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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Power and resistance in dystopian literature: a Foucauldian reading of three novels.

January 1997 (has links)
by Wing Chi Ki. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-182). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.i v / Table of Contents --- p.v / Abbreviations used for Foucault's Works --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction: Power and Resistance in Foucault --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- 1984-The Axis of Power --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Brave New World--The Axis of Sexuality --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- The Handmaid's Tale-The Axis of Knowledge --- p.117 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion: Resistant Topos´ؤFrom Dystopia to Heterotopia --- p.167 / Works Cited --- p.177 / Bibliography --- p.182
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Calçando os tamancos de Paul-Michel: um estudo sobre a psicologia na problematização filosófica de Michel Foucault com base nos manuscritos inéditos dos anos 1950

Francisco, Alessandro de Lima 11 December 2017 (has links)
Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-12-20T08:44:17Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alessandro de Lima Francisco.pdf: 4293336 bytes, checksum: 1ab770c4fad6118674ccf4af48e7e223 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-20T08:44:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alessandro de Lima Francisco.pdf: 4293336 bytes, checksum: 1ab770c4fad6118674ccf4af48e7e223 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-11 / This research refers mainly to Jacques Lagrange’s unpublished manuscripts related to courses offered by Michel Foucault at École Normale Supérieure de Paris, and deposited at Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine. It also refers to those by Michel Foucault himself recently deposited at Bibliothèque Nationale de France. The latter focus on files concerning the 1950s –a period not to be ignored if one intends to understand the development of his researches, in order to apprehend the role of Psychology in Michel Foucault’s philosophical problematic. This research intends to show that – leaving from a discourse on psykhé (Psychology) and reaching a conduction of psykhé (Psykhogogía) - , Foucault’s considerations adopt an anti-psychologic posture, while they allow a new understanding of subjectivity / Cette recherche est consacrée à l’étude des manuscrits inédits de Jacques Lagrange en ce qui concerne les cours proférés par Michel Foucault à l’École Normale de Paris pendant les années 1950, déposés à l’Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, et ceux de Michel Foucault lui-même récemment déposés à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, plus spécialement les dossiers relatifs aux années 1950 – période qui ne peut être négligée si l’on souhaite entendre le développement de recherches de Michel Foucault –, pour comprendre le rôle de la psychologie dans sa problématisation philosophique, en essayant encore de soutenir qu’en partant d’un discours sur la psyché (psychologie), dans les années 1950, et en arrivant à une conduction de la psyché (psycagogie), les réflexions de Foucault, d’un côté, adoptent une posture antipsychologiste, mais, d’un autre côte, rendent possible une nouvelle compréhension de la subjectivité / Esta pesquisa se debruça mormente sobre os manuscritos inéditos de Jacques Lagrange relativos aos cursos ministrados por Michel Foucault na École Normale de Paris, depositados no Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, e aqueles do próprio Michel Foucault recentemente depositados na Bibliothèques Nationale de France, concentrando-se nos dossiês concernentes aos anos 1950 – período que não pode ser negligenciado se se pretende entender o desenvolvimento de suas pesquisas –, para compreender o papel da Psicologia na problematização filosófica de Michel Foucault, buscando defender que, partindo de um discurso sobre a psykhé (Psicologia) e alcançando uma condução da psykhé (Psykhagogía), as reflexões de Foucault adotam uma postura antipsicologista, possibilitando, contudo, uma nova compreensão da subjetividade.
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Der Wahn, der mich beglückt. Der Chirurg Julius Hackethal (1921-1997) als Beispiel deutscher Medizinkritik und ihrer medialen Darstellung in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts / The delusion, that makes me happy. The surgeon Julius Hackethal (1921 - 1997) as an example of german medical criticism and its medial presentation in the second half of the 20th century

