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Kolbas, E. Dean. "Critical theory and the literary canon." Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07706.
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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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Dillon, Sarah Joanne. "A critical history of the palimpsest in modern literature and theory." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550839.
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This thesis provides a critical history of the palimpsest in modem literature and theory. Chapter 1 provides a summary of the thesis and introduces the neologism 'palimpsestuous'. By way of introduction, it explains how the concept of the palimpsest determines the form of this history - genealogy - and provides the critical context of the thesis. Chapter 2 furnishes a brief history of the palaeo graphic phenomenon of palimpsests from antiquity to the present day. Chapter 3, a psychoanalytic reading of Thomas De Quincey's essay 'The Palimpsest' (1845), explains how De Quincey's essay inaugurates - that is, both introduces, and initiates the subsequent use of - the substantive concept of the palimpsest. Chapter 4 considers the relationship between the palimpsest, the poem and the material text, and traces the new tropography of the palimpsest through a reading of D. H. Lawrence's 'Twilight' (1928). Chapter 5 is a palimpsest of discussions of reading and writing in relation to the palimpsest in the context of classical and modem detective fiction, and the theoretical approaches of structuralism and poststructuralism. Chapter 6 moves from the figuration of text as palimpsest to a reinscription of intertextuality as 'palimtextuality' , exploring the palimpsest's structural relation to the concept of 'the hymen'. Chapter 7 traces the significance of H.D.'s use of the palimpsest in determining the critical approaches of both traditional feminist criticism and contemporary queer theory, providing readings of two stories from her Palimpsest (1926). In coupling the palimpsest with the concept of 'queer', this chapter discloses the end of the thesis - both its conclusion and its telos - the queerness and queering power of palimpsestuousness, that is, its continuing capacity to reinscribe otherwise traditional literary, critical, cultural and philosophical modes of thought
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Doughty, Hannelore. "Critical perspectives on modern languages in Scottish further education 2000-2002." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/40.
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The research in this thesis focuses on issues surrounding modern language provision within Scottish further education during the period 2000-2002. The study analyses the arguments regarding the place of modern language study within Scottish further education (FE) as expressed in formal and informal discourses, and assesses the influence of socio-cultural and socio-historical assumptions on these discourses. To this end, a multi-strand and multi-level research model was adopted, examining official and other public documents, together with views expressed by stakeholders from five Scottish FE colleges and from industry. These were analysed both on their own terms and by taking into account changes in the external context. The initial focus of the study centred on the motivational characteristics of student participants. However, changes in the external context prompted the inclusion of further data into the research design and a shift of methodological emphasis, exploring the ways in which assumptions underlying data collection procedures related to labour market information and uptake of individual FE subjects may be contributing to a continuous re-affirmation that 'English is enough'. The validity of this assertion and the authority accorded to it are called into question. It is argued that the belief will increasingly limit Scottish FE students' potential to participate as self-confident and self-determining individuals in a global and multilingual economy for which their vocational education and training is ostensibly trying to prepare them. Some suggestions, arising from the research, for a more inclusive language education policy are considered.
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Elliott, Anthony. "Modern social theory and psychoanalysis : critical perspectives on self-identity and the unconscious." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272729.
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Lang, Christopher Louis. "An analysis of Stanley Fish's critical theory in light of post-modern thought, or, Babel revisited." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Nurmi, Johannes. "Kvinnligt och manligt i Veckorevyn : - En kritisk diskursanalys." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-34841.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore how masculinity and femininity are constructed in the magazine Veckorevyn, through a critical discourse analysis of 18 articles from six issues in 2011. This is done by using a variety of theories and previous research results, which is gender theory, the theory of late-modern society and media theory. The analysis shows that Veckorevyn depicts virility and feminine differently. Furthermore, pointing the results from the analysis that a change of manhood and womanhood takes place in the social practice. The selection of articles from the magazine also shows that Veckorevyn seems to promote gender equality.
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Thomas, Evan Benjamin. "Toward Early Modern Comics." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502561240762248.
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Corcodel, Veronica. "Modern law and otherness : the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in comparative legal thought." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015IEPP0053.
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Cette thèse porte sur la pensée juridique des comparatistes euro-américains. Elle analyse les travaux d’un nombre important de comparatistes, qui ont eu une place significative au sein de la discipline en Europe et aux Etats-Unis entre les années 1860 et le début des années 2000. En examinant les représentations du monde non-occidental, elle met en avant les tensions entre l’inclusion et l’exclusion des spécificités non-occidentales, tout en insistant sur la nécessité de développer une pratique critique de résistance. En s’inspirant des théories postcoloniales, ce travail aborde les questions suivantes: comment le savoir sur les sociétés non-occidentales est-il construit dans la pensée juridique des comparatistes euro-américains ? Quelles sont les préconceptions qui facilitent la production de ce savoir ? Quel est le fondement théorique qui anime ces constructions et quelles sont leurs implications politiques ? Dans quelle mesure la pensée juridique comparative alimente-t-elle les attitudes de domination ou bien les remet-elle en question ? De quelle manière les réponses à ces questions sont-elles reproduites ou modifiées d’une époque à l’autre, d’un auteur à l’autre ?This dissertation focuses on Euro-American comparative legal thought. It analyses the works of an important number of comparatists operating in Europe and in the United States, roughly from the 1860s to the early 2000s. Examining their representations of non-Western societies, it puts emphasis on the tensions between inclusion and exclusion of particularism and it argues in favor of a critical praxis of particularism. Inspired from postcolonial theories, it addresses the following questions: how are non-Western societies constructed in Euro-American comparative legal thought? What are the preconceptions that make the production of such knowledge possible? What is the theoretical framework that animates these constructions and what are their political implications? What elements internal to comparative legal knowledge fuel attitudes of domination or/and challenge them? How do they change and how are they reproduced from one epoch to another, from one author to another?
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Beckwith, J. S. "Uncovering complexity in everyday practice : a post modern study of community nursing assessment." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/4757.
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Much skilled nursing practice is described by words which at face value appear low-tech and self-explanatory. Despite being acknowledged as intrinsic to practice “nursing assessment” has few operational definitions. This thesis critiques and reviews the methodological assumptions that underpin research and the frameworks commonly used to facilitate Concept Analysis (CA). Despite the apparent plethora of approaches to CA, the majority of them used (or adapted without justification or critique) the work of one author, and this was found to be simplistic and ontologically flawed. A review of the contemporary nursing literature was undertaken to identify uses of the term assessment. The subsequent Glasarian Grounded Theory Analysis revealed the Judicial as the core of seven overlapping categories. Evidence of the everyday use of the term assessment was obtained through observation and audio recording of nursing assessment practice. Following Foucault, Critical Discourse Analysis of the data recorded in the study’s field work phase was undertaken. This revealed social power and dominance facilitated through subject/object conflations and the discourses of discrimination, surveillance, repression, natural science, resistance and institutional power, and in contrast, examples of empowering practice. This thesis will argue that the process of nursing asssessment is skilled and complex, and that in order to measure and demonstrate the quality of nursing practice within an arena dominated by the hegemonic power of medicine, it requires articulation and understanding. Nurses use a matrix of approaches to build rapport and assess patients during all interactions. Their work involves integrating intuitive, predictive and logical reasoning within an empathetic and authentic communication with patients and their carers. Hierarchies of nursing practice, government policies, inter-professional agendas and dissonaces between the policy rhetoric of placing patients at the heart of assessment and actual everyday practice, produce barriers to meaningful assessments.
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Khalifa, Tarek. "Génèse de la critique arabe moderne." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3066/document.
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Cette recherche porte sur l'évolution de la critique poétique arabe moderne, elle combine deux volets, l'un diachronique et l'autre analytique. D'une part, elle exAmīne l'histoire de cette évolution qui en l'espace d'un siècle a été impressionnante et d'autre part elle analyse ce phénomène qui dans l'histoire littéraire mondiale ne s'est jamais produit sur une durée aussi courte. La période de la nahḍa a commencé durant la deuxième moitié du XIXème siècle et a duré jusqu'aux années trente du XXème siècle. La littérature arabe a été ébranlée par une multitude de mouvements à la fois conservateurs et modernistes , mouvements qui ont tantôt cohabité et tantôt se sont opposés ; la poésie, en particulier a comblé un retard de cinq siècles, comme en témoignent le nombre de poèmes et de recueils publiés et la multiplication des styles et des écoles littéraires.Durant un siècle et souvent pendant la même période, nous pouvons découvrir des poètes classiques, néoclassiques, romantiques, symboliques et réalistes. La production poétique a aussi été très variée et a respecté les règles classiques relatives à la mesure et aux rimes tout en affichant un retour vers la forme classique pour affirmer la maîtrise. Puis, l'inspiration du "muwaššaḥ" a fait son apparition et s'est détourné de l'exigence de la forme traditionnelle avec quelques tentatives pour écrire de la poésie libre et en prose avec de nouvelles mesures et enfin l'arrivée de la poésie blanche...etc.Toutes ces tentatives pour se rattacher à un courant n'ont pas échappé à la critique qui a parfois ouvert la voix aux poètes et a parfois précédé la production poétique et qui a subi la pression moderniste en essayant de la rejoindre; la critique a puisé dans les écrits anciens et en même temps une ouverture sur la critique occidentale. La révolution contre le traditionalisme est lancée avec des écoles qui ont revendiqué une coupure avec l'héritage des classiques. D'autres courants vont résister à l'influence européenne en prenant pour prétexte le combat contre le colonialisme occidental. Ces courants très résolus ont défendu l'attachement à l'ancienne école en invoquant la pureté de la langue du Coran, la richesse de cet héritage et le fait que cette modernisation peut susciter des théories inadaptées à la réalité sociale et culturelle. Nous tentons dans cette étude de présenter et d'analyser les quatre étapes que la poésie et la critique poétique ont traversées durant cette période :- L'étape de l'imitation médiocre. - L'étape de l'imitation cohérente et éloquente.- L'étape de l'innovation liée à la ferveur nationaliste.- L'étape de l'innovation liée à un sentiment de liberté individuelleThe research work presented in this manuscript focuses on the evolution of the modern Arab poetry critic. The work is two fold: one diachronic and the other analytical. We detail on one hand the history of such evolution, which, in the space of a century, has been quite impressive, and on the other hand,we analyze this phenomenon, which has never occurred in the world literacy history over such a short time span. The period of the nahda started in the second half of the XIXth century and lasted up to the last years of the XXth century. The history of the Arab literature has been shattered by numerous events, at the same time conservative and modernist. Those events were at times contiguous and at times opposite: poetry in particular, has caught up with a major delayof nearly five centuries, as witnessed by the number of poems and collections published,and as well asby the multiplication of styles and literacy schools.Over the span of a century, and often within the same period, one may discoverand study classical, neoclassical, romantic, symbolic as well as realist poets. Furthermore, the poetry production has also been diversein styles, but at the same time addressed the classical rules related to the measure and the rhymes, while displaying a reversal movement towards the classical form, mainly to show and prove mastering skills. Then, the inspiration of the "muwaššaḥ" appeared and has strayed away from the requirements of the traditional form, with a few attempts to write free poetry as well as prose with new measures, and eventually came to the birth of white poetry,… etc.All those various efforts attempting atreclaiming a main historic literacy flow has definitely not been overlooked by the critic, which at times has brought forward poets, and at times has even preceded the poetic production which has undergone through the modernistic pressure by trying to join that same flow; the critique has drawn in the ancient scripts and at the same time in the opening into the occidental critic. The revolution against traditionalism has been launched with various schools who have claimed a split with the inheritance of the classics.Other currents have resisted to the European influence by pretexting a fight against occidental colonialism. These very resolute currents have defended the attachment to the ancient school by invoking the purity of the language of the Koran, the richness of this heritage and the fact that this modernization can produce ill-adapted theories to the social and cultural reality.We attempt in this work to present and analyze the four stages, through which poetry and the poetry critic have gone through during the past century:1) The stage of mediocre imitation 2) The stage of coherent and eloquent imitation, 3) The stage of innovation linked to a nationalist fervor4) And eventually the stage of innovation linked to a feeling of individual freedom
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Matos, Ivan Delmanto Franklin de. "A dramaturgia negativa: dialética trágica e formação do teatro brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27156/tde-14092016-114027/.
