Dissertations / Theses on the topic '1753-1818 – Criticism and interpretation'

Dugald Stewart was an influential teacher and philosopher during the final years of the Scottish Enlightenment. Until recently he has been seen as merely a significant expositor of Thomas Reid's common sense philosophy. This thesis does not attempt to assess the novelty of Stewart's writings in relation to his Scottish predecessors such as Reid: rather, it offers a detailed historical study of aspects of his work, placing them in the political and cultural context of the period following the French Revolution. Two questions stimulated this thesis. First, what prompted Stewart, a moral philosopher who was not an experimental philosopher, to write a major work on methodology? Second, why was there a gap of twenty-two years between the first volume of his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1792) and the second (1814), which contained his methodological treatise? I aim to answer these questions by offering a contextual intellectual history of some important aspects of Stewart's work. The thesis argues that Stewart faced a new problem: he had to deal with attacks on moral philosophy - the core subject of the Edinburgh University curriculum - some of which were produced by institutional and political factors affecting the Scottish universities, others by the rising authority of the experimental physical sciences. I consider a selection of Stewart's writings in the light of this problem. In 1804 Stewart's own student, Francis Jeffrey, gave public voice to the charge that the science of mind (which constituted the central part of Scottish common sense philosophy) was outdated, unscientific and useless. Thereafter, Stewart was engaged in what he saw as an urgent task - the defence of the very status of philosophy and the role of the philosopher. The thesis considers some of his major works (and other writings) from this perspective: Philosophical Essays (1810) contained his first direct retort to Jeffrey; Stewart's treatment of methodology in Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2 (1814) and his section on intellectual character in Volume 3 (1827) are viewed as two significant components of his attempt to reassert the primacy of moral philosophy and the role of the moral philosopher.

Sir John Soane (1753--1837) is an intriguing character. This architect has transformed his London House into a Museum. The only thing we have left of him is the House and three Descriptions of it. I will not try to put apart what Sir John Soane has done in his House but see what he has done. Soane invites us in the House, lets you visit it and be lost. Once you have dived, accepted the invitation, you have found a house full of art objects gathered to teach architecture. Art and architecture meet. The experience is haunting. Through it the architect rediscovers the story of objects to identify, the everyday story he builds. The experience of the House is a mirroring of Soane's mind. The House which makes the architect understand his projection upon others. The amplitude and generosity of his vision becomes history.

The Rococo period in the arts, flourishing mainly from about 1710 to about 1750, was stylistically unified, but nevertheless its tremendous productivity and appeal throughout Occidental culture has proven difficult to explain. Having no contemporary theoretical literature, the Rococo is commonly taken to have been a final and degenerate form of the Baroque era or an extravagance arising from the supposed careless frivolity of the elites, including the intellectuals of the Enlightenment. Neither approach adequately accounts for Rococo style. Naming the Rococo raises profound issues for understanding the relations between conception and production in historical terms. Against the many difficulties that the term has involved in accounting for an immense but elusive cultural movement, this thesis argues that some of the chief philosophical conceptions of the period clarify the particular character and significance of Rococo production. Rococo production is here studied chiefly in decor, architecture, and the plastic arts. This thesis also makes an extended general argument for the value of intellectual history. Rococo style is a group of visual effects of which the central character is atectonicity. This is established by a synthesizing overview of Rococo ornamental motifs. Principal theorists of post-Cartesian thought have failed to see how these distinguish Rococo style from both Baroque and Enlightenment culture. The analysis addresses the historical narratives of Benjamin, Adorno, Foucault, Deleuze, and others about Baroque and Enlightenment culture. The core historical claim of this thesis is that Rococo atectonic effects are visual forms of the anti-materialist, idealist ontology of George Berkeley and of the metaphysics and ontology in the early work of Giambattista Vico. Close readings of important passages from works of both philosophers published in 1710 develop the relationship between atectonics and idealist ontology. Both men rejected the Baroque hierarchical cosmology in favor of finitude as the key to human understanding. The readings center on the issue of causality, including Berkeley's views of the perfect contingency of the world and on Vico's theories of truth and ingenium. A reading of Diderot's critique of the Rococo, which led the reaction to it, shows that he recognized the power of idealist ontology in the Rococo cultural production. The larger force in the rejection of Rococo is the emergence of the sublime as a morally fearful feature of physical nature. Montesquieu's aesthetic work also shows the transition to a more rigidly determined view of existence, which was expressed but constrained in the little-recognized lattice motif in Rococo arts. The result of these readings is the influence during and after the Rococo period of the concept of continuous creation, in which the memory and imagination of the human subject relays God-given powers of creation into the production of culture. Continuous creation also suggested a human capability to animate material nature. Rococo style displays this as a pre-cinematic effects that represent the non-material, non-causal deep structure of reality.

