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McAdam, Lindy. "Seeking a new agenda for the left : Marxism versus post-Marxism /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm113.pdf.

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Rowcroft, Andrew. "After post-Marxism : the recuperation and regeneration of Marxism in contemporary British and American fiction." Thesis, University of Lincoln, 2018. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/32673/.

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This thesis constitutes the first sustained attempt to locate twenty-first-century Anglo-American fiction in relation to Marxist literary criticism, resulting in a solid set of original-reference material for those undertaking work on writers Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Miéville, Thomas Pynchon, and Kim Stanley Robinson, or more generally on the intersections between literature, Marxist critical theory, and philosophy. The project uncovers the topics, concerns, and forms of a collection of contemporary cross-genre narratives that I take to instantiate a new political designation occu

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Nash, Matthew Austin. "Interrogating post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Žižek." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46073.

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According to Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, our postmodern era and its correlate political problematic requires a shift in positing socialist strategy. Their wager is that by shifting away from essentialist Marxism, and towards a post-Marxist theory of hegemony which they adapt from Gramsci, the analytic for overturning contemporary hegemony will take the form of a radical democratic politics. My contention is that in shifting away from essentialist Marxism through their post-structuralist deconstructive stance, Laclau and Mouffe overstep and make their analytic for socialist strategy impo

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Ozselcuk, Ceren. "Post -Marxism after Althusser: A critique of the alternatives." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/21/.

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Marshall, Thomas James Henry. "Autonomist Marxism, critique and the Commons in post-2008 social movements." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/dcb04b15-6f20-4c6d-83b0-3fa954aab299.

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This thesis explores the claims of autonomist Marxist theory that contemporary struggles against capitalism are about rejecting capitalism through producing commons. The autonomist approach to commons is significant for social movement theory because, unlike existing Marxist approaches such as neo-Gramscian social movement theory, it places political action in a relation with capital. As a result, autonomist theory establishes a framework for understanding social movements as ?commons movements?, rooted in claims about the nature of commons; the structure of capitalism; and the significance of

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Best, Beverley. "Post-ing Marxism, a totalizing critique of Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq24090.pdf.

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Bernans, David Val. "The postmodernism-post-Marxism nexus, Laclau, Mouffe, Lyotard and Foucault's discourses on discourse." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0012/NQ33520.pdf.

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Curry, Neil. "Marxism, post-Marxism and the discourse of late capitalism : a critical evaluation of the work of Roy Bhaskar, Fredric Jameson and Ernesto Laclau." Thesis, University of Chichester, 2003. http://eprints.chi.ac.uk/854/.

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This thesis is a contribution towards negotiating a way through the terrain of contemporary Marxist theory in the conditions of late capitalism. A Marxism which is responsive to the prevailing conditions and open to reconfiguration. I have chosen to concentrate on the works of Bhaskar, Jameson and Laclau because they all have attempted to develop their own projects rather than reiterate an orthodox Marxist line. I begin the thesis through an examination of the contribution of Althusser. Althusser's theoretical work sets up the conceptual parameters of the thesis, and offers a way into negotiat

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Del, Duca Alexander M. "Between Marxism and Postmodernism: Slavoj Zizek Doing the Impossible." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24079.

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This work seeks to address the major texts of Slavoj Zizek using a reading methodology which treats political philosophy as a practice, rather than a series of logical propositions or claims of truth or falsity. Philosophy is herein understood as a field of relations among authors who occupy precise theoretical and political coordinates. Writing produces and reproduces an author's position within this field via the way in which an author communicates with his/her peers, draws on past concepts, and designs new ones. This paper argues that Zizek cannot usefully be grasped as a theorist attemptin

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Dames, Edward William. "The impact of neoliberalism on South Africa's education policy discourse post-1994: The quest for a radical critical pedagogy." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6371.

