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Cameron-Caluori, George. "Philosophy and musical criticism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5314.

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Pestell, Alex. "Geoffrey Hill : poetry, criticism and philosophy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39686/.

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This thesis examines the role played by philosophy in the poetry and criticism of Geoffrey Hill. Despite countless references to philosophy throughout Hill's critical authorship, there exists no study of any length on this vital aspect of his thought. Through close readings of his poetry, criticism, and archival material, I attempt to demonstrate that philosophy has played a more crucial role in Hill's work than has hitherto been assumed. Hill's sceptical attitude to philosophy is intimately connected with his understanding of poetry as a sensate form of cognition. My thesis examines the ways

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Rowe, M. W. "Philosophy, psychology, criticism : A defence of traditional aesthetics." Thesis, University of York, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377287.

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Jarzombek, Mark Michael. "Leon Baptista Alberti : the philosophy of cultural criticism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14984.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.<br>MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.<br>Bibliography: leaves 355-362.<br>This dissertation investigates Leon Baptista Alberti's cultural critique, taking into consideration a broad spectrum of Alberti's writings, including many which have remained relatively unknown and ignored. Alberti developed his cultural theories by means of a literary ontology which is based on the definition of the author, his role in society, and his function as catalyst for regeneration. His theory of art and of history

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Summers, Mark Robert. "A Christian criticism of Nietzche." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238896.

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Labberton, Mark. "Ordinary Bible reading : the reformed tradition and reader-oriented criticism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315010.

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Bitters, Todd Aaron. "The Philosophy of Richard Rorty Interpreted as a Literary Philosophy of Education." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403973904.

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Tang, Yun, and 汤云. "Free, resentment, and social criticism: a critical reflection on Daoism." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50567020.

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Gariazzo, Matías. "Between use sensitive and assessment sensitive truth : a criticism of truth relativism." Thesis, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2016. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6382/.

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This thesis compares truth relativism with non-indexical contextualism. These views are compared both as general approaches to account for the use of a linguistic expression in declarative sentences and as proposals about particular expressions such as personal taste, aesthetic and moral predicates, epistemic modals, knowledge ascriptions and future contingents. Four aims are set forth: (i) to show that truth relativism must be understood as an account of the assessment sensitivity of our ordinary monadic truth notion, (ii) to single out a problem this view faces to make sense of its non-monad

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Cunningham, Thomas Robert. "The continuity of Wittgenstein's critical meta-philosophy." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1055.

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This thesis investigates the continuity of Wittgenstein’s approach to, and conception of, philosophy. Part One examines the rule-following passages of the Philosophical Investigations. I argue that Wittgenstein’s remarks can only be read as interesting and coherent if we see him, as urged by prominent commentators, resisting the possibility of a certain ‘sideways-on’ perspective. There is real difficulty, however, in ascertaining what the resulting Wittgensteinian position is: whether it is position structurally analogous with Kant’s distinction between empirical realism and transcendental ide

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Hernandez, Velazquez Yaiza Maria. "Art criticism in the age of curating : from judgment to autonomy." Thesis, Kingston University, 2017. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/41970/.

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Since the turn of the century art criticism in the West has repeatedly declare itself "in crisis". This crisis had several iterations: the loss of stable formal criteria by which to criticise artworks in the wake of conceptual art and a related abdication of aesthetic judgement; the increasing dominance of the art market as the arbiter of artistic value; the functional replacement of art critics by curators, and the inadequacy of extant models of criticism in the face of contemporary practices that challenge traditional critical categories, practices that despite operating in the institutional

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Gibson, Andrew John. "What we have yet failed to achieve: a study of Charles Taylor's Canadian social criticism." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86539.

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This dissertation examines what the author calls the Canadian social criticism component of the work of philosopher Charles Taylor. An internationally renowned scholar, Taylor's work has been much commented on. Yet there is an imbalance of attention in the reception of his work between the ample commentary pertaining to his more abstract philosophical thought, on the one hand, and the paucity of commentary concerning those aspects of his writing that carry more immediate practical relevance, i.e. his work in social criticism. After introducing a basic framework for 'interpretive social critici

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Millington, Jeremy. "An Ethics of Engaging with Art: From Criticism to Conversation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/415053.