Scharnagl, Martin Nikolaus Wolfgang January 2018 (has links) (PDF)
Der Name des populären Chirurgen Professor Julius Hackethal (1921-1997) weckt bis heute Assoziationen mit den Schlagwörtern Medizinkritik, Sterbehilfe und alternative Krebsbehandlungen. In einem stetig größer werdenden Forschungsstand zur Geschichte der Alternativmedizin und deutschen Nachkriegsmedizin beschäftigt sich vorliegende Dissertation mit Julius Hackethals Medizinkritik im Allgemeinen und Krebs im Speziellen, seinem therapeutischen Gegenvorschlag EUBIOS, der Sterbehilfedebatte sowie der Darstellung seiner Medizinkritik und der entsprechenden Resonanz in deutschen Medien. Die vermeintlichen „Kardinalfehler“ der Schulmedizin bei Krebs werden dabei exemplarisch am Beispiel Prostatakarzinom erläutert. Welche gesellschaftlichen und schulmedizinischen Rahmenbedingungen vorlagen und die Medizinkritik anfachten, was die Gründe für Julius Hackethals Abkehr von der Schulmedizin waren und inwiefern sich seine Medizinkritik von anderen Kritikern der damaligen schulmedizinischen Verhältnisse unterschied, waren wichtige Fragestellungen der Arbeit. Zudem wird unter Miteinbeziehung von Zeitzeugenberichten beantwortet, warum er mit seinem EUBIOS-Konzept und vermeintlichen Pauschalbehandlungen gerade bei Krebspatienten regen Zulauf fand. Zuletzt stand das Verhältnis von Julius Hackethal zu den Medien sowie das der Medien zu Julius Hackethal im Fokus. Neben allen Publikationen Hackethals als Hauptquellen und Mikroebene wurde die Recherche um umfangreiche Quellen der Epoche, Forschungsliteratur zum Thema und audiovisuelle Medien als Makroebene erweitert. Hauptschlagwörter waren Medizinkritik und Krise der Krebstherapie, Alternativmedizin sowie das Thema Sterbehilfe. Zudem wurden alle im Zusammenhang mit Julius Hackethal erschienenen Artikel in vorselektionierten Medien, dem Deutschen Ärzteblatt, den Nachrichtenmagazinen Spiegel und Stern sowie den Illustrierten Quick und BUNTE, den Fragestellungen entsprechend, analysiert. Vor einem sich wandelnden Gesundheitspanorama in der zweiten Jahrhunderthälfte mit enttäuschten Hoffnungen an rasche Behandlungserfolge chronischer (Krebs-)Erkrankungen und einem kritischen Hinterfragen von (Arzt-)Autoritäten wurden Forderungen nach einer posthippokratischen Medizin und Ethik laut. Schlagwörter wie Fünfminutenmedizin, Apparate- und Maschinenmedizin und anonyme Großkliniken machten die Runde. Als Gegenantwort kam es zu einer Renaissance alternativer Behandlungsrichtungen, die von verunsicherten, von der Schulmedizin enttäuschten Patienten aufgegriffen wurden. Julius Hackethal war dabei nicht der einzige oder erste Kritiker der damaligen schulmedizinischen Praxis, allerdings war Kritik von einem bis dahin selbst praktizierenden Schulmediziner und Professor ein Novum. Mit bewusstem Verzicht auf „Medizinbabylonisch“ und Büchern sowie öffentlicher Kritik in teils vulgärer, aggressiver „Volkssprache“ wurden komplexe Sachverhalte der breiten Masse zugänglich gemacht. Bis heute ist sein Neologismus harmloser „Haustierkrebse“ ein Begriff und mit ihm verquickt. Durch derart provozierende Rhetorik, aber auch spektakuläres, medienwirksames Handeln polarisierte Julius Hackethal dabei zeitlebens. Seine Beihilfe zum Suizid Hermine Eckerts im Jahr 1984 ist hierfür Beispiel und wird in der Arbeit dargelegt. Zudem ließ er keine Möglichkeit aus, seine Thesen in Medien jedweder Couleur zu verbreiten, die großen medizinischen Themenfelder für sich zu reklamieren und gleichzeitig für eigene Kliniken und sein Behandlungsprogramm EUBIOS zu werben. Ein einzelner Querdenker habe es geschafft, die viel zu kompliziert denkende Schulmedizin zu entmystifizieren. Die Position des Deutschen Ärzteblatts war zwangsläufig klar abgesteckt: Gegenüber Standeskritikern galt es eine klare Position aufrechtzuerhalten, um die bereits in der Kritik stehende Schulmedizin nicht noch weiter zu gefährden. Entsprechend einseitig und teils unseriös fielen die Artikel aus. Das Nachrichtenmagazin Spiegel begrüßte Hackethals anfängliche Medizinkritik, distanzierte sich dann aber ausdrücklich von ihm und seinen Krebsheilungsvisionen sowie seiner Forderung nach einer Legalisierung des ärztlich assistierten Suizids. Im 21. Jahrhundert ist Medizinkritik weiterhin präsent, gleichzeitig sind alternative Behandlungsverfahren zu einem festen Bestandteil des Behandlungsrepertoires einst streng schulmedizinisch ausgerichteter Ärzte geworden. Julius Hackethal war dabei ein zeitgeschichtliches Phänomen auf einem kurz vor und vor allem nach ihm existenten Kontinuum deutscher Medizinkritik, dem weitere Persönlichkeiten mit neuen Heilsversprechungen oder Ideen zur Umstrukturierung der modernen Schulmedizin rasch nachfolgten und nachfolgen werden. / Even in the 21th century, the name of the popular surgeon Professor Julius Hackethal (1921-1997) is still associated with the slogans euthanasia or medical assisted suicide, criticism on modern medicine and alternative treatments of cancer. Since the current state of research, especially regarding the history of alternative medicine and german postwar medicine is in the rise, the dissertation exemplarily examines Hackthals criticism on practiced medicine at that time in general and his criticism on cancer in particular, his therapeutic counterproposal EUBIOS, the fanned debate on medically assisted suicide and his personal and professional presentation in german media.
184