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Magister Educationis - Med<br>Since the 1980s several different forms of privatisation had been introduced into the South African educational system by the De Lange Commission. Since the 1990s a raft of neoliberal policies has been implemented under the banner of "educational transformation" by the post-apartheid state. This qualitative exploration will apply a critical policy analysis approach to analyse the impact of neoliberalism on post-apartheid education policy discourse in the public schooling system in South Africa from a historical, social and critical perspective. More specifically,

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Foa, Torres Jorge. "About the capitalist revolution of the juridical. Lacanian left and critical theory of law." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/115931.

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This article proposes an approach to contemporary transformations of the legal, from the articulation between critical theory of law and the Lacanian left. On the one hand, it is stated that in contemporary times, under the dominance of the capitalist discourse, the legal has undergone a metamorphosis that can be characterized as the passage from bourgeois legal form to the right to jouissance. On the other hand, this paper claims that the law of populism can become, as residue of that discourse that it fails to reabsorb, a device capable of producing cuts on the capitalist circuit. In this co

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Wood, Jared. "In defence of Marxism : Marxist theories of globalisation and social injustice and the evolution of post-socialist ideology within contemporary movements for global social justice." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2016. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/184/.

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The protests against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle in 1999 have been described, along with the development of World and European Social Forums (WSF/ESF), as the beginning of a new Global Movement for Social Justice (GMSJ). This movement has been argued to represent a ‘new type of politics’ with an unprecedented ideological and organisational character based on new fragmented power relationships that have undermined traditional class and national relationships and consequently have undermined the relevance of classical socialist theory. In place of nation state-based socialist strateg

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Brand, Carina. "Global extraction and cultural production : an investigation of forms of extraction through the production of artist-video." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621893.

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This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx's concept of surplus extraction, but further extending the concept of extraction as an analytic tool, artistic method, and identifying its aesthetic form. Through the production of an original body of artistic video work, I explore three disparate sites where 'extraction' takes place and employ Science Fiction methods of narrative, the utopian impul

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Herrell, Jasmyn. "Colonialism and Globalism in Two Contemporary Southern Appalachian Novels - Serena (2008) by Ron Rash, and Flight Behavior (2012) by Barbara Kingsolver." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/573.

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In this essay, I investigate how the historic and current economic structures operating in Appalachia from the 1920s to the 2010s are represented in two contemporary Southern Appalachian novels – Serena (2008) by Ron Rash and Flight Behavior (2012) by Barbara Kingsolver. Through the lens of postcolonial theory, I show how Serena represents Appalachia as functioning under the colonial model outlined by Robert Blauner and Helen Mathews Lewis in 1978. Then, still under the theory of postcolonialism, I explore how Kingsolver’s work depicts regional identity in response to a post-colonial environme

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BAIOCCHI, Ana Beatriz Carvalho. "Filosofia da história em Fredric Jameson: uma crítica às aporias do pós-modernismo." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2010. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2307.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS ANA BEATRIZ CARVALHO BAIOCCHI.pdf: 949003 bytes, checksum: acfeb76c6fe8f164893b5277009906af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-01<br>The aim of this study is the attempt to retake the problem of Marxist philosophical discourse, that is, to implement a philosophy of history in a postmodern discussion of these metanarrativas crisis. In this sense the choise of the author Fredric Jameson is closely related to their position regarding the debate on postmodern. Against all expectations in relation to post-modern theo

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Sperber, Nathan. "Repenser le capitalisme d'État : l'économie politique chinoise en perspective comparée." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0070.

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Ce travail propose un retour sur la notion de "capitalisme d'État" sur les plans à la fois théorique et empirique, comparatif et monographique, afin de renouveler notre compréhension du rôle économique des États dans la période actuelle. Il repose sur un examen critique de contributions théoriques passées au sujet des relations État-marché, y compris notamment des écrits ayant abordé explicitement le "capitalisme d'État" durant le siècle dernier ainsi que ces dernières années. Il s'agit, de plus, de formuler et d'appliquer un nouveau cadre conceptuel et méthodologique rendant possible d'évalue

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Morais, Tiago Martins de. "A lógica da caverna : um ensaio dialético sobre a pós-modernidade em Saramago." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/88425.

