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Fletcher, R. O. F. "Apuleius' Plato : the role of biography in the exegesis of philosophy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599078.
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This thesis examines the role played by the genre of biography in exegetical modes of philosophical teaching. In a thematic reading of the unique literary corpus of the second century C.E. Platonist Apuleius, it considers how this author’s sustained project of philosophical popularisation is transmitted through biographical representations of the philosopher. Apuleius’ self-fashioned philosopher persona, his extended biography of Plato, and his exemplary treatment of the Platonic figure of Socrates, are each set to initiate his audience into philosophy as a way of life, while his rhetorical brand of Platonism conducts its philosophical mission via philosophy as a genre of life writing. Chapter One reads a key text from the collection of Apuleius’ excerpted Carthaginian orations (Florida 18) as presenting the developing portrait of the speaker’s philosopher persona, articulated through a series of stages. Between the limits of the speaker’s opening identification as a philosopher and the projected philosophical education of his Carthaginian audience, this text instigates an autobiographical discussion of pedagogic reciprocity, dramatically triangulated between the speaker’s educational debts to both Athens and Carthage, in a succession of biographical cameos starring renowned figures from the Greek philosophical tradition (Protagoras and Thales). Chapter Two shows how the mediating role for biography in the rhetorical construction of the philosopher persona explored in the previous chapter is central to Apuleius’ configurations of Plato in the Vita that prefaces his handbook of Platonism, De Platone. Reading the Platonic Vita as congruent with biographical sketches of a range of philosophical figures in the Florida, this chapter explores how Apuleius inscribes the dramatic emergence of Plato the philosopher, as he moves to incorporate the gamut of valorised philosophical position into his own brand of Platonism. Chapter Three returns the Platonic Vita to its context in De Platone, as preface to the two books of Platonic physics and ethics that follow. With the Vita as the distinguishing feature that marks out this text from its closest Greek equivalent (Alcinous’ Didaskalikos), this chapter accounts for the role of biography in dictating the mode and ambit of the exegesis of dogmatic Platonism, as the Vita not only dictates the exegetical mode of this text, but also weights in with contributions to the finer points of Platonic doctrine. Chapter Four reads Apuleius’ spectacular work De deo Socratis, as it embodies Apuleius’ investment in the biographical incorporation of Platonic ideas. The personal god of Socrates (his daimonion) provides the deliberately chosen site for controversial discussion of the potential scope for Platonic teaching beyond Plato, for the theory of demonology, so popular in Apuleius’ own time, puts heavy pressure on exegetical commentary to re-conceive and update the doctrinal dramaturgy written into the fabric of Socrates’ life.
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Rassool, Ciraj. "The individual, auto/biography and history in South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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This thesis is a contribution to the field of public history, which the author and others at the University of the Western Cape's History Department have over the last decade pioneered in defining and mapping out in South Africa. Rassool's theories about the relationship between history and biography were developed in relation to the life of the Unity Movement leader, I.B. Tabata.
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Seeger, Clara Elisabeth. "Biography, historiography and the philosophy of history in Hermann Hesse's 'Die Morgenlandfahrt' and 'Das Glasperlenspiel'." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266402.
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Purchase, Graham School of Philosophy UNSW. "Peter Kropotkin: ecologist, philosopher and revolutionary." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Philosophy, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20436.
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The Problem Investigated: This thesis is conceived as: [1] a work of scholarship and exegesis [2] an examination of more recent scientific works which use similar metaphors or concepts, eg. Cooperation, that are central to Kropotkin's thinking. As a work of scholarship and exegesis this thesis is an attempt to present the many areas/dimensions of Kropotkin's philosophy and thinking in a systematic way. I do not believe that this has been attempted previously in any language. Although his political, social and economic theories have generated a substantial secondary literature, Kropotkin's scientific works and philosophy of science, with the exception of his famous book, Mutual Aid, have received virtually no attention. In consequence of this the emphasis of this work will be upon his scientific writings. However, his political writings will also be examined as well as related to his broad scientific outlook. In addition to evaluating Kropotkin's scientific works in relation to his period I also discuss them in relation to contemporary debates. Although not strictly true, the second half of this thesis is not a work of historical scholarship but an attempt to bring together the ideas of scientists that in one way or another support a Kropotkinesque characterisation of natural processes. Although Kropotkin is often rightly regarded as a founder of modern environmentalism, this is difficult to substantiate from his purely political and social writings. Thus I will attempt to present the core concepts of Kropotkin's anarchism in a coherent and succinct way with an emphasis upon showing how they relate to contemporary debates and perspectives within the environmental movement. The Procedures Followed: The thesis will be introduced biographically. This seemed the best way to introduce Kropotkin's works to the reader and place them in relation to one another and in their historical context. Thus the primary purpose of this historical section is to contextualise the great diversity of works by Kropotkin. As I do not have a science background, but also for reasons of clarity, the remainder of the analysis shall be based upon the least technical and most accessible scientific literature in the various disciplines investigated. I will begin by systematically collecting, cataloguing and analysing both Kropotkin's works as well as the secondary literature and then proceed to make some overall sense of them and then relate them to contemporary debates upon process and organisation in nature and society. The General Results Obtained: My research has revealed a large body of scientific work by Kropotkin. My analysis of them shows that he had a deep understanding of the role of mutualism, symbiosis, dynamism, group and social behaviour etc., in relation to physical and biological processes. His ideas, although necessarily containing errors, are broadly, as well as in many detailed aspects, consistent with the findings of professional, though often unorthodox, scientists of the present day. The main faults of Kropotkin's approach was a fundamental failure to appreciate the role of territories and hierarchies in animal groups and his excessive progressivism. My research also reveals how Kropotkin's social vision, although somewhat utopian, can be sympathetically interpreted in terms of modern environmentalist perspectives. The Major Conclusions Reached: Kropotkin's diverse works in science and social theory when presented systematically reveals that he is a philosopher of considerable interest in respect to both contemporary and historical debates concerning sociality and its influence upon the evolution of life on Earth.
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Simon, Josiah. "Franz Rosenzweig's Hegel and the State: Biography, History and Tragedy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18333.
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Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is known today as one of the most influential German Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, The Star of Redemption, has earned him a reputation as a challenging religious thinker with increasing relevance for contemporary religious, philosophical and historical debates. However, this legacy has largely ignored his first published book, Hegel and the State (1920). My dissertation is the first English-language monograph to fully explore Rosenzweig's intellectual biography of Hegel, making a contribution to contemporary Hegel and Rosenzweig scholarship alike. I offer an analysis that draws on the formal characteristics of the work--such as the epigraph, the narrative and biographical structure, as well as the historical presuppositions of the foreword and the conclusion--to show how Rosenzweig's interpretation of Hegel's key texts, culminating in the Philosophy of Right, is informed by his own biographical development and the influence of thinkers such as Wilhelm Dilthey and Friedrich Meinecke. By recasting his critique of Hegel's political thinking into biographical and historical terms, I ultimately argue that Rosenzweig's narrative in Hegel and the State is a tragic foil for his own development as a German historian. In Rosenzweig's interpretation, the relationship between the individual and the state championed by Hegel ends in the tragic separation of the individual from the reconciliatory promise of Idealist thought. By unearthing Rosenzweig's latent theory of tragedy in Hegel and the State--evidenced most clearly in how he situates the figures of Friedrich Hölderlin and Napoleon--I argue that the historical and philosophical crisis that marked the beginning of the twentieth century, and particularly Rosenzweig's own biographical crisis, shapes his work as the author of Hegel and the State. In addition to providing a critical commentary on the cultural, philosophical and literary history of the German nation, as well as providing the first English translation of many passages from Hegel and the State, my dissertation lays the necessary groundwork for a reinterpretation of Rosenzweig's critique of German Idealism in The Star of Redemption.
