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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"the inhuman"”.
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Henry Miller and The Philosophy of The Inhuman Artist
… possible to reconstruct a coherent philosophical theory from the works of the American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980) and I develop an original and well-integrated version of that theory. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed through his …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
This dissertation studies the problem of the inhuman in relation to human nature in philosophy from antiquity to the present, highlighting the interrelationship between science and philosophy in the development of concepts of monstrosity in France from mid-sixteenth century to late twentieth …
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THE "FACT OF BLACKNESS" DOES NOT EXIST: AN EVOCATIVE CRITICISM OF RESISTANCE RHETORIC IN ACADEMIC POLICY DEBATE AND ITS (MIS)USE OF FRANTZ FANON'S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS
… White Masks for its psychological analysis of the "Fact of Blackness." Attributing this supposed facticity to a fundamental mistranslation of the original French text, this thesis explores the implications of scholar's adherence to Fanon within elements of resistance rhetoric. Moreover, through …
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"Perennial Miracle of Modest Interpreters": Charlotte Delbo's Théâtre Concentrationnaire
<p>Theatre played a significant role in the Holocaust experiences of playwright, activist, and Auschwitz survivor Charlotte Delbo. Turning to drama again and again to cope with the horrors of the concentration camps, Delbo and her companions in the camps proved that theatre is, in fact, an innate …
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Stevens After Deleuze: The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics
<p>Gilles Deleuze's definition of the other as the expression of a possible world has introduced a novel ontological organization into philosophy. It makes possible the conception of a singular being which may be expressed by a potentially infinite number of possible worlds. This, in turn, has lead …
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The Actual Characteristics of the Decian Persecution According to Saint Cyprian’s Letters
The letters of Cyprian provide an authentic and rich source of general historical information. They also give first hand account of events that disturbed his times—the situation of the Lapsi, the schism of Novation, the baptismal controversy, and the trials and terrors of the Roman persecutions. …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
This thesis examines the violence of normative power in contemporary biopolitics, and its expressions in the art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
My PhD thesis investigates the exploration of the self and the innovative poetical language in the works of the Ukrainian dissident poet and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus (1938-1985). Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his …
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Concepts of the global in contemporary culture : figuring the totality
This thesis approaches a selection of contemporary literary, filmic, and philosophical works from the point of view of a now well-established field of concern – namely, the global. It takes into account a broadly Western view of the global, prioritises Anglophone cultural production, and looks at a …
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The Problem of Guilt: Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Glissant
This dissertation focuses on the intellectual history of a particular strand of European-Martiniquais political and philosophical writing on guilt between 1927 and 2007, combining archival work with intellectual historical analysis to reconceive the thinking of Martin Heidegger, Maurice …