My dissertation examines the roles of Emily and Anne Brontë as nineteenth-century women poets, composing in a literary form dominated by androcentric language and metaphor. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly concerning spoken and implied dialogue, and feminists who have pioneered an exploration of feminist dialogics provide crucial tools for examining the importance and uses of the dialogic form in the development of a powerful and creative feminine voice. As such, I propose to view Emily's Gondal poetry not as a series of loosely connected monologues, but as utterances in an inner dialogue between the dissenting and insistent female voice and the authoritative voice of the non-Gondal world. Emily's identification with her primary heroine, Augusta, enables her to challenge the controlling voice of the of the patriarchy that attempts to dictate and limit her creative and personal expression. The voice of Augusta in particular expresses the guilt, shame, and remorse that the woman-as-author must also experience when attempting to do battle with the patriarchy that attempts to restrict and reshape her utterances. While Anne was a part of the creation of Gondal, using it to mask her emotions through sustained dialogue with those who enabled and inspired such feelings, her interest in the mythical kingdom soon waned. However, it is in the dungeons and prisons of Gondal and within these early poems that Anne's distinct voice emerges and enters into a dialogue with her readers, her sister, and herself. The interior dialogues that her heroines engage in become explorations of the choices that Anne feels she must make as a woman within both society and the boundaries of her religious convictions. Through dialogue with the church, congregation, and religious doctrine, she attempts to relieve herself of the guilt of female creativity and justify herself and her creations through religious orthodoxy. Yet her seeming obedience belies the power of her voice that insists on being heard, even within the confines of androcentric social and religious power structures.

Using a sociolinguistic and post-colonial approach, I analyze Irish dramas that speak about language and its connection to national identity. In order to provide a systematic and wide-ranging study, I have selected plays written at approximately fifty-year intervals and performed before Irish audiences contemporary to their writing. The writers selected represent various aspects of Irish society--religiously, economically, and geographically--and arguably may be considered the outstanding theatrical Irish voices of their respective generations. Examining works by Alicia LeFanu, Dion Boucicault, W.B. Yeats, and Brian Friel, I argue that the way each of these playwrights deals with language and identity demonstrates successful resistance to the destruction of Irish identity by the dominant language power. The work of J. A. Laponce and Ronald Wardhaugh informs my language dominance theory. Briefly, when one language pushes aside another language, the cultural identity begins to shift. The literature of a nation provides evidence of the shifting perception. Drama, because of its performance qualities, provides the most complex and complete literary evidence. The effect of the performed text upon the audience validates a cultural reception beyond what would be possible with isolated readers. Following a theoretical introduction, I analyze the plays in chronological order. Alicia LeFanu's The Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiment (1812) gently pleads for equal treatment in a united Britain. Dion Boucicault's three Irish plays, especially The Colleen Bawn (1860) but also Arrah-na-Pogue (1864) and The Shaughraun (1875), satirically conceal rebellious nationalist tendencies under the cloak of melodrama. W. B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (1899) reveals his romantic hope for healing the national identity through the powers of language. However, The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919) and The Death of Cuchulain (1939) reveal an increasing distrust of language to mythically heal Ireland. Brian Friel's Translations (1980), supported by The Communication Cord (1982) and Making History (1988), demonstrates a post-colonial move to manipulate history in order to tell the Irish side of a British story, constructing in the process an Irish identity that is postnational.