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Stocek, Charlotte Hough 1939. "Marie Morrison Hughes and her model of education for a democratic society." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282360.
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This qualitative historical research study documents the life of early childhood educator Marie Morrison Hughes (1900-1981) and the evolution and fruition of her model of early childhood education. In-depth interviews with six women educators who worked directly with Dr. Hughes in the implementation of the Tucson Early Education Model (TEEM) provide data for the study. TEEM became a Follow Through Program Sponsor at twenty-two sites all across the United States and served communities from 1968 to 1995. Profiles of each woman educator written in the first-person constitute a large part of the work. A profile of Dr. Hughes gained from transcribed speeches and interviews is included with the Voices of the Women. The model of education founded by Dr. Hughes was based on the definition of teaching as interaction and collaboration. Opening the world to children was the educational goal of Dr. Hughes. Curriculum was built from the lives and experiences of the children in the classroom with an emphasis on 'learning to learn.' Dr. Hughes believed the most important element in the educative process was the relationship between the teacher and the child. An essential part of the model was termed professional response, the rapport between children and the teacher. Children learned from the teacher's flexibility to allow personal response to the ongoing experience and the response was the source of the teacher's constructive and significant influence on children. Dr. Hughes referred to her model as an education program for children in a democratic society. The model's commitment to the whole person and the uniqueness of each person along with the established caring rapport with each individual child exemplifies the ethics of caring and justice in education.
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Urbano, Arthur P. "Lives in competition : biographical literature and the struggle for philosophy in late antiquity /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174686.
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Lee, Sheng-kuang. "Commoner and sagehood: Wang Ken and the T'ai-chou School in late Ming society." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185106.
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The intellectual world of the late Ming literati was without question one of great richness and complexity. The focus of the present study, however, is limited to an examination of Wang Ken, the man, his key philosophical beliefs, and his role in the founding of the T'ai-chou School of thought. In exploring the genesis of Wang Ken and his school of thought, certain aspects of the social milieu are examined in order to reach a better understanding of how the larger environment and this radical intellectual movement became intertwined. In other words, I have attempted to discern and define the interplay of the most important creative minds of the time, and particularly those of the elite class with this group. As a teacher and thinker Wang Ken exercised a considerable influence on his times, contributing in the process to the new permissiveness so characteristic of the latter half of the Ming dynasty. In this regard, the present study also represents an attempt to discover the basic patterns underlying Wang Ken's thought, as well as the T'ai-chou School's responsiveness to dramatic changes in society. In doing so, we perceive an implication of intellectual autonomy in the form of social and political protest against imperial autocracy. Also, the spread of his faith in an attainable and intelligible sagehood among the lower classes, gradually blurred the dividing line between elite and commoner. Finally, the assertions of Wang Ken and the T'ai-chou School indeed stimulated a new sense of self-awareness and self-worth. Nevertheless, it is because of its radical rejection of the established social, political, and intellectual order that the T'ai-chou School has been branded as heterodox. As a result, the frustration of its aspiration for a more genuine humanity was inevitable, as this intellectual movement fell victim to the forces of orthodoxy and conformity.
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Schneider, Ulrich Johannes. "Jurt, Joseph (ed.): Zeitgenössische französische Denker : eine Bilanz. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, 273 S. (Rezension)." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-151917.
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Die französische Philosophie der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat weltweit eine Rezeption erfahren, die immer wieder neu Zusammenfassungen und einführend-kommentierende Darstellungen herausfordert. Nun ist ein neuer Sammelband zu vermelden, der von dem Freiburger Romanisten Joseph Jurt herausgegeben wurde.
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Mueller, Marieke. "Subjectivity in Sartre's 'L'idiot de la famille' : biography as a space for the development of theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:54f60363-e148-4481-b710-c7e68a908bd5.
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In the context of a renascent interest in the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, this thesis proposes a close examination of one of his less studied texts, the study of Gustave Flaubert, L'Idiot de la famille (1971-72). The analysis focuses on theoretical developments that emerge from Sartre's biographical enquiry, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach combining a consideration of literary theory and literary history with the perspective of Sartre's philosophy of subjectivity. L'Idiot is situated amongst a wide variety of texts by Sartre, from Qu'est-ce que la littérature? (1948) to the Critique de la raison dialectique (1960), identifying theoretical innovations within Sartre's understanding of the subject (ch. 1), his social theory (ch. 2), his theory of the imaginary (ch. 3), of literary production (ch. 4) and of reading (ch. 5). Additionally, hitherto largely unexplored passages highlight Sartre's reflections on the situation of the late 1960s. Previous analyses of the philosophical innovations presented in L'Idiot have often focused on the strictly theoretical passages in the biography. The present thesis also concentrates on the 'imagined' scenes presented throughout the text. Read as an integral part of Sartre's method, it is suggested that the dramatization facilitated by the biographical format is an integral part of the theoretical enquiry. Despite the lack of explicit referencing provided by Sartre, the biography is explored in its open character, identifying a series of resonances and similarities with a diverse range of authors. The different chapters consider thinkers whose relationship with Sartre has received little or no attention (such as Pierre Bourdieu and Walter Benjamin), or whose work resonates with Sartre in ways that have so far gone unnoticed (Roland Barthes, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Maurice Blanchot).
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Ziegler, Vanessa [UNESP]. "Plutarco e a formação do governante ideal no principado Romano: uma análise da biografia de Alexandre." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93392.
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Pelas constantes generalizações tecidas sobre todo o corpus de Plutarco, que foi superficialmente caracterizado como um projeto basicamente moral, o objetivo desse trabalho visa fortalecer a idéia de que o autor grego enxergava a atividade política como essencial na vida de um homem. Assim, a paideia e a filosofia eram mediadoras de uma ética que orientava o comportamento e as ações do governante, lapidando sua natureza e dando-lhe condições de refrear seus instintos e suas paixões. O governante, que mais recebesse educação e fosse doutrinado pela filosofia teria mais condições de dirigir com justiça e prudência a comunidade de cidadãos. Esse era o tipo de governante que Plutarco julgava ideal: bem educado, virtuoso e sábio como um filósofo, tal como Platão o pensou, e a imagem que mais se aproximava desse ideal era a de Alexandre, o grande.
For the constants generalizations maked over all Plutarch's corpus, which was superficially described as basically a moral project, the aim of this work claim fortify the thought which the greek writer view the policy activity as essential in the man's life. Thus, paideia and philosophy mediated a ethics which conducting the ruler's actions and behavior, refining your nature, as well as your instinct and passions. The ruler which earned more education and philosophy will be conditions to guide the citizens' comunity with justice and prudence. This was kind of ruler which Plutarch judged as ideal: educated, virtuous and wise like a philosopher, such as Plato thinked, and the image which more approached of this model was Alexander the Great.
