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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"vision of the world"”.
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The aviator's (re)vision of the world : an aesthetics of ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama
This dissertation considers a new ontology of vision brought on by the advent of human flight. It focuses on the project that best reflects this new vision: the Futurama, an exhibit designed by the American industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes for the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Futurama's …
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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
This project investigates the neo-sacramentalism of various Midwestern modernists, particularly that of Sherwood Anderson. Modernists from the Midwest tended to draw from Midwestern nature a sacramental vision of the world that questioned the literalist epistemology bequeathed by New England …
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Imago Dei and the earthly life : the theological anthropology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
This dissertation offers a theological anthropology in light of the doctrine of imago Dei and the importance of place for our understanding of human identity. Through reading the early writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in historical context, this dissertation shows how he provides resources we need …
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INNOCENCE, SUFFERING, AND SENSIBILITY: THE NARRATIVE FUNCTION OF THE PATHETIC IN CHAUCER'S TALES OF THE CLERK, PRIORESS, AND PHYSICIAN (ENGLAND)
In the Middle Ages, when men were urged both to know and to love truth, pathos frequently participated in a narrative strategy and a larger philosophical vision which attribute to motive and will as much importance as to specific acts. In particular, the emotions aroused by the details of innocent …
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Considerações estéticas e políticas na obra de Lima Barreto: a emergência de um contexto biopolítico
The present work aims to analyze the political and aesthetic relationship in the work of Lima Barreto, more specifically in the works O cemetery dos Vivos, Diário intimate and Diário do hospício. To this end, some nuclei are strategically activated to think about this relationship, such as …
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Senses of the Future in 19th Century France and America, with Reference to the Philosophies of Victor Cousin, Henri Bergson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James
This thesis examines a group of philosophers in Victor Cousin, Henri Bergson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James, each of whom sought to resolve past, present, and future in a true vision of the world. I argue that these visions should be characterised as sets of practical accomplishments. That …
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
The thesis consists of two sections: research and creative. The research section includes brief analyses of five young adult novels that received the Newbery Medal, awarded annually by the American Library Association to the author of the most distinguished contribution to children's literature. …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
<p>Interest in the human/animal binary, in its ontological, ethical, and political aspects, has been on the rise together with contemporary philosophies of difference. It has often been argued that the dominant structures of representation, which appeal to absolute, finalizing, and transcendent …
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Towards a Philosophy of Least Violence
<p>Gianni Vattimo is often regarded as a purely negative, eliminativist thinker, defined by the weak thought that he articulated over the course of his storied career. Our temptation to read him in this way is encouraged, not only by an extensive and growing body of secondary literature in the …