Search for dissertations about: "Maurice Merleau-Ponty"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

2. 1. Encountering Depression In-Depth : An existential-phenomenological approach to selfhood, depression, and psychiatric practice

   Author : Patrick Seniuk; Fredrik Svenaeus; Rolf Ahlzén; Jonna Hjertström Lappalainen; Kevin Aho; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Phenomenology; existential philosophy; psychiatric practice; Merleau-Ponty; selfhood; depression; Fenomenologi; existentiell filosofi; psykiatrisk praktik; Merleau- Ponty; självet; depression; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory;

   Abstract : This dissertation in Theory of Practical Knowledge contends that depression is a disorder of the self. Using the existential-phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I argue that if we want to disclose the basic structure of depressed experience, then we must likewise disclose how selfexperience is inseparable from depressed experience. READ MORE

4. 2. Spaces of appearance : Intergenerational and interspecies relations in the Anthropocene

   Author : Elisabeth Kring; Mats Börjesson; Cecilia Åsberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; children; generations; species; the environment; appearance; temporality; political action; the acting body-subject; school strike for the climate; Arendt; Merleau-Ponty; Child and Youth Science; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The thesis brings together childhood studies and the problems of environmental degradation and climate change. It focuses on intergenerational and interspecies relations and aspects connected to environmental sustainability. READ MORE

5. 3. Figuring Flesh in Creation : Merleau-Ponty in Conversation with Philosophical Theology

   Author : Andreas Nordlander; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : This work stages a conversation between the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and philosophical theology, specifically as developed along an Augustinian trajectory. As the conversation unfolds, the outline of a new ontology is progressively sketched out – one that seeks to preserve the integrity of human beings as part of the natural world, as well as the integrity of the natural world in the presence of human existence. READ MORE

6. 4. Tomboys, Belles, and Other Ladies : The Female Body-Subject in Selected Works by Katherine Anne Porter and Carson McCullers

   Author : Ellen Matlok-Ziemann; Rolf Lundén; Sharon Monteith; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Katherine Anne Porter; Carson McCullers; Simone de Beauvoir; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; “Miranda stories”; “The Princess”; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; The Member of the Wedding; The Ballad of the Sad Café; female body-subject; subjectivity; reciprocal relationship; “being-in-the-world”; “becoming”; habituality; pathology; mimicry; performance; the abject; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This study investigates how the Southern writers Katherine Anne Porter and Carson McCullers negotiate the process of becoming a woman in their texts and expose and ridicule the artificiality of that category. Focusing on a selection of Porter’s “Miranda stories” (published between 1935 and 1941) and “The Princess” (1993) and McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), The Member of the Wedding (1946), and The Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), I argue that both writers voice their protest against patriarchal society that forecloses women’s assumption of subjectivity. READ MORE

7. 5. The Mysterious Life of the Body : A New look at Psychosomatics

   Author : Jennifer Bullington; Lennart Nordenfelt; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Mind-body problem; dualism; psychosomatics; lived-body; phenomenology; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to critically examine traditional psychosomatic theories, paying special attention to certain philosophical issues such as the mind-body problem and efficacious mechanisms of interaction between meaning, understood as psychosocial factors, and that which is traditionally called "body" (the material, objectified body). Afterwards, an alternative psychosomatic theory is worked out, drawing inspiration from the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. READ MORE