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Schneider, Ulrich Johannes. "Jurt, Joseph (ed.): Zeitgenössische französische Denker : eine Bilanz. Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, 273 S. (Rezension)." Stauffenburg-Verl. Brigitte Narr, 1999. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A12903.
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Die französische Philosophie der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts hat weltweit eine Rezeption erfahren, die immer wieder neu Zusammenfassungen und einführend-kommentierende Darstellungen herausfordert. Nun ist ein neuer Sammelband zu vermelden, der von dem Freiburger Romanisten Joseph Jurt herausgegeben wurde.
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Quest, Matthew. "C. L. R. James, direct democracy, and national liberation struggles." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318351.
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Meares, Carina. "From the rainbow nation to the land of the long white cloud : migration, gender and biography : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology,Massey University, Albany, New Zealand /." Massey University Institutional Repository: From the Rainbow Nation to the Land of the Long White Cloud : migration, gender and biography, 2007. http://muir.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/625.
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Backman, Anna. "När autenticiteten utmanas : En föremålsundersökning och dess tänkbara konsekvenser för museiobjektet." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-126149.
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This paper deals with an object donated by a group of members of the public to the Royal Armoury in Stockholm, Sweden. The donators claimed to own a horse bit that had been used by King Gustav II Adolf's mount in the battle of Lützen, where the King was killed. The bit was a gift to the donators' ancestor, the farmer and politician Petter Jönsson, from the King of Sweden, Oscar I, in the 1850's. In this paper, the donated bit is examined and found unlikely to be the bit used at Lützen. The examination also revealed that the bit now worn by the horse in its display is a prop, included in the group of objects in the 19th century, and that the original bit probably was lost in a fire in 1648. The examination also raises questions on why this bit was considered a valuable gift, what consequences the gift transaction of the bit had for giver and reviever. It ends with a discussion about the donated bit and the bit in the display, and their roles at the museum in the future.
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Ziegler, Vanessa. "Plutarco e a formação do governante ideal no principado Romano : uma análise da biografia de Alexandre /." Assis : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93392.
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Abstract: For the constants generalizations maked over all Plutarch's corpus, which was superficially described as basically a moral project, the aim of this work claim fortify the thought which the greek writer view the policy activity as essential in the man's life. Thus, paideia and philosophy mediated a ethics which conducting the ruler's actions and behavior, refining your nature, as well as your instinct and passions. The ruler which earned more education and philosophy will be conditions to guide the citizens' comunity with justice and prudence. This was kind of ruler which Plutarch judged as ideal: educated, virtuous and wise like a philosopher, such as Plato thinked, and the image which more approached of this model was Alexander the Great.
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Carvalho, Rafael Virgilio de. "O heroísmo na poética de Platão: uma biografia filosófica no drama dos diálogos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/153035.
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Para interpretar historicamente o pensamento de Platão é preciso, inicialmente, fazer uma pergunta essencial: quem foi Platão? A resposta tende a ser múltipla quando dada por um historiador que vive o cotidiano da Pós-Modernidade. Assim, pode-se dizer que Platão foi um grego que viveu de 429 a. C. a 348 a. C., membro de uma família aristocrática que descendia do legislador Sólon, cidadão de Atenas, filósofo e discípulo de Sócrates, escritor que compôs inúmeros diálogos socráticos e chefe de um thiasos filosófico chamado Academia. Porém, esses aspectos só ficam claros se Platão for visto como um sujeito histórico, o que implica compreender o seu pensamento como ação recortada por práticas socioculturais que o sujeitavam, fazendo-o incorporar certas disposições que lhe permitia transitar por entre os diferentes campos da sociedade. Para tanto, os diálogos platônicos terão que ser lidos com preocupações historiográficas, mediante pressupostos teóricos, que consigam projetá-los como meio pelo qual este sujeito se relacionava com o campo literário de Atenas. Com o objetivo de reconstruir a biografia de Platão, a análise tem que ser direcionada para a materialidade que determina a sintaxe através da qual a filosofia platônica foi enunciada, isto é, a sua prática de escrita. A dramaticidade, sob a forma do heroísmo socrático, torna-se ponto de convergência da investigação dado que indica as escolhas peculiares vividas por um sujeito e efetivadas em meio às regras socioculturais que definiam o campo literário no qual Platão escreveu os seus diálogos.
To interpret Plato's thought historically, one must first ask an essential question: who was Plato? The answer tends to be multiple when given by a historian who lives the daily postmodernity. Thus it can be said that Plato was a Greek who lived from 429 BC. C. to 348 a. C., member of an aristocratic family that descended from the legislator Solón, citizen of Athens, philosopher and disciple of Sócrates, writer that composed numerous Socratic dialogues and head of a philosophical thiasos called Academy. However, these aspects are only clear if Plato is seen as a historical subject, which implies understanding his thought as an action cut by sociocultural practices that subjected him, making him incorporate certain provisions that allowed him to move through the different fields of society . For this, the Platonic dialogues will have to be read with historiographical concerns, by means of theoretical presuppositions, that can project them as a means by which this subject was related to the literary field of Athens. In order to reconstruct Plato's biography, the analysis has to be directed to the materiality that determines the syntax by which Platonic philosophy was enunciated, that is, its writing practice. Dramaticity, in the form of Socratic heroism, becomes a point of convergence of inquiry, since it indicates the peculiar choices lived by a subject and made effective in the midst of the sociocultural rules that defined the literary field in which Plato wrote his dialogues.
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Crocker, R. "An intellectual biography of Henry More (1614-87)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375863.
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DADDI, ANDREA IGNAZIO. "Aver cura della vita. Sulla via biografica in filosofia." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/241177.