This thesis is a study of the presentation of the orphan child in eighteenth and early nineteenth century English literature, and focuses on William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It is concerned with assessing the extent to which the orphan children in each of the works are liberated from familial and social constraints and structures and to what end. Chapter One examines the major thematic concern of the extent to which the motif of the orphan child represents a wronged innocent, and whether this symbol can also, or alternatively, be presented as a revolutionary force that challenges society's status quo in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Chapter Two considers the significance of the child "lost" and "found", which forms the explicit subject of six of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and explores the treatment of these conditions, and their differences and consequences for the children concerned. Chapter Three focuses on Charlotte Bronte's depiction of the orphan in Jane Eyre, which presents two models of the orphan child: the protagonist Jane, and Helen Burns. The chapter examines these two models and their responses to orphan-hood in a hostile world where orphans are mistreated by family and society alike. Chapter Four determines whether the orphan constitutes a subversive threat to the family in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and also explores the notion that, although orphan-hood often entails liberation from adult guardians, it also comprises vulnerability and exposure. The thesis concludes by considering the extent to which orphan-hood can involve a form of liberation from the confines of social structures, and what this liberation constitutes for each of the three authors.

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis engages the ideological ambivalence about the nineteenth-century middle-class domestic that emerged at mid-century by focusing on the non-canonical British and Californian writing of a fairly unknown but prolific author, Catherine Hubback, Jane Austen’s niece. It explores the tension between ideology and practice in Hubback’s writing, and argues that her work simultaneously challenges and endorses the ideal of domesticity. To the extent that it challenges this ideal, Hubback’s fiction, in its representation of domestic practice, negotiates class and gender ideologies that play out in the middle-class home. The thesis also traces how her endorsement of middle-class domesticity became more pronounced in the story and letters she wrote after her emigration to California, taking the form of overt criticism of American femininity and domesticity. Hubback’s concern with women’s position in relation to law and marriage is read within the context of developments in the genre of domestic fiction. My close reading of four novels – The Younger Sister, May and December: A Tale of Wedded Life, The Wife’s Sister; or, The Forbidden Marriage and Malvern; or, The Three Marriages – examines Hubback’s representation of marital and domestic configurations that are consistently viewed in relation to the social and legal position of women. The novels explore alternative options for women’s lives illustrated by their negotiation of the constraints of middle-class womanhood on their own terms; in marriage, or by choosing not to marry. Similarly, my discussion of Victorian masculinity in Hubback’s fiction focuses on the concern with moral and industrious middle-class manhood that establishes middle-class values as the definition of proper Englishness. As part of this discussion, I demonstrate how Hubback’s fiction reworks middle-class masculinity in order to establish a model for marriage that ensures domestic stability and ultimately the order of the English nation. In the final chapter of this thesis, I continue my exploration of Englishness and domestic ideology by reading Hubback’s short story and letters from California. In contrast to the ideological ambivalence registered in the novels, these texts more overtly subscribe to middle-class English values. My reading of Hubback’s work for this thesis thus aims to contribute to an understanding of the complex interrelation between ideology, domestic practice and literature in the nineteenth-century.