Search for dissertations about: "hans ruin"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words hans ruin.
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1. Enigmatic origins : tracing the theme of historicity through Heidegger's works
Abstract : The preoccupation with the "historicity" of thought and existence is central to thehermeneutic-phenomenological branch of modern philosophy. Its foremostrepresentative is Martin Heidegger, who in his main work Sein und Zeit (1927)developed a theory of historicity, according to which human beings not only exist inhistory, but are themselves historical. READ MORE
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2. Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism
Abstract : In this reading a notion of the human is developed through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Emanuel Levinas. The argument is that, with the help of Levinas, it is possible for the idea of the human to be understood anew, for the notion to be ‘resaid’. READ MORE
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3. Recasting Objective Thought : The Venture of Expression in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy
Abstract : This thesis is about meaning, expression and language in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, and their role in the phenomenological project as a whole. For Merleau-Ponty, expression is the taking up of a meaning given either in perception or in already acquired forms of expression, thereby repeating, transforming or congealing meaning into gestures, utterances, artworks, ideas or theories. READ MORE
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4. Towards a Phenomenology of Repression - a Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge
Abstract : This is the first book-length philosophical study of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Freud’s theory of the unconscious. The book investigates the possibility for Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology to clarify Freud’s concept of the unconscious with a focus on the theory of repression as its centre. READ MORE