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La presente ricerca delinea le linee portanti della filosofia biografica proposta da Romano Màdera (Màdera & Tarca, 2003; Màdera, 2006, 2012, 2013) quale originale e coraggioso tentativo di rinnovamento della filosofia come modo di vivere (Hadot, 2001) volto alla ricerca di un senso per l'esistenza e caratterizzato dalla tensione alla conoscenza e alla saggezza, dalla trascendenza della centratura egoica e dall'aspirazione all'autorealizzazione solidale. Nel ripercorrere l'evoluzione del pensiero di un protagonista della filosofia italiana contemporanea, sottolineandone le implicazioni formative e psico-politiche, all'argomentazione teorica si intreccia la testimonianza personale del ricercatore stesso che è parte integrante di un più vasto progetto comunitario, frutto di tale pensiero. Coerentemente all'approccio oggetto di studio, capace di non dividere verità e vita, si parte da sé per trovare in sé il mondo, il proprio posto in esso e la direzione di un cammino comunque condiviso. L’opera di Màdera (1977, 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2016, 2018 e cfr. supra) e la sintesi tra filosofia, psicologie del profondo, tradizioni spirituali e metodi biografici cui essa ha dato origine costituiscono la base di partenza e al tempo stesso l'oggetto privilegiato dello studio, che pertanto si presenta per buona parte come un lavoro di rilettura e commento ragionato, cui vanno ad accompagnarsi approfondimenti specifici, per quanto non esaustivi, sul rapporto tra metodo (auto)biografico e filosofia nel corso del tempo, anche considerando il panorama internazionale (Chitwood, 2004; Cowley, 2014; Davis, 1999; Earle, 1976; Jaspers, 1913, 1922; Mathien & Wright, 2006; Mish, 1950; Schuster, 2003; Wright, 2006). Inevitabili sono altresì i rimandi tanto a quegli autori che più hanno segnato l’itinerario concettuale màderiano (Hadot e Jung, in primis, ma, tra gli altri, anche Freud, Marx e Nietzsche) quanto ai lavori dei molti che, a vario titolo e trasversalmente rispetto alle canoniche ripartizioni disciplinari, lo hanno accompagnato e, in tutto o in parte, condiviso (solo per citarne alcuni: Baracchi, Demetrio, Formenti, Gamelli, Jedlowski, Tarca) contribuendo così alla progressiva definizione di un’inedita proposta formativa per gli adulti del nostro tempo all’interno di una comunità di pratiche. L’analisi dei testi e gli specifici approfondimenti tematici si inseriscono all'interno di una cornice narrativa che prevede un frequente ricorso alla prima persona secondo la tradizione già filosofica della confessione e il modello offerto dagli approcci biografici (cfr. autobiografia, autoetnografia) alla ricerca empirica di tipo qualitativo, ormai consolidati nella letteratura pedagogica (Adams, Holman Jones, Ellis, 2014; Anderson, 2006; Andrew, 2017; Denzin & Lincoln, 2000; Ellis, 2004; Chang, 2008; Holman Jones, Adams, Ellis, 2016; Merrill & West, 2009; Muncey, 2010). Una tale narrazione, unitamente agli allegati, tratteggia, almeno parzialmente, lo sfondo esperienziale connesso alle pratiche filosofiche rinnovate personalmente sperimentate dal ricercatore (cfr. Seminari Aperti di Pratiche Filosofiche di Milano-Bicocca e di Genova; Scuola in Analisi Biografica a Orientamento Filosofico).This research outlines the main features of the Biographical Philosophy Romano Màdera propones (Màdera & Tarca, 2003; Màdera, 2006, 2012, 2013). It is an original and bold attempt to renew philosophy as a way of life (Hadot, 2001) aimed to find a meaning for our existences, to transcend our ego-centering and to move towards knowledge, wisdom and a supportive realization. By retracing the evolution of an important Italian contemporary philosopher’s thought and stressing its educational and psycho-political implications, the researcher - that is part of a community project this thought originates - intertwines theoretical argument and personal experience. Consistently with the studied approach, thus not separating truth from life, you start from your own to find in yourself the whole world, your place in it and the direction of a shared path. Màdera’s work (1977, 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2016, 2018 and above) and the synthesis between philosophy, depth psychologies, spiritual traditions and biographical methods that derives from it are the starting point and at the same time the privileged object of the research. The study is partly a rereading and a comment of Màdera’s works, accompanied by specific - though not exhaustive - insights on the relationship between (auto)biographical method and philosophy over time, even considering the international scene (Chitwood, 2004; Cowley, 2014; Davis, 1999; Earle, 1976; Jaspers, 1913, 1922; Mathien & Wright, 2006; Mish, 1950; Schuster, 2003; Wright, 2006). Inevitable are also the references both to those authors who have more marked the Màderian conceptual itinerary (first of all Hadot and Jung, but - among the others - Freud, Marx and Nietzsche) and to the contributions of the many who, in various ways and transversally to the canonical disciplinary division, accompanied and shared it, completely or in part (to name but a few: Baracchi, Demetrio, Formenti, Gamelli, Jedlowski, Tarca). They contributed to the progressive definition of an unprecedented educational proposal for contemporary adult learners within a community of practice. The analysis of the texts and the specific thematic reflections fit within a narrative frame that provides for frequent recourse to the first person, yet according to the philosophical tradition of the confession and to the well-established biographical approaches (e.g.: autobiography, auto-ethnography) to qualitative inquiry in education and social sciences (Adams, Holman Jones, Ellis, 2014; Anderson, 2006; Andrew, 2017; Denzin & Lincoln, 2000; Ellis, 2004; Chang, 2008; Holman Jones, Adams, Ellis, 2016; Merrill & West, 2009; Muncey, 2010). Along with the appendixes, such a narrative sketches, at least partially, the experiential background related to the renewed philosophical practices personally experienced by the researcher (Open Seminars of Philosophical Practices in Milan-Bicocca and Genoa; Training in Philosophically Oriented Biographical Analysis).
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DeYoung, Ursula. "The invention of the scientist : John Tyndall and the fight for scientific authority, 1850-1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670013.
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Ermert, Sophia. "Hannah Arendt." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-207750.
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Roudier, Jérôme. "Machiavel, une biographie : l'apport intellectuel de sa correspondance avant septembre 1512." Thesis, Dijon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014DIJOL010/document.
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Le corpus des écrits de Machiavel et de ses correspondants depuis son entrée dans la Chancellerie florentine en 1498 jusqu’à septembre 1512 jette une lumière inédite sur la vie et le travail du Secrétaire et permet de comprendre l’ensemble de son œuvre de manière nouvelle. En « homme nouveau » de son époque, Machiavel tente de promouvoir et de mettre en œuvre un programme. Par ses lettres comme ses rapports, il tente de convaincre ses contemporains. Il forme ainsi un art de la communication novateur, que permet l’espace politique de la République florentine. La thèse dégage les caractéristiques de cet art, avant d’en analyser la pertinence philosophique. Machiavel refuse la philosophie théorique de son époque pour mieux s’engager dans l’action et par là devenir le fondateur de la philosophie politique moderne. Il est un homme de parole, d’écriture et d’action pour qui l’action passe par l’écriture et la parole. La capacité de la raison à appréhender le réel politique à travers des concepts figés est remise en cause. Pour Machiavel, la réalité féconde de la politique se manifeste à travers des tensions qu’il convient de décrire sans les figer par le langage. Il invente ainsi une méthode d’écriture et de pensée qui vise le salut de sa patrie communale via l’unité italienne. La thèse, fondée sur un corpus d’avant 1512, permet l’interprétation des textes ultérieurs en faisant du Prince et des Discours, par exemple, des déclinaisons de ce programme en fonction de leurs interlocuteurs. Machiavel n’est pas alors un philosophe, mais un acteur politique qui tente, par le truchement de l’écrit, malgré l’exil et la disgrâce, de sauver sa patrie du désastre imminent qu’il pressentFrom the moment he joined the Florentine Chancellery in 1498 to September 1512, Machiavelli’s corpus of writings and letters shed a new light on the life and work of the Secretary. There is no doubt that Machiavelli was a true Patriot, extremely concerned about the role of foreign armies in Italy. Machiavelli represents also a "New Man" in his century and seeks to promote a program. Through his letters and his reports he advocates about the necessity of that program. In doing so he invents a new form of communication allowed by the political specificities of the Florentine Republic. This dissertation aims at identifying the characteristics of this art. Then it questions its philosophical relevance. Machiavelli rejects the theoretical philosophy of his time and would rather get engaged in action. Thus he becomes the founder of modern Political Philosophy. He is a man of speech, of writing and of action: he acts through writing and speaking. Reason’s ability to ‘consider what happens in fact’ through pre-existing concepts is challenged. Machiavelli describes politics as a realm of tensions that should be understood without being frozen by concepts. Therefore he invents a method of writing and thinking that could lead to the salvation of his homeland through Italy’s ‘communal’ unity. The dissertation is based on the pre-1512 corpus. In this light following and better-known texts appear as different versions of a unique program adapted to different interlocutors. Machiavelli cannot be seen as a Philosopher then, but rather as a political Actor who desperately attempts through writing, and despite exile and disgrace, to save his City from the imminent disaster
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Kuße, Holger. "„Der russische Europäer: Fedor A. Stepun (1884–1965)“: 18.09. – 19.09.2015 an der TU Dresden." De Gruyter, 2016. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A38604.
