I establish the inconceivability of nothingness taking propositional imagining to be the core of conceivability, claiming that we have no experience of nothingness in the relevant sense and are unable to imagine it. Finally, I suggest that a distinction should be made between everyday …
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Sartre's early moral theory
… human understanding. At the end of Being and Nothingness , his magnum opus, Sartre promised a moral theory. By 1947, he had filled a dozen notebooks bearing on moral theory, but because he was unsatisfied with his work they were never published during his lifetime. By using the ontology Being …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… through to his magnum opus, Religion and Nothingness. I make two key contributions to recent scholarly debate on Nishitani’s relationship to Nietzsche. The first is to emphasise the importance of Nishitani’s response to the idea of eternal recurrence for understanding his critical approach …
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Composition portfolio
… with the Valley of True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness.
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The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi 莊子
… suggesting, for instance, that the emptiness or nothingness is not really nothing, but instead refers to a pre-individuated flow of something like pure experience. By contrast, I take a broadly Heideggerian approach to this notion of “world” (and “nature,” as ziran 自然), suggesting that it refers …
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This infinite, unanimous dissonance : a study in mathematical existentialism through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alain Badiou
… (with special attention being given to Being and Nothingness and Being and Event respectively): the thesis that the subject 's existence precedes and determines its essence. To this end, the author aims to explicate the structural invariances, common to both philosophies, that allow this thesis to …
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Inside is Outside: Nishida's Dialectic of Alterity and Identity
… grounded in the non-dual foundation of absolute nothingness.
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Memory in the Early Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre
… (2) in his other texts, among them Being and Nothingness, memory is portrayed as a creative force that reconstructs experience rather than repeats it. I argue that Sartre held two conflicting notions of memory since he thought that recollection as a whole--understood either in mimetic or …
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A 'long defence against the non-existent' : Englishness in the poetry of Phillip Larkin
… and yet his preoccupation with death and nothingness is inexorably linked to the political despair and religious questioning of post-war England. Through the use of the many' Englishes' of his time Larkin manages to construct a passable means by which to fill the lacuna left by …
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The illusion theme in nine plays by Eugene O'Neill.
… that the nature of ultimate reality is death and nothingness, and that an illusion that will make living seem worthwhile is preferable to despair. As bleak as is O'Neill's final view of life, it is a true reflection of the early romanticism that he chose to call realism. The dreamer once in love …
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Kristevan theory: meanings, contexts, feminist "uses"
… non-specificity and existential nothing, nothingness, or negativity, and Kristevan abjection and Sartrean dread, anguish, and nausea. No one has previously made these connections. In the final section of this thesis, extrapolated aspects from all of these areas are used to detennine the …
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Exploring children's conception of zero.
… rule(s); children's understanding of nothing as nothingness and the startling reaction of many young children (aged 3 to 5) to the empty set.The research highlights and contributes new knowledge to an, as-yet, uncharted area of investigation that of children's conceptions of zero. As a …
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The Completeness: Novel
… puzzle. Without it, that empty space becomes a nothingness that is all too real--one becomes aware of the appearance and substance of nothing. What does a person do without that sense of completeness? Do they look for something that fits the empty spot in their psyche? Do they ignore it, maybe …
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The Mind of Winter: Poetic Theories of Yeats and Stevens
… reality, in other words, unity of being and nothingness, and to show how Yeats and Stevens used related imagery of cold, ice, and stone in the service of their poetic imagination.</p> <p>In Part I I am chiefly concerned with the genesis of these images and conflicts. I felt that it was …
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… being black- in-the-world against disempowering Nothingness or perceived Otherness threatening moral beings. Nothingness and the Other are characterised magically and as witch-craft in oral-cultures which deny the unconscious and resort to paranoia and persecution of Otherness in the subject …
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… race, and class identities. Here too the Sadean `nothingness' of the neoclassical sculpture emerges as a limit in our understanding of nineteenth century modes of seeing -a limit which is perhaps best approached `through the defiles of the signifier', photography. For although the flat, white, …
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Sul problema dell'astratto. La Meditatio Mortis nella filosofia di G. Gentile
… the "abstract abstractly conceived"(the nothingness beyond the eternal circle of the concrete). Precisely the relationship between these terms and the attempt to understand their primary ontological status leads to the deepest aporia in actualism: if the concrete is defined from the …
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