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Showing 1 to 20 of 193 for “"selfhood"”.
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Flourishing Selfhood in Aristotle and Authentic Selfhood in Heidegger
… as seen through the lens of authentic selfhood. It is argued that there is some type of authenticity or self-appropriation already present in Aristotle's ethical thought. For both thinkers, however, the particularized self is subsumed into a type of universality--the universality of …
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The simulation of selfhood in cyberspace
… inquiry into various conceptions of self and selfhood from ancient to postmodern times. Part two is the product of ethnographic research conducted on the Internet which examines the simulation and evocation of selfhood in Cyberspace. Specific "Cyburgs" examined include electronic mail, …
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
In 1926 Elizabeth Madox Roberts published her first novel, The Time of Man, a work that plunged her into the literary limelight. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and hailed by some as the "most beautiful piece of writing to come out of America," the novel established her as a major American …
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Exploring Selfhood in an Era of Computational Optimization
This thesis critiques “the self-optimization ideal,” which describes the social and cultural ideal of relentless self-improvement. The self-optimization ideal encompasses predominant beauty, bodily and lifestyle ideals that individuals, under neoliberal governmentality, are incentivized to strive …
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The In/Authentic Subject: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Selfhood
… come to terms with my experience of the loss of selfhood as well as the conditions of possibility for its return. I argue that Kierkegaard’s construction of the self, while problematically religious, convincingly describes the experience of authentic selfhood but does not escape the problems of …
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Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte and Heidegger
… relationship to the often neglected theory of selfhood in Heidegger's Being and Time. After examining the issues in Kant's theory which were decisive motivating factors for the post-Kantian Idealists--namely the metaphysical status of the apperceptive I and the unity of reason--I explore …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… overlaps and parallels between them regarding selfhood, action, unity, and tragedy. To both thinkers, action is marked by tensions and conflicts experienced between constitutive elements of the self, between different forces in society, and between the different claims individuals experience …
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
… agency through the unit character of human selfhood, empathy, and collective rationality. I speculate about how aspects of these faculties allow them to be scalable from hunter-gatherer bands to larger forms of affiliation, giving humans the capacity to deploy 'we-feeling', to articulate a …
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A memory syndrome : selfhood and otherness at the Wailing Wall
Few groups in the world have as long-standing a claim to "peoplehood" as do Jews. Despite the longevity of that claim, however, the problem of instability inherent in objectifying a collective identity has not yet been resolved. The existence and salience of a collective self is assumed at the same …
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Posthumanism in Literature: Redefining Selfhood, Temporality, and Reality/ies through Fiction
… theory, I examine how understandings of selfhood and its relations to time and reality are complicated within three works of fiction and how those complications represent and articulate a societal shift in meaning and knowledge that is supported by posthumanist ideologies. The three …
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Walking the Tightrope: Selfhood and Speculative Fiction in Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid
… ways in which Monáe plays with the concept of selfhood by continually recontextualizing identity in time and space.
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The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice
<p>Every vocal training technique relies on understandings of how a singer’s “voice,” both literal and metaphorical, participates in the act of interpreting the works of composers. Western classical singing, as codified by the early twentieth century, typically puts the singer in the role of the …
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Cinema of the Self: A Theory of Cinematic Selfhood & Practices of Neoliberal Portraiture
This thesis examines the philosophical notion of selfhood in visual representation. I introduce the self as a modern and postmodern concept and argue that there is a loss of selfhood in contemporary culture. Via Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gerhard Richter and the method of deconstruction of …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
Using New Historicist, feminist, and postcolonial approaches, my thesis examines the confluence of early modern Protestant England’s attempts to instate its nationhood on the world stage, its relations with Ireland and Scotland, and English writers’ representations of witchcraft. I discuss the ways …
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An analysis and critique of the conceptual relationship between selfhood and narrative in philosophy
… concept with which to explain the concept of selfhood and the identity of the self in philosophy and other academic fields. It is a natural and easily accessible vehicle for selfhood in philosophy as fictional stories, and indeed the stories we tell about our lives, are instrumental in the way …
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The burden of the body : selfhood and representation in the works of Dionne Brand
… but rather must struggle to articulate their selfhood through bodily performances which evade dominant regulations. Ironically, the body is at once the site of regulation and of resistance. Brand's works locate subjectivity within the corporeal to emphasize that desires--whether for a whole …
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The effect of reading on a group of young men: how does it influence selfhood
… understanding of how reading influences selfhood, whilst exploring ideas about reading and its value. Within education there is a perception that<br/>‘Boys don’t read’. This study examines whether young men, beyond the influence of school, read; and if they do read, what value they place …
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