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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>The dissertation addresses the question, How should we engage with art? The thesis is that a practice of engaging with art ought to be sensitive with and to a work of art, and conversation better suits sensitivity than criticism. Conversation does not merely mean a conversation we may have about art. Instead, the project proposes that we treat artworks as conversational partners. The construction of the thesis involves three philosophical streams coming together. The first is a survey of prominent philosophical studies of criticism from the late 1930s to the 1960s—a wate

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Allsobrook, Christopher John. "'On genealogy and ideology criticism'." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6319/.

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This thesis identifies and explains a fundamental philosophical problem of self-implication in Marxian ideology criticism that has led to its misuse and rejection in social theory and political philosophy. I argue that Friedrich Nietzsche's development of genealogy as a method of social criticism complements ideology criticism in a way that overcomes this problem, by addressing it explicitly, rather than trying to avoid it. In making this argument, I hope to bridge a widely perceived gap between Nietzsche's and Michel Foucault's genealogical approaches to social criticism, on the one hand, and

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Davies, Christopher. "'Carrying the fire' : Cormac McCarthy's moral philosophy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002260.

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In this thesis, I argue that the question of ethics, despite claims to the contrary, is a central concern in Cormac McCarthy’s fiction. My principal contention, in this regard, is that an approach that is not reliant on conventional systems of meaning is needed if one is to engage effectively with the moral value of this writer’s oeuvre. In devising such an approach, I draw heavily on the ‘immoralist’ writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. The first chapter of the study contends that good and evil, terms central to conventional morality, do not occupy easily definable positions in McCarthy’s work. I

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Murphy, Carl. "A meta-ontological criticism of Eli Hirsch's semanticist attack on physical object ontology." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/105415/.

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Physical object ontology is a sub-branch of ontology which is primarily concerned with three interrelated issues. These are the composition, material constitution, and manner of persistence for physical objects. Philosophers who take up positions on such issues often disagree over what objects they think the world contains – for example a mereological nihilist will argue that there are no composite objects, and thus would say that the ordinary objects that appear to be all around us do not actually exist. Such disputes are thought to be substantive and depend for their truth on what the world

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Cassidy, Alison Ross. "T.S. Eliot and Charles Peirce : a study of the influence of Peircean philosophy on the philosophy, poetry and criticism of T.S. Eliot." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319469.

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This is a study of the relationship between the philosophy of Charles Peirce and the philosophy, criticism and poetic methodology of T.S. Eliot. I begin by considering Peirce's connections with Harvard University, and the effects of Peircean philosophy on the ideas and teaching methods of the philosophers who taught Eliot at Harvard between 1907 and 1914. I discuss Peirce's sign-theory of cognition, and consider ho~ this theory may have influenced Eliot's choice of a poetic method - his choice, that is, to write a poetry of 'signification'. I argue that the choice of such a method by Eliot evi

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Eaglestone, Robert. "Emmanuel Lévinas and the ethics of criticism." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683154.

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Moyer, Derek Harley 1981. "The Priority of the Human in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10704.

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vii, 50 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>Emmanuel Levinas has recently been given much attention for the resources that his writing could provide for an ethics of the non-human. While some commentators dismiss the humanistic biases of Levinas' analyses in favor of expanded sites of application, others argue that Levinas' anthropocentrism is central to his philosophy. This debate is resolved by demonstrating that Levinas' analysis oflanguage and separation in Totality and Infinity is an a

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Ackland, Lynn. "Coping with criticism and praise : the emotional well-being of people with intellectual disabilities." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2906/.

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Background: Through their experiences of stigma and discrimination, people with intellectual disabilities may develop negative beliefs about themselves and compare themselves negatively to others. This may make them more sensitive to criticism from others. In addition, receiving praise may be discrepant with the self-views of people with intellectual disabilities and they may be less likely to benefit from praise. Being distressed by criticism has been associated with vulnerability to mental health difficulties in the general adult population. It is not known how people with intellectual disab

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Lanfranchi, Benedetta. "Daring to be destructive. Euphrase Kezilahabi’s onto-criticism." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-107438.