The soul of socialism : American citizenship and Christian civilization in the thought of Eugene Debs

Burns, Dave B. January 2004 (has links)
This thesis examines how Christianity and citizenship shaped the ideology of Eugene Debs, the most popular radical in Progressive Era America. It argues that scholars have failed to conduct a thorough exploration of Debs' religious thought. This thesis also challenges the belief among historians that Debs' Christianity was a variant of the alternative Americanism he used to legitimate his agitation against industrial capitalism. This misconception has led historians to follow the lead of Nick Salvatore and conclude that Debs' Christianity was merely an aspect of his attempt to renew the values of republican citizenship associated with the American Revolution. A more accurate representation is that the concept of citizenship formed the core of Debs' ideology as a trade and industrial unionist, but that he found citizenship to be too restrictive and turned to Christianity to address the concerns of humanity and civilization as a socialist. / Department of History
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Que nossas vistas se voltem para os ônibus: a implantação dos auto-omnibus em Fortaleza (1926-1953)

Silva, Ana Carla Pereira da January 2016 (has links)
SILVA, Ana Carla Pereira da. Que nossas vistas se voltem para os ônibus: a implantação dos auto-omnibus em Fortaleza (1926-1953). 2016. 197f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em História, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-01-31T11:43:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_acpsilva.pdf: 5133494 bytes, checksum: bbef7112132f00be9a93d81cd565b9be (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-01-31T11:44:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_acpsilva.pdf: 5133494 bytes, checksum: bbef7112132f00be9a93d81cd565b9be (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-31T11:44:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_acpsilva.pdf: 5133494 bytes, checksum: bbef7112132f00be9a93d81cd565b9be (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / Used by most of the population, the public transport bus service is a striking element in Fortaleza’s quotidian nowadays. The importance of this vehicle in Fortaleza, however, was being built over time. This research investigates the bus deployment process in Fortaleza over the years 1926 and 1953. The year 1926 marks the time of the appearance of the first private transport bus company, Matadouro Modelo, very important project for widespread use of these vehicles in the city. The year of 1953 refers to the time of approval of a set of laws that provided for the restructuring of the public transport service in the city. Based on the analysis of sources such as local newspapers, urbanization plans, minutes of City Hall, criminal cases, statistical book, this research makes it possible to understand the implications of the introduction of this technical object in the city and the daily lives of its citizens. It also allows to understand how, amid attempts to build a modern Fortaleza, the buses were affected by the intervention of public policies in the urban space. Investigating this modality of transport can therefore contribute to a better understanding of the role of the bus in Fortaleza nowadays, in order to deconstruct its dominance. / Usado por grande parte da população, o transporte coletivo de ônibus é elemento marcante no cotidiano de Fortaleza nos dias atuais. A importância desse veículo na capital cearense, no entanto, foi sendo construída ao longo do tempo. A presente pesquisa investiga o processo de implantação dos ônibus em Fortaleza entre os anos de 1926 e 1953. O ano de 1926 marca o momento do aparecimento da primeira empresa privada de transporte de ônibus, a Matadouro Modelo, empreendimento muito importante para a difusão do uso desses veículos na cidade. Já 1953 se refere ao momento de aprovação de um conjunto de leis que previa a reestruturação do serviço de transporte coletivo na cidade. Com base na análise de fontes como periódicos locais, planos de urbanização, atas da Câmara Municipal, processos criminais, livro de estatística, essa pesquisa possibilita compreender as implicações da introdução desse objeto técnico na cidade e na vida cotidiana dos fortalezenses. Permite entender ainda como, em meio às tentativas de construção de uma Fortaleza moderna, os ônibus foram afetados pelas políticas públicas de intervenção no espaço urbano. Investigar essa modalidade de transporte, portanto, pode contribuir para uma melhor compreensão do papel dos ônibus na capital cearense atualmente, de modo a desnaturalizar seu predomínio.
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Companhia Brasileira de Cimento Portland Perus : contribuição para uma história da indústria pioneira do ramo no Brasil (1926-1987) /