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Der russische Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Publizist Fedor A. Stepun (1884–1965) emigrierte 1922 nach Deutschland und wurde 1926 zum Professor für Soziologie an die damalige Technische Hochschule Dresden berufen. Bis zu seiner Entlassung 1937 war er neben Victor Klemperer und Paul Tillich am „Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut“ der TH tätig. Nach dem Krieg erhielt er eine Professur in München, wo er 1965 verstarb. Aus Anlass des nunmehr fünfzigsten Todesjahres veranstaltete das Institut für Slavistik der TU Dresden zusammen mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen von der Hochschule für Ökonomie in Moskau eine zweisprachige (russisch-deutsche) Tagung, die Stepun mit einem Begriff des Moskauer Philosophen und Publizisten Vladimir Kantor als „russischen Europäer“ vorstellte.
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Leconte, Mélodie. "Approche pragmatiste de la mobilité inter-organisationnelle : étude à partir de 21 cas d'analyse biographique." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100117.
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La mobilité inter-organisationnelle entraine la multiplication des expériences de travail, et pour entretenir leur employabilité, les salariés doivent veiller à la cohérence de ce parcours professionnel. Pour rendre compte de cela, à eux même et à leurs employeurs, les salariés sont conduits à élaborer leur biographie professionnelle (Pineau & Le Grand, 2013). On observe un phénomène de biographisation lié à la mobilité inter-organisationnelle.Cette recherche propose une approche expérientielle de la mobilité inter-organisationnelle au prisme de la philosophie pragmatiste de Dewey (2010). Notre recherche analyse vingt-et-un cas de biographies professionnelles d’individus voulant quitter leur entreprise ou venant de la quitter. L’objectif est de comprendre, du point de vue de l’individu, comment se développe le travail biographique inhérent à la mobilité inter-organisationnelle. La recherche présente le développement de ce processus en deux temps : le temps de la reconstruction de l’expérience et le temps de l’élaboration de l’expérience à venir. Ce passage à l’expérience ultérieure est l’aboutissement d’un processus de valuation portant sur les dimensions de l’expérience de travail en cours et à venir. Cette recherche montre comment les sources de valeurs de l’expérience de travail sont d’abord problématisées puis révisées et créées pour le futurInter-organizational mobility leads to the multiplication of work experiences, and to maintain their employability, employees must ensure the coherence of this professional path. To account for this, to themselves and their employers, employees are required to develop their professional biographies (Pineau & Le Grand, 2013). We can observe a biographical phenomenon linked to inter-organizational mobility.This research proposes an experiential approach to inter-organizational mobility based on Dewey's pragmatic philosophy (2010). Our research analyses twenty-one cases of professional biographies of individuals who want to leave their company or who have just left it. The objective is to understand, from the individual's point of view, how the biographical work inherent in inter-organizational mobility is developed. The research presents the development of this process in two stages: the time of rebuilding the experience and the time of developing the future experience. This transition to subsequent experience is the result of a valuation process involving the dimensions of current and future work experience. This research shows how the value sources of work experience are first problematized, then revised and created for the future
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Ermert, Sophia. "Hannah Arendt." Universität Leipzig, 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A14876.
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Howe, Lisa A. "Spirited Pioneer: The Life of Emma Hardinge Britten." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2292.
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Emma Hardinge Britten’s life encompassed and reflected many of the challenges and opportunities afforded to women in the Victorian world. This dissertation explores the multi-layered Victorian landscape through the life of an individual in order not only to tell her individual story, but also to gain a more nuanced understanding of how nineteenth-century norms of gender, class, religion, science and politics combined to create opportunities and obstacles for women in Britten’s generation. Britten was an actor, a musician, a writer, a theologian, a political activist, a magazine publisher, a spirit medium, a lecturer, and a Spiritualist missionary. Taking into account her multiple subjectivities, this dissertation relies on historical biography to contextualize Britten’s life in a number of areas, including Modern Spiritualism and political and civic engagement in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain, the U.S., and Australia.
The dissertation is organized thematically in a quasi-chronological manner. Time frames overlap between chapters, as Britten travels from the realm of politics to that of science and to religion. Each chapter reflects this transformation of Britten’s multiple intellectual and spiritual engagements, including performance, religion, politics and science.
Emma Hardinge Britten challenged, whether consciously or not, gendered expectations by attaining a presence in a male-dominated public. Even though her life and accomplishments pre-date the New Woman of the fin de siècle, Britten established a successful career and her life creates a foreshadowing of the larger movements to come. She was an extraordinarily politically active woman whose influence reached three continents in her lifetime and beyond.
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Baker, Renan. "A study of a late antique corpus of biographies (Historia Augusta)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4722d4da-5f09-4306-837f-45c6cf69ec21.
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This thesis provides a fresh investigation of a collection of Roman imperial biographies conventionally known as the 'Historia Augusta'. The thesis supports the authenticity of the texts included in this corpus, in particular the claims they make about their dates, authorship, and scope, through philological, literary, prosopographical, and historical arguments. It shows that this corpus of texts, if the main conclusions are accepted, potentially improves our understanding of the tetrarchic-Constantinian era. It also explores the wider implications for the historiography of the fourth century; the transmission and formation of multi-author corpora in antiquity and the middle ages. It also suggests that the canon of Latin imperial biographies be widened. The thesis has two parts. Part I explores the actual state of the corpus, its textual transmission, and relation to other texts. It shows that the ancient and medieval paratexts presented the corpus as a collection of imperial biographies. The paratexts are compatible with the authorial statements in the main text. It then explores the corpus' medieval transmission, and the interest medieval scholars had in such texts. This part suggests that the corpus’s current state explains well the inconsistencies found in it. Finally, it shows that words and phrases, once thought peculiar to the corpus and the holy grail of the forgery argument, are intertextual links to earlier texts. Part II explores chronological statements and historical episodes relevant to the Diocletianic-Constantinan period. It establishes the actual dates of each author, and suggests that the confusion found in these biographies is similar to that of other contemporaries. The few apostrophes are shown to be authentic, and the historical and prosopographical passages are shown to represent, and improve our understanding of, the zeitgeist and history of the period. The final conclusion weaves the various arguments together, and emphasises the authenticity and significance of the corpus' texts. It suggests separating the composition of the texts from the disinterested formation of the corpus as a whole, as part of a new hypothesis and further lines of enquiry.
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Glénisson, Marine. "La construction des personnages de philosophes dans la littérature grecque du Haut-Empire." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL115.
