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Building theology, reinscribing subjectivity: Cultivating a liberal identity in Unitarian Universalism
(2010)
This research explores the method of self-cultivation at the heart of Unitarian Universalism. As a "creedless religion," it relies on individual members to construct belief, determine truth, share power, and become authentic. ...
The politics of the present: A relational theory of the self as a basis for political theory: Dewey, Arendt, and Levinas
(2010)
This dissertation is centrally concerned with the development of a theory of the self, through the works of John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas, that can be of service to the theory of participatory democracy. ...
Angels, apes and pandas; an analysis of the intelligent design movement
(2010)
There exists a longstanding continuity between creationism and intelligent design. Proponents of intelligent design purport the idea to be a scientific theory. The scientific community criticizes intelligent design for ...
The metaphysics of dementia: The intersection of personal identity and clinical ethics
(2010)
An advance directive is a legally binding contract which an individual of sound mind creates in order to direct care when she is no longer able to communicate her desires. The moral authority of a directive is derived from ...
Urban solution from the literary examples of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “The Jungle”: The human body and the bios in ethics, politics, and the biopolis
(2013)
This paper deconstructs the situation of the human body and other aspects of the bios in Love in the Time of Cholera and The Jungle . I argue that political and ethical ideologies and systems serve to elevate the lives of ...
The Magna Mater Romana: A sociocultural study of the cult of the Magna Mater in Republican Rome
(2015)
The Magna Mater was brought to Rome in the year 204BCE from the Phrygian city of Pessinus in Asia Minor. Although the cult was introduced as a new form of the Phrygian goddess Matar by way of its Greek incarnation, the ...
A utopian paradigm: The 1960s & 1970s radical feminists
(2015)
This dissertation examines the consciousness raising, political agency, and separatist ideologies of the radical feminists of the 1960s and 1970s as being critically utopian. On a utopian reading of the radical feminists ...
The Politicizing of Science: Implications for Education
(2012)
This paper argues that the politicization of science in recent times coincides with a necessary turn toward social epistemology and historicist conceptions of science and rationality. It is shown how history, philosophy, ...
"The black tide of mud" Reference and transference in Ishmael Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo"
(2012)
This dissertation investigates the experience of reading provoked by Ishmael Reed's 1971 novel Mumbo Jumbo according to the ways in which this text both figures and disrupts the threshold between fiction and history. Prior ...
Aesthetics, Slavery, and Sentiment: The Discourses and Practices of Mastery in the American Renaissance
(2012)
This dissertation examines two genres of nineteenth-century American literature which have progressively redefined the canon over the past half-century: slave narratives and sentimental fiction. The dissertation's first ...