Siqueira, Elcio. January 2001 (has links)
Orientador: Sonia Irene Silva do Carmo / Banca: Benedito de Moraes Neto / Banca: Yvone Dias Avelino / Resumo: Pioneira da indústria cimenteira no país, a companhia Brasileira de Cimento Portland Perus (CBCPP) foi inaugurada em 1926. Em 1951, seu controle acionário passou para o Grupo Abdalla que instalou um forno que expandiu em 60 % a capacidade produtiva sem qualquer ampliação na infra-estrutura de alimentação (dimensionada para os três fornos originais), procedimento afinado com a expansão da demanda no Brasil do pós-guerra, mas que submetia o maquinário a níveis destrutivos de esforços. Era natural, portanto, que, as greves operárias pusessem em xeque a forma de gestão da empresa, com os trabalhadores implementando um plano de medidas técnicas alternativas em 1960-61 que criou uma autêntica situação de dualidade de poder dentro da companhia. Em 1962, uma greve iniciada em solidariedade a trabalhadores de outras firmas de Abdalla derivou para uma luta direta pela desapropriação da Perus com vistas a implantar uma co-gestão Estado/Operários. A paralisação foi derrotada, com profundas seqüelas no meio popular, parcialmente sanadas com a reintegração dos operários estáveis em 1969. A esta altura, porém, o futuro da fábrica já estava comprometido pelo desgaste dos equipamentos, quadro que o confisco federal em 1973 não reverteu. A empresa voltaria para a iniciativa privada em 1980 já praticamente liquidada, e funcionaria de forma agonizante até o fechamento em 1987. / Mestre
187

Variations on a Theme: The Monomyth in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman

Merriell, Jean M. (Jean Marie) 12 1900 (has links)
This study analyzes the development of the major characters in Fowles's novel - Charles, Sarah, and Sam - in terms of the heroic quest motif. Using the basic pattern of the heroic quest, the monomyth, that Joseph Campbell sets forth in his The Hero with a Thousand Faces, I attempt to show that Fowles's novel may best be understood as the story of three separate heroic quests whose paths cross rather than as the story of a single hero or heroine. This reading seems to account best for all elements of the novel and to explain best the final positions of the characters in question as well as providing a rich appreciation of the novel's wealth of imagery.
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Michel Foucault et le souci de soi dans l'Antiquité

Gagnon, Simon-Olivier 15 March 2024 (has links)
Nous proposons ici une étude sur la culture du souci de soi dans l’Antiquité, telle qu’elle est exposée et interprétée par Michel Foucault dans L’Herméneutique du sujet. En s’appuyant sur l’interprétation des textes des principaux représentants latins du stoïcisme impérial (Sénèque, Épictète et Marc-Aurèle), le mémoire rassemble les éléments d’une théorie foucaldienne du sujet. La première partie traite de la « genèse » du sujet chez Foucault en regard des « techniques de soi » qui le rationalisent. La deuxième partie situe le sujet qui s’élabore dans l’expérience pratique du rapport à soi, dans l’ascèse et dans la discipline, en regard du rapport à l’autre, au corps, au savoir et au langage. La dernière partie présente le contexte historique dans lequel l’injonction au souci de soi est devenue un impératif éthique. On fait alors l’hypothèse que la crise de la démocratie athénienne à la fin du Ve siècle a joué un rôle significatif dans l’émergence de l’injonction socratique et que cette dernière fait écho au verdict des classes dominantes sur l’incompétence politique des masses. Le souci de soi et l’exercice assidu de la maîtrise de soi apparaissent alors comme des préalables indispensables à la participation à la vie politique et aux décisions communes. La culture de soi connaît une lente transformation avec le déclin de la Cité-État, la domination romaine et l’hellénisation de Rome, tout en atteignant son paroxysme à l’époque du Haut-Empire. Elle s’achève dans la construction chrétienne d’une culture du renoncement. On suppose alors que dans chacune de ces configurations historiques, elle a rempli une fonction sociale importante, mais à chaque fois différente. / We propose a study on the culture of the care of the self in Antiquity, as it is exposed and interpreted by Michel Foucault in his course Herméneutique du sujet at the Collège de France. Based on the interpretation of the texts of the principal Latin philosophers of imperial Stoicism (Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius), the dissertation brings together the elements of a Foucaldian theory of the subject. The first part deals with Foucault’s perspective on the "genesis" of the subject, with regard to the "techniques of the self " through which one rationalizes oneself. The second part situates the subject that is elaborated in the practical experience of the relation to oneself, in asceticism and discipline, with regard to the relation to the other, to the body, to knowledge and to language. The last part presents the historical context in which the injunction to self-care has become an ethical imperative. It is then suggested that the crisis of Athenian democracy at the end of the 5th century played a significant role in the emergence of the Socratic injunction, and that the latter echoes the ruling classes on the political incompetence of the masses. The care of the self and the constant exercise of self-control then appear as prerequisites for participation in political life and common decisions. The culture of the self slowly change with the decline of the City- State, Roman domination, and the Hellenization of Rome, while reaching its peak in the High Empire. The culture of the self ends in the Christian construction of a culture of renunciation. It is asserted then that in each of these historical configurations, the culture of the self has fulfilled an important social function, but each time different.
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Michel Foucault e a revolução iraniana / Michel Foucault and the Iranian revolution

