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In our inquiry into how to live our lives, we ask questions not only about what to do on particular occasions, but also about how on the whole we should live: questions a [...]
2024-12 |
Philosophy; Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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This article argues that Thoreau's concept of “labor” presented as a defense of poiesis—any generative, world-altering activity. Thoreau understood Nature's labor a [...]
16 May 2024 |
Social Thought |
Article |
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A Poetics of Apology theorizes apology as a capacious genre by reading precisely those apologies which are often dismissed as such—defense speeches, off-the-cuff quotid [...]
2024-08 |
English Language and Literature; Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation studies a lineage of Japanese writers and intellectuals who turned toward corporeal sensibility as a site of critical potentiality in moments of ideolog [...]
2024-08 |
Comparative Literature; Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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My dissertation, “More Like a Fire, Like the Wind,” explores how Black American culture, philosophy, and religion have contributed to love’s history, theorization, [...]
2024-08 |
Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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This dissertation takes up two related questions: What is a constitution and why have one? It seeks answers in one of the earliest and most comprehensive works of modern [...]
2024-06 |
Social Thought |
Dissertation |
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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 Research Publications; 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 |
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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 In the [...]
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 |
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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 t [...]
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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