No século XVII, havia centenas de Estados a compor o território alemão, ainda muito distante de ser unificado. As disputas religiosas entre os movimentos reformistas e contrarreformistas influenciaram os conflitos de ordem política, principalmente, em razão da perda da transcendência, da Graça, enfim, da possibilidade de uma solução divina à catástrofe mundana. No seu lugar, a imanência, presente na história como ideal de absoluto, foi apropriada pelos soberanos, com o intuito de se tornarem os destinatários das expectativas de salvação. Secularizava-se o Estado, tornando-se laico o direito, tão somente para fazer do soberano um Deus que governa, como se um alegorista fosse, pois como um deveria estabilizar a história, tornando-a natureza, impedindo, assim, o estado de exceção. A temporalidade da alegoria é aquela que deseja a eternidade, embora fracasse pela impossibilidade de perdurar, a significação arbitrária é dependente da duração de quem a atribuiu. Antíteses conciliáveis deste período barroco, no qual o próprio soberano, num giro final, é convertido em alegoria indicativa das tentativas humanas de estabilização da história. Esta pesquisa intitulada Alegoria e temporalidade do direito em Walter Benjamin enfoca, portanto, este período que marca o início da Modernidade, valendo-se do amparo teórico de Walter Benjamin, descobrindo o lado jurídico de sua obra máxima: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (1925). / Pendant le XVIIe siècle, il y avait centaines dÉtats dans le territoire allemand lequel navait pas encore été unifié. Les disputes religieuses entre les mouvements de Réforme et de Contre-Réforme ont inspiré des conflits dordre politique. Ce quon éprouve dans ce contexte-là cest la perte de dimension de la transcendance, de la Grâce, cest-à dire, la possibilité même dune solution divine pour la catastrophe terrestre. À sa place, létat dimmanence se présente dans lHistoire comme un idéal de lAbsolu qui sera saisi par les souverains au siège des gouvernements, pour quils deviennent les seuls à garantir les expectatives du salut des hommes. Tant que lÉtat se sécularise, dautant que le droit devient laïc, tout en faisant du souverain le Dieu qui gouverne, tel quun allégoriste, puisquil serait, donc, chargé de rendre lHistoire à demeure, de façon à la changer en nature, pour empêcher lavènement dun État exceptionnel. La temporalité de lallégorie se caractérise par le désir de léternité, bien quelle finisse par échouer en face de limpossibilité de se maintenir. Ainsi, la signification arbitraire dépendra de son créateur, elle aura, par conséquent, la même durée que lui. Ce sont des antithèses qui peuvent se concilier avec cette période baroque, dans laquelle le souverain sera, à la fin, transformé lui-même en une allégorie indicative des essais humains en ayant pour but la stabilisation de lHistoire. Cette recherche intitulée Alegoria e temporalidade do direito em Walter Benjamin concerne cette période qui signale le début de la Modernité, en faisant lusage du fondement théorique de Walter Benjamin de façon à dévoiler le côté juridique de son oeuvre la plus importante: Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (1925).

Pretendemos entender a filosofia de Espinosa, em especial, a sua Ética ordine geometrico demonstrata, a partir de uma operação conflituosa bem específica entre, por um lado, a perspectiva do transcendente (ou a teologia racional) e, por outro, um desejo de salvação mundana; entre o projeto da filosofia imanentista de Espinosa e um mundo submetido ao poder teológico-político; e entre o texto teológico e o método da escrita da filosofia de Espinosa. Tais operações estruturam o cerne de nosso trabalho, no qual visamos entender o nexo causal na passagem de um Deus sive natura absolutamente infinito para nós, os modos finitos desta mesma natureza, de maneira a chegarmos a um entendimento que possa nos garantir não apenas ser, mas tomar parte ativamente neste absolutamente infinito. Não só procuraremos caminhar neste solo conflituoso, mas ainda proporemos tratá-lo com um procedimento que em si enfatiza conflitos, pois visamos responder às nossas questões acerca da filosofia da imanência, de Deus, da passagem do infinito ao finito a partir de uma aproximação entre a obra de Espinosa e o complexo universo artístico da literatura, das artes plásticas e da música do século XVII barroco. Além disto, procuramos demonstrar a hipótese de que a singularidade da Ética enquanto texto, expressa por uma forma textual filosófica sem precedentes, produz uma questão conceitual extremamente complexa que se funde à própria idéia do absolutamente infinito. Pois se a síntese da geometria dos indivisíveis, do século XVII, fornece-nos uma nova idéia de infinito (como amplamente discutiremos) e se a ordem geométrica da demonstração da Ética é fruto desta mesma síntese, então o livro deve necessariamente trazer, já, em sua fartura textual esta idéia de infinito. (Continua) / We