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Les personnages de philosophes sont nombreux dans les textes à l’époque impériale, et donnent lieu à des représentations variées chez les écrivains. L’importance des philosophes à l’époque impériale n’est plus à démontrer : ils sont au carrefour de toutes les connaissances, terrestres et célestes, sont liés au pouvoir et font partie de la vie quotidienne des habitants des cités de langue grecque. Ils sont emblématiques de l’hellénisme, une identité fondée sur l’éducation. Le présent travail étudie la position nodale de ces personnages à travers leur récurrence et les modalités de leur représentation dans les textes, afin de comprendre comment une même figure, au-delà de l’effet de répétition qui émane de la multiplicité des occurrences, propose moins une définition du philosophe que ne le pose comme un problème permettant de penser le monde dans lequel vivent les écrivains. Les personnages de philosophes se révèlent un outil fécond pour nourrir une réflexion, illustrer un point de vue, revendiquer une identité ethnique ou culturelle, une supériorité dans le champ de la connaissance. La mise en scène des personnages, jamais exempte d’ambiguïté, dévoile que chaque philosophe potentiel pourrait bien n’être que l’usurpateur d’un titre prestigieux, un sophiste, figure vide qui, comme chez Platon, prend l’apparence du philosophe. Ce travail a ainsi permis de mettre en avant toutes les facettes d’une représentation porteuse de sens dans des textes d’origine et de portée diverses, mais aussi les moyens par lesquels, par le biais de représentations quasi standardisées, la notion de philosophe est posée comme un outil pour penser le monde contemporain et les débats qui l’animentThe philosopher figures are numerous in the literature of the Imperial Period, and they are variously depicted by the Antic writers. The importance of philosophers under the Empire has been shown. They seat at the crossroad of both terrestrial and celestial knowledge; they are often related to powerful people and take part in the everyday life of the Greek-speaking citizens. They are emblematic for the Hellenism, which is a kind of identity based on education. This work focuses on the nodal position they occupy in the texts and on the modalities of their representation, in order to understand how the same kind of figure, apart from the repetitive impression that emanates from the multiplicity of their appearances, constitutes less of a definition of what exactly is a philosopher than a problem allowing to shed some light on the world in which the writers are living. Philosopher figures reveal themselves a useful tool in order to grow a reflexion, illustrate a point of view, claim his ethnical or cultural identity, or assert his superiority in the field of knowledge. The setting of philosophers is never deprived from ambiguity and shows that every character could actually be a sophist under the guise of the philosopher. In this study, we have shown the various faces the philosophers can take depending on the writer and the context, and the different ways they gain meaning in texts of every genres and every source. The philosopher figures appear as a fruitful tool when it comes to make sense of the contemporary world and the debates pervading it
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Sugg, Andrew Norman. "Tracking the trane: comparing selected improvisations of John Coltrane, Jerry Bergonzi and David Liebman : a thesis presented to the Elder Conservatorium, Adelaide University, in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy." Title page, abstract and contents only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs947.pdf.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 350-359). Investigates the influence of Coltrane's music on the improvising of post-Coltrane saxophonists by inspecting selected improvisations of Jerry Bergonzi and David Liebman and comparing them to improvisations by Coltrane on the same repertoire piece. The comparision also demonstrates how two current jazz saxophonists have drawn on the past - the legacy of Coltrane - to create innovative music in the present.
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Ferguson, Janice Y. "Anna Julia Cooper: A Quintessential Leader." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1420567813.
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Chiou, Tim Yi-Chang. "Romantic posthumous life writing : inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a316a0f-7365-4555-8bc8-9e09b47ec674.
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Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re- conceives 'posthumous life' as the 'inexhaustible' product of endless collaboration between the dead, the dying and the living. This thesis looks to the philosophical meditations of Francis Bacon, John Locke and Emmanuel Levinas for an ethical framework of human protection, fulfilment and preservation. In an effort to locate the origin of posthumous life writing, the first chapter examines the philosophical context in which different genres and media of commemoration emerged in the eighteenth century. Accordingly, it will commence with a survey of Enlightenment attitudes toward posthumous sympathy and the threat of death. The second part of the chapter turns to the tangled histories of epitaph, biography, portraiture, sepulchre and elegy in the writings of Samuel Johnson, Henry Kett, Vicesimus Knox, William Godwin and William Wordsworth. The Romantic culture of mourning and commemoration inherits the intellectual and generic legacies of the Enlightenment. Hence, Chapter Two will try to uncover the complex generic and formal crossovers between epitaph, extempore, effusion, elegy and biography in Wordsworth's 'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835-7) and his 'Epitaph' (1835-7) for Charles Lamb. However, the chapter also recognises the ethical repercussions of Wordsworth's inadequate, even mortifying, treatment of a fellow woman writer in his otherwise successful expression of ethical remembrance. To address the problem of gender in Romantic memorialisation, Chapter Three will take a close look at Letitia Elizabeth Landon' s reply to Wordsworth's incompetent defence of Felicia Hemans. Mediating the ambitions and anxieties of her subject, as well as her public image and private pain, 'Felicia Hemans' (1838) is an audacious composite of autograph, epitaph, elegy, corrective biography and visual portraiture. The two closing chapters respond to Thomas Carlyle's outspoken confidence in 'Portraits and Letters' as indispensable aids to biographies. Chapter Four identifies a tentative connection between the aesthetic of visual portraiture and the ethic of life writing. To demonstrate the convergence of both artistic and humane principles, this cross-media analysis will first evaluate Sir Joshua Reynolds's memoirs of his deceased friends. Then, it will compare Wordsworth's and Hemans's verse reflections on the commemorative power and limitation of iconography. The last chapter assesses the role of private correspondence in the continuation of familiar relation and reciprocal support. Landon's dramatic enactment of a 'feminine Robinson Crusoe' in her letters from Africa urges the unbroken offering of service and remembrance to a fallen friend through posthumous correspondence. The concluding section will consider the ethical implications for the belated memorials and services furnished by friends and colleagues in the wake of her death.
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O'Connor, Clémence. "'Pour garder l'impossible intact' : the poetry of Heather Dohollau." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/791.
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Bothereau, Benjamin. "À la lanterne ! Modes d’existence d’un objet banal, entre imaginaire technique et politique. Invention, économie urbaine, publics et circulations du «réverbère», Paris, Barcelone, XVIIIe s." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH152.