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Esta tese sobre a história da dramaturgia no Brasil tomou como pressuposto a ideia de formação, inspirada na obra de Antonio Candido, Formação da Literatura Brasileira, que é caracterizada por definir, no campo das letras nacionais, a ambivalência que marca nosso processo de constituição cultural, marcado pelo empréstimo de formas artísticas importadas em desajuste com a realidade histórica local. Procuramos traçar o percurso de formação de uma dramaturgia nacional identificando os limites e avanços deste processo de aclimatação das formas e gêneros de origem europeia, escolhendo objetos de análise específicos, a saber, obras e autores considerados como \"momentos decisivos\". Partimos da hipótese de que, no âmbito teatral, os \"momentos decisivos\" desta formação são aqueles influenciados pelos conceitos europeus (formulados pelo crítico Peter Szondi) de drama burguês, drama moderno e de teatro épico, que, no entanto, ao serem incorporados pelos autores teatrais brasileiros geraram formas híbridas, \"arruinadas\" e desajustadas em relação aos modelos originais. Consideramos que tal importação, assolada por um processo histórico também ele altamente contraditório e desigual, gerou entre nós diversas manifestações teatrais fraturadas, que poderiam ser contempladas por um conceito ampliado de tragédia. Procuraremos identificar, nestes momentos decisivos, diversas manifestações de uma certa dialética trágica que, não obstante sua diversidade, poderia caracterizar esse processo de formação como capaz de gerar obras tão dilaceradas quanto o tecido social que lhes corresponde.This thesis on the history of dramaturgy in Brazil explores the idea of formation, inspired by Antonio Candido\'s work Formação da Literatura Brasileira (Brazilian\'s Literature Formation), which is known in the national literary field for defining the ambivalence that exists in our cultural constitution process, and is characterized by the influence of imported artistic forms imbalanced with local historical realities. We seek to trace the development of a national dramaturgy, identifying the boundaries and advances in the acclimation process of European forms and genres, by selecting key analytical pieces, namely works and authors considered to be \"turning points\". We hypothesize that these decisive moments are the ones influenced by the European concepts of bourgeois drama, modern drama and epictheater formulated by the critic Peter Szondi; by incorporating such concepts, Brazilian playwrights have generated hybrid forms, \"ruined\" and misfits of the original models. This thesis considers how such importation - coupled with a highly contradictory and uneven historical background - has generated amongst us several fractured theatrical manifestations that could be categorized under a broader concept of tragedy. We will seek to identify, from these decisive moments, indications of a certain tragic dialectic and how it, not withstanding its own diversity, could characterize this formation process capable of generating new works as lacerated as the social fabric to which they correspond.
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AlGhamdi, Abdullah A. "Ideological Shifts in Newspaper Translations in the Arab Gulf Region." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1564503071229478.
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Raguz, Christopher. "Paranoid Epistemologies: Essays on Thomas Pynchon and the Scene of Disappearance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2118.
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The following five essays are connected by their reference to a scene – imagined by the author Thomas Pynchon. The disappearance of historical cause, the subject, and the human constitute this epistemological scene. Each essay can be read without logically building off of any other – yet they form a wider assemblage of interpretative theory. These are fragments capable of recombination in any order. They shun systematization but welcome kinship. Pynchon's fiction is the substrate underlying each. Abstract machines of theorists thinking on similar wavelengths are used as catalysts in an effort to force a reaction – an attempt to transmute the stories of paranoid schlemihls into yet more paranoid epistemologies.
How do we understand the degree to which we are organized by whatever systematizes? How do we relate to whatever organizes our knowledge, our identities? What, exactly, is playing us? These are the anxieties these essays share with Pynchon's characters and formulate the questions driving their theory. Call it the Post-Modern, the Post-Human, or any other Post, Pynchon anticipated its event horizon half a century before its more obvious implications made themselves clear. If we have passed fully over this horizon, figuring out where we are and what's going on has become a question of survival, and Pynchon's anticipation of our contemporary scene have become increasingly salient. These essays offer paranoid epistemologies for the age of disappearance.
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Creed, Wendy Elizabeth. "Dreaming in whispering groves : an inquiry into the reader's response to the book as a published physical object with reference to the rise of the eighteenth century novel, modern critical theory and the processes and technologies of production, transmission and reception." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2002. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/8616/.
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Dreaming In Whispering Groves is an investigation into the production, transmission and reception of the book-as-object with specific reference to nine eighteenth century novels over four centuries: Robinson Crusoe; The Adventures Of The Count de Vinevil; Pamela; David Simple; Amelia; Betsy Thoughtless; Evelina; The Monk and The Italian. I examine the relationship between the reader, the book-as-text and the book-as-object, approaching my topic from the standpoint of a Reader Response and Rezeption-aesthetic critic. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, I draw upon Art, History, Literature, Philosophy, Social Science, Technology and Textual Scholarship, in order to create a context for, and trace the development of the social and physical derivation, distribution, adoption and cultivation of the physical object book. My centra-stance to reader-orientated theories is provided by Memetics. A relative newcomer to the critical scene which has evolved as a result of, and parallel to, the study of genetics. The purpose of this juxtaposition is that both Reader-orientated theories and Memetics are dependent upon the reading or interpretation of data - the words on the page or the material to be replicated (in the case of the meme). However, my perception is that both offer an explanation of the way in which 'culture' has evolved and will continue to evolve but perhaps most importantly for the purpose of this thesis they provide answers to questions with regard to the book-as-object. Original empirical research in the form of a web-based questionnaire and a traditional paper-based one, and class-based role-play forms the foundation of an investigation into readers' responses to the book as a physical object. The responses have provided substantial evidence to corroborate my original hypothesis (now thesis). The mode of presentation for this thesis (including the use of fonts based on samples of 18th and early 19th century type and printers ornaments that suggest the quirks of wood-cut and early metal type) is intended as an integral part of the way in which the argument is developed. The readers/examiner's response to this 'book/thesis-as-object' is being sought, and the reader is therefore asked to engage with the contents bearing this in mind.
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Hayton, Tasha. "Portrayal of Race by Public and Private University Newspapers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc33162/.
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This study investigated how two college newspapers cover race and how the papers employed racial stereotypes when describing sources. One of newspapers is a student-produced paper at a private university. The other is a student-produced newspaper at a public university. The study conducted content analyses of front-page news stories in both college newspapers. The sources in the story were analyzed for racial stereotypes. Stereotypes were identified based on frames used in modern racism research. A t-test and chi-square were used to compare the coverage of minorities to Whites. Once the quantitative content analysis was completed, I used textual analysis to identify what ways the news stories used stereotypical coverage of minorities. The study used critical media theory.
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Miranda, Rita Alves. "O teatro experimental de Brecht." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11641.
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This master s thesis aims to approach the passage of Bertolt Brecht through the theater history and the influence of his proposal for the contemporary art. Initially, we analyzed Brecht s criticism towards some traditional conceptions of theater and the path taken by the author to think the crisis of drama that had settled times before. Along the way were considered some references and possible objections from Brecht to Aristotle and the Aristotelian model of theater. In this controversial debate, we analyzed the references to the Greek philosopher, to clarify weather Brecht really wanted to reject Aristotle, or he proposed an appropriation of that formal model. It is known that the Aristotelian model of theater was removed from the Poetics of Aristotle and suffered different appropriations in different epochs, one of them being the bourgeois reading. This view is refuted by Brecht, when he analyzes the reality of bourgeois drama and realizes that it was necessary that it be revised immediately, because the theater is no longer affecting the people, in the sense that their willingness depended on a relationship of passivity on the part of viewers. Facing this crisis of drama, some artists tried to reformulate it without however succeeding. Brecht, when began his work, had knowledge of these attempts and facing their failures, the goal was to make theater inaugurate a new place in society. In search of the best place he has in mind a place of production of consciousness, radically opposed to the bourgeois-capitalist logic that sought the alienation of individuals. So, now located outside the debate of reckoning with the past, Brecht focuses on your present and faces the ideas of György Lukács which oppose Brecht by thinking art in a different manner and attributing to him the image of Formalist. We also deal whit defending Brecht from these charges. This dissertation, different from common aspect of texts on Bertolt Brecht is not intended to scrutinize the techniques developed by the playwright in the formulation of the Epic Theater, or talking about the formal aspects of his work, but it is based on a philosophical approach, passing briefly through a few moments of the author s thought until it reaches the stage considered as a mature conception of theater, which is also the last phase of his career, when he revised many of his previous positions. This phase is one in which he writes pieces like The Good Soul of Setsuan (1939-1942) and Life of Galileo (1938-1939). Being so, our focus was this mature conception of the author s work and the characteristics of his thinking at that time, thinking that we take as very Brechtian itself. We focus at this moment of his work, to show the compatibility of his thought and a contemporary conception of theater
Este trabalho tem por objetivo abordar a passagem de Bertolt Brecht pela história do teatro e a influência de sua proposta na fase contemporânea da arte. Inicialmente, analisamos a crítica de Brecht dirigida a algumas concepções tradicionais de teatro e o caminho percorrido pelo autor para pensar a crise do drama que se instalara tempos antes. Nesse percurso foram consideradas algumas referências e possíveis objeções de Brecht a Aristóteles e ao modelo aristotélico de teatro. Nesse debate polêmico, analisamos as referências ao filósofo grego, a fim de esclarecer se o que Brecht pretendia era rejeitar mesmo Aristóteles, ou mais uma apropriação daquele modelo formal. Sabe-se que o modelo aristotélico de teatro foi retirado da obra Poética de Aristóteles e que sofreu apropriações segundo as épocas, sendo uma delas a leitura burguesa. Essa leitura é rebatida por Brecht que revê a realidade do drama burguês e percebe que era preciso que ele fosse revisto imediatamente, pois o teatro já não atingia mais as pessoas, mas sua disposição dependia de uma relação de passividade por parte dos espectadores. Frente a dessa crise do drama, alguns artistas, tentaram reformulá-lo sem, no entanto, obter sucesso. Brecht, quando deu início a seu trabalho, já tinha conhecimento dessas tentativas e diante desses fracassos, o objetivo era fazer o teatro inaugurar um novo lugar dentro da sociedade. Em busca do melhor lugar, ele tem em mente um lugar de produção de consciências, opondo-se radicalmente à logica burguesa-capitalista que buscava a alienação dos indivíduos. Assim, localizado já fora do debate de acerto de contas com o passado, Brecht concentrase em seu presente e enfrenta György Lukács que se opõe a Brecht ao pensar a arte de uma forma diferente, atribuindo a este a imagem de Formalista. Nos ocupámos de defender Brecht também dessas acusações. Esta dissertação, diferente do aspecto comum de textos sobre Bertolt Brecht não se propõe a analisar minuciosamente as técnicas desenvolvidas pelo dramaturgo na formulação do Teatro Épico, ou a falar dos aspectos formais de sua obra, senão que se apoia numa abordagem filosófica, que passa rapidamente por alguns momentos do pensamento do autor até chegar à fase considerada como fase de uma concepção madura de teatro, que é também a última fase de sua carreira, quando ele reviu muitas de suas posições anteriores. Esta fase é aquela em que ele escreve peças como A Alma Boa de Setsuan (1939-1942) e Vida de Galileu (1938- 1939). Neste momento do trabalho nosso foco foi essa dada concepção madura da obra do autor e as características de seu pensamento nessa época, pensamento que tomamos como próprio brechtiano. Concentramos nossa atenção neste momento da obra, a fim de mostrar a compatibilidade desse pensamento e uma concepção de teatro contemporânea
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Stacey, Alan Martin. "Bounds on the critical probability in oriented percolation models." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251746.
