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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"postmodernity"”.
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After postmodernity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1996.
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Augustine's incarnational hermeneutics and postmodernity
This thesis focuses on the hermeneutic framework of St. Augustine of Hippo. Study of this topic has been suggested by patrologists such as Frances Young, and garnered occasional glances in contemporary scholarship. Little has been done as far as a systematic treatment of Augustine’s theory of …
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"We're all individuals": postmodernity and alternative health practices in Northern England
… the shift in Western societies from modernity to postmodernity. I explore this theme in relation to the empirical example of a healing centre in the North of England. The methodological stance I took was that of ethnography; data was largely gathered using participant observation.A central theme …
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Locating the subject : towards a reading of young women, identity and postmodernity
… the shift of social formations from modernity to postmodernity. The form and content of identity narratives being constructed by young women aged 16 to 21 are used as the empirical basis for addressing this research problem. Interviews were conducted with 33 young women and 5 practitioners across …
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The expressionist debate in the light of the concerns of postmodernity : Lukacs, Brecht, Lyotard and Habermas
This dissertation investigates the debate between Georg Lukács and Bertolt Brecht in the 1930s, known as the Expressionist Debate and the controversy between Jean-Francais Lyotard and Juergen Habermas. which took place in the 1980s. The two debates. both of which took place among writers of the …
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Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda
… critics have seen as essential to theories of postmodernity, especially those that examine how the features of fictional narratives model lived experience in society. The dissertation ends with an argument in favour of a more “flexible” formalism, which can better account for the disembedding …
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FEMALE FLÂNERIE BETWEEN MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY. THE CASES OF DOROTHY RICHARDSON’S PILGRIMAGE AND RÉGINE ROBIN’S MÉGAPOLIS. LES DERNIERS PAS DU FLÂNEUR
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a revival of critical debates around, on the one hand, Walter Benjamin’s understanding offlânerie, the practice of street walking in the nineteenth-century metropolis, and on the other hand the existence of a female counterpart for the (usually male)flâneur. …
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Seizing the Catholic Moment: Kairos and the Rhetoric of Diocesan Administration
… because it finds within the tensions of postmodernity a new sense of possibility that both the Christian and rhetorical traditions have understood through the metaphor of kairos.</p><p> The rhetoric of diocesan administration is best understood not as the implementation of communicative …
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A labyrinth of endless steps : the postmodern city and Paul Auster's urban detective
… starting point Fredric Jameson's assertion that postmodernity is marked by "a mutation in built space itself," this thesis examines the representation of urban space in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy and attempts to characterize the effects of this spatial mutation on Auster's detective …
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Contemporary Islamic thought and the re-emergence of the Qur'an as foundational text
… the philosophical discourses of modernity and postmodernity. As a marginal discourse, Islamic thought has had to seek legitimacy in light of the dominant paradigms of modernity and postmodernity. It is argued that through active engagement and critique of the dominant paradigms, Islamic …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… arrival of a new epoch—“performatism” or “post-postmodernity”—marked by a new metaphysical optimism and confidence in the sign. While Eshelman’s description of the performatism paradigm at first appears open to a theological and even sacramental synthesis capable of informing a more robust …
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The Scholarship and Praxis of Communication Ethics: Rhetorical Interruptions in Historical Narratives
… communication ethics scholarship is important in Postmodernity, as a multiplicity of narratives requires knowledgeable life-long learners who are willing to understand historicity and one's place within traditions. This study relies on Alasdair MacIntyre's seminal work, A Short History of Ethics, …
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University Education in a Postmodern Era: Building a Narrative Ethic of Civil Communication in the Classroom
… ethic stemming from antiquity to modernity, postmodernity presents an unprecedented challenge to teaching and learning where there can be no assumed shared ethic of appropriate communicative classroom communication. Postmodernity as an age of coexisting and contentious narratives, this …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… modernity's metanarrative of progress with postmodernity's many works in progress. The metanarrative of postmodernity is fragmentation, the lack of a metanarrative. In postmodernity, progress sputters and stalls, then starts on new paths. Philosophy of communication responds to fragmentation …
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Os dias são maus : o ensino religioso cristão em dias pós-modernos o desafio de fazer crer perante a cultura da incredulidade
… and principles are in harmony or conflict with postmodernity? These are our starting questions and issues that we intend to stop and reflect. From the assumption that the religious phenomenon has great force in the present day, this research aims to perform central analysis of how religious …
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Between "Play" and "Power" : performing "Waiting" Under Siege : Susan Sontag's staging of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo
… of a distanced post cold-war crisis within postmodernity. An interrogation of existing representations of this theatrical event reveals that Sontag's production has previously been constructed in traditional, inherited terms of aesthetic/political praxis. This study suggests the inadequacy …
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Living with s(k)in: An analysis of tattoo removal.
… paper investigates the role of tattoo removal in postmodernity. Specifically, I suggest tattoo removal is a technology of self in which the tattooed person can attain absolution from a "sinful" tattoo. This paper explores the construction of the confessional act in two parts: the construction of …
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Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television
… these periods. It then addresses modernity and postmodernity. Postmodern cultural phenomena that progressed in proximity with the evolution of television is discussed; Chapter two defines videocentric criticism. Narrative, structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction are applied to …
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
… could no longer convey a sense of place during postmodernity: that is, because the region's culture and economy were transitioning from predominantly humanistic thinking (i.e., believing that humans [and especially southern humans] are supreme beings) to predominantly posthumanistic thinking …
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