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This paper illustrates the ways in which Kezilahabi’s 1985 dissertation makes its own daring contribution to the field of aesthetic criticism through the proposition of a new critical approach to African literature. Kezilahabi’s starting point for the elaboration this new critical approach is the realization of a prevailing tendency among literary critics to read African literature against formal and aesthetic paradigms deeply rooted in the Western literary and philosophical traditions. Opposed to the adoption of interpretative frames that do not acknowledge the philosophical implications invo

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Scott, Kabwe Maureen. "Encountering the uncanny in art and experience : possibilities for a critical pedagogy of transformation in a postmodern time." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0006/MQ43945.pdf.

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Jasper, Alison E. "The shining garment of the text : feminist criticism and interpretative strategies for readers of John 1:1-18." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321507.

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Barham, Jeremy. "Mahler's Third Symphony and the philosophy of Gustav Fechner : interdisciplinary approaches to criticism, analysis and interpretation." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267973.

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Jolliffe, Christine. "After relativism : literary theory after the linguistic turn." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35901.

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In this dissertation I examine the issues concerning the problematics of historical-textual relations in the wake of the linguistic turn. I begin by showing how the emphasis on the generative rather than the mimetic properties of language has led a number of critics to reject the notion of knowledge as "accurate representation" (Richard Rorty), and then go on to demonstrate how this critical position has undermined the way in which literary and intellectual historians alike have traditionally understood such concepts as causality, human agency and social determination.<br>I show that, in the l

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Liddington, John Hugh. "The philosophy of Michael Oakeshott and its relation to politics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670402.

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Wagler, Brent M. "Stars, stones and architecture : an episode in John Dee's natural philosophy." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22550.

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The work of John Dee (1527-1608) posits an approach to architecture based upon the concept of wonder. Sympathetic correspondences permeate Dee's disparate practical activities and architectural discourse. His contributions to astronomy, alchemy, cartography and navigation are grounded in the intersubjective cosmology of the Renaissance. It is in Dee's Mathematicall Praeface (1570), which promotes mathematics as a natural philosophy, that the architect's metier is aligned with the marvellous and established as an art encompassing numerous disciplines. Dee's syncretic formulation of architecture

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Rapalo, Castellanos Renan. "The critique of modernity and the claims of critical theory /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Goulimari, Pelagia. "For a minoritarian ethics of inclusion : a reading of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and its application to contemporary criticism." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361659.

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Bochettaz, Olivier. "Dissociated verses & intonings." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586848.

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<p> "Dissociated Verses" is a collection of poems inviting its readers to step into a space of cleansed perception—a poetic field that enables the apparition of objects and phenomena as they are in themselves, as though they were uncontaminated by human subjectivity. Avoiding the traditional predicative use of the English language and favoring the use of paratactical linguistic constructions, the verses in this collection literally carve out the white space of the page to display luminous aesthetic moments. </p><p> "Intonation" is a complementary opus—an antidote to the solemnit

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Frondorf, Aaron William. "Hoodoo and the law| Mostly printed works." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590571.

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<p> This paper discusses the relationship of ideas to their media, through the relationship of contents to a book and through the use of aesthetic barriers. The conceptual content of the artworks produced center around epistemological self-betterment and practical mysticism. I discuss in this paper my thought process, the work itself, and the works intended functions. I discuss the idea of the book and my rationale behind working in printmaking.</p>

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Giordano, John. "Between Conviviality and Antagonism| Transactionalism in Contemporary Art Social Practice and Political Life." Thesis, Union Institute and University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663907.

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<p> The rise of social practice art in Europe and North America since the 1990s has provoked a variety of critical alignments and contestations around multi-authored "post-studio" artwork, aimed at collapsing the boundaries between visual and performing art, and between art and everyday life. One of the most visible and impassioned contestations has centered on the value assigned by different critics to so-called convivial and antagonistic directions for social practice art. This project enters the debate on collaborative and participatory art by highlighting the commonalities between the turn

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Pauw, J. C. (Jacobus Christoff). "Two essays on the universal and particular dimensions of culture." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53202.