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Notre culture a banalisé la lanterne publique, objet technique du quotidien urbain. Or, à la fin du XVIIIe s., la lanterne devient un véritable leitmotiv visuel et sémantique révolutionnaire.Innovation technique pour l’éclairage public au XVIIIe s., la lanterne « à réverbères » optimise l’intensité lumineuse en utilisant des artifices, les réflecteurs métalliques concaves (réverbères), afin de rationaliser le chemin optique. Si l’historiographie s’est focalisée sur la lampe d’Argand, nous avons construit notre étude autour du réflecteur, moins noble et peu valorisé. L’émergence de la nouvelle technique est intrinsèquement accompagnée de discours, d´images et de mythes qui structurent son imaginaire. La biographie d’objet est une ressource précieuse pour l’appréhender, par des prismes s’affranchissant de la distinction objet/sujet pour traiter la lanterne comme acteur et interroger ses modes d’existence.Le premier prisme porte sur la genèse de l’objet et l’inscription de son imaginaire technique comme réponse rationalisée au problème d’éclairage. Mais, interroger le sens de la technicité de l’objet n’est pas suffisant, le second prisme étudie la lanterne « en action de rue», soit sa « réticulation spatiale » et son intégration au milieu. Le troisième moment interroge les médiations transformatrices des valeurs initiales de l’objet à travers les circulations techniques (transculturelles) franco-espagnoles, et un champ de media (annonces techniques et cartes de commerce) : elles structurent la zone entre invention, publics et marchés. Enfin, le quatrième moment est consacré à la lanterne politique et ses paradoxes, basculant du double imaginaire de l’administration monarchique et du contrôle policier parisien– ou militaire barcelonais – à l’emblème révolutionnaire. Fidèle à une méthode « au ras de l’objet », nous faisons dialoguer ses fonctions symboliques avec son schème technique, pour faire ressortir les résonances – ou les déphasages– de l’imaginaire politique dans la matérialité. Nous souhaitons ainsi redonner de l’épaisseur à la lanterne, afin de retrouver son sens humain et comprendre son empreinte dans la cultureOur culture has trivialized the streetlamp and deprived it of its meanings. However, the lantern became a visual and semantic revolutionary leitmotiv at the end of the 18th c.As a technical innovation of 18th c streetlighting, the lantern à réverbères optimizes the luminous intensity by using concave metal reflectors (réverbères) to direct the beam of light where needed. If the historiography focused on the Argand’s lamp, this research deals with a far less noble and valued technical element, the reflector. The entwinement of the innovation with narratives and cultural discourses structures its imaginary: artefact biography is therefore a precious tool to approach it, by getting rid of the subject-object distinction in order to question its modes of existence.Firstly, we study the genesis of the lantern and the inscription of its technical imaginary as a rationalized answer to the lighting challenge. To continue with, we analyse the streetlamp in action and its extramaterial properties through its integration to its milieu. Processes of mediation and their transformative power are the next focus, though the study of the technical (transcultural) circulations between France and Spain, and the media of advertising and promotion (technical press, trade cards), all of which shaping the interactions between the invention, the public and the markets. We finish this survey with the political lantern and its paradox, as the artefact, strongly linked to absolute monarchy and police– or military- control, became a revolutionary emblem. By entwining the technical and symbolic functions of the streetlamp, we want to shed light upon the resonances of the political imaginary within the lantern materiality. This study therefore aims at drawing attention to the multi-layered meanings of this so-called “banal” object, and at considering the streetlamp as a significant bearer of cultural identity
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Lewis, Elizabeth Faith. "Peter Guthrie Tait : new insights into aspects of his life and work : and associated topics in the history of mathematics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6330.
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In this thesis I present new insights into aspects of Peter Guthrie Tait's life and work, derived principally from largely-unexplored primary source material: Tait's scrapbook, the Tait–Maxwell school-book and Tait's pocket notebook. By way of associated historical insights, I also come to discuss the innovative and far-reaching mathematics of the elusive Frenchman, C.-V. Mourey. P. G. Tait (1831–1901) F.R.S.E., Professor of Mathematics at the Queen's College, Belfast (1854–1860) and of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1860–1901), was one of the leading physicists and mathematicians in Europe in the nineteenth century. His expertise encompassed the breadth of physical science and mathematics. However, since the nineteenth century he has been unfortunately overlooked—overshadowed, perhaps, by the brilliance of his personal friends, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) and William Thomson (1824–1907), later Lord Kelvin. Here I present the results of extensive research into the Tait family history. I explore the spiritual aspect of Tait's life in connection with The Unseen Universe (1875) which Tait co-authored with Balfour Stewart (1828–1887). I also reveal Tait's surprising involvement in statistics and give an account of his introduction to complex numbers, as a schoolboy at the Edinburgh Academy. A highlight of the thesis is a re-evaluation of C.-V. Mourey's 1828 work, La Vraie Théorie des quantités négatives et des quantités prétendues imaginaires, which I consider from the perspective of algebraic reform. The thesis also contains: (i) a transcription of an unpublished paper by Hamilton on the fundamental theorem of algebra which was inspired by Mourey and (ii) new biographical information on Mourey.
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Hale, Adrian. "Reading biography : the democratisation of biography and contested ownership of memories and narrative." Thesis, 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/489656.
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Over recent decades major social changes and rapid technological advances have occurred in the West. These developments have contributed to the rise of a modern publishing phenomenon: mass public participation in the production and consumption of various forms of biography. This has been evidenced in several ways. Firstly, the commercially produced auto/biographical market has grown dramatically in recent years. I suggest that with this growth there has developed an implicit social understanding that a subject, or a subject‘s friends, relatives, even enemies, have a right of reply to the printed word. Additionally, greater access to information across media forms has enabled increased public scrutiny and discussion of the formally produced narrative as never before. Likewise, there has been mass growth and diversity in informal productions of life writing, such as: personal and family websites, scrap-booking, journals, diaries, zines, memoirs, blogs, Facebook, MySpace, privately commissioned biographies and family histories/genealogies. The salient feature of such biography is the confidence with which it is produced, and it can be phrased effectually as a statement that ―my life is worth telling too. The net effect of such a cultural and social movement can be referred to as a democratisation of biography. It represents a significant discursive shift in the formulation and reading of the biographical narrative, which can be rearticulated as a popular questioning of the concept of control over what is a cultural and social participatory artefact. This conceptual awareness or cultural literacy scrutinises and presents an altogether new challenge to the constituent elements of power as exerted over the telling of lives. This power consists of: control specifically over the privileging of certain types of lives; control over the socially determined meaning of lives and their unitary representation; control over the representation of relationships; control over the relinquishment of memory; control over the styling or codifying of narrative; and control over the silencing of life narratives excluded from a normative canon of life commemoration.
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MORAWETZ, Michal. "Odborné zájmy a harmonie s přírodou. Snahy hraběte Jiřího Buquoye o intelektuální seberealizaci." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-387586.
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This dissertation discusses the intellectual interests of George, Count of Buquoy (1781-1851), who gained fame in the first half of the nineteenth century through his inventions of new technical devices, his efforts to improve manufacturing technologies used on his estates, his contacts with leading scientists and philosophers of the time, and his original scientific and philosophical treatises. This dissertation scrutinises the writings kept in Buquoy's archival estate, as well as his published works, and discusses the reactions his thoughts elicited among contemporary scientists and various other people within Buquoy's intellectual milieu. Methodologically, I draw on contemporary approaches to studies of intellectual history, which aim to interpret and contextualise particular ideas with regard to the author's immediate background and the broader intellectual climate of the time. Aiming to avoid biographical fallacy, I focus on pivotal moments of Buquoy's scientific career without attempting to integrate them into a biographical narrative by means of supposed causality. The thesis is structured as a chronologically ordered discussion of key themes and defining moments in the development of Buquoy's thought. Particular attention is paid to the influences which formed Buquoy's intellectual outlook, including his upbringing, education, the experiences he gained during travels, the knowledge he absorbed from scholarly treatises, and the views he exchanged with contemporary scientists. I show how these factors influenced the themes Buquoy chose to discuss in his treatises and the ways in which he presented his arguments. An important part of the thesis is a deconstructive analysis of Buquoy's self-presentation strategy, through which he sought to align himself with the scientific community. Finally, the thesis discusses the fundamental philosophical views underpinning Buquoy's intellectual endeavours in the field of science.