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Adodo, Sophia. "THE FASHION RUNWAY THROUGH A CRITICAL RACE THEORY LENS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461576556.
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Miser, Martha Freymann. "The Myth of Endless Accumulation: A Feminist Inquiry Into Globalization, Growth, and Social Change." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317997334.
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Mantell, Cole. "Love and Refusal: Contrasting Dialectical Interpretations and its Implications in the Works of Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse, 1941-1969." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin156096672701227.
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Icleanu, Constantin C. "A CASE FOR EMPATHY: IMMIGRATION IN SPANISH CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, MUSIC, FILM, AND NOVELS." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/33.
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This dissertation analyzes the representations of immigrants from North Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe in Spain. As engaged scholarship, it seeks to better the portrayal of immigrants in the mass media through the study of literature, film, and music about immigration spanning from the year 2000 to 2016. Because misconceptions continue to propagate in the media, this dissertation works to counteract anti-immigrant, xenophobic representations as well as balance out overly positive and orientalized portrayal of immigrants with a call to recognize immigrants as human beings who deserve the same respect, dignity, and rights as any other citizen.
Chapter 1 examines and analyzes the background to immigration in Spain by covering demographics, the mass media, and political theories related to immigration. Chapter 2 analyzes Spanish music about immigration through Richard Rorty’s social theory of ‘sentimental education’ as a meaningful way to redescribe marginalized minorities as full persons worthy of rights and dignity. Chapter 3 investigates the representation of immigrants in Spanish filmic shorts and cinema. Lastly, Chapter 4 demonstrates how literary portrayals of immigrants written by undocumented immigrants can give rise to strong characters that avoid victimization and rear empathy in their readers in order to affect a social change that minimizes cruelty.
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GuimarÃes, ConceiÃÃo Ribeiro. "ReflexÃes sobre a racionaldade moderna, sobre a experiÃncia-rememoraÃÃo e sobre a infÃncia em Walter Benjamin." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10864.
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nÃo hÃA presente dissertaÃÃo tem como objetivo o estudo: ReflexÃes sobre a racionalidade moderna, sobre a experiÃncia-rememoraÃÃo e sobre a infÃncia em Walter Benjamin. Sua crÃtica contundente ao pensar racionalista, à maneira que sua Ãpoca, sÃculo XX acolhia e tratava a crianÃa, e se contrapondo a esse pensar apresenta a crianÃa como o sujeito da infÃncia. Para que esta pesquisa se realizasse investigamos principalmente as seguintes obras do autor: ReflexÃes sobre a crianÃa, o brinquedo e a educaÃÃo (1932), Magia e tÃcnica, arte polÃtica (1930) e Rua de mÃo Ãnica (1931). O trabalho foi dividido em trÃs capÃtulos, sendo que no primeiro situamos o autor no contexto da Escola de Frankfurt, no segundo capÃtulo trabalhamos os textos: ExperiÃncia e pobreza e O narrador: consideraÃÃes sobre a obra de Nikolai Leskov, em que o autor critica a maneira exagerada de se usar a tÃcnica e valoriza a experiÃncia e a narraÃÃo, sua importÃncia para a vida humana, nos fala tambÃm do seu fim, de sua decadÃncia, mas nos traz fios de esperanÃa nos mostrando possibilidades de resgate tanto da experiÃncia como da narraÃÃo, na Ãltima parte desta investigaÃÃo, no terceiro capÃtulo, trabalhamos a crianÃa em Benjamin. O filÃsofo berlinense nos revela atravÃs dos brinquedos, brincadeiras, jogos e livros infantis quem à a crianÃa. Para ele a crianÃa à um ser com caracterÃsticas prÃprias, capaz de responder aos desafios que lhe sÃo postos pela sociedade. Mesmo sendo o brinquedo uma convenÃÃo cultural do adulto para a crianÃa, esta nÃo se prende a ele, mas o usa em suas brincadeiras como lhe convÃm, ou seja, ela à o sujeito da brincadeira. Benjamin atravÃs do exemplo da crianÃa questiona o pensar filosÃfico que se prende a um sistema que coloca o racional como Ãnica possibilidade de conhecer; pois para o estudioso a capacidade imaginativa, criativa e sensÃvel da crianÃa tambÃm produz conhecimento.
This thesis aims the study: Reflections on the modern rationality,on the experience-recollection and on the childhood in Walter Benjamin. His scathing critique of the rationalist thinking, at least on the way of his time (20th centure), dealt with children, and, in opposition to this thinking, he presents the child as the subject of childhood. For this research, we mostly investigated the following works of the author: Reflections on the child, toy and education (1932), Magic and technical, political art (1930) and One-Way Street (1931). This thesis was divided in three chapters: the first we situate the author in the context of the Frankfurt School; the second chapter we work on the text: Experience and Poverty and the Storyteller: considerations on the work of Nikolai Leskov, wherein the author criticizes the exaggerated manner of using technique and values the experience and the narration and their importance to human life. Although he assumes its ending and decay, he also brings hope wires showing us rescue possibilities on both the experience and narration. The last part of this investigation, the third chapter,we work on Benjaminâs childhood. The Berliner philosopher reveals through toys, games and children's books who the child really is. According to Benjamin, the child is a being with its own characteristics, able to respond to challenges that are posed by society. In spite of the toy is considered a cultural convention from the adult to child, the kid doesnât feel like a prisoner of a toy, but uses it in a free way, which means that the kid is the subject on the moment of the recreation. Benjamin, through his study of the child, questions the philosophical thinking that is attached to a system which puts the rational as the only possibility of knowledge. According to the author, the imaginative, creative and sensitive capacity of the child also produces knowledge.
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Turner, Lyle Robert. "Production structure models and applications within a Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) Framework." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16310/.
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Statistical Activity Cost Theory (SACT) is an axiomatic and statistical theory of basic accounting measurement practice. The aim of the SACT analysis, among others, is to determine the statistical nature of both the physical production system of an accounting entity and its related costs, which can then be examined and applied to various decision-making problems. A central proposition of SACT is that the physical system of the entity, and the costs related to this system, are separate structures which can be modelled as such. To date, however, mini- mal progress has been made in describing production process structures within the SACT framework, and nor have there been any advances made in applying common statistical techniques to such an analysis. This thesis, therefore, moves to extend the basic theory that has already been developed, presenting a novel method for representing and examining the physical processes that make up an entity's production system. It also examines the costing of these physical models, such that transactional data can be examined and related back to the underlying production processes. The thesis concludes by giving an example of such an application in a case study. The analysis developed in this thesis has been applied in a larger project which aims to produce generic modelling and decision tools, based upon SACT, to support return and risk management.
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Britton, Matthew Scott. "Stochastic task scheduling in time-critical information delivery systems." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb8629.pdf.
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"January 2003" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-129) Presents performance analyses of dynamic, stochastic task scheduling policies for a real- time-communications system where tasks lose value as they are delayed in the system.
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Chandrasekara, C. H. M. Kasun Priyanka. "Study of business model innovation : developing new frameworks of business models for the future." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25697.
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The literature review on emerging concepts of 'Business model' and 'Business model innovation' finds significant theoretical and practical potential to facilitate the strategising and innovating activities of modern organisations operating in complex and dynamic business environments. However, a further review of extant literature reveals that although a significant knowledge-base has been accumulated focusing on the content and process aspects of the phenomenon, very few of the conducted studies take a practice-based perspective. Therefore, in keeping with the broader research question of current strategising practices, this research investigates the issue from many possible philosophical, theoretical and methodological angles, in turn making several contributions to the theory and practice of business models while also opening up several potential future research avenues. This research consists of four main research stages sequentially covering problem formulation, two theory creation phases and problem solving, thereby meeting the requirements of a practice-based management research through relevance rather than merely rigour, as in conventional scientific research. As a result, it offers several research contributions to both the theory and practice of business models, which can be immediately put into practice by theorists, practitioners and entrepreneurs: a pluralistic business model research classification framework; a dynamic practice-based approach to the construction of business models; a knowledge-based conceptualisation of business models and a dynamic capability matrix for business model practices. Additionally, this research also offers potential future contributions to adjacent research streams such as dynamic capabilities, strategy as practice and research methodology. Overall, by utilising the philosophy of pragmatism, this thesis advances the contemporary discipline of business models towards a practice-based science, crucially and timely bridging the knowledge gap in existing practice-based theories and frameworks business models. It is hopes that this work will gave rise to a new movement of research on business models, positioning itself as a well established applied-oriented management science among the broader disciplines of strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Rafanell, Irene. "The sexed and gendered body as a social institution : a critical reconstruction of two social constructionist models : Bourdieu's theory of habitus and the performative theory of social institutions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27229.