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die ideologiese ambivalensie aangaande die negentiende eeuse middelklashuishouding wat teen die middel van die eeu te voorskyn getree het deur te fokus op die nie-kanonieke Britse en Kaliforniese skryfwerk van ʼn redelik onbekende,dog produktiewe,skrywer, Catherine Hubback, Jane Austen se niggie. Dit ondersoek die verhouding tussen ideologie en praktyk in Hubback se skryfwerk en voer aan dat haar werk die ideaal van huishoudelikheid gelyktydig uitdaag en goedkeur.In soverre dit hierdie ideal uitdaag, baan Hubback se fiksie, deur middle van die voorstelling van huishoudelike praktyke,ʼn weg deur die klas-en geslagsideologieë wat in die middelklaswoning afspeel.Die tesis ondersoek ook hoe haar ondersteuning van middelklashuishoudelikheid meer prominent geword het in die verhale en briewe wat sy na haar emigrasie na Kalifornieë geskryf het, en wat die vorm aangeneem het van openlike kritiek teenoor Amerikaanse vroulikheid en huishoudelikheid. Hubback se belangstelling in die posisie van vroue ten opsigte van die wet en die huwelik word gesien in die konteks van ontwikkelinge in die genre van huishoudelikefiksie. My bestudering van vier romans – The Younger Sister, May and December: A Tale of Wedded Life, The Wife’s Sister; or, The Forbidden Marriage en Malvern; or, The Three Marriages – ondersoek Hubback se voorstelling van konfigurasies in die huwelik en in die huishouding wat deurgaans beskou word ten opsigte van die sosiale en wetlike posisie van vroue. Die romans ondersoek alternatiewe opsies vir vroue se lewens wat geïllustreer word deur die wyse waarop hulle hul weg baan deur die beperkings wat op hulle geplaas is as vroue van die middelklas; in die huwelik, of deur te verkies om nie te trou nie.My bespreking van Viktoriaanse manlikheid in Hubback se fiksie focus ook op die belangstelling in morele en hardwerkende middelklasmanlikheid wat middelklaswaardes as die definisie van ware Engelsheid bepaal. As deel van hierdie bespreking demonstreer ek hoe Hubback se fiksie middelklasmanlikheid hersien om ʼn model vir die huwelik te skep wat huishoudelike stabiliteit en uiteindelik ook die orde van die Engelse nasie verseker. In die laaste hoofstuk van die tesis sit ek my ondersoek van Engelsheid en die huishoudelike ideologie voort deur Hubback se kortverhaal en briewe van Kalifornieë te lees. In teenstelling met die ideologiese ambivalensie wat in die romans geregistreer word, onderskryf hierdie tekste meer openlik die waardes van die Engelse middelklas. My lees van Hubback se werk vir hierdie tesis poog dus om by te dra tot ʼn begrip van die komplekse onderlinge verhouding tussen ideologie, huishoudelike praktyk en die letterkunde in die negentiende eeu.

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This work aims to discuss the Politics and State categories and their limitations and possibilities in the direction of human emancipation, under the theoretical reference proposed by Jose Chasin, with a view mainly concerning the research by the German thinker Karl Marx and the contributions that followed his thoughts. As politics are historically established to mediate and respond to the contradictions associated with the exploitation of man by man, i.e., contradictions engendered by private property, they are not inherent qualities to the Social Being in its ontological status, and are, therefore, unnecessary for the full development of social relations. The State is analyzed as an institution that shapes and ensures social contradictions and, thus, cannot be seen as a possibility to overcome sociability condensed by private property, since it is in itself the expression of this sociability. It is necessary to point out that such sociability is founded, in the production and reproduction modes of life, through labor externalization, which will be expropriated from the producer. Thus, the fruits of labor appear as foreign and strange to those who produce them. This foreign and estrangement movement is elevated towards the producer relation with the world, to the other men and to himself, since human production is a generic form of production, outlining the being that is separated from the social community. Thus, the possibility of overcoming this kind of sociability, that forges a dehumanized being, is carried out by the radical revolution of the mode of production, and it is necessary to surpass the form of work configured as foreign, since such an overtaking is itself the key to raising man to his generic conscience and, thus, oppose in order to overcome the particular forms of estrangement of being in the world, that constitute themselves as a coagulation of the inhuman, such as religion and politics. Such radical revolution must engender a reappropriation of the social forces usurped by politics, as a way of overriding the State, leading to the dissolution of the political practice of dispute of the power of State