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Aydemir, Hakan. "Die alttürkische Xuanzang-Biographie IX." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-000D-EF93-4.
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Severin, Pavel. "František Norbert Hrachovský, O.Praem (1879-1943)." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-351983.
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D. Th. František Norbert Hrachovský, O.Praem (1879-1943) was a regular priest in the Premonstratensian monastery in Nová Říše. He has been covered in the beatification process of Pavel Souček and his fellow-friars from the Premonstratensian monastery in Nová Říše. This work I submit deals with the life and, in particular, the work of this Czech regular priest, philosopher and translator. It is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the sources used while compiling this work. The second chapter presents its critical biography. The third chapter is entitled "Bibliography" and presents an entire list of his work: monographs, translations, contributions to various anthologies, and newspaper articles. The fourth section contains a summary of his bibliography in the time sequence, in which D. Th. František Norbert Hrachovský, O.Praem created his works. This work aims to provide a basis for appreciation of the work and to evaluate the life of this notable member of the Premonstratensian Order.
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Cheramy, Michelle A. "Dwelling in the secret: Andre Jolivet's "Asceses" in the context of his life and philosophy." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/18881.
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This document presents a case for viewing Asceses (1967) for solo flute/clarinet as a paradigmatic work in the compositional output of Andre Jolivet, reflective of his aesthetic and philosophical ideals as they had developed by the 1960s. As such, the work serves as a touchstone for a deeper understanding of the aesthetic and philosophical stance from which Jolivet was working during the last decade of his life.
Many aspects of Asceses suggest this interpretation of the work. The piece bears many striking similarities to one of Jolivet's self-identified paradigmatic works of the 1930s, the Cinq Incantations for solo flute. In addition, the unaccompanied monophonic medium is one in which Jolivet did not work for thirty years, making his return to it in the 1960s particularly striking.
The document positions Asceses within the biographical context of the final fifteen years of Jolivet's life and suggests that Jolivet's activities of this time in his life and career support a reading of Asceses as a defining composition. The document also thoroughly explores the state of Jolivet's aesthetics and philosophy by the 1960s, presenting a unified model of Jolivet's philosophy from which Asceses can be seen to have sprung, and suggesting ways in which Asceses reveals the strength of certain later influences on Jolivet's thought. The extra-musical materials of the work are considered for the ways in which they confirm and expand the understanding of Jolivet's worldview as presented. The document concludes with a detailed consideration of the ways in which Jolivet translates his late aesthetic ideals into compositional practice, and the ways in which Asceses reflects, at a deep structural level, the most important of them.
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Nyoka, Bongani. "Archie Mafeje : an intellectual biography." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23899.
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This thesis is not a life history of Archie Mafeje. Instead, it is an attempt to grapple with his ideas. This thesis is said to be a ‘biography’ insofar as it is dedicated to a study of one individual and his contribution to knowledge. In trying to understand Mafeje’s ideas and the intellectual and political environment that shaped them, the thesis relies on Lewis R. Gordon’s concept of ‘epistemic possibility’. The thesis comprises four main parts. Part I locates Mafeje and his work within the broader African intellectual and political environment. Part II evaluates his critique of the social sciences. Part III focuses on his work on land and agrarian issues in sub-Saharan Africa. Part IV deals with his work on revolutionary theory and politics. Broadly speaking, this thesis is the first comprehensive engagement with the entire body of Mafeje’s scholarship. Specifically, the unique perspective of this thesis, and therefore its primary contribution to the existing body of knowledge, is that it seeks to overturn the idea that Mafeje was a critic of the
discipline of anthropology only. The view that Mafeje was a mere critic of anthropology is in this thesis referred to as the standard view or the conventional view. The thesis argues that Mafeje is best understood as criticising all of the bourgeois social sciences for being
Eurocentric and imperialist. This is offered as the alternative view. The thesis argues that the standard view makes a reformist of Mafeje, while the alternative view seeks to present him as the revolutionary scholar that he was. This interpretation lays the foundation for a profounder analysis of Mafeje’s work. In arguing that all the social sciences are Eurocentric and imperialist, he sought to liquidate them and therefore called for ‘non-disciplinarity’. It should be noted that in this regard, the primary focus of this thesis consists in following the unit of his thought and not whether he succeeded or failed in this difficult task.Sociology
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Buckwold, Jarad. "Of space, time, and the archives between: the life of Hugh A. Taylor and the redefinition of the archival cosmos." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31725.
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While today, archival theory is permeated with postmodern ideas and philosophies, borrowing from fields as diverse as anthropology and computer science, even just a few decades ago, this was far from the case. This transition was pioneered and strongly influenced by the imaginative and thought-provoking essays of Hugh Taylor, a Canadian archivist who developed a worldview that positioned archives and archivists at centre stage. Taylor was able to do so as a result of his fascination with the works of the media theorist, Marshall McLuhan, whose ideas Taylor found directly applicable to archives and archival theory. This thesis examines the mental state of Hugh Taylor throughout his life and how this mental state shaped his revolutionary concepts, which delved into epistemology and metaphysics, placing archives at the centre of a universal network of connections. These concepts would go on to drastically change archival theory to what it is today.October 2016
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Rivera, Rosado Antonio. "A Narrative Approach to the Philosophical Interpretation of Dreams, Memories, and Reflections of the Unconscious Through the Use of Autoethnography/Biography." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9174.
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The purpose of the present study aimed to develop a comprehensive model that measures the autoethnographic/biographic relevance of dreams, memories, and reflections as they relate to understanding the self and others. A dream, memory, and reflection (DMR) ten item questionnaire was constructed using aspects of Freudian, Jungian, and Lacanian Theory of Dream Interpretation. Fifteen dreams, five memories, and five reflections were collected from the participant at the waking episode or during a moment of deep thought. The DMR analysis was used as the prime matter for creating a narrative document that uses autoethnography and autobiography to deliver a philosophical story about the unconscious reality of the participant. The results of the dissertation study produced a ten section narrative document titled The Shadow of Joaquin that portrayed the benchmarks of the life of the participant that led him to the completion of a doctoral degree in curriculum and instruction. At the final section of the narrative document the postmodern philosophical theory of Labor Percolation is proposed by the researcher as a direct result of the DMR analysis.
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Kupffer, Christina. "Der livländische Historiker und Jurist Friedrich Konrad Gadebusch (1719-1788). Geschichte als Gedächtnis im Zeitalter der Aufklärung." Doctoral thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B4C3-1.
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Pitt, Clifford C., Barbara Douglas, James Leach, Dyke Margaret Van, Calvin Seerveld, Jeremy E. Fisher, and G. Marcille Frederick. "Perspective vol. 23 no. 1 (Feb 1989)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251249.
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Pitt, Clifford C., Barbara Douglas, James Leach, Dyke Margaret Van, Calvin Seerveld, Jeremy E. Fisher, and G. Marcille Frederick. "Perspective vol. 23 no. 1 (Feb 1989)." 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277579.
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