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    Bacon beyond method: Epistemological foundations and political support for natural philosophy 

    Izard, Zachary Thomas (2009)
    This thesis highlights underrepresented aspects of Bacon's contribution to the field of natural philosophy: his epistemological contributions and the mustering of support for the practices of natural philosophers. This is ...
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    The space of sovereignty: Authority, literature and historiography in eighteenth-century England 

    DeGabriele, Peter (2009)
    My dissertation argues that eighteenth-century fiction and historiography provide a radically different epistemology of social formation and sovereignty than can be found in the philosophy of the period. Reading fiction ...
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    Phenomenal surfaces and noumenal depths: Philosophy and quantum theory 

    Nickard, Gary Laurence (2006)
    Quantum theory as it stands today is perhaps the single most comprehensive, experimentally verified and successful theory in the entire history of science. Using a philosophical context, this synthesis challenges the ...
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    Temporal alternatives: Postcoloniality and the politics of the event 

    Spain, Andrea (2009)
    "Temporal Alternatives" argues that the past informs the present not only through colonial hauntings or traumatic ruptures but as a force of emergence: time transforms perception, insinuates itself into action, and inflects ...
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    Biblical origin and echoes: Modern American literature and biblical archetypes 

    Li, Zhanhong (2006)
    The Bible has a great influence on western literature, especially American Literature. Besides the historical reason, the rich literary contents in the Bible determine its great influence on American literature. By comparing ...
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    The "Appearing as Such" in Patocka's "A-subjective Phenomenology" 

    Garrido-Wainer, Juan-Manuel (2006)
    This paper attempts a systematic presentation of Patocka's "A-subjective Phenomenology," especially of the doctrine concerning the "Appearing as Such," which was at the center of Patocka's work during the last years of his ...
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    Voices of technology: Tentative (w)holes 

    Colleran, Daniel Ellington (2005)
    My thesis deals with the problem of contemporary definitions of technology. Through close readings of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, J. Hillis Miller, and Herbert ...
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    Theaters of forgiveness 

    Adamek, Philip M (2005)
    The dissertation analyzes post-Holocaust conceptions of forgiveness. My guiding assumption is that the Abrahamic heritage of forgiveness is marked by two contradictory demands: first, that one forgive on certain conditions ...
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    Tears, humor and "the critical and clinical": Reading the baroque and sympathy in "Clarissa", "Tristram Shandy" and Deleuze 

    Chung, Jaesik (2005)
    This dissertation will examine the critical and clinical relationship between Clarissa and Tristram Shandy by reading the thought of Deleuze. In the history of the early Modern English novel, Clarissa and Tristram Shandy ...
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    Promise in early eighteenth-century England: Reading Hobbes and Addison 

    Meagher, Stephen (2005)
    How does a postmodern cultural position that questions "acknowledged authority," to use Dr. Johnson's terms of art, develop an interpretative practice that can be "reduced to method?" This enquiry into the early 18 th ...
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    AuthorAdamek, Philip M (1)Chung, Jaesik (1)Colleran, Daniel Ellington (1)DeGabriele, Peter (1)Donovan, Thom (1)Garrido-Wainer, Juan-Manuel (1)Izard, Zachary Thomas (1)Kristianto, Bayu (1)Li, Zhanhong (1)Meagher, Stephen (1)... View MoreSubject
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    Social sciences (5)Deleuze, Gilles (3)Eighteenth century (2)England (2)Ethics (2)Gilles Deleuze (2)Abrahamic heritage (1)Addison, Joseph (1)... View MoreDate Issued2009 (4)2006 (5)2005 (5)

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