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By highlighting the embedded forms of social life contemporary debates in Social Sciences have made it necessary to newly explore two major binary oppositions, that of nature and society and structure and individual. In the current atmosphere of tension between constructivist and materialistic positions, it is fundamental to offer detailed analysis and definition of these core issues. The aim of this thesis is to explore new understandings of social constructionist accounts by focusing on sex/gender identity and critically comparing two constructionist views: Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice and its core notion of habitus, and The Performative Theory of Social Institutions, the social theory of the Strong Programme, (a sociology of scientific knowledge developed by Barnes, Bloor). The Performance Theory claims that the realm of the ‘social’ is the result of the constitutive nature of self-referential performing practices (verbal or otherwise). Its basic tenet that social life is a collective achievement, that is, the result of the continuing realignment among individuals which occurs in the interactive, and its emphasis on the performative nature of the individuals’ self-referential inductive inferences, stands in stark contrast with that of Bourdieu’s notion of the stability of the habitus as the internalization of pre-existing macro-structures. I argue that whereas Bourdieu’s novelty is that he locates social effects at the level of the body, his theory, by envisaging this socialization as a Parsonian model of early internalization resulting in permanent fixidity, suffers from a macro-structuralist bais of ‘externality’. The Performance Theory, although not specifically concerned with the body, provides an analytical framework which resolves Bourdieu’s tacit reification of the ‘social’. By introducing Kusch’s notion of Artificial Kinds, closely connected with the main tenets of the performative theory of social institution, I develop a definition of an embodied habitus as a ‘social institution’, that is, as the result of the constitutive power of the dispositions, as a self-referential collective achievement, and to achieve a more accomplished synthesis of the dualisms individual/structure and nature/society.
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Jornet, Somoza Albert. "Un pensar vulnerable. El ensayo de la precariedad en el campo intelectual español de la crisis económica (2008-2018)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668512.
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Esta tesis analiza las transformaciones del campo intelectual español en la década inmediatamente posterior al crack financiero que a nivel mundial se dio en 2008, para ponerlo en relación con el surgimiento de una experiencia de la precariedad ―y su correspondiente exploración filosófica― que ha conllevado, según se propone, la aparición de nuevas voces intelectuales que vehiculizan un pensar vulnerable.
Para ello, se dedican los dos primeros capítulos a examinar, en primer lugar, la reordenación sociológica que el ámbito cultural pudo contemplar a partir de la muerte de Franco y la gestación de una cultura dominante que se da en llamar “socio-liberal”, en la que la empresa periodística de El País, las políticas culturales del PSOE y los agentes y editoriales afines lograron polarizar el campo asentándose como autoridad democrática. En segundo lugar, se recorren algunas de las consecuencias más inmediatas de la crisis económica en las formas de producción, difusión y consumo culturales en esferas concretas como la universidad, la gestión estatal de los presupuestos dedicados a cultura, el ámbito periodístico o el papel de la revolución digital en los modos de leer y compartir información.
Igualmente, se atiende a los debates ideológicos de la izquierda española en la última década, especialmente aquellos que tienen que ver con la reapertura de algunas cuestiones que habían sido anteriormente desplazadas a un segundo plano, como la pregunta sobre la condición democrática y sobre el sistema capitalista en su forma actual de existir; dos cuestiones que han generado, en el panorama intelectual del país, una clara fisura ―no sólo generacional― entre posiciones socialdemócratas y otras más radicales o imaginativas. Por ello, también se dedican unas páginas a observar las reacciones de algunas de las figuras intelectuales más destacadas de las décadas anteriores en el nuevo escenario mediático, político y social.
El tercer capítulo explora el horizonte conceptual y filosófico de la precariedad que ha ido elaborándose recientemente a partir de las propuestas teóricas de pensadores internacionales (Butler, Lorey, Standing, etc.) y nacionales (Garcés, Rendueles, Pérez Orozco, López Gil, etc.). Igualmente se presta atención a nociones periféricas de este campo semántico como las de “cuidados”, “sostenibilidad de la vida”, “(pro)común” o “bienes comunes”, entre otros. Además, se propone un acercamiento a diversos modos de praxis política y cultural que han surgido en los últimos años en forma de redes de sostenimiento, movimientos y colectivos, como la PAH, el 15M o Fundación de los Comunes, respectivamente.
Los últimos capítulos parten de la pregunta sobre las posibilidades de la escritura (ensayística) para vehiculizar un pensar vulnerable, en un campo cultural cada vez más indiferenciado de las lógicas mercantiles y que, por acción y efecto del nuevo entorno digital, está substituyendo el predominio del paradigma lineal de narración textual por el mapeo, lo audiovisual y el hiperlink. En este sentido, primero se dedica un capítulo a reflexionar sobre la potencialidad del género del ensayo, mientras que el último aborda algunas de las prácticas ensayísticas
actuales que podemos identificar como poéticas de la vulnerabilidad y que se proponen poner su escritura reflexiva al servicio de una diversidad de experiencias precarias, como el desahucio, la falta o temporalidad del empleo, la especificidad del trabajo cultural como laboratorio de explotación contemporánea, la enfermedad, el suicidio o la maternidad. A través de ensayos de escritores como Remedios Zafra, Marta Sanz, Javier López Alós, Cristina Fallarás, Santiago López Petit o Jorge Moruno, sostenemos que en estas poéticas se pone en juego una nueva figura de intelectual que explora modos de ejercer una razón pública más allá de las tradicionales lógicas de distinción o jerarquización cultural y epistemológica.This thesis dissertation examines the transformations of the Spanish intellectual field in the decade after the financial crack of 2008, and the emergence of an experience of precariousness - and its corresponding philosophical exploration. I propose that this transformation entailed the rise of new intellectual voices that convey what we can call a vulnerable thinking. To this aim, this dissertation is divided in two different parts. The first two chapters are dedicated to analyzing the sociological reorganization that the cultural field after the death of Franco and the gestation of a dominant culture that may be called "socio-liberal”. This culture was articulated around the newspaper El País, in alliance with the PSOE’s cultural policies and other related agents and publishers, and it polarized the intellectual field, managing to establish itself as a “democratic authority”. Secondly, this work examines some of the most immediate consequences of the economic crisis in cultural production and circulation that can be noticed in specific areas such as the university, the state management of budgets, the journalistic field or the role of the digital revolution in the ways of reading and sharing information. The third chapter explores the conceptual and philosophical horizon of precariousness that has been recently developed from theoretical perspectives by some thinkers, both international (Butler, Lorey, Standing, etc.) and national (Garcés, Rendueles, Pérez Orozco, López Gil, etc.). Also, peripheral notions related to this semantic field are addressed, such as “care”, “sustainability of life” or “commons”, among others. In addition, this work proposes an approach to various ways of political and cultural praxis that have emerged in recent years in a wide diversity of modes, like structures of mutual support, movements and collectives, such as PAH, 15M or “Fundación de los Comunes”, respectively. The fourth chapter is devoted to reflecting on the potential of the essay genre, while the last one deals with some of the current essay practices that I propose to think as conveying a “poetics of vulnerability”. These essays propose to put their reflexive writing at the service of a diversity of precarious experiences, such as eviction, lack or temporary employment, the specificity of cultural work as a laboratory for contemporary exploitation, illness or maternity. Through them, written by thinkers such as Zafra Remedies, Marta Sanz, Javier López Alós, Cristina Fallarás, Santiago López Petit or Jorge Moruno, we maintain that in these poetics a new intellectual figure is put into play. One that explores ways of exercising a public reason beyond the traditional logics of cultural or epistemological hierarchy or distinction.
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Nosella, Berilo Luigi Deiró. ""Um buraco no céu de papel": o moderno na dramaturgia de Luigi Pirandello." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14801.
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This master degree main objective is the analysis and the study of the dramatical workmanship composition Six Personages in Search of an Author , witch is studied here as Seis Personagens em Busca de um Autor by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), staged for the first time in 1921, in Rome / Italy, reaching success in the entire world and deeply influencing the art of the teatral representation of the century XX. The objectives of the research send to analyze the modern elements gifts in the text Six Personages in Search of an Author and to the verification of the specific items on this modern pirandellian text in debate with modernity and contemporality. Basically, here, the analysis if guideline in the reflection on the existence of a tension between tradition and renewal, characteristic of the modernity in general way and specific way of the workmanship of Pirandello. It is treated, therefore, of formal examining the renewal as crisis of the tradition while factor of revelation and denudation as crisis of the modern world that is present like a mean form in the workmanship of Pirandello and in the Modern Drama . The literary analysis of the pirandellian text was based, initially, in the theoretical debate on the question of the literary sorts for the definition of the concept of Modern Drama . For this issue, this thought followed a line that begins with Hegel, goes to Georg Lukács and finishes with Peter Szondi. Advancing in this way, it was turned back to the proper theoretical texts of Pirandello, mainly O Humorismo , wrote in 1903, that involves the modernity of the drama and how it would be articulated, later, in an artistic form. A critical historical pillar helped to support the recital of this work that had as purpose understand and context this workmanship of Pirandello in its time and the present time. It was established, a parallel between two authors: the Italian, contemporary Pirandello, Antonio Gramsci and the german, Walter Benjamin. This debate in allowed in such a way to invest them in the analysis of the tension between form and content, renewing the art of drama of Pirandello culturally (as content) and the respective esthetic way (as form)
Trata, a presente dissertação, da análise e do estudo da obra dramática Seis Personagens em Busca de um Autor, de Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), encenada pela primeira vez em 1921, em Roma, Itália, alcançando sucesso no mundo todo e influenciando profundamente a dramaturgia do século XX. Os objetivos da pesquisa remetem à analise dos elementos modernos presentes no texto Seis Personagens em Busca de um Autor e à verificação das especificidades desse moderno pirandelliano em debate com a modernidade e a contemporaneidade. Basicamente, aqui, a análise se pauta na reflexão sobre a existência de uma tensão entre tradição e renovação, característica da modernidade de modo geral e de modo específico da obra de Pirandello. Trata-se, portanto, de formalmente examinar a renovação como crise da tradição enquanto fator de revelação e desnudamento de uma crise do mundo moderno que se apresentaria como uma forma fundamental na obra de Pirandello e no Drama Moderno . A análise literária do texto pirandelliano alicerçou-se, inicialmente, no debate teórico sobre a questão dos gêneros literários para a definição do conceito de Drama Moderno . Para tanto, esse pensamento seguiu uma linha que parte de Hegel, passa por Gyorgy Lukács e se finaliza com Peter Szondi. Avançando neste caminho, voltou-se aos próprios textos teóricos de Pirandello, principalmente O Humorismo, escrito em 1903, que compreende a modernidade do drama e como se articularia, posteriormente, numa forma artística. Sustentou ainda a fundamentação deste trabalho um pilar crítico-histórico que teve como finalidade compreender e contextualizar a obra de Pirandello em seu tempo e na atualidade. Estabeleceu-se, assim, um paralelo entre dois autores: o italiano, contemporâneo a Pirandello, Antonio Gramsci e o alemão Walter Benjamin. Esse debate nos permitiu investir na análise da tensão entre forma e conteúdo, renovando a dramaturgia de Pirandello tanto culturalmente (como conteúdo) quanto esteticamente (como forma)
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Ngalo-Morrison, Lulama. "Factors influencing the academic attainment of undergraduate sponsored students at the University of the Western Cape: a strength-based approach." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5553.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Education)Deficit models dominate current research on academic retention and success in South African higher education and internationally. Most studies focus on students who are at risk of exiting higher education prematurely or those who fail academically because of their socio-economic conditions. Dropout and failure in existing research is often correlated to class and lack of access to financial resources. The prevailing philosophy based on needs assessment, deficit intervention and problem-solving does not sufficiently facilitate the academic success of diverse learners. Yet, surveys in most countries show that addressing weakness does not necessarily help people improve in their performance more than will highlighting their strengths (Hodges & Clifton, 2004). In contrast, this study adopts a strength-based approach, drawing largely on ‘ecological’ perspectives which recognize the importance of people’s surroundings and the multifaceted variables constantly at play, impacting the lives of students throughout the world. A strength-based model is posited as a pragmatic approach to pedagogy in the 21st century. This perspective recognizes the resilience of individuals and focuses on potential, strengths, interests, abilities, determination and capabilities rather than limits. This study accepts that there are persistent challenges to widening participation in South African universities, and leakages in the education pipeline continue with little improvement in graduation rates. However, there are numerous undocumented examples of academically successful students from working-class backgrounds whose academic attainment is not accounted for. Empirical data is required to establish the relationship between academic success and the resilience of undergraduate sponsored students from working class backgrounds. The case study examines factors that influence the academic attainment of undergraduate sponsored students and the institutional practices that enhance their performance at the University of the Western Cape. Factors motivating sponsored students from poor communities to succeed were explored. Furthermore, institutional influences that are relevant to, and inform students’ academic attainment are investigated. The study utilized a variety of data including relevant institutional documents, interviews with sponsored students and secondary data sourced from the Institutional Quality Assurance and Planning department. Findings of the study show that affordability through funding for equitable access to higher education is a motivating factor in academic attainment for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Also, participants in this study attributed their success to nurtured resilience across the institution, and the supportive relationships established through structured intervention programmes in and out of class. It is important to note, contrary to findings in other studies, that low socio economic background was more of a motivational factor and being resourceful for social mobility. This study adds to the limited understanding of the academic attainment of students from poor backgrounds who succeed against all odds. This provides direction to universities for adopting different approaches and offers insights for the University of the Western Cape into the experiences of its graduates. Based on the findings, the study highlights recommendations and opportunities for future investigation.