intended to understand Espinosa\'s philosophy, especially, his Ethics ordine geometrico demonstrata, starting from a very specific conflicting operation against, on one side, the perspective of the transcendent (or the rational theology) and, on other, a desire for a mundane salvation; between the project of Espinosa\'s immanentist philosophy and a world submitted to the theological-political power; and between the theological text and the method of writing of Espinosa\'s philosophy. Such operations structure the core of our work, in which we seek to understand the causal connection in the passage from a God sive natura, absolutely infinite, to us, the finite manners of his same nature, in way that we can arrive to an understanding that can guarantee to us not to be a part, but to take part actively in this absolutely infinite. Not only we will try to walk in this conflicting path, but we intend to treat it with a procedure that emphasizes conflicts in itself, for we aim to answer our subjects - concerning the philosophy of the immanence, God, and the passage from the infinite to the finite - dealing with an approach between Espinosa\'s work and the complex artistic universe of literature, visual arts and music from the Baroque XVII century. Farther, we intend to demonstrate the hypothesis that the singularity of the Ethics while a text, expressed by an unprecedented philosophical textual form, produces an extremely complex conceptual subject that merges to the same idea of the absolutely infinite present in the Ethics. For if the synthesis from the geometry of the indivisibles, of the XVII century, provide us a new idea of the infinite (as we will extensively discuss) and if the geometric order on the demonstration of the Ethics is a fruit of this same synthesis, then the book should necessarily bring, already, in its textual profusion 7 this idea of the infinite. In other words, the idea of the geometric-synthetic order, key to the formulation of the absolutely infinite, already takes place in the textual structure ordine geometric demonstrata of the Ethics. Thus, we look forward to demonstrate that the order of exposition of the text in the Ethics operates with the same idea expressed by its ontology (the idea that is also expressed in mathematics by the geometrical synthesis). Farther on, we will insist that the formal articulation of the Ethics renders to us patent the fruition of the infinite, because we believe that such work while a text and as text, already expresses to its reader the experience of this new synthesis of an indivisible absolutely infinite.

Hasdai Crescas (1340 -1411), foi filosofo, rabino e homem público, que viveu em um período muito turbulento para as comunidade judaicas ibéricas e provençais, do final da Idade Média. Crescas fez uma crítica veemente ao paradigma aristotélico recebido da falsifa, que foi usado por Maimônides para embasar e provar a existência, unidade e incorporeidade de Deus, conceituado no Guia dos Perplexos como o ser necessário absolutamente transcendente em relação aos seres contingentes. Crescas elabora, em Or Hashem ( Luz do Nome Divino), um conceito alternativo de ser necessário, no qual as duas noções antitéticas de imanência e transcendência divinas se relacionam à distinção, no seio do ser necessário entre sua essência simples e os seus infinitos atributos. A essência simples e inefável do ser necessário se expressa em infinitos atributos no ato eterno e constante de doar na univocidade do ser, seu bem, sua atualidade, aos infinitos entes contingentes. Crescas, advoga que universo apesar de ontologicamente contingente é infinito em sua atualidade. Deus é assim concebido como causa primeira eterna e constante, a enteléquia e Lugar do Mundo. / Hasdai Crescas (1340-1411) was a philosopher, rabbi and public man, who lived in a very turbulent period for the Iberian and Provençal Jewish communities of the late Middle Ages. Crescas made a vehement criticism of the Aristotelian paradigm received from falsifa, which was used by Maimonides to ground and prove the existence, unity, and incorporeality of God, which was conceptualized in the Guide of the Perplexed as the absolutely necessary transcendent being in relation to contingent beings. Crescas elaborates, in Or Hashem (Light of the Divine Name), an alternative concept of being necessary, in which the two antithetical notions of divine immanence and transcendence relate to the distinction, within the necessary being between its simple essence and its infinite attributes . The simple and ineffable essence of the necessary being is expressed in infinite attributes in the eternal and constant act of giving in the univocity of being, its good, its actuality, to the infinite contingent entities. Crescas, advocates that universe although ontologically contingent is infinite in its actuality. God is thus conceived as the eternal and constant first cause, the entelechy and Place of the World.