Este trabalho pretende discutir as categorias Política e Estado, suas limitações e possibilidades no rumo da emancipação humana, sob o referencial teórico proposto por José Chasin, com um olhar principalmente às obras do pensador alemão Karl Marx e às contribuições posteriores ao seu pensamento. Sendo a política constituída historicamente para mediar e responder as contradições ligadas à exploração do homem pelo homem, ou seja, contradições engendradas pela propriedade privada, ela não é predicado inerente ao Ser Social em seu estatuto ontológico, e, por isso, é desnecessária ao pleno desenvolvimento das relações sociais. O Estado é analisado enquanto instituição que plasma e assegura as contradições sociais, de onde não pode ser visto como possibilidade à ultrapassagem da sociabilidade condensada pela propriedade privada, pois é ele mesmo a expressão dessa sociabilidade. Faz-se necessário apontar que tal sociabilidade é composta no modo de produção e reprodução da vida, por meio da exteriorização do trabalho, que será expropriado do produtor. Sendo assim, o fruto do trabalho aparece como alheio e estranho a quem o produz. Tal movimento de alienação e estranhamento é elevado à relação do produtor com o mundo, com os outros homens e consigo mesmo, por ser a produção humana forma de produção genérica, delineando o ser que está apartado da comunidade social. Assim, constata-se que a possibilidade de ultrapassar tal tipo de sociabilidade que forja um ser desumanizado é pelo revolucionamento radical do modo de produção, sendo necessário ultrapassar a forma do trabalho que se configura como estranhado, pois tal ultrapassagem é ela mesma chave para elevar o homem à sua consciência genérica e, assim, combater com vistas à ultrapassagem das formas particulares de estranhamento do ser no mundo que se constituem como coagulação do inumano, como a religião e a política. Tal revolução radical deve engendrar uma reapropriação das forças sociais usurpadas pela política, como modo de suprassunção do Estado e, assim, a dissolução da prática política de disputa do poder de Estado

O presente trabalho se debruça sobre o desenvolvimento tecnológico particular dos países da América Latina. Para tanto faz uso da obra “O Capital” de Karl Marx e de obras selecionadas de Ruy Mauro Marini, referência teórica da Teoria Marxista da Dependência. O objetivo do estudo consiste em formular uma crítica acerca do papel da tecnologia nas economias dependentes da América Latina a partir das categorias de Marx e Marini, no contexto de superexploração da força de trabalho e transferência de capitais. Como justificativa vemos a necessidade de superar as reproduções eurocêntricas sobre desenvolvimento tecnológico e compreender a tecnologia na América Latina sob o crivo do materialismo histórico. A metodologia empregada consiste na revisão bibliográfica, análise teórico reflexiva e aproximação da realidade das categorias selecionadas. Para Marini, com as trocas desiguais, a importação de tecnologia e dívida pública verificamos uma brutal transferência de valor a partir da América Latina que como política de compensação das perdas por transferência, a estratégia de superexploração da força de trabalho é largamente empregada - intensificação do trabalho, extensão da jornada e pagamento abaixo do valor de reprodução. Com mercados reduzidos pelos baixos salários, presenciamos um divórcio entre a produção e a realização de mercadorias, de modo que as mercadorias produzidas pelos países dependentes são consumidas majoritariamente pelos países centrais. Assim se agrava a divisão internacional do trabalho, onde os países da América Latina produzem matérias-primas baratas para a exportação e os países centrais tem na industrialização seu eixo produtivo. O caráter particular da exploração da força de trabalho na América Latina denuncia o subdesenvolvimento como um estado permanente de exploração dos países dependentes pelos países centrais, apresentando, inclusive, dependência interna entre os países dependentes. Dessa maneira, conforme Marini, verificamos a consolidação de etapas de produção mais complexas no centro e menos complexas nos países dependentes. Assim, o desenvolvimento tecnológico da América Latina se encontra limitado nos marcos dos países centrais, com: industrialização pautada na produção de bens de capital de centro; importação de pacotes tecnológicos obsoletos para amortizar a maquinaria descartada no centro pela concorrência; uso de força de trabalho superexplorada ainda que com o uso de maquinaria; desenvolvimento tecnológico não generalizado, mas restrito a ilhas de produção; não barateamento das mercadorias consumidas pelos trabalhadores; superexploração como movimento para competir com ilhas de tecnologias mais produtivas; ou ainda, a dependência do capital internacional para investimentos. A dissertação defende que, para Marini, o desenvolvimento tecnológico na América Latina não significou aumento de produtividade com bens salários, e consequente melhora na qualidade de vida dos trabalhadores. Mas, em sentido oposto, agrega-se como mais um elemento na superexploração da força de trabalho, levando à intensificação do trabalho como movimento de concorrência com os isolados ramos mais produtivos.
