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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"theory of history"”.
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Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). The thesis begins with an examination of the recovery of transcendence in …
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Future nostalgia in the twenty-first century: Hauntology, hermeneutics, and historicity in contemporary popular music
This thesis offers a critical analysis and discussion of the philosophical and popular culture concept of hauntology and its application to popular music and theory of history, arguing that hauntology is limited in ways that make it unequipped for understanding popular music’s historicity as the …
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Rewriting the "Great Man" Theory: Historiographic Critique in Spanish American Literature
This dissertation is a survey of postmodern historical fiction in 20th and 21st century Spanish American literature. It has diverse manifestations, but the defining characteristic of this kind of historical fiction is a rejection of any rigid distinction between historical and fictional discourse. …
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Martin Heidegger's Mathematical Dialectic: Uncovering the Structure of Modernity
<p>Martin Heidegger is generally regarded as one of the most significant—if also the most controversial—philosophers of the 20th century. Most scholarly engagement with Heidegger’s thought on Modernity approaches his work with a special focus on either his critique of technology, or on his more …
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A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF JOHN FOWLES
<p>This dissertation offers a prismatic view of John Fowles's novels. My approach accords with his major theme: that true perception is "seeing whole." My readings involve, first, a close textual analysis which demonstrates how Fowles uses patterning, counterpoint, symbol and image clusters to …
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Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
… that Americans can’t agree on the definitions of the terms of the debate, let alone on how to tackle any of the substantive issues that face our communities, country, and planet. Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Literature intervenes in this moment of crisis by interrogating …
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The language of dissent : the defense of eighteenth-century English dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
… dissertation argues that the thought of James Peirce (1674-1726), the Presbyterian minister whose controversial theology was the catalyst for the division of Dissent in 1719, must be considered in relation to his hermeneutic of history. For Peirce, history was the telling of truth or …
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William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac; a correspondence: 1916-1938
… Ezra Pound were caught up together in the study of Japanese Noh drama, and were experimenting with a production of Yeats' first play using that form, "At the Hawk's Well." This collection of Yeatsfs correspondence with Dulac, which begins in that year, extends through 1938, and takes up all the …