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Poet(h)ics of life: Gilles Deleuze and the thought of becoming
(2006)
In recent philosophical and theoretical debates, the question of ethics has risen to new prominence and manifold suggestions have been made as to how to adopt ethics to the challenges of today's complex world. With the ...
Phenomenal surfaces and noumenal depths: Philosophy and quantum theory
(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 ...
Sonic territories: Deleuze and the politics of sound in Kafka and Duras
(2005)
In the following pages, I explain how I read the politics of music in Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus , Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature , and Anti-Oedipus , and Deleuze's theory of the "heautonomous" sound-image ...
Temporal alternatives: Postcoloniality and the politics of the event
(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 ...
Promise in early eighteenth-century England: Reading Hobbes and Addison
(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 ...
Man and the world in Emerson, Heidegger, and Native American philosophy
(2006)
Even though human beings have inhabited the earth for thousands of years, they have been struggling to discover the most proper way of relating themselves with the world. The worsening condition of the earth is powerful ...
Theaters of forgiveness
(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 ...
Tears, humor and "the critical and clinical": Reading the baroque and sympathy in "Clarissa", "Tristram Shandy" and Deleuze
(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 ...
Voices of technology: Tentative (w)holes
(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 ...
Bacon beyond method: Epistemological foundations and political support for natural philosophy
(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 ...