Search for dissertations about: "Agamben"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Agamben.
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1. J.M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child
Abstract : This dissertation explores how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure. READ MORE
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2. The Use of Hope : Biopolitics of Security During the Obama Presidency
Abstract : Through a compilation of four research articles, this PhD thesis investigates ‘hope’ as a biopolitical technology. It interrogates the use of hope by the United States security apparatus, on the one hand, to pre-empt processes of radicalisation and, on the other hand, to prepare the subject of security to cope with permanent insecurity. READ MORE
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3. Techniques of Ecstasy: Rumori - Tracing Sound
Abstract : This doctoral thesis proposes the philosophical concept of ontopoetics in relation to an artistic practice of sound (music) and listening. The concept of ontopoetics is used as the backdrop of the developed notion of techniques of ecstasy essentially as an intermediary between listening and language. READ MORE
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4. 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