The present works looks over the tecnological development spefically from the countries in Latin America. Therefore making the use of the work “Capital”, by Karl Marx and selected works by Ruy Mauro Marini, a theorical reference of the Marxist Dependency Theory. The goal of this work consists in analyzing the role of technology in the dependant economies of Latin America from the categories of Marx and Marini, in the context of the super-exploitation of work and trasnference of capital. The justification of this research is the need to overcome the eurocentric views and reproductions on technological development and to undestand technology in Latin America under the inquest of Historic Materialism. With unequal trades, tecnology import and public debt we verify a brutal transference of capital from Latin America. As a compensation policy of loss by transference, the strategy of super-exploitation of workforce is largely used - intensification of work, extended work hours and payments under the production value. With markets reduced by low incomes, we witness a divorce between production and the making of goods, in a way that the good produced by dependent countries are mostly consumed by central countries. Thereby aggravating the international division of work, where Latin American countries produce cheap feedstock for exportation and central countries have their productive axis in industrialization. This particular character of exploitation of work in Latin America reveals underdevelopment as a permanent relashionship between dependent and central countries, exhibiting also internal dependency in dependent countries. Thus, we can verify a consolidation of more complex production stages in the Center and less complex ones in dependent countries. So, the Latin American technological development finds itself limited by the boudaries of central countries, with: industrialization lined by production of capital goods by the Center; importation of obsolete technological packets to refund the machinery discarded in the Center by the competition; the use of super-explited work force in detrimento of machinery use; technological development, but restricted only to a manufacturing island and not generalized; never to cheapen the goods cosumed by workers; super-exploitation as a movement to compete with more productive manufacturing islands; or yet the dependency on international capital for investments. The dissertation defends that, for Ruy Mauro Marini, the technological development in Latin America didn’t mean a raise in productivity with the cheapen of goods, and hence the improvement of life quality for workers. But, in na opposite direction, it is an element of the super-exploitation of work and leads to the intensification of work as a movement of competition with isolated and most productive branches in the internal scope, related to international production.

Orientador: João Carlos Kfouri Quartim de Moraes
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: A presente tese resulta de pesquisa de doutoramento a qual teve por objeto o padrão de cientificidade que orienta e estrutura a crítica marxiana da economia política em sua fase de maturidade. Nesse sentido, buscou-se apreender, compreender e explicitar o conjunto de elementos e determinações conceituais a partir dos quais se organizou o pensamento de Marx no enfrentamento da decifração do modo capitalista de produção da vida humana, bem como quando da tarefa de avaliação de pensadores e correntes da economia política que pretenderam explicar cientificamente o mundo da produção do excedente. A questão inicial a que se volta Marx é precisamente explicitar a natureza do mais-valor, a forma da riqueza como capital, superando as aporias e inconsistências que caracterizaram as aproximações teóricas dos economistas. O trabalho de investigação dos textos marxianos evidenciou a existência de uma teorização cuja base é a definição do estatuto das categorias como Daseinsformen, Existenzbestimmungenen, como formas sociais de ser do existente, seja este ente, processo ou relação. As relações sociais mesmas apareceram a partir desse horizonte como formas de existência historicamente determinada dos indivíduos sociais, de sua atividade e dos produtos desta. Essa determinação vai de encontro com o que a tradição das interpretações marxistas, majoritariamente, assumia como base da exercitação científica de Marx: a dialética hegeliana. Contrapondo-se a essa posição predominante, a pesquisa, e a tese que nela se arrima, intentou descortinar e revelar o caráter da teoria marxiana acerca do capital, como uma analítica categorial das formas de ser da produção capitalista. No âmbito do desenvolvimento da pesquisa, buscou-se então determinar o mais precisamente possível o que distingue essa analítica, a delimitação da differentia specifica do objeto da reflexão marxiana. Nesse contexto, o Forschungsweise marxiano, o seu modo de investigação, e não tanto o seu modo de apresentação constante de O Capital, foi prioritariamente considerado como o centro da própria atividade científica de Marx. Assim, o Darstellungsweise revelou-se como instância determinada, e não determinante do discurso marxiano, estando sempre subsumida à ordem da analítica da forma do existente em questão a cada momento, bem como das relações que aquele guarda com outras determinações dentro de um complexo particular. Resulta disso, que a determinação mesma do momento preponderante não é tributária da eleição a priori de uma categoria em particular tomada como princípio ou chave explicativa. Ao contrário, depende da marcha da analítica como tal, da articulação que preside o ser da coisa como concreto efetivamente existente, independentemente da teoria ou dos procedimentos. A esse respeito, a própria questão de método acabou por ser reposicionada em função disso, não sendo mais entendida como núcleo da cientificidade, mas como momento igualmente determinado pelo talhe do objeto. O que encaminhou a tese da existência de um antimétodo no pensamento marxiano