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O objeto artístico desta dissertação é o romance A caverna do escritor português José Saramago. Os caminhos teóricos que vão construir um método adequado para uma visão aprofundada desta narrativa são os do estudo das teorias que veem a literatura como uma junção de texto e contexto, que entendem os elementos sócio-históricos em uma relação de interpenetração com o texto literário, de forma que esses elementos externos transmutem-se em elementos internos à obra (ou seja, em elementos estéticos). A construção de um método dialético foca-se principalmente nos textos de teóricos como Theodor Ador

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Hackell, Melissa. "Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime: A post-Marxist discourse analysis." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2530.

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This thesis is empirically grounded in New Zealand's restructuring of unemployment and taxation policy in the 1980s and 1990s. Theoretically it is inspired by a post-Marxist discourse analytical approach that focuses on discourses as political strategies. This approach has made it possible, through an analysis of changing citizenship discourses, to understand how the neoliberalisation of New Zealand's citizenship regime proceeded via debate and struggle over unemployment and taxation policy. Debates over unemployment and taxation in New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s reconfigured the ta

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Gunnarsson, Payne Jenny. "Systerskapets logiker : en etnologisk studie av feministiska fanzines." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Institutionen för kultur och medier/Etnologi, Umeå universitet, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-856.

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Ben, Slimen Mouna. "Utopie et contestation dans le post-marxisme blochien." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00989706.

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Rêver d'un monde parfait caractérise la pensée de l'homme. C'est l'utopie. Le rêve de ce monde idéal inspire les écrivains ainsi que les philosophes dont Ernst Bloch qui appelle à qu'une vie autre qui commence. C'est par une attitude de contestation et de révolution qu'il accède à réaliser son rêve. Or nous nous demandons si l'utopie exprime les rêves comment pourrait-elle être un outil pour appréhender le monde réel ? Pour dépasser cette objection à l'utopie, il faut la considérer comme refus positif de l'ordre institué et ouverture à des possibilités de création historique. C'est-à-dire une

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Morales, Bonilla Juan del Cristo. "La Internacional Situacionista: la superación de la sociedad del espectáculo a través de la realización de la poesía." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/275962.

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El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral ha sido el estudio de la Internacional Situacionista desde una perspectiva contemporánea, es decir, no con la intención de entender su proyecto en las condiciones en las que surgió, sino en lo que, todavía, nos puede aportar para los retos políticos y estéticos contemporáneos. Para ello, el trabajo se divide en cuatro partes, en las cuales se desarrollan todos los aspectos más importantes de los situacionistas: -En la primera parte, se intenta describir el concepto de "realización del arte", fundamental para entender el proyecto estético de los situacio

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Mayer, Jonna. "World Automatic (((((The Really Real Project)))))." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6949.

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In a prospective post-work society, a select group of citizens participate in a cross-temporal project. As we follow along their journeys, questions arise. How does time move when it is no longer a commodity? What is design in the age of rampant robotics? How do we define creativity? What is wasted potential, and is it possible to be a failure? Most importantly, can fiction teach us anything about reality?

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Inch, James. "Communism and the betrayal of the revolution : a Marxist critique of the post-revolutionary manipulation of the proletariat in Animal Farm." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23167.

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George Orwell wrote Animal Farm to warn of the dangers of a totalitarian regime in the practical application of communist ideology. His novella reflects his experience of, and response to, momentous events occurring in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It is a acknowledgement of the extent to which totalitarian leaders rely on the manipulation of thoughts and actions in order to maintain power across the class boundaries. In this essay, Orwell’s political and personal standpoints are examined and the book is analysed from a Marxist and socialist perspective. Whereas Animal Far

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Alami, Ilias. "Post-crisis capital account policies in emerging capitalisms : a comparison between Brazil and South Africa." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/postcrisis-capital-account-policies-in-emerging-capitalisms-a-comparison-between-brazil-and-south-africa(4b52f9c0-e8f7-4d16-8ce9-349a101548ef).html.