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Caio Augusto de Andrade.pdf: 348728 bytes, checksum: 688bf46d40efbb0cdc0b7cee0ee8ca70 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-18 / The objective of this study is to show how Husserl overcame psychologism through epoché, from lessons given in the year 1906/7 at the University of Göttingen, that are posthumously published as the title: Introduction to Logic and Theory of Knowledge and The Idea phenomenology. The study on the epoché is justified by the fact that it is the determining methodological element for the change in thinking of Husserl between the publication of the Logical Investigations (1900/1) and Ideas for a pure phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy (1913). This methodological element provided three changes: the passage of conception of phenomenology form descriptive psychology to science of pure consciousness; the distinction between immanence reell and immanence real, and the more accurate understanding of the motivating factor and the various forms of psychologism. This study presents the following hypothesis: epoché overcome psychologism, suspending all transcendent knowledge consciousness by giving it an index of questionableness. This suspension permits that cogitations, which are genuinely (reell) immanent to consciousness, are the unquestioned starting point to phenomenological research of the purely intuitive given. The result of this study allows to distinguish the epoché of Cartesian methodical doubt and to delimit the understanding Husserl's Theory of Knowledge and Philosophy First and as critique of reason / O objetivo deste estudo é mostrar como Husserl superou o psicologismo por meio da epoché, a partir das aulas proferidas nos anos 1906/7 na universidade de Göttingen que são postumamente publicadas sob o título: Introdução à Lógica e à Teoria do Conhecimento e A Ideia de Fenomenologia. O estudo sobre a epoché se justifica pelo fato de ela ser o elemento metodológico determinante para a mudança de pensamento de Husserl entre a publicação das Investigações Lógicas (1900/1) e Ideias para uma fenomenologia pura e para uma filosofia fenomenológica (1913). Esse elemento metodológico proporcionou três mudanças: a passagem da concepção de fenomenologia de psicologia descritiva para ciência da consciência pura; a distinção entre imanência reell e imanência real; e a compreensão mais apurada do elemento motivador e das várias formas do psicologismo. Esse estudo apresenta a seguinte hipótese: a epoché supera o psicologismo, suspendendo todo o conhecimento transcendente à consciência por atribuir-lhe um índice de questionabilidade. Essa suspensão permite que as cogitationes, que são genuinamente (reell) imanentes à consciência, sejam o ponto de partida inquestionável para a investigação fenomenológica dos dados puramente intuitivos. O resultado deste estudo possibilita distinguir a epoché da dúvida metódica cartesiana e delimitar a compreensão de Husserl sobre Teoria do Conhecimento como Filosofia Primeira e como crítica da razão

Orientador: Clélia Aparecida Martins / Banca: Franklin Leopoldo e Silva / Banca: Hélio Rebelo Cardoso Júnior / Resumo: O tema principal desse trabalho é a apresentação da crítica dispensada por Gilles Deleuze às filosofias do sujeito. Este é um assunto recorrente em seus textos, embora apareça disperso principalmente no que diz respeito à figura do cogito como começo em filosofia e a sua inserção no quadro do que ele irá chamar de postulados da imagem dogmática do pensamento. Fugindo dessa imagem para devolver à imanência seus direitos, o autor irá propor um campo transcendental, e a partir daí, um plano de imanência pré-subjetivo e pré-objetivo como condição para se pensar uma subjetividade. Ver-se-á como Deleuze encontra no pensamento de Bergson rica fonte para afirmar a realidade virtual desse plano e do tempo que lhe é próprio; imaginado por esse autor como uma pura multiplicidade virtual que se atualiza em estados de coisa ou estados vividos. Afirmada a realidade desse plano, pode-se, a partir de então, voltar a pensar sujeito e objeto fora do "abrigo" da tradição. A crítica deleuziana mostra, ainda, que Descartes tivera papel fundamental como criador de uma vertente da imagem do pensamento levada a cabo como abrigo pelas filosofias da reflexão. Tal imagem se constitui a partir de uma subsunção da imanência ao interior de uma consciência pura, de um sujeito pensante. Será mostrado como a partir de Descartes, e com Kant e Husserl como aqueles que permaneceram presos à imagem dogmática, o plano de imanência é tratado como um campo da consciência. Estabelecida a crítica, será evidenciada a necessidade última do pensamento deleuziano de reafirmar esse plano após destituir a posição de fundamento assumida pela consciência. Apartado de qualquer forma de consciência o campo transcendental se mostra, então, como uma vida de pura imanência; e as terminologias subjetivas dão lugar às novas terminologias deleuzianas. / Mestre