Ngalo-Morrison, L. (2017). Factors influencing the academic attainment of undergraduate sponsored students at the University of the Western Cape: A strength-based approach. PhD thesis. University of the Western Cape
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Santana, Jeová Silva. "O internato como modelo educacional segundo a literatura: um estudo sob a perspectiva da teoria crítica." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10294.
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The study analyzed the works of Brazilian literature that have the boarding school model as its theme. It was intended to determine whether these specific forms of construction fulfilled only the aesthetic motivations of its authors, or could serve as sources of research to meet certain educational practices of the Brazilian educational process. To that end, he established himself as the chronological cut late nineteenth century and the 1920s, and was chosen by the authors that started boarding school and later recreated that experience school through several genres: romance, memorialism, lyrical. From this perspective, constituted the corpus with the works O Ateneu, by Raul Pompeia; Doidinho, by José Lins do Rego; As Três Marias, by Raquel de Queiroz, Balão cativo, Chão de Ferro, by Pedro Nava, Solo de Clarineta, by Erico Verissimo, and 51 poems bunched in the series "Primeiro Colégio" and "Fria Friburgo" in Boitempo II, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade. This gathering allowed the analysis of ideological and aesthetic aspects of texts and their relationship with a remarkable way of teaching the history of Brazilian education. For both, the theoretical framework used was the Critical Theory, particularly the texts produced by Marcuse, Adorno, Benjamin, in which questions are presented as critical paralysis, erudition, impoverishment of experience, negative indicators that only education can take to put autonomy and critical awareness as fundamental principles in the training of individuals. The investigation has found that the speeches of selected authors and their protagonists narrators
O estudo analisou obras da literatura brasileira que têm o modelo internato como tema. Pretendeu-se verificar se essas formas específicas de construção atendiam apenas a motivações estéticas de seus autores ou poderiam servir como fontes de pesquisa para se conhecer certas práticas pedagógicas do processo educacional brasileiro. Para tanto, estabeleceu-se como recorte cronológico o final do século XIX e os anos 1920, e foram escolhidos autores que passaram pelo internato e posteriormente recriaram essa experiência escolar mediante gêneros textuais diversos: romance, memorialismo, lírica. Dessa perspectiva, constituiu-se o corpus com as obras O Ateneu, de Raul Pompéia; Doidinho, de José Lins do Rego; As três Marias, de Raquel de Queiroz; Balão cativo e Chão de ferro, de Pedro Nava; Solo de clarineta, de Érico Veríssimo; e 51 poemas enfeixados nas séries Primeiro colégio e Fria Friburgo em Boitempo II, de Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Essa recolha permitiu a análise dos aspectos estéticos e ideológicos dos textos e sua relação com uma forma de ensino marcante na história da educação brasileira. Para tanto, o referencial teórico utilizado foi o da Teoria Crítica, mais particularmente os textos produzidos por Marcuse, Adorno, Benjamin, nos quais são apresentadas questões como paralisia crítica, semiformação, empobrecimento da experiência, indicadores negativos que somente a educação pode remover ao colocar a autonomia e a consciência crítica como princípios fundamentais na formação dos indivíduos. A investigação permitiu encontrar essa ressonância no discurso dos autores selecionados e seus protagonistas narradores
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Apt, Michel Kahan. "Discurso e poder: o modelo mental como instrumento ideológico de manipulação." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8142/tde-08022011-124024/.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo buscar, no discurso de Diogo Mainardi, regularidades que nos permitam reconhecer a construção de um modelo mental específico de representação do Presidente da República, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, e de integrantes do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). O corpus compreende três crônicas, publicadas na Revista VEJA no período entre junho de 2006 e janeiro de 2007, Alicerçamos nossos estudos na Teoria Sociocognitiva e na Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD), a partir do que indica Teun van Dijk (1983; 1991; 2004; 2005). Nossa pesquisa concluiu que Mainardi, por meio de manipulação contextual e da atribuição de características socialmente desfavoráveis, como corrupção, incompetência, incapacidade crítica e apego à noção de povo/popular, cria um modelo mental negativo do Presidente Lula e de integrantes do PT.The aim of this work is to identify, in the discourse of Diogo Mainardi, patterns that might allow us to recognize the construction of a specific mental model of representation of the President of the Federal Republic of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, and of members of the Workers Party (PT). The corpus contains three chronicles published in the VEJA magazine, between June 2006 and January 2007. We based our studies on the principles of the Social Cognitive Theory and the Critical Discourse Analysis, as defined in the writings of Teun A. van Dijk (1983; 1991; 2004; 2005). Through our research, we come to the conclusion that Mainardi created a negative mental model of President Lula and of the members of PT, by using contextual manipulation and unfavorable social characteristics, such as corruption, incompetence, critical incapacity and attachment to the notion of people/popular.
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Schoenberger-Orgad, Sehai. "How can we help you? Communicating Social Welfare." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2763.
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This thesis examines the ways in which public sector organisations communicate with people from lower socio-economic communities. The study is guided by the research question: Do the existing communication strategies of public sector organisations serve the needs of low decile communities in New Zealand? The study looks at the communication strategies used by three public sector organisations - Ministry of Social Development, Inland Revenue and Hamilton City Council - to interact with residents of a low-decile neighbourhood in Hamilton. Positioned within the critical theoretical paradigm (e.g., Deetz, 2005; Mumby, 2000) which looks at issues of power, domination and asymmetry in terms of communication practices, the research shows how social policy is socially constructed in order to serve the political aims of the public sector but is not necessarily constructed in terms of the target publics of that organisation. The study uses a three dimensional discourse analysis - text, context, and social practices (Fairclough, 1992) - to analyse the formal communication and information dissemination structures, processes, and texts of these organisations and to examine the ways in which some of the intended target publics of these organisations make sense of them and respond to them. The study includes an analysis of public documents put out by the organisations as well as interviews with youth workers, social workers, and representatives of the specific neighbourhood community. Juxtaposing the textual analysis with the analysis of the interviews facilitates an evaluation of whether the communication strategies of the organisations relate to the context of the socio-cultural practices of lowdecile neighbourhoods.
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Gayraud, Agnès Marie. "La critique de la subjectivité et de ses figures chez T.W. Adorno. Une construction moderne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040177.
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Cette thèse expose selon une double méthode génétique et architectonique la critique adornienne de la subjectivité et de ses figures depuis les textes de critique esthétique du philosophe rédigés au milieu des années vingt jusqu’à la Dialectique négative. Les figures dont la critique thématise la réification implacable à l’âge du capitalisme avancé sont à la fois les diverses incarnations de la subjectivité (du sujet philosophique à l’individu social) et ses produits (les œuvres d’art et la culture, le système idéaliste et la société). Nous montrons que leur critique, articulée selon des régimes divers (philosophique, esthétique et sociologique) s’élabore chez le philosophe comme une véritable construction. Bâtie en vue de résister à un idéalisme irréfléchi et désuet, menaçant l’art, la philosophie et l’individu même de liquidation, cette construction fait de l’immanence subjective – extrapolée à terme à l’échelle de la société tout entière – son lieu problématique initial dont elle ne brise le cercle oppressif qu’à partir de l’exigence d’une expression de la souffrance conférant à terme à la construction sa dynamique opératoire. Sans esthétisation aucune de la pensée adornienne mais par une attention soutenue à sa présentation, ce travail vise à donner aux modèles respectifs de la critique qu’elle élabore – critique esthétique, Théorie critique et négativité – leur unité fonctionnelle propre qui ne se dissout nullement dans le fragmentaire pas plus qu’elle ne se laisse rassembler en un procès idéaliste renversé, mais présente la forme d’une construction modulaire, en mouvement, par laquelle la subjectivité se réfrène et se libère, opposant à sa propre loi la résistance matérielle du mondeThis thesis proceeds both genetically and architectonically to present Adorno’s critique of subjectivity and its figures. It relies upon a wide array of Adornian texts, ranging from the mid 1920s to the late 1960s. Adorno’s critique highlights the inescapable reification of subjectivity’s figures, which he understands as both incarnations of subjectivity (from the philosophical subject to the social individual) and products of subjectivity (works of art and culture, the idealist system and society itself). We defend that their critique, borrowing to aesthetic, sociological, and philosophical approaches, is elaborated by the philosopher as a very construction. This “construction” is built to resist an obsolete, unreflective idealism, which, in his view, threatens the arts, philosophy, and the individual with liquidation; it proceeds from subjective immanence as the problematic core of idealism, which oppressive circle it can only break through in following the demand for the expression of suffering, which gives it its critical dynamic. Through close attention to Adorno’s exposition, this work aims at restoring the functional unity of his critical models (aesthetic critique, critical theory, and negativity), which neither dissolve into fragments nor can be brought together in an inverted idealist process; it rather presents Adorno’s construction as a whole of dynamic, modular units, by means of which subjectivity both refrains and frees itself, by confronting its own laws to the material reality of the world
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GUIMARÃES, Conceição Ribeiro. "Reflexões sobre a racionaldade moderna, sobre a experiência-rememoração e sobre a infância em Walter Benjamin." www.teses.ufc.br, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/7525.