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This thesis provides a historical materialist policy analysis of the diversity of capital-account policies (CAPs) deployed in Brazil and South Africa over the period 2008-2014. Facing relatively similar patterns of cross-border money-capital movements and comparable financial challenges, these two emerging capitalist countries implemented radically different CAPs: while Brazil deployed a remarkable array of measures (capital controls on inflows, foreign exchange interventions, regulations of derivatives contracts, etc.), the policy response in South Africa was much more orthodox, and mainly ch

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Hoskins, Jonathan Mark. "Race, class and law in post-Apartheid South Africa: A Marxist critique of Black Economic Empowerment." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7370.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>With the advent of democracy, the ANC government was faced with the problem of addressing abject poverty, persistent unemployment and rank economic inequality that beset black South Africans under apartheid. To address these problems in a structured and comprehensive fashion, the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 (BBBEE Act) was promulgated. Several economists believed that growth in the economy is the bedrock upon which black economic empowerment would provide the foundation to correct these economic problems. This study sought to interrogate b

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Lagerkvist, Love. "Computation as Strange Material : Excursions into Critical Accidents." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43639.

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Waking up in a world where everyone carries a miniature supercomputer, interaction designers find themselves in their forerunners dreams. Faced with the reality of planetary-scale we have to confront the task of articulating approaches responsive this accidental ubiquity of computation. This thesis attempts such a formulation by defining computation as a strange material, a plasticity shaped equally by its technical properties and the mode of production by which is its continuously re-produced. The definition is applied through a methodology of excursions — participatory explorations into two

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Nandi, Miriam. "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31261.

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak gilt als eine der Gründungsfiguren des postkolonialen Feminismus. Ihr Profil als postkoloniale Theoretikerin gewann sie mit der Veröffentlichung ihres Werkes In Other Worlds – Essays in Cultural Politics. In ihren Texten weist Spivak auf Widersprüche innerhalb der Nationen des Globalen Südens hin. Sie fokussiert, u. a. mit Hilfe der analytischen Konzepte Repräsentation (representation) und Subalternität (subaltern), insbesondere auf die problematische Rolle von Geschlechter- und Klassenverhältnissen in postkolonialen Widerstandsbewegungen, auf den Gegensatz zwischen

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Tseng, Chih-Lung, and 曾志隆. "The Revolutionary Theory of Post-Marxism: On Laclau and Mouffe''s Socialist Strategy." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85089063887514717155.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>歐洲研究所<br>86<br>Post -Marxism emerged in 1980s. The major figures of Post-marxism are Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. 　　Laclau and Mouffe question the presupposition classical Marxists (for example Marx, Engels and Lenin) and Neo- Marxists (gramsci, Althusser and Poulantzas, etc.) that the Proletariat which is determined by economy or ideology is the only force to fight against the capitalist regime. For Laclau and Mouffe, there are many radical social movements in contemporary society, such as the movement of race, gender, ecology and so on. Then they conclude the hypothesis p

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Del, Duca Alex. "Between Marxism and Postmodernism: Slavoj Zizek Doing the Impossible." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23372.

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Slavoj Zizek is a contemporary political philosopher widely recognized for his aphoristic style. Contrary to many forms of more traditional theory, Zizek does not forward his arguments as a series of well-argued, logically flowing propositions, but rather as a cacophony of diagnoses running the gamut of social science and culture studies while nevertheless always slipping from one position to another, occupying at times the position of the orthodox Marxist in the face of post-modernism’s excesses, and at other times doing quite the opposite. This study proposes a reading methodology that takes

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Mitchell, Gretta Jade. "Kookaburra: anti-tales of laughing doom." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/131955.

