Search for dissertations about: "Subjectivity"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 127 swedish dissertations containing the word Subjectivity.
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1. Reconfiguring Subjectivity : Experimental Narrative and Deleuzean Immanence
Abstract : This thesis aims to re-think subjectivity in constructive rather than deconstructive terms of disintegration and dismantling. This shift is effected through a reading of Gilles Deleuze that brings together two concepts that are incompatible in his philosophy – immanence and subjectivity – and by my reading of three fictional texts that engage Deleuze in a generative dialogue. READ MORE
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2. Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois : Rereading Byzantine Relations
Abstract : This thesis investigates the twelfth-century Old French anonymous romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to the Greek novel tradition and the Byzantine world. The study focuses on the erotic narrative in the romance and articulations of feminine subjectivity. READ MORE
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3. Radical democracy redux : politics and subjectivity beyond Habermas and Mouffe
Abstract : This thesis investigates two contemporary theories of radical democracy, Jürgen Habermas’s deliberative and Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic democracy. By bringing the two scholars together and constructing a debate between them, their respective strengths and weaknesses are highlighted and the similarities and differences are pointed out. READ MORE
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4. Existence and subjectivity : a theme in the philosophy of education
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5. Avoiding the subject : A critical inquiry into contemporary theories of subjectivity
Abstract : This dissertation explores certain recurrent problems in modern theories about the nature of thesubject. Taking examples from phenomenology, poststructuralism, neopragmatism and feminism, itargues that philosophical theorizing about subjectivity often assumes that the transition from thedescription of the models of meaning with which they work, to the description of the everyday practices of which they are models, can be achieved within the model. READ MORE