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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"self-transformation"”.
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Resisting technology : self-transformation and its catalysts
… I argue that technologies for transforming the self can function as emancipatory strategies against such coercive technologies, without reproducing them. My hypothesis is that these technologies for transforming the self can be achieved through strategizing and experimenting with the self. This …
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Disturbing rhythms: James, Merleau-Ponty, music, and self-transformation
One often interprets one’s selfhood in a Cartesian way. That is, the everyday self is a clearly demarcated individual that is separate from others and from the world around it (including, to a large extent, its own body). Although this is the most common understanding of one’s ipseity, there are …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
… progress as predicated on prior individual self-transformation. My overarching argument is that in contemporary China, discourses and practices of self-improvement have mediated, and continue to mediate, the relations between the political subject and the state. This dynamic is manifested in …
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Composing the self: examining dynamics of meaning and agency in narratives of authenticity and self-transformation
… experiences relate to retrospective self-attributions of meaning and agency. Narratives were analyzed using established deductive thematic coding schemes alongside a novel system designed to capture state-level indicators of self-environment fit. An international sample of 171 adults …
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The Transformation of Self: A Study of Classic American Pragmatism
This dissertation focuses on the understanding of self from the perspective of classic American pragmatism, of which I select James, Peirce, Mead, and Dewey as representative figures. The central concept of this study is the transformation of self. It is in this particular aspect, which I take also …
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In the making: an exploration of the inner change of the practitioner
<br/>This is a study at the interface of self, craft, and sustainability. It is a small part of a wider personal and social conjecture on the subject of ‘change ’ involving these three domains. <br/>This research develops the proposal that the success of a profound social change, which in our time …
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Limiting Heteronomy : An Account of Autonomy to Deal with Oppression.
… heteronomy under oppression through critical self-assessment and self-transformation? I answer by testing available models of autonomy in light of their capacity to deal with the forms of heteronomy which typically characterise oppression. Drawing from Foucault’s analysis of power relations, I …
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Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing
… meaning that the subject is a dynamic process of self-transformation that involves not only the subject’s sense of self, but the meaning of their world. In my first chapter, I look at "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense" to show how Nietzsche deconstructs rationalist epistemology in order to …
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Homo Computator: The Making of Computational Subjectivity through Coding
… entity, a symbolic and cognitive tool for self-transformation and world-shaping. Learning to code is a process of augmenting the body and mind. This occurs both explicitly, such as in the (re)construction of socially acceptable bodies with the capacity for work and play, and implicitly, …
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Nomad School
… Laura, M.A., Autumn 2006 Fine Arts A Journey of Self Transformation Dr. James Kriley Dr. Randy Bolton As a result of social and family expectations I was pushed to pursue a lifestyle where my passion and talent for the Arts did not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research …
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Nomad School
… Laura, M.A., Autumn 2006 Fine Arts A Journey of Self Transformation Dr. James Kriley Dr. Randy Bolton As a result of social and family expectations I was pushed to pursue a lifestyle where my passion and talent for the Arts did not have a place. Nomad School is a personal and artistic research …
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Transforming the Self through Benefiting Others: Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism in the People's Republic of China
… ethical pedagogies that not only concern self-focussed cultivation, but also underscore the importance of caring for others in the broadest sense – encourages and enables mainland Chinese participants in ‘doing personhood’ (zuoren, 做人) during the current epoch of prevailing moral …
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Batok: The Exploration of Indigenous Filipino Tattooing as a Collective Occupation
… provided insight on the meaning, motivation, and self-transformation that occurs when acquiring a batok and the impact it has upon the community’s shared intention of honoring the individual receiving the batok. This research broadened the understanding of the occupation of batok recognizing …
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Surrender to Krishna : religious conversion and cultural change
… becomes more recognisable as a site of self-transformation, and can accordingly be linked to micro as well as macro cultural change in modernity.
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THE MOTIVATION OF WORKING PRACTITIONERS SEEKING A DOCTORAL EDUCATION: FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF CONFUCIAN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
… compared to Confucian philosophy principles of self-cultivation illustrated in The Great Learning (DaXues`å>{t) which is considered the first of a set of Four Books (Sishusl`t). The manuscript's structure consists of a brief of three principles, followed by eight steps that promote individual …
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
… religion and are conceived as being flexible and self-directed, making women the agents of their own healing.</p> <p>By focusing on the lives of the long-time healing seekers and their attendant families in the temple, this dissertation demonstrates how the rhetorical practices and bodily …
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Talking of transcendence: A discursive exploration into how people make sense of their extraordinary experiences
… Respondents’ spontaneous accounts of self-transformation are also analysed and show how potentially sensitive issues concerning the discursive construction of identity, consistency and change are managed in talk. This research contributes to discursive psychology and linguistic …
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"Speaking others, practicing selves: Power, identity, and communications in ""Apna Ghar"" (Our Home)"
… by focussing on the notions of multiplicity, self-subjection, and self-transformation. The project conclusively argues for a research practice of multiple positionality for researchers of Communications and Cultural studies. The project concludes by examining the theoretical-research and …
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Transformations with Tai Chi: The Experience of Community-Dwelling Tai Chi Practitioners
… derive a grounded theory. A theoretical model, transformation with moving meditation was developed, reflecting the internal and external changes that occurred with their experience of Tai Chi. The following dimensions were identified: seeking wellness and meaning, beginning a Tai Chi path, …
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In a Garden of Lions: a Creative Rendering Inspired by the Three Metamorphoses of Friedrich Nietzsche
… else” (GS, 6). This intentional practice of ‘self-transformation’, or ‘self-overcoming’ is a primary theme in Nietzsche’s work and one that mirrors the human impulse towards growth and inevitable evolutionary process. It is my intention to engage this process through this creative project.</p>
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