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GUIMARÃES, Conceição Ribeiro. Reflexões sobre a racionaldade moderna, sobre a experiência-rememoração e sobre a infância em Walter Benjamin. 2013. 125f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2013.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-02-27T13:53:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-CRGUIMARAES.pdf: 544754 bytes, checksum: 503af9e979abbbb0b9bb167e39ee8cf5 (MD5)
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This thesis aims the study: Reflections on the modern rationality,on the experience-recollection and on the childhood in Walter Benjamin. His scathing critique of the rationalist thinking, at least on the way of his time (20th centure), dealt with children, and, in opposition to this thinking, he presents the child as the subject of childhood. For this research, we mostly investigated the following works of the author: Reflections on the child, toy and education (1932), Magic and technical, political art (1930) and One-Way Street (1931). This thesis was divided in three chapters: the first we situate the author in the context of the Frankfurt School; the second chapter we work on the text: Experience and Poverty and the Storyteller: considerations on the work of Nikolai Leskov, wherein the author criticizes the exaggerated manner of using technique and values the experience and the narration and their importance to human life. Although he assumes its ending and decay, he also brings hope wires showing us rescue possibilities on both the experience and narration. The last part of this investigation, the third chapter,we work on Benjamin’s childhood. The Berliner philosopher reveals through toys, games and children's books who the child really is. According to Benjamin, the child is a being with its own characteristics, able to respond to challenges that are posed by society. In spite of the toy is considered a cultural convention from the adult to child, the kid doesn’t feel like a prisoner of a toy, but uses it in a free way, which means that the kid is the subject on the moment of the recreation. Benjamin, through his study of the child, questions the philosophical thinking that is attached to a system which puts the rational as the only possibility of knowledge. According to the author, the imaginative, creative and sensitive capacity of the child also produces knowledge.
A presente dissertação tem como objetivo o estudo: Reflexões sobre a racionalidade moderna, sobre a experiência-rememoração e sobre a infância em Walter Benjamin. Sua crítica contundente ao pensar racionalista, à maneira que sua época, século XX acolhia e tratava a criança, e se contrapondo a esse pensar apresenta a criança como o sujeito da infância. Para que esta pesquisa se realizasse investigamos principalmente as seguintes obras do autor: Reflexões sobre a criança, o brinquedo e a educação (1932), Magia e técnica, arte política (1930) e Rua de mão única (1931). O trabalho foi dividido em três capítulos, sendo que no primeiro situamos o autor no contexto da Escola de Frankfurt, no segundo capítulo trabalhamos os textos: Experiência e pobreza e O narrador: considerações sobre a obra de Nikolai Leskov, em que o autor critica a maneira exagerada de se usar a técnica e valoriza a experiência e a narração, sua importância para a vida humana, nos fala também do seu fim, de sua decadência, mas nos traz fios de esperança nos mostrando possibilidades de resgate tanto da experiência como da narração, na última parte desta investigação, no terceiro capítulo, trabalhamos a criança em Benjamin. O filósofo berlinense nos revela através dos brinquedos, brincadeiras, jogos e livros infantis quem é a criança. Para ele a criança é um ser com características próprias, capaz de responder aos desafios que lhe são postos pela sociedade. Mesmo sendo o brinquedo uma convenção cultural do adulto para a criança, esta não se prende a ele, mas o usa em suas brincadeiras como lhe convém, ou seja, ela é o sujeito da brincadeira. Benjamin através do exemplo da criança questiona o pensar filosófico que se prende a um sistema que coloca o racional como única possibilidade de conhecer; pois para o estudioso a capacidade imaginativa, criativa e sensível da criança também produz conhecimento.
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Renzi, Stefano. "Differences in university teaching after Learning Management System adoption : an explanatory model based on Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Management, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0193.
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[Truncated abstract] Current literature about university teaching argues that online teaching requires online social learning based on social interaction to be effective. This implies a shift in pedagogy based on engagement and collaboration, instead of trying to reproduce face-to- face teaching, in online environments. However, when a university adopts an elearning platform (or Learning Management System, LMS), most teachers tend to reproduce their traditional teaching, delivering, through the LMS, educational material. This study explored factors which influence university teachers to adopt teaching models based on online social interaction (OSI) when an e-learning platform is used to complement undergraduate classroom teaching. Online teaching model adoption was considered in the framework of technology adoption and post-adoption behavior, i.e., adoption and use by individuals after an organization has adopted an ICT-based innovation (Jasperson, Carter, & Zmud, 2005). Behaviors were investigated using a model based on Ajzen's (1991) Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). In total, 26 university teachers 15 from Australia and 11 from Italy holding undergraduate courses, were recruited. They responded to a semi-structured interview based on the TPB, built on purpose for this research. Teachers were divided into three different groups on the basis of their approach to online teaching, corresponding to three different levels of adoption of OSI. The three different online teaching models were:
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Bem, Isabella Vieira de. "Models of complexity in Robert Coover's John's wife and the adventures of Lucky Pierre." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/5841.
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Esta tese de doutorado analisa dois romances do escritor Norte-Americano Robert Coover como exemplos de escrita hipertextual e de hiperficção no suporte do livro de papel. A complexidade dos romances John's Wife e The Adventures of Lucky Pierre integra os elementos culturais característicos da atual fase do capitalismo e as práticas tecnologizadas que vêm forjando uma subjetividade diferente na escrita e leitura hipertextual, a subjetividade pós-humana. Os modelos da complexidade dos romances derivam do conceito de atratores estranhos da Teoria do Caos e de rizoma da Nomadologia. As transformações no grau de corporeidade dos personagens estabelecem o plano em que se discute a turbulência e a pós-humanidade. As noções de padrões dinâmicos e atratores estranhos e os conceitos do Corpo sem Órgãos e do Rizoma são interpretados para se revisar a narratologia e chegar a categorias apropriadas ao estudo dos romances. A leitura exercitada nesta tese põe em prática a proposta de leitura corpórea de Daniel Punday. As mudanças no grau de materialidade dos personagens são associadas aos estágios de ordem, turbulência e caos na estória, agindo sobre a constituição da subjetividade ao longo do processo de leitura. A inscrição dos planos de consistência que Coover realiza para se contrapor à linearidade e acomodar as feições hipertextuais nas narrativas em papel descreve a trajetória rizomática dos personagens. O presente estudo leva a concluir que a narrativa hoje se constitui antes como um regime numa relação rizomática com outros regimes na prática cultural do que como forma e gênero predominantemente literários. Também se conclui que a subjetividade pós-humana emerge alinhada a uma identidade de classe que tem nos romances hipertextuais a sua forma literária predileta.This doctoral dissertation analyzes two novels by the American novelist Robert Coover as examples of hypertextual writing on the book bound page, as tokens of hyperfiction. The complexity displayed in the novels, John's Wife and The Adventures of Lucky Pierre, integrates the cultural elements that characterize the contemporary condition of capitalism and technologized practices that have fostered a different subjectivity evidenced in hypertextual writing and reading, the posthuman subjectivity. The models that account for the complexity of each novel are drawn from the concept of strange attractors in Chaos Theory and from the concept of rhizome in Nomadology. The transformations the characters undergo in the degree of their corporeality sets the plane on which to discuss turbulence and posthumanity. The notions of dynamic patterns and strange attractors, along with the concept of the Body without Organs and Rhizome are interpreted, leading to the revision of narratology and to analytical categories appropriate to the study of the novels. The reading exercised throughout this dissertation enacts Daniel Punday's corporeal reading. The changes in the characters' degree of materiality are associated with the stages of order, turbulence and chaos in the story, bearing on the constitution of subjectivity within and along the reading process. Coover's inscription of planes of consistency to counter linearity and accommodate hypertextual features to the paper supported narratives describes the characters' trajectory as rhizomatic. The study led to the conclusion that narrative today stands more as a regime in a rhizomatic relation with other regimes in cultural practice than as an exclusively literary form and genre. Besides this, posthuman subjectivity emerges as class identity, holding hypertextual novels as their literary form of choice.
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Santamaria, Julian Andres Jaimes. "Extensão do modelo Raise and Peel." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/76/76131/tde-04102011-164557/.
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O modelo raise and peel é um modelo estocástico unidimensional com absorção local e desorção não local. O modelo depende de um único parâmetro u que é a razão entre a taxa de absorção pela de dessorção. Em um valor especial deste parâmetro (u = 1) o modelo tem características interessantes. O espectro é descrito por uma teoria de campos conforme (carga central c = 0), sendo que a distribuição de probabilidade estacionária está relacionada a um sistema de equilíbrio em duas dimensões. O diagrama de fases do modelo, como função do parâmetro u, tem uma fase massiva (com lacuna de massa) e uma sem massa (lacuna de massa nula) com expoentes críticos que variam continuamente com o parâmetro u. Nesta dissertação estudamos uma extensão do modelo raise and peel model no ponto u = 1, e que depende de um parâmetro adicional p. Surpreendentemente o novo modelo exibe invariância conforme para todo o domínio do seu parâmetro p, e está na mesma classe de universalidade do modelo raise and peel usual (u = 1). A única diferença entre os dois modelos é o valor da velocidade do som vs(p), que agora é função de p. Os métodos que utilizamos nesta dissertação foram diagonalizações exatas do operador de evolução do modelo (Hamiltoniano) para cadeias pequenas e simulações de Monte Carlo.The raise and peel model is a one-dimensional nonlocal stochastic model where adsorption happens locally and desorption is nonlocal. The model depends on the single parameter u that is the ratio among the desorption and adsorption rates. At a special value of this parameter (u = 1) the model has interesting features. The spectrum is described by a conformal field theory (central charge c = 0), and its stationary probability density is related to the equilibrium distribution of a two dimensional system. The phase diagram of the model, as a function of the parameter u, has a massive phase (gapped phase) and a massless (gapless phase) whose critical exponents vary continuously with u. In this monography we study a one-parameter extension of the raise and peel model at u = 1, that depends on the additional parameter p. The new model exhibits conformal invariance for the whole range of values of its parameter p, and it is in the same universality class as the usual raise and peel model. The single difference between the models is the value of the sound velocity vs(p) which is a function of p. The methods used in this monography are the exact diagonalization of the evolution operator of the stochastic model (Hamiltonian), for small lattice sizes and Monte Carlo simulations.
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Kim, Kwangmoo. "Topics in the theory of inhomogeneous media composite superconductors and dielectrics /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180537980.
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Adams, Laural L. "Theorizing Mental Models in Disciplinary Writing Ecologies through Scholarship, Talk-Aloud Protocols, and Semi-Structured Interviews." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1404717469.
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Kyrillos, Neto Fuad. "Efeitos de circulação do discurso em serviços substitutivos de saúde mental: uma perspectiva pscanalítica." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/17182.