In response to the economic and political upheaval of World War I, Scottish Modernism explored the cultural and linguistic changes of a nation trying to identify itself amidst a world-wide conflict. Scholars and critics have considered Nan Shepherd's fiction in this context—focusing on issues of gender, female identity, language, and land—but have yet to look seriously at her work The Living Mountain and its contributions to the Modernist movement. More recently, critics like Louisa Gairn and Robert MacFarlane have called attention to Shepherd's small but powerful text in an ecocritical and philosophical light, reframing her contribution to issues of Scottish identity from the Modernist era. Ecocriticism is concerned with the importance of place in relation to human conceptions of identity and explores how landscapes, even a mountain, can elucidate understanding of human being. Ontological questions of being have been explored in relation to place and landscape for several centuries and require, or invite, new narratives of the experience of these encounters, which makes present ecocritical studies an ideal place to do so. This thesis examines Nan Shepherd's work in the intersection of ecocriticism and ontology. To understand a mountain as living, a new language and a new ontology of place is required. The work of Gilles Deleuze on immanence becomes crucial to an understanding of why local place and a connection to it creates a deeper understanding of being and of a language that offers a desubjectivized perspective of a shared awareness between matter. In Shepherd's encounters with the organic and the inorganic her language of experience explores an interaction between her own senses and their perception of the mountain's body of elementals, or the means of apprehending the vitality of the mountain as a living thing. An intriguing twenty-first-century conception of place emerges from Shepherd's modernist perspective and reframes how a landscape and inorganic matter can elucidate human being.

The Poetry of Religion and the Prose of Life: From Evangelicalism to Immanence in British Women's Writing, 1835-1925&" traces a tradition of religious women poets and women's poetic communities engaged in generic and theological exploration that I argue was intimately intertwined with their social activism. This project brings together recent debates about gender and secularization in sociology, social history, and anthropology of religion, contending that Victorian and early-twentieth-century women poets from a variety of religious affiliations offer an alternative path into modernity that embraces the public value of both poetry and religious discourse, thus questioning straightforward narratives of British secularization and poetic privatization during the nineteenth century. These writers, including contributors to The Christian Lady's Magazine, Grace Aguilar, Dora Greenwell, Alice Meynell, Eva Gore-Booth, and Evelyn Underhill, turned to social engagement and immanence, a theory of divinity within the world rather than above and apart from it, to bridge a widening gap between religious doctrine and poetic theory. Appropriating the growing interest in immanent theology within British Christianity allowed women to write about the small, the domestic, the human, and the everyday while exploring the divine presence in them, thus elevating and publicly revealing experiences traditionally allocated to women's private lives. Just as the women in this study questioned the distinction between the divine and the everyday, they also blurred the generic boundaries of poetry and theological prose. As lyric poetry was increasingly identified with private experience, they used literary experimentation across the genres of poetry and theological prose to engage public debates on a surprisingly large number of issues from factory reform, to mental disability, to urban poverty, to women's suffrage, to pacifism. This project includes four chapters, each of which examines a female poet or a poetic community of women connected through the publishing world. The first two chapters focus on tensions among commitments to poetry, religion, and social reform within Anglicanism. Trapped between the desire to encounter a transcendent God and the desire to celebrate earthly ephemera and improve earthly conditions, these poets demonstrate the tension from which a poetics of immanence arose. My third and fourth chapters follow the extension of immanence in late-nineteenth-century Catholic verse and early-twentieth-century mystical verse. These writers used a growing theological emphasis on immanence to justify poetry that relied on female experience, to suggest that the divine was at home in the constantly evolving natural and social worlds, and to illustrate God's equal proximity to the mundane and the marginalized, inspiring challenges to social and institutional hierarchies.

