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Social Thought 37 records found 1 - 25nextSearch took 0.23 seconds. 
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This dissertation examines songs in Shakespeare’s oeuvre and shows that they extend his dramas in various ways: they point beyond the end of the dramatic plot; they adu [...]
2023-12 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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This dissertation examines the appropriation of Plato by three thinkers in the context of post-Heideggerian German philosophy: Leo Strauss, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Gerhar [...]
2023-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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In this dissertation, I explore the some of the key shared conceptual questions that W.E.B. Du Bois and B.R. Ambedkar considered in their writings and their political eff [...]
2023-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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Philosophy begins in wonder, according to Plato and Aristotle. So what contribution does wonder make to a philosophical life? As a passion of inquiry, wonder is both a pa [...]
2023-06 | Classics; Social Thought | Dissertation |
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Axel Honneth’s Recognition tells a history of the concept of recognition along national lines. This response argues that a focus on transnational cross-pollination woul [...]
20 October 2022 | Germanic Studies; Social Thought | Article |
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This paper examines Gerhard Krüger's interpretation of Plato in light of Martin Heidegger's Destruktion of the Greeks and critique of Platonism. I argue that Krüger's n [...]
24 November 2022 | Social Thought | Article |
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This paper uses Durkheim’s distinction between cause and function to explore the aims and implications of Forrester’s critique of liberal egalitarianism in <i>I [...]
2022 | History; Social Thought | Article |
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This paper examines the role of love in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. I argue that an essential aspect of Cyrus’ knowledgeable rule is a specific understanding of eros and a [...]
06 January 2022 | Social Thought | Article |
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This dissertation argues for a renewed consideration of the classical idea of a mixed regime that harmonizes the elite and the people in order to address the vulnerabilit [...]
2022-08 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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"Physiology" is fundamental to Nietzsche's understanding of the human. I pose the question of how the death of God, the modern event that fundamentally alters the Western [...]
2022-08 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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This dissertation reinterprets Thucydides’ perspective on democracy and the possibilities of wise democratic decision-making by examining moments of public deliberation [...]
2022-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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The notion of matter had been invariably used in philosophical discussions from the High Middle Ages down to early modern times. In this long history of its usage, howeve [...]
2022-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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“Kira Muratova: Epistemology of Self-Knowledge on the Cinema Screen” engages in a philosophical reading of the cinematic opus of Romanian born Soviet/Ukrainian filmma [...]
2022-06 | Social Thought; Comparative Literature | Dissertation |
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This dissertation is an interpretation of the four essays that comprise Nietzsche’s Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen as a single, coherent whole. Its four chapters are each [...]
2022-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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Attempts to trace the conceptual history of the bios theōrētikos have tended to begin with the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, in which the bios theōrētikos emerges [...]
2022-06 | Classics; Social Thought | Dissertation |
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After the First Vatican Council defined the dogma of papal infallibility in 1870, the liberal statesman William Gladstone accused British Catholics of a forfeiture of the [...]
2022-03 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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In this dissertation I argue for an interpretation of Socrates' views about desire and motivation in Plato's Gorgias and Republic. These views are founded on two theses [...]
2021-12 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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In my dissertation, I defend an interpretation of Hegel’s central objection to Kant’s practical philosophy, namely that the Kantian will is subjective. The target of [...]
2021-08 | Social Thought; Philosophy | Dissertation |
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This dissertation examines the application of Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy to the elaboration of Almohadism, a new form of Islam founded in North Africa by Mu [...]
2021-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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The dissertation considers how a heterogeneous group of observers in the disciplines of natural history and lyric poetry write their attention to the natural world. The [...]
2021-06 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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The dissertation presents a novel interpretation of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil as an argument for the philosophical life, centered on a close reading of the first 2 [...]
2021-03 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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The topic of this dissertation is a problem of philosophical psychology and its relation to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The problem concerns a capacity of the human subj [...]
2020-08 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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My dissertation offers an innovative reading of Hegel’s mature philosophy that presents the first systematic study of the role of perception and perceptual themes acros [...]
2020-08 | Social Thought | Dissertation |
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In recent years the judgment has emerged that we live in a “post-truth” era and that we increasingly lack the concern for truth. But what would it be to respect the t [...]
2020-03 | Social Thought; Philosophy | Dissertation |
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This dissertation is aimed at resolving a central tension in Aristotle’s account of value and goodness. It shows how Aristotle can at once hold that goodness is a speci [...]
2020-03 | Social Thought; Philosophy | Dissertation |

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