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The first of the two essays was presented at the conference 'Ethnicity in an Age of Globalisation', held at Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda, from 3-6 September 2001.<br>Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2002.<br>Babel or Piraeus? : globalisation, culture and tradition -- Between freedom and culture : Alain Finkielkraut's critique of multiculturalism.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conception of globalisation as a "programme" or "project" driven by a group of people or companies with a set agenda underlies much of the antagonistic discussion of globalisation. Protagonists of gl

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Donnelly, Nora. "Kant in the classroom : an exegetical commentary on Kant's aesthetic philosophy together with a critique of a Kantian model of aesthetic education." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296401.

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Cooper, Richard. "The languages of philosophy, religion, and art in the writings of Iris Murdoch /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72105.

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This thesis develops a complex theoretical model for conceptualizing the relationships among philosophy, religion, and art and, then, examines the philosophical writings and the novels of Iris Murdoch from this perspective. The theoretical model in its most general form is based on the premiss that philosophy, religion, and art can be thought of as conventionally defined linguistic fields analogous to Wittgensteinian language-games. Relations among the linguistic fields are, in turn, analysed as exclusive ("Disparate" Model), inclusive ("Reductionist" Model), or interactional ("Dialectical" an

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Mann, Sally. "The notion of the self with special reference to Karl Rahner and Julia Kristeva." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2006. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/6237/.

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This work considers Karl Rahner’s theology of the person as hearer through a critical engagement with Julia Kristeva’s post-structuralist notion of the speaking subject. This offers an experimental exploration of contemporary theological understanding of subjectivity, with specific reference to ideas of relationality, and with a particular interest in the possibility of dialogue with post-structuralist ideas. From separate disciplines, with different tools and to different effects, Rahner and Kristeva reject the modernist cast of the human self. They demonstrate a common desire to explore subj

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Hung, Tsz Wan Andrew. "The idea of theistic communitarian self in Charles Taylor's political philosophy." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/989.

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Mulder, Stacy S. "Objective romanticism : a study of the romantic roots in the objectivist philosophy of Ayn Rand." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902497.

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The purpose of this study was to examine a thesis stating that the fundamental concepts of Romanticism form the basic components of the Objectivist philosophy demonstrated in the works of Ayn Rand. The study reviewed some of the scholarship on the topic of Romanticism, notably that of Morse Peckham and Henry Remak. Analogies were drawn between European and American Romanticism; the nature of romanticism as a developmental morality in relation to principles established by Lawrence Kohlberg was discussed. This study adopted a definition of Romanticism as a state of mind which begins in the indiv

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Stachniak, Ewa. "The positive philosophy of exile in contemporary literature : Stefan Themerson and his fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75677.

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The thesis examines the phenomenon of the positive philosophy of exile in contemporary literature on the basis of Stefan Themerson's fiction. Themerson's positive attitude to exile and its antecedents--the Stoic ideal of "cosmopolis" and its eighteenth-century transformations--are compared to the views on expatriation expressed by another exiled writer, Witold Gombrowicz, to the moral philosophy of Bertrand Russell, and to the ideology of the twentieth-century avant-garde.<br>Within emigre literature the works marked by the positive philosophy of exile are treated as a separate form to be dist

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Piza, Suze de Oliveira 1971. "Crítica em Kant e Michel Foucault : semântica transcendental e semântica transcendental-histórica (sobre produção de Filosofia)." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281299.

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Orientador : Zeljko Loparic<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T17:37:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Piza_SuzedeOliveira_D.pdf: 2637096 bytes, checksum: ec9c73ebbc52574506ccd7cf9b022feb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014<br>Resumo: Esse texto se insere no debate contemporâneo sobre as aproximações entre Kant e Foucault. A relação entre essas duas Filosofias é, ao mesmo tempo, de ruptura e continuidade. Por um lado, o método arqueologia-genealogia levará a resultados que se opõem a muitas te

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Crenshaw, Andrew. "The architectural image Finnegans Wake and the text of drawing." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23013.