I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the concept in three contexts: First, I share my own awakening to the earthly divine and my re-connection with the life-giving energies of the prehistoric Goddess, with my fellow human beings, and with the earth. Second, I describe the emergence of gender studies in the field of archaeology. Third, I examine a variety of theories that purport to explain the prehistoric shift away from cultures founded on egalitarian, immanent ways of living to the patriarchal, transcendent paradigms that currently dominate Western civilization In my examination of immanence, I highlight the damage done by hierarchical social structures and philosophical systems which separate humanity from the earth and from each other. However, the primary purpose of this examination is to illuminate the joy and the inherent good in rediscovering more egalitarian social structures and in reconnecting with one's own self, with humanity, and with the earth. The chapters are connected by an underlying theme of transformation from a state of separation and transcendence to one of connection and immanence. In chapter 1 I describe my personal, feminist transformation and re-engagement with the world during my journey through graduate school. I share my discovery of the prehistoric, life-nurturing spirituality of the great Goddess, my inquiry into the nature of gender studies in archaeology, and my connection with the Women Studies community at OSU. In the first half of Chapter 2 I detail the emergence of gender studies in archaeology and draw on various archaeological and feminist sources to describe challenges to many of the assumptions about sexuality, gender roles, reproductive priorities, and social structures of ancient cultures which are contained in traditional (androcentric) archaeology. In the second half of the chapter I present theories, gleaned from a review of archaeological and feminist literature, of the documented worldwide prehistoric shift away from egalitarian, life-giving, earth-centered social and spiritual frameworks toward hierarchical, life-threatening, male-centered social and religious frameworks. I conclude with observations about the political nature of my personal transformation and give examples of the trend toward reviving immanent social and spiritual practices in modern Western society. Rather than a definitive argument about the cause or causes of humanity's loss of an immanent world view, my thesis is offered as a sharing of my experiences, feelings, observations. and intuitions It is subjective and emotional as well as academic and rational It is intended to stimulate thought and discussion, and to offer hope to others who are rediscovering the joy of engagement on this earthly plane. / Graduation date: 1999

This dissertation examines the role of ethical monism in the theology of Augustus Hopkins Strong. Chapter 1 discusses some of the reasons for examining Strong's theology and some of the difficulties entailed in such a study. Chapter 2 surveys the life of Strong up until the time when he returned to Rochester Theological Seminary and assumed the dual role of president and professor of theology in 1872. Special attention is given to factors which affected or pointed toward his later decision to embrace ethical monism. Chapter 3 explores the writings of several German thinkers who seem to have provided some of the philosophical building blocks which Strong used to construct his ethical monism. It also examines the writings of several English-speaking philosophers who emphasized the doctrine of divine immanence and who appear to have pushed Strong's thinking toward ethical monism. Chapter 4 discusses the various stages in Strong's decision to adopt ethical monism. It also traces his early incorporation of ethical monism into his larger theological system. Chapter 5 examines the impact which ethical monism had on other areas of Strong's theology. In particular, it discusses how ethical monism affected Strong's view of Scripture and experience, evolution and miracles, and sin and the atonement. Chapter 6 explores how other theologians viewed Strong's final theology and how Strong's theological journey affected the institution and people whom he impacted most. It argues that neither Rochester Theological Seminary nor the integrity of his theological system remained unaffected by his decision to embrace ethical monism. It also notes that both theological liberals and theological conservatives were generally critical of Strong's ethical monism, though for different reasons. This work contends that ethical monism was a means by which Strong attempted to reconcile Christian theology and modern thought while also trying to solve tensions within his own theology. In the end, Strong was unable to persuade modernists to embrace ethical monism or to convince conservatives that ethical monism was a legitimate theological option. Strong's attempt at a theological synthesis failed due largely to the contradictions which ethical monism produced within both Christian theology and philosophical monism.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Johann Gottfried Herder unwittingly contributed to the political strands of Marxism and Fascism, respectively, but also to the gently progressing secularisation of Christian values that pervades the contemporary age. While Herder conceived of God traditionally, as a transcendent Being, he also sowed the seeds for Hegels philosophy in which God is realised immanently through the development of mans full capacities for reason. Since Hegel also posits that the end is implicit in the beginning, his scheme cannot hold without the kind of necessity that comes from a Godly (transcendent) source. At the same time, Hegels philosophy of history as revealed in The Phenomenology of Spirit and Herders Another Philosophy of History contain remarkable similarities that show how Herders and Hegels quest to reconcile the earthly and the finite with the infinite and the eternal led to the secularisation of philosophy and the beginning of the modern cultural ethos. The reader should see how Herder struggled to reconcile the many competing viewpoints of his age with his awareness that these viewpoints were limited, and how Hegel subsequently attempted to address this conundrum, along with the fundamental philosophical and theological question (left unresolved by Herder) of how man can have free will under God. The reader should realise how Gods immanence in man, partially accorded by Herder, and more substantially accorded by Hegel, leads eventually to the secular perspective of modern times, with both its negative, totalitarian and extreme manifestations, and its positive, pseudo-Christian and mildly socialist outcomes.