Abstract: This thesis results from doctoral research which had the object of scientific standard and structure that guides the Marxian critique of political economy at its stage of maturity. Accordingly, we sought to learn, understand and explain the range of conceptual and determinations from which was organized Marx's thought in coping with the unraveling of the capitalist mode of production of human life, and when the evaluation task of thinkers and currents of political economy that sought to explain scientifically the world's production surplus. The threshold issue that turns Marx is precisely explain the nature of surplus-value, the shape of wealth as capital, overcoming the aporia and inconsistencies that have characterized the theoretical approaches of economists. The research of the Marxist texts revealed the existence of a theory whose foundation is the definition of status categories as Daseinsformen, Existenzbestimmungen as social forms of being of the existent, is this entity, process or relationship. The same socials relations that emerged from the horizon as the existence of historically determined forms of social individuals, their activity and products thereof. That determination runs counter to the tradition of Marxist interpretations, mostly, assumed as the basis of scientific exercitation Marx: the Hegelian dialectic. Opposed to this dominant position, research, and the thesis that it is anchored, brought uncover and reveal the character of the Marxian theory of capital as an analytical categorical ways of being of capitalist production. In developing the survey, we sought then to determine as precisely as possible what distinguishes this analysis, the delimitation of the differentia specifica of the object of Marxist reflection. In this context, the Marxian Forschungsweise, its mode of inquiry, rather than its mode of presentation contained in the Capital, was primarily considered as the center of scientific activity itself of Marx. Thus, the Darstellungsweise proved to be instance specific, not a determinant of Marxian discourse, being always subsumed to the order of the analytical form of matter exists in every moment, as well as that of relations with other custody determinations within a particular complex. It follows that the same determination of the tax is not currently leading the election in advance of a particular category or taken as a key explanatory principle. Rather, it's the march of analytics as such, who chairs the joint is the real thing as actually existing, regardless of theory or procedures. In this respect, the very question of method turned out to be repositioned because of this, no longer seen as core scientific, but also time as determined by the intaglio of the object. What forwarded the theory that there was an antimetod in Marxian thought
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This study seeks to develop an investigation into the presence of revolutionary theory of Karl Marx in political sociology of sociologist Florestan Fernandes. With that overall goal, put as the central focus of the analysis the category “revolution” of Marxian thought and the way the Brazilian sociologist promotes a recovery of the concept in order to develop explanations about the socio-political processes that occurred in Brazil governed by military dictatorship and the period know as “democratization”. Still, led by this overview seeks to build an argument that identifies possible connections consistent continuity between what Marx described as “Communist” intellectual allies in the ideological-political to the working class, and advocacy and support offered by the Florestan “Cuban Revolution”, the struggle for democracy “social” and against the traditional conservatism of Brazilian politics, and his admission to the Workers’ Party (PT) and a parliamentary constituency. In suggesting a discussion of how a Brazilian Marxist articulates in his political action and the main political ideas that involve the revolutionary conception of Marx, the research proposal developed here attempts to answer, within its possibilities and limitations, what it meant to be Florestan a “revolutionary” in Brazil and the relationship that this position has the meaning given the term by Marx.
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O presente estudo procura desenvolver uma investigação sobre a presença da teoria revolucionária de Karl Marx na sociologia política do sociólogo Florestan Fernandes. Orientado por esse objetivo geral, põe como foco central da análise a categoria “revolução” do pensamento marxiano e a forma como o sociólogo brasileiro promove uma recuperação do conceito, a fim de elaborar explicações a respeito dos processos sócio-políticos que ocorreram no Brasil governado pela ditadura militar e no período que ficou conhecido como “redemocratização”. Ainda, conduzido por essa perspectiva geral busca construir uma argumentação que identifique possíveis nexos de continuidade coerente, entre o que Marx descreveu como “comunista”, intelectual que se alia no plano ideológico-político à classe trabalhadora, e a defesa e apoio oferecido por Florestan à “Revolução Cubana”, a luta pela democracia “social” e contra o tradicional conservadorismo da política brasileira, e o seu ingresso no Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) como parlamentar constituinte. Ao sugerir uma discussão sobre como um marxista brasileiro articula em sua obra e ação política as principais idéias políticas que envolvem a concepção revolucionária de Marx, a proposta da pesquisa aqui desenvolvida intenta responder, dentro de suas possibilidades e limites, o que significou para Florestan ser um “revolucionário” no Brasil e a relação que essa posição tem com o sentido dado por Marx ao termo.

