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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"self-creation"”.
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
… acknowledging that political participation is itself a mode of form-giving, or stabilization of social relations. The delicate balance between form-giving and critical resistance becomes central to the project, as does the relationship between the public space (Castoriadis and Arendt) and …
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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!
… the intricacies of Richard Rorty's theory of the self as it arises out his philosophy of language and then puts that theory into dialogue with the subject as imagined William Faulkner's <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>. More specifically, after giving a detailed account of Rorty's theory of the self, I …
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Living with ourselves, together
… on individual agency, normativity and the self; while the second half explores aspects of our normative lives as social agents. More specifically, the first half contains papers on underdetermination by value, self-improvement, and the problem of self-creation; while the second half …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… as tracking culpability for a pernicious form of self-identification. My central claim is that white guilt is fitting because in experiencing the emotion, one is simultaneously recognizing the role their own identity plays in providing a source of justification for actions that sustain a system of …
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Colonizing the Mind: The Library as a Site for Colonial American Identity Formation
… location that emphases class mobility and self creation while also differentiating itself from other societies, is enumerated through the study of these linguistic and cultural manipulations.
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‘A contradiction in essence’: Eroticism and the Creation of the Self in Henry Miller
… work, which is in its use as a blueprint for self-creation through an artistic practice.</p>
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Izwe Lethu!: Visions of decoloniality through the re-imagining of electrical services
This dissertation concerns itself with the land question in South Africa. Izwe Lethu is the title of an apartheid struggle song, still sung today in the many social uprisings and moments of civil disobedience. The title translates to ‘Our Land’ in the Nguni languages. My response to the question of …
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Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee
… exercise might undertake a process of ethical self-creation. This interest in the formation of ethical sporting subjectivities resonated closely with my own experiences as an athlete and coach, and, in particular, my experiences within the sport, Ultimate Frisbee (Ultimate). Subsequently, I was …
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(In)authentic Participation: Contemporary Participatory Performance Practice, Social Media & Neoliberalism
… with which one constitutes and presents one’s self in contemporary digitised society. Social media technology is not inauthentic in of itself, however the wider political economy in which social media operates encourages users to participate in a way that promotes the constitution, maintenance …
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You are not alone: an existential-phenomenological exploration of how inner dialogue is experienced by rape survivors
… and functions with specific emphasis on self-creation, healing, and meaning. Part 2 “Long-Lived Experiences” offers in-depth understandings of how inner dialogue is experienced in the aftermath of rape. Implications and specific interventions for counselling psychologists, practitioners, …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… continental, queer, feminist frameworks such as self-creation, disciplinary normalization, the sex/gender distinction, and the intersection of gender and race. I show that paying attention to transgender experience highlights the central role of temporality in the nation-state’s racialized …
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Blogito ergo sum /
… of interaction and enabling new means for self-presentation and self-creation. In this work the influence of the blog to human is analyzed, what are the aspects of the blog as the mean of interaction, and what kind of needs and want one is able to realize using the blog. In this work …
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The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
… women writers as they struggle for their own self-creation. My creative fantasy piece emerged from the question of how a character might live with themselves if they were at fault for a widespread issue that ruined the lives of many. In my piece, I delve deeply into the inner workings of the …
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The I and the Me(dia): Social Hermeneutics, Media Audiences, and Cultural Theory
… understanding practices of interpretation and self-formation by media audience members. In the final portion of the theoretical section of the dissertation, the suitability of this approach is examined in light of recent scholarship on the postmodern character of media culture and the use of …
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Imagining God a critical review of the theology and method of Gordon D. Kaufman
… method (ch. 4). I argue here that theology has self-creation as its ultimate end when understood in a historicist context. Chapter 5 is a critique of Kaufman’s theological method and the historicism that frames it. This critique relies heavily on the critical reflections of George P. Grant and …
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Islands in the (main)stream : the desert island in anglophone post-war popular culture
… timeframe maps onto the development of a self that is increasingly understood as fragmented, reflexive and alienated. A chronological approach is used in order to chart the ways in which desert island texts reflect this trend during what Bauman calls the liquid modern era. Power structures …
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The Hands of Labor: Depictions of Antebellum Authorship and the Shaping of Class In the Willis Family (Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Jacobs)
… time in which the middle class's formation made self-fashioning accessible to the public. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to determine how cultural and familial circumstances, labor ideologies, gender, and public ideas about work influenced authors' creations of themselves in print. …
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… formal education and the resultant reliance on self-education; (3) self-creation of one's own personality; (4) self-discipline and the use of a timetable in pursuit of the dream; (5) the accumulation of wealth as a secondary but integral part of the dream-goal; (6) "shady" methods and …
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The Life Stories of Teachers in Post Compulsory Education: A Narrative Exploration of Teacher Identity
… Education with the aim of exploring how the ‘self’ is constructed within discursive environments. The study adopts a dialogical approach to narrative identity formation as an ongoing process of becoming within the life course. Grounded in social construction theory (Gergen 2009), the study …
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