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This study discuss the circulation of the knowledge related to the notion of social inclusion in the mental health open services set on the policy established by the federal government. In order to do it, the text presents the foucault s theory about madness used by the Italian Democratic Psychiatry, as well as Franco Basaglia s theory. The basaglia s model brought some contributions to the mental health s field because it pointed the relevance of the psychiatric patients s social insertion. However, there are some critiques to the citizen s conception used in the implementation of this model and to the kind of the social bow requested by him. Those critiques are made from these theories: the Lacan s subject concept, the psychoses s psychoanalytical concept and the Lacan s theory of the four speeches. With the psychoanalysis as a conducting axle, we dialogue with thinkers of other fields of knowledge, specially those who are interest in the ideology and in the symbolic power. Based on small parts of the open services s quotidian, as well as the clinical cases s parts, this study review the social alliance produced in the mental health s substitutive services. It also points out that the workers play the role of the masters in the relation with the users while they have as a significant master the imperative of the social inclusion. Finally, this study considers some proposals of psychoanalysis field s authors, confirming this basic requirements for a consistent treatment and for a real inclusion of the psychotic one: to include the notion of structure in the diagnosis elaboration, to include the concept of foreclosure in the semiology and in the psychiatric reform institutional service s net and to include the the unconscious s subject psychoanalitical concept and the premise of the subject s participation in the treatment
O presente estudo discute a circulação do saber relacionado à noção e inclusão social nos serviços abertos de saúde mental a partir das diretrizes estabelecidas pelo governo federal. Para tanto, apresenta os pressupostos foucaultianos acerca da loucura utilizados pela Psiquiatria Democrática Italiana, bem como os pressupostos teóricos da obra de Franco Basaglia. Admite-se que existem contribuições positivas trazidas pelo modelo basagliano para o campo da saúde mental, já que apontam a relevância da inserção social dos pacientes psiquiátricos. Porém, formulam-se críticas à concepção de sujeito utilizada na implementação desse modelo e também ao tipo de laço social por ele implicado. Isso é feito a partir de considerações teóricas fundamentadas na noção lacaniana de sujeito, na concepção psicanalítica das psicoses e na teoria lacaniana dos quatro discursos. Ao ter a psicanálise como eixo condutor, dialogamos com pensadores de outros campos do saber, principalmente aqueles que se interessam pela ideologia e pelo poder simbólico. Partindo de fragmentos do cotidiano nos serviços abertos, bem como de fragmentos de casos clínicos, o estudo procede a crítica do laço social produzido nos serviços substitutivos de saúde mental e aponta o fato de que os trabalhadores ocupam o lugar de mestria na relação com os usuários ao ter como significante mestre o imperativo da inclusão social. Finalmente, no estudo, são discutidas proposições de autores do campo da psicanálise, que endossam os seguintes requisitos fundamentais para um tratamento consistente e para uma inclusão efetiva do psicótico: incluir a noção de estrutura na elaboração do diagnóstico, incluir o conceito de foraclusão na semiologia e na própria estrutura da rede de serviços institucionais da reforma psiquiátrica, incluir o conceito psicanalítico de sujeito do inconsciente e a premissa de implicação do sujeito no tratamento
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Svanevie, Kajsa. "Evidensbaserat socialt arbete : Från idé till praktik." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-28646.
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As an innovation Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is designed as a tool for clinical problem solving. According to its theory of use EBP will bring a difference for policy makers, for professionals, for researchers and for service users. One question to be asked is whether EBP actually leads to the radical social change it is designed to accomplish. The aim of the study is to describe and analyse the outcome of the effort to establish EBP, with a focus on the case of social work in Sweden. The research questions are: What is EBP? Why are efforts made to establish EBP? What is the outcome of the EBP project? How can the outcome of the EBP project be explained? The case study was conducted on a critical realistic meta-theoretical ground with a focus on explanation of social change with an explicit actor-structure perspective. Methodologically, a narrative synthesis of studies was made. As a complement primary data were collected to fill empirical gaps. The state of things was described before and after the EBP-initiatives. Several helping theories – Kuhn’s theory of paradigm, program theory, neo-institutional theory and theory of diffusion – were used to analyse the empirically mapped outcome of the EBP project. The results show that the import of the original model of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) to social work is a part of a wider social movement in the helping and educational professions. The new model has influenced social work as a discipline, as a field of practice and as a field of policy. There are examples of full-scale implementations of EBP, although EBP has not reached a general status as daily practice. Some obstacles remain. The gradual adaption of EBP corresponds to criteria hold by Kuhn for a paradigm shift. Acceptance of the model has contributed to change the structure and function of social systems. At an organizational level, this change means on-going institutionalization. The innovation is influencing the way institutional actors conduct their work. Although the structural conditions have been optimal, the EBP-model has been debated with heat. The EBP-debate and policy-driven infrastructural efforts have brought a more in-depth examination of the model. So-called coercive, normative, and regulative isomorphisms were used to change organizations. The degree of institutionalization depended on the individuals and the organizations willingness and preparedness to change, to understand, and to put the model into practice. When actors used a less strict version of the original EBP model, the pace of cultural and institutional change slowed down.
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Bago, Bence. "Testing the corrective assumption of dual process theory in reasoning Fast logic?: Examining the time course assumption of dual process theory The smart system 1: Evidence for the intuitive nature of correct responding in the bat-and-ball problem Advancing the specification of dual process models of higher cognition: a critical test of the hybrid dual process model Fast and Slow Thinking: Electrophysilogical Evidence for early conflict sensitivity The intuitive greater good: Testing the corrective dual process model of moral cognition The rise and fall of conflicting intuitions during reasoning." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB022.
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Dans le champ du raisonnement, les théories du double processus sont largement reconnues comme expliquant différents phénomènes, tels que les biais décisionnels et le raisonnement moral ou coopératif. Ces théories conçoivent le mode de pensée de l'homme comme une interaction entre un système rapide, automatique et intuitif (Système 1) et un système plus lent et contrôlé (Système 2). Le point de vue dominant sur les double processus et le modèle default-interventionist qui suppose l'existence d'une interaction sérielle entre ces systèmes. Ainsi, quand quelqu'un est affronté à un problème de raisonnement, la réponse de Système 1 se forme initialement. Puis, le Système 2 peut être impliqué dans le processus. Les théories du double processus dominantes postulent que les biais de raisonnement sont le résultat d'une réponse intuitive erronée du Système 1. Selon ces théories le Système 1 est capable de générer des réponses basées sur les indices « heuristiques », tels que les stéréotypes - mais il ne peut pas rendre compte des principes logico-mathématiques. Malgré la grande reconnaissante qu'elle a reçu, cette théorie contient une présomption jamais testée, notamment la présomption « corrective ». Celle-ci postule que dans les situations où les indices heuristiques sont en conflit avec les principes logico-mathématiques, le Système 2 devient obligatoirement impliqué afin de corriger la réponse erronée de Système 1 et ainsi arrive à une réponse utilisant les principes logiques. Il semble donc crucial de tester cette présomption, qui est la question centrale de cette thèse. Dans l’Étude 1, j'ai utilisé des versions modifiées du paradigme de deux réponses afin de tester la présomption corrective utilisant deux problèmes classiques du raisonnement (problèmes de taux de base et de raisonnement syllogistique). Dans ce paradigme, les participants résolvent la même tâche deux fois. D'abord, ils doivent donner une réponse très rapidement. Après, ils font face à la même tâche sans contrainte temporelle. Afin de vérifier que la première réponse est intuitive, on a employé quatre méthodes : des instructions, une charge concomitante, un temps limite de réponse, ainsi que la charge concomitante et le temps limite simultanément. La théorie du double processus prédit que les réponses logiquement correctes n'apparaissent que dans l'étape finale. A contrario, j'ai trouvé que la plupart des participants ayant donné la bonne réponse à l'étape finale l'avaient déjà donnée lors de la phase initiale. Cet effet était présent dans toutes les procédures expérimentales et dans les 2 problèmes de raisonnement. Dans l’Étude 2, j'ai testé la même présomption avec un problème de raisonnement plus difficile, le problème de la « batte-et-balle ». J'ai conduit 7 expériences avec le paradigme de deux réponses et j'ai trouvé que les personnes ayant donné la réponse correcte à la fin l'ont déjà générée lors de la réponse initiale - donc, il semblerait que les participants l'ont fait intuitivement. Ces résultats m'ont amené à réviser le cadre default-interventionist et à proposer une théorie du double processus hybride qui suppose que le Système 1 génère deux différentes réponses intuitives dont une basée sur les principes logico-mathématiques. Ces réponses possèdent une force équivoque au début - celle qui gagnera plus en force sera donnée comme la réponse initiale. J'ai testé les prédictions dérivées de ce modèle via l’Étude 3. Grâce l’Étude 4, j'ai mis au point le modèle hybride en testant les changements de force des réponses intuitives au cours du temps. Au cours de l’Étude 5, j'ai commencé à tester la possibilité de généraliser ce modèle hybride et j'ai étudié si les patterns de réponse étaient similaires lorsque les participants répondent à des dilemmes moraux. Dans l’Étude 6, j'ai utilisé l'EEG afin de retrouver les corrélats neuronaux du traitement logique précoce au cours du raisonnementDual-process theories of reasoning have become widely recognized as an explanation for various phenomena, such as thinking biases, moral or cooperative reasoning. Dual-process theory conceives human thinking as the interaction of a fast, more automatic, intuitive system (System 1) and a slower, controlled, more deliberative one (System 2). Arguably, the most dominant view on dual processes is the default-interventionist model. This posits a serial interaction between the two systems. When someone is faced with a reasoning problem, initially a System 1 intuitive response is formed. Then, afterwards, System 2 might get engaged in the process. Prominent dual-process theorists argue that reasoning bias occurs as a result of erroneous System 1 intuition. System 1 is thought to be able to generate responses based on "heuristic" cues, such as stereotypes - and cannot account for logico-mathematical principles. Despite its huge recognition, this theory comes with an untested assumption: the corrective (time-course) assumption. This posits that in cases when heuristic cues are in conflict with logico-mathematical principles, System 2 needs to engage in order to correct initially formed System 1 intuitions, and form a judgement based on logical principles. Testing this assumption is inevitably important and the central question of this thesis. In Study 1, I used four modified versions of the two-response paradigm to test the corrective assumption with two different classical reasoning problems (base rate problems, syllogistic reasoning). In this paradigm, people are presented with the same problem twice. First, they are asked to give an initial, very quick response. After, they are presented with the same problem again and asked to give a final response without any constraints. To make sure that the initial response is really intuitive, we applied four different procedures: instructions, concurrent load, response deadline and load plus deadline. Dual process theory predicts that logically correct responses appear only at the final response stage. Surprisingly, I found that the majority of people who gave the logically correct response in the final response stage already gave it form the beginning. This effect was found to be consistent among all experimental procedures and both reasoning problems. In Study 2, I tried to test the same assumption, with a different -harder- reasoning problem, the bat-and-ball problem. Interestingly, I ran 7 experiments with the two-response paradigm and consistently found that correct reasoners are often able to generate the correct response from the beginning, so-to-say, intuitively. These results forced me to revise the default-interventionist framework and propose the hybrid dual process model. This model now argues that System 1 generates two kinds of intuitive responses one of which is based on mathematico-logical principles. These responses are generated with unequal strength - the one which gains the more strength will be given as the initial response. In Study 3, I directly tested predictions derived from this model. In Study 4, I further developed the hybrid model by testing the changes in the strength of intuitive responses over time. In Study 5, I started to test the hybrid model's domain generality, and test if I find similar patterns of responses when people are faced with moral dilemmas. In Study 6, I used EEG to search for the neural correlates of early logical processing in reasoning. Overall, this thesis found evidence that forces us to revise the traditional dual process view on human reasoning
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Koehn, Amy R. "To report or not report : a qualitative study of nurses' decisions in error reporting." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3665927.