The word "necrophilia" brings a particular definition readily to mind – that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction to death." An examination of nineteenth-century literature reveals a gradual change in relationships between the living and the dead, culminating in the sexualized representation of corpses at the close of the century. The works examined for necrophilic content are: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary, A Fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.

This thesis offers a textual analysis of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights and, to a lesser extent, her poems in an effort to understand fully the complicated relationship of gender to time that characterizes her artistic imagination. The study emphasizes the interplay of religious, psychological and sexual forces inherent in her narrative, and their effect when portraying cyclical and linear concepts of time. Narrators' and characters' interactions serve by themselves and as dyads to represent a concept of mythical or eternal time that manifests itself within historical or chronological time. These time concepts differ and complement each other through aspects of wholeness and differentiation. References to Julia Kristeva's psycholinguistic theory and to C. G. Jung's archetypes give support for a unique space and female concept of time within a male discourse. Kristeva's exemplification of time concepts as linear/chronological for the male gender and cyclical/eternal for the female gender happens to be specially relevant to the 19th century, when the patriarchal socio-symbolic order, inhibited, undermined, and/or circumscribed the participation of the feminine within the social contract.
Graduation date: 1991

何繼文.
呈交日期: 2003年5月.
論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大学, 2002.
參考文獻 (p. 221-235).
中英文摘要.
Cheng jiao ri qi: 2003 nian 5 yue.
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
He Jiwen.
Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.
Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)-Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2002.
Can kao wen xian (p. 221-235).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
The complicated state wherein ex-slaves found themselves, as depicted in the narratives of Bibb, Jacobs, and others, problematizes the dualistic relationship between North and South that the genre’s structural components work to enforce, forging an odyssey that, although sometimes still spiritual in nature, does not offer the type of resolutions that might easily persuade fellow slaves to abandon their masters and seek a similarly ambiguous identity in the so-called “free” land of the North. For blacks and especially fugitive slaves, such restrictive legal provisions provided an “uncertain status” where, writes William Andrews, “the definition of freedom for black people remained open.” In those slave narratives that dare to depict the limits of liberty in the North, this “open” status is particularly reflected in the texts’ discursive terrain itself, which portends a series of candid observations and brutal details that actively work to deconstruct any sort of mythological pattern associated with the slave narrative genre, thereby offering a more expansive view of the experience for most fugitive slaves. The Life of William Grimes, a particularly frank and brutal diary of a man’s trials within and without slavery, is one such slave narrative, depicting a journey that, while more consistent with the general experience of ex-slaves in the antebellum U.S., often works outside the parameters of traditional, straight-forward slave narratives like Douglass’s. “I often was obliged to go off the road,” Grimes admits at one point in his autobiography, and although his remark refers to the cautious path he must tread as a fugitive slave, it might just as well describe the thematic and structural characteristics of his open-ended autobiography. Reputedly the first fugitive slave narrative, the publication of Grimes’s Life in 1825 initiated the beginning of a genre whose path had not yet been forged, which likely contributed to its fluid nature. At the time of his narrative’s publication, Grimes’s self-expressed testimony of injustice under slavery was about five years ahead of its time; it wouldn’t be until the 1830s that the U.S. antislavery movement would begin to consciously seek out ex-slaves to testify to their experience in bondage. Once this literary door was open, however, antislavery sentiment became for many early African American authors “a ready forum” for self-expression. Whereas in twenty years’ time Douglass would take full advantage of this opportunity by drawing inspiration from a number of already established narratives, Grimes as an author found himself singularly “off the road” and essentially alone in new literary territory, uncannily reflecting his sense of alienation and helplessness in the North after escaping from slavery aboard a cargo ship in 1815.