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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"philosophy and literature"”.
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Transcendental Exchange: Alchemical Discourse in Romantic Philosophy and Literature
Alchemical imagery and ideology is present in many Romantic works of literature, but it has largely been overlooked by literary historians in their contextualization of the time period. The same can be said for mysticism in general, of which alchemy is a subset. This project accounts for alchemy in …
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On the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy and Literature: Andrey Bely's "Petersburg"
… in science at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries greatly influenced the general perception of the universe, contemporary discussion of the cultural crisis, and Modernist literature in Russia and the West. My work examines the importance of those …
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It's all uphill from here: Finding the concept of joy in existential philosophy and literature
… while a movement over one hundred and fifty years old, is often characterized in the light of the media popularity it was given in the decade following the Second World War--although much of the spirit of what is supposedly existentialism came more as a response to the First. The …
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The Mechanical Arts and Poiesis in the Philosophy and Literature of the Twelfth-Century Schools
… artes mechanicae were first named as a part of Philosophy in Hugh of Saint-Victor’s Didascalicon (1120s). They were identified as seven arts (fabric making, armament, commerce, agriculture, hunting, medicine, and theatrics), and positioned as a parallel to the seven liberal arts. Their inclusion …
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Dialogical Writing in Philosophy and Literature. A Study on Plato's Crito and Gorgias and Peacock's Nightmare Abbey
Both Thomas Love Peacock and Plato use dialogue for their works while they differ in what they envisage and what they achieve, i.e. same form, different objectives. Thus, having Peacock and Plato writing dialogues in different frames - one literary and one philosophical - raises an important …
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Informal communication in the humanities: A qualitative inquiry
… from three humanities disciplines--history, philosophy, and literature--participated in various stages of the study. The intent was to find out how humanists perceive informal communication, what impact it has on their research and how their research shapes their informal communication. Also …
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Reading Lacan reading: Freudian theory, literary text
Lacan is a reader of Freud and of literature, a psychoanalyst whose theoretical texts demonstrate a reading practice useful to literary critics. However, Lacan's reading practices remain largely unexplored by English-speaking critics because his reception has led to a conflation of Lacanian theory …
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The distance between us
Simon Critchley introduces his book on death, philosophy and literature, Very Little - Almost Nothing, with a preface titled As my father, I have already died, and describes his work as an act of mourning. What follows is an account of his last moments with his father who died after a long struggle …
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Spiritual inspiration for women of faith: scripture and the struggle for hope
… always traditionally been a male dominated area and it is one of the few places where women are still excluded from full participation across the board. The belief systems we have today come from texts and scriptures written by a collection of different people thousands of years ago. The problem …
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The 'Last Philosophy' Enquiring into the 'First': The Influence of Classical Thought on Theodor W. Adorno
… a modern quality in the classical tradition, and by incorporating this tradition into his writings he implied that there is still contemporary relevance in the classical works of the past. Classical philosophy and literature not only provided source material for his theories, but it will be …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… a dialogue that exists between Woolf's fiction and psychoanalytic theory, namely Freud's theories on sexual identity that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s texts explore …
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Reflections on the History of Creativity
<p>This paper attempts to survey the literature on creativity as a concept and field of study. Sources document the creative activities of humans from prehistory through the present day. Man's interest in studying and understanding creativity is a fairly recent phenomenon. This process of …
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La traduction comme poétique Édouard Glissant, Paul Ricœur : expériences et regards croisés
… proposed by the French-Martinican poet, writer, and philosopher Édouard Glissant, and the French philosopher Paul Ricœur. By bringing their perspectives into dialogue, the study analyses and compares their distinct conceptions of translation in light of their respective philosophical and …
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
This thesis interprets and connects a group of non-fiction works by Primo Levi (1919-1987), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), and James Baldwin (1924-1987). It hinges on three key texts: Levi’s I sommersi i salvati, his 1986 work on the significance of the Holocaust in which he theorised the ‘grey zone’; …
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El proyecto hermenéutico de José María Arguedas: una lectura de las imágenes narrativas sobre la orolatría en Yawar Fiesta a la luz de la filosofía andina
… capítulo propongo que, a la luz de la filosofía andina de Estermann, y en comparación con un antecesor suyo como López Albújar, las imágenes narrativas de Arguedas del culto andino a la montaña hacen justicia hermenéutica a la racionalidad, experiencia y dimensión ética subyacentes a una …