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Showing 1 to 20 of 5348 for “"the subject"”.
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Modern Western discourse on the subject
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the modern Western discourse on the subject. This thesis will trace the roots of the modern Western discourse on the subject from the Enlightenment era, which saw the subject as being autonomous, rational, stable, and self-constitutive. It will contend that …
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Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind and the Subject
… phenomenologically-informed ontological model of the subject of experiences. This model will attempt to explain how it is possible for a subject to have experiences with a subjective character, which are like something for their subject. It will also address how the subject can have experiences …
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The Subject of Voice: The Object of Rhetoric
… pedagogies. Current questions and concerns about subjectivity, invention, materiality, and ideology, among others, have moved the discussions away from expressivism and, therefore, from the writer's voice, as well. Treating the expressivist voice as a single historical moment, I tease out a much …
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The Difficult Impossible: Writing, Perfomance and the Subject
This thesis summarises a period of practice-led research into relationships between imting and performance. It considers ways in which performance (especially performance art) might serve as a critical and methodological lens through which to explore the practice of writing — primarily the author's …
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Husserl and Foucault on the Subject: The Companions
In this text, I argue for the revision of Husserlian phenomenology through a dialogue with the work of Michel Foucault. Specifically, I argue that Foucault's critical project, in which we isolate the contingent limits of thought so as to pass beyond them, and thus think new ways of being, can be …
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Rabindranath Tagore and the Subject of Political Freedom
… modern India's foremost poet-philosopher and the first non-European recipient of the Nobel Prize, as a political thinker. Shirking simple binaries such as East and West, empire and nation, or poetry and politics, the objective is to recover the critical and creative ideas of an original …
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Foucault's asceticism and the subject of AIDS
Although Foucault elaborated upon the socio-political possibilities he associated with a “homosexual ascesis” in several other interviews and writings, his death from AIDS in 1984 kept him from continuing to speak about this his final project. My dissertation, Foucault’s Asceticism and the Subject …
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Philip K. Dick and the Spectre of the Subject
This thesis considers the American author Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982) from a philosophical framework informed by the work of the contemporary philosopher Alain Badiou. Drawing from three different phases of Dick’s career, I aim to demonstrate that his The Man in the High Castle (1962), Time Out of …
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Worship as Witness: The Subject and the Glory of God
… in worship practices and song lyrics. The difficulty in reconciling the individual spirituality of each believer with the communal identity of ekklesia has become acute, and as a result, many have rejected subjectivity in worship in pursuit of a “pure” and objective view of God. Rather …
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Speaking The Subject: A Discourse Analysis Of Undergraduate Seminar Practice
… group debriefing sessions were held. The data was subsequently transcribed and analysed using a functional systemic linguistics and discourse analysis approach. Analysis identified structural and linguistic elements of seminar talk and links between language, identity, power and status …
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The subject between texts in Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry
This dissertation seeks to trace the interplay between the various poetic voices active in Alejandra Pizarnik’s (1936-72) poetic writing. I construct these personae and name them la melancólica, la niña, and la polígrafa. In addition, I classify Sombra and Sacha as quasi voices. By means of each …
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Mapping the subject : exploration of identity construction through autobiographical reflection
Bibliography : leaves 66-71.
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Positioning the subject : a social psychoanalytical analysis of aggressive behaviour
… aggressive and violent behaviour. It focuses on the question of the experiences of a research subject whose behaviour results from his inability to resolve the anxiety arising from his positioning in contradictory discourses. The relationship between his behaviour and underlying aggressive …
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(RE)MEMBERING THE SUBJECT: NOMADIC BECOMING IN CONTEMPORARY CHICANO/A LITERATURE
This study explores representations of subjectivity in three seminal texts within the genre of Chicana/o Literature. It considers Tomás Rivera’s …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971), Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), and Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came …
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Experience, Time, and the Subject: Deleuze's Transformation of Kant's Critical Philosophy
The aim of this thesis is to show that Deleuze develops a new conception of experience. I do so by showing the roots of this new conception in a transformation of Kant's transcendental philosophy. Kant is central to Deleuze's project because Deleuze finds in Kant the idea that the justification for …
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Critical assessment of bibliometrical features in the subject field of pharmacy.
The evolution of modern science and the scientific journal is outlined. The role of the Reference List is discussed, and its relationship with the citation. Mathematical manipulation of citations and citation analysis are criticized. The limitations of citation indexing in terms of precision in …
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