Search for dissertations about: "ruin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the word ruin.

  2. 1. Enigmatic origins : tracing the theme of historicity through Heidegger's works

    Author : Hans Ruin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Heidegger; historicity; phenomenology; hermeneutics; temporality; Augenblick; truth; Ereignis; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    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

  4. 2. A study of the function of the present perfect tense in the English tense system

    Author : Inger Ruin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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  5. 3. Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism

    Author : Carl Cederberg; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Hans Ruin; Staffan Carlshamre; Bettina Bergo; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Levinas; Heidegger; The Human; Humanism; Critique; Antihumanism; Human Rights; The Other; Universalism; Violence; Responsibility; Transcendence; The Political; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    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

  6. 4. Recasting Objective Thought : The Venture of Expression in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy

    Author : Anna Petronella Foultier; Staffan Carlshamre; Hans Ruin; Leonard Lawlor; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Merleau-Ponty; Saussure; Butler; phenomenology; expression; language; perception; painting; Gestalt theory; linguistics; feminist phenomenology; dance; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    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

  7. 5. Towards a Phenomenology of Repression - a Husserlian Reply to the Freudian Challenge

    Author : Nicholas Smith; Hans Ruin; Natalie Depraz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Husserl; Freud; genetic phenomenology; psychoanalysis; the unconscious; repression; the living present; reduction; intentionality; constitution; Nachträglichkeit; association; intentionality of drives; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

    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