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Volume 1. is a creative response to the aesthetics of black humour. Taking as its catalyst André Breton’s Anthologie de l’humour noir, the writing is broken into three major sections: ‘summer school texts’; ‘philosophy in the dark’; and ‘contra/diction: forget me’. Formally, each section is divergent from the others while all are guided by situationist détournement. Together they detail a dark vision of an hostile dystopian Australia. Kookaburra’s quest, born out of despair, to learn how to laugh within the abysmal alienation of twenty-first century doom takes many incongruous detours: from fe

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Krochmalný, Ondřej. "Estetika a politika: pojetí Jacquese Rancièra." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-352097.

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v anglickém jazyce Proposed thesis focuses on the writings of french theoretician Jacques Rancière. Particular emphasis is put on a manner, in which the spheres of aesthetics and politics appear and intervine in Rancière's works. The consequence of forementioned delimitation of the subject of my interest is that the thesis doesn't fully embody Rancière's thought. Mainly because of the restricted space, i omitted Rancière's historiographical works and also texts that deal with the narrowly defined questions of literature and film. Despite of those limitations, my goal is to provide a monographi

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Lopes, António. "The last fight let us face: communist discourse in britain and the spanish civil war." Doctoral thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1883.

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Tese dout., English Culture, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2006<br>I sought to analyse the ways in which, within the context of the tensions and antagonisms that characterised British democracy in the interwar period, Communist discourse evolved from 1920 onwards and how it succeeded, thanks to the People’s Front line, in overcoming some of the resistance it had met in its earlier stages. After years of insistence on the centrality of the working class in the revolutionary process, by the mid-thirties the discourse of the Communist Party of Great Brita

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"Marxist Rebellion in the Age of Neo-Liberal Globalization: FARC and the Naxalite-Maoists in Comparison." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-09-1785.

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Despite the general academic consensus that liberal democracy has triumphed over communism, Marxist-inspired movements continue to thrive across the global south. This is a curious phenomenon in the post-Cold War era. This paper explores the recent growth of both The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Naxalite-Maoist Insurgency in India, and compares the two groups. It analyzes the factors that have led to their resurgence, in particular, the political and economic dimensions. Specifically, it addresses the impact of two dominant factors in fomenting their resurgence: neo-liberalis

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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

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Lunga, Majahana John Chonsi. "A critical analysis of Wole Soyinka as a dramatist, with special reference to his engagement in contemporary issues." Diss., 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17262.

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This dissertation is mainly on Wole Soyinka as a dramatist. It aims to show that Soyinka, far from being an irrelevant artist as some of his fiercest critics have alleged, is a deeply committed writer whose works are characterised by a strong sense of concern with basic human values of right and wrong, good and evil. Furthermore, the dissertation shows that although Soyinka is not an admirer of Marxist aesthetics, he is certainly not in the art-for-art's-sake camp either, I because he is fully aware of the utilitarian value of literature. Soyinka's works are much influenced by his soci

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Augustine, Daniela Christova. "At the crossroads of social transformation : an Eastern-European theological perspective." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/655.

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The present work examines the crossroads of social transformation from the contextual standpoint of the "Second World" - a political and socioeconomic term descriptively pointing to the unique location of the Former Eastern-European Block countries - in between worlds. The work involves in a dialogue some of the major trends within the contemporary Eastern-European philosophical environment: dichotomized between Neo-Marxism and Neo-Freudianism on the one hand, and Postmodernism on the other. While examining the most significant elements between the dialectical paradigms for social

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Musson, Doreen. "The production of Mode 2 knowledge in higher education in South Africa." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/775.

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The study explores, through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the existence of Mode 2 knowledge and programmes in the South African higher education sector. It begins by theorising about knowledge and takes as a point of departure the propositions about theory-building which state that to explain social phenomena, a system of ideas is required, the conceptual tools of which are able to explain the essential dynamics of such phenomena. It goes on to describe a crisis in a system of ideas that, together with valid critiques, demands to be re-examined as well as the potential

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