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Allen, Robin Geoffrey. "'A test for poetry' : an examination of Louis Zukofsky's 'objectivist principles' and poetic practice." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 1985. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/5701/.

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My aim in this thesis is to examine Louis Zukofsky's poetry in relation to his stated objectivist principles using those principles and Zukofsky's unpublished statements as a test for his theory and practice. The first chapter introduces Zukofsky's poetic principles and examines the relationship between his work and Ezra Pound's Imagism. My aim here is to put the origins of Zukofsky's principles into an appropriate context, disputing the idea of the `objectivist' as a temporarily revivified Imagist. Chapter II examines Zukofsky's earliest verse, both umpublished juvenilia and the few early poe

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Littau, Karin. "Sub-versions of reading." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/104941/.

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My PhD is entitled Sub-Versions of Reading. The thesis is concerned with critical refractions such as reading, interpretation, criticism, commentary ... activities which resemble each other in that they do not resemble that from which they derive; thus derived rather than original, secondary rather than primary, their status is also deemed second-rate. My aim has been both to reread their inferior plight and rewrite this plight through the theoretical insights culled from recent literary theory. I therefore compare two theoretical frameworks, one hermeneutic, the other post-structural both of

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Taljaard, Frederik. "Imaginative unconcealment Heidegger's philosophy of aletheia and the truth of literary fiction /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03062006-200330.

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Dicks, Henry. "Being and earth : an ecological criticism of late twentieth-century French thought." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669967.

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Tannoch-Bland, Jennifer, and J. Tannoch-Bland@mailbox gu edu au. "The Primacy of Moral Philosophy: Dugald Stewart and the Scottish Enlightenment." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2000. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20030303.100636.

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Dugald Stewart was an influential teacher and philosopher during the final years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Until recently he has been seen as merely a significant expositor of Thomas Reid's common sense philosophy. This thesis does not attempt to assess the novelty of Stewart's writings in relation to his Scottish predecessors such as Reid: rather, it offers a detailed historical study of aspects of his work, placing them in the political and cultural context of the period following the French Revolution. Two questions stimulated this thesis. First, what prompted Stewart, a moral philo

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Österberg, Marika. "Satire and Social Criticism in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5162.

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The essay at hand is a New Historicist reading of C. S. Lewis’ dystopian fantasy novel That Hideous Strength. According to New Historicist theory it is informed by many disciplines, namely, philosophy, history, literary theory, theology, social science, and psychology, and it attempts to lessen injustices of race and class. The essay examines how satire operates in the novel, focusing on its societal targets: totalitarianism, laboratory animals, and education. Lewis’ philosophical idea expressed in his “The Abolition of Man” – that a society that averts from what he calls universal, timeless,

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Paphitis, Sharli Anne. "Control and authenticity: reflections on personal autonomy." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002847.

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Currently the most influential accounts of personal autonomy, at least in the Englishspeaking world, focus on providing conditions under which agents can be said to exercise self-control. Two distinct accounts of personal autonomy have emerged in this tradition: firstly, hierarchical models grounded in the work of Harry Frankfurt; and secondly, systems division models most famously articulated by Gary Watson. In this thesis I show the inadequacies of both of these models by exploring the problematic views of the self and self-control underlying each model. I will suggest that the problems face

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Szollosy, Michael. ""La théorie c'est bon mais ça n'empêche pas d'exister" : subjective ontology and the ethics of interpretation." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20479.

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This study seeks to confront the ontological crises of the subject. Through an examination of twentieth century texts (including fiction, autobiography and Freudian case studies), I demonstrate the effects of subjective compliance with disembodied discourses. Using psychoanalytic theory, I ask: What are the ethical limits of interpretation within the psychoanalysis and literary criticism? And what alternative strategies of intersubjective exchange could we employ that would aspire to avoid instances of such hermeneutic tyranny?<br>Further, what evidence is there that the subject, in the face o

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McPherson, Lori A. "Art interpretation constructing meaning through poetic and non-verbal responses /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3899.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2005<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 36 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 36).

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