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This qualitative study was successful in utilization of grounded theory methodology to ascertain nurses' decision-making processes following their awareness of having made a medical error, as well as how and/or if they corrected and reported the error. Significant literature documents the existence of medical errors; however, this unique study interviewed thirty nurses from adult intensive care units seeking to discover through a detailed interview process their individual stories and experiences, which were then analyzed for common themes. Common themes led to the development of a theoretical model of thought processes regarding error reporting when nurses made an error. Within this theoretical model are multiple processes that outline a shared, time-orientated sequence of events nurses encounter before, during, and after an error. One common theme was the error occurred during a busy day when they had been doing something unfamiliar. Each nurse expressed personal anguish at the realization she had made an error, she sought to understand why the error happened and what corrective action was needed. Whether the error was reported on or told about depended on each unit's expectation and what needed to be done to protect the patient. If there was no perceived patient harm, errors were not reported. Even for reported errors, no one followed-up with the nurses in this study. Nurses were left on their own to reflect on what had happened and to consider what could be done to prevent error recurrence. The overall impact of the process of and the recovery from the error led to learning from the error that persisted throughout her nursing career. Findings from this study illuminate the unique viewpoint of licensed nurses' experiences with errors and have the potential to influence how the prevention of, notification about and resolution of errors are dealt with in the clinical setting. Further research is needed to answer multiple questions that will contribute to nursing knowledge about error reporting activities and the means to continue to improve error-reporting rates.
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Ngô, Van Chan. "Formal verification of a synchronous data-flow compiler : from Signal to C." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2014. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01067477.
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Synchronous languages such as Signal, Lustre and Esterel are dedicated to designing safety-critical systems. Their compilers are large and complicated programs that may be incorrect in some contexts, which might produce silently bad compiled code when compiling source programs. The bad compiled code can invalidate the safety properties that are guaranteed on the source programs by applying formal methods. Adopting the translation validation approach, this thesis aims at formally proving the correctness of the highly optimizing and industrial Signal compiler. The correctness proof represents both source program and compiled code in a common semantic framework, then formalizes a relation between the source program and its compiled code to express that the semantics of the source program are preserved in the compiled code.
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"The State of Critical Theory in Fantastic Literature." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53654.
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abstract: The study of genre literature in general, and fantasy or fairy tale literature in particular, by its very nature, falls outside the normal course of literary theory. This paper evaluates various approaches taken to create a framework within which scholarly research and evaluation of these types of genre literature might occur. This is done applying Secondary World theory to better-established literary foci, such as psychological analysis and monster theory while still respecting the premises posited in traditional literary inquiry.Dissertation/Thesis
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Carson, Robert. "Digesting the Third: Reconfiguring Binaries in Shakespeare and Early Modern Thought." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17736.
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My argument assesses and reconfigures binary structures in Shakespeare’s plays and in Shakespeare criticism. I contend that ideas in early modern literature often exhibit three aspects, but that critics, who mostly rely upon a binary philosophical vocabulary, tend to notice only two aspects at a time, thereby “digesting” the third. My opening chapter theorizes the superimposition of triadic structures upon dyads, arguing that this new polyrhythmic strategy helps recapture an early modern philosophical perspective by circumventing the entrenched binary categories we have inherited from the Enlightenment.
In Chapter Two, I examine the relationship of tyranny and conscience in Tudor politics, Reformed psychology, and Richard III. Early modern political theorists often employ a binary opposition of kingship and tyranny, and historians typically draw a binary distinction between absolutists and resisters. I argue that there were in fact three ideological positions on offer which these binaries misrepresent. As well, Reformed psychology emphasizes the relationship of the individual subject and an objective God, unmediated by community, and I propose that this opposition of subjectivity and objectivity digests the idea of intersubjectivity. In Richard III, Shakespeare interrogates the implausibility of Tudor political binaries and stages a nostalgia for intersubjective community and conscience.
In Chapter Three I read the debates on value in Troilus and Cressida alongside contemporary economic writings by Gerard de Malynes on currency reform and “merchandizing exchange.” Our current models of value – intrinsic and extrinsic, use and exchange, worth and price – are emphatically binary, but the mercantile practices that Malynes describes depend upon a triadic conception of value. My contention is that Troilus and Cressida becomes a less problematic problem play when value is conceived as triadic rather than dyadic.
In Chapter Four I explore early modern scepticism in connection with Coriolanus. Reading Montaigne and Wittgenstein in parallel, I distinguish between various conceptions of truth that are regularly grouped together under the blanket term “scepticism.” Then I turn to read Coriolanus as an experiment in competing modes of early modern epistemology, arguing that the play ultimately endorses the same sort of polyphonous Pyrrhonian scepticism that we find in Montaigne and Wittgenstein.
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Murove, Munyaradzi Felix. "The theory of self-interest in modern economic discourse: a critical study in the light of African Humanism and process philosophical Anthropology." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/629.
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Modern economic theory of self-interest alleges that in their economic relations people
always behave in a way that maximises their utility. The idea whether human beings were
solely self-interested has a long history as it can be seen from the writings of Greek
philosophers and the Church fathers. Among Greek philosophers there were those who argued that human beings were naturally self-interested (Aristotle) and those who maintained that human beings were communal by nature (Plato, Stoics and the Pythagoreans). The later position was adopted by the Church fathers as they condemned
self-interest as the sin of avarice and greed.
The justification of self-interest in human and political activities was part and parcel of
the economic and political early modernists, as it can be seen in the works of Mandeville,
Hobbes, Hume and Adam Smith. In the writings of these thinkers, the flourishing of wealth depended on individual freedom to pursue their self-interests. In this regard, selfinterest
became the sole source of motivation in the behaviour of homo economicus. A persistent motif in late modern economic discourse on self-interest is based on the idea that people think and act on the basis of that which is to their self-interest. It is mainly for this reason that late modern economic thinkers maintain that society would prosper when people are left alone to pursue their self-interests. Late modern economic theory of utility maximisation alleges that individuals act only after calculating costs and benefits.
The argument of this thesis, based on the commonalities between African humanism and
process philosophical anthropology, is that self-interest is antithetical to communal life as
advocated in the ethic of Ubuntu. One who acts solely on the basis of maximising his or
her utility would inevitably deprive others of a humane existence. A holistic metaphysical
outlook based on the relatedness and interrelatedness of everything that exists as we find it in African humanism and process philosophical anthropology implies that the
individual exists in internal relations with everything else. We should go beyond selfinterest
by giving primacy to a holistic ethic.Systematic Theology & Theological Ethics
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Howard, Ashley. "Florists and feasts: a critical digital edition of Ralph Knevet's Rhodon and Iris." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12115.
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One spring afternoon in 1631, the Norwich Society of Florists held a feast to celebrate and display its exquisite flowers. The celebration included an entertainment written just for the occasion—Ralph Knevet's quirky play about a war among flowers. Early modern florists were not the sort of people who sold cut flowers in shops; rather, they were experts in floriculture who applied this knowledge to cultivate new flowers. Norwich was already renowned for its gardens, but flowers soon became even more significant. Rhodon and Iris was performed just before tulipomania, a frenzy of tulip cultivation lasting from c.1634 – 1637. During this period, florists grew elaborate multi-coloured flower bulbs that sold for extremely high prices. In other words, the florists' feast and Knevet's play emerged when flowers were important to the economy and identity of Norwich.
My thesis presents an open-access, digital critical edition of Rhodon and Iris encoded in TEI-P5. This edition offers an old-spelling transcription of the 1631 playbook, a modernized text with annotations, and a critical introduction. Responding to the need for more editions of non-canonical early modern plays, my research widens the otherwise Shakespeare-centric canon and helps make more early modern drama accessible to student readers. Rhodon and Iris also merits critical attention on its own grounds: an example of Caroline occasional drama, the play experiments with convention and offers a rare glimpse into the Society of Florists. My thesis approaches the play with special interest in editorial praxis, ecotheory, and the history of floriculture. The florists' feast delighted audiences and participated in a tradition of floral celebrations—one reaching, at least, from the ancient Roman ludi Florales to the modern Netflix series The Big Flower Fight.Graduate
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Slabodsky, Santiago. "Emmanuel Lévinas' Barbarisms: Adventures of Eastern Talmudic Counter-Narratives Heterodoxly Encountering the South." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32187.
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This dissertation examines the scope and limitations of the re-appropriation of the term barbarism by modern Jewish intellectuals in conversation with Third World social movements. Emmanuel Lévinas is my paradigmatic example of this re-appropriation, as his Talmudic interpretations illuminate this process, and his work is located on the axis of the encounter between Jewish and decolonial thinking. I contend that Lévinas follows a classic line of modern European interpreters who expressed their discomfort with the description of the Jewish people as barbaric. While this discomfort can be traced within this orthodox interpretation of Lévinas, I argue that his particular solution for the problem can only be explained by a more heterodox exploration. Lévinas’ positive re-appropriation of the term is part of contextual conversations that he sustained with other peoples characterized as barbarians (i.e. Third World decolonial theorists). While this re-appropriation was originally conceived in order to establish an East-East revolutionary conversation between Eastern European rabbinical interpreters and other radical Eastern projects (i.e. Maghrebi Marxism) it became an East-South decolonial conversation between Jewish and Afro-Caribbean/Latino-American intellectuals. This conversation, however, ultimately challenges the apologetic Jewish re-appropriation of exteriority in the concert of multiple barbarians. I explore the limitations of Jewish thought to engage with this community and cross from an apologetic to a critical barbarism.
This dissertation, in conclusion, seeks to make an original contribution in the interrelation between Jewish and post-colonial studies. I aim to do so by first, demonstrating that the Jewish return to classical sources is historically and conceptually a decolonial counter-narrative that was influenced by (and in turn influenced) Third World discourses; second, explaining the reasons and consequences of the persistence of Jewish imagery and influences in Third World decolonial theory; third, exploring the limits of Jewish thinking and the benefits of the expansion of Jewish apologetical dialogues into barbaric critical conversations. And finally, challenging most contemporary scholarship in modern Jewish philosophy, which holds that Jewish thought and the modern re-reading of its sources can only be understood in the context of Western consciousness.