Pelegrini, Mauricio Aparecido, 1977- 27 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Luzia Margareth Rago / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T09:14:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pelegrini_MauricioAparecido_M.pdf: 22722884 bytes, checksum: e69445ee0b8d2e8f0af87988fd62244d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Em 1978, Michel Foucault escreveu uma série de artigos jornalísticos para o periódico italiano "Corriere della Sera". Intituladas "reportagens de ideias", tinham como objetivo acompanhar o nascimento das ideias no cruzamento com os acontecimentos do tempo presente. No âmbito deste projeto, realizou duas viagens ao Irã (em setembro e novembro), onde acompanhou de perto a movimentação popular durante os eventos da Revolução Islâmica. Para compreender as raízes da oposição ao governo do xá Reza Pahlavi em seus diversos locais de manifestação, Foucault não se restringiu a conversar com os líderes revolucionários, mas entrevistou diferentes categorias de manifestantes, desde os trabalhadores organizados até os profissionais liberais e intelectualizados, passando pelos diversos níveis de organizações religiosas espalhadas pelo país, dos mulás líderes tribais aos aiatolás das grandes cidades de Qom e Teerã. O que lhe interessava era assistir ao nascimento de uma nova forma de pensar entre os iranianos, e isto só seria possível se ele estivesse lá, em meio ao fervilhar revolucionário. O conjunto de textos, que compreende também artigos, manifestos e entrevistas publicados na imprensa francesa, foi objeto de enorme polêmica, principalmente devido aos desdobramentos posteriores à revolução, com a instauração de uma ditadura teocrática de caráter persecutório às minorias e aos direitos humanos, e permaneceram até hoje pouco explorados teoricamente. Esta dissertação pretende analisar as reportagens iranianas de Foucault a partir de sua construção textual, dos conceitos introduzidos e das diversas interpretações que as cercam. Estrutura-se, assim, em três eixos: o primeiro tem o objetivo de recuperar a trama conceitual interna às reportagens; o segundo, analisar as críticas recebidas e seu contexto teórico; o terceiro, apresentar a espiritualidade política como principal inovação introduzida no corpus teórico foucaultiano. Pretende-se destacar, ainda, ressonâncias dos textos iranianos em outras questões elaboradas por Foucault / Abstract: In 1978 Michel Foucault wrote a series of news articles for the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera". Called "journalism of ideas", the articles had the purpose of following the birth of ideas upon its crossing with present times¿ events. Within the scope of this project, he made two trips to Iran (in September and November), where he followed up close the popular movement during the events of the Islamic Revolution. In order to grasp the roots of the opposition to the Shah Reza Pahlavi government in its several places of manifestation, Foucault did not restrain himself to talking to revolutionary leaders but rather also interviewed different categories of protestors, from organized workers to independent and intellectualized professionals, going through the several level of religious organizations spread out through the country, from mullah tribal leaders to Ayatollahs of the large cities of Qom and Tehran. Foucault was interested in witnessing the birth of a new form of thinking among Iranians and it would only be possible if he would be there present, amidst the revolutionary effervescence. The set of texts, which comprises also articles, manifestos and interviews published by the French press was object of great polemic, mainly due to the unfolding of events following the revolution, with the instauration of a theocratic dictatorship having a persecutory nature against minorities and human rights, and remaining until nowadays not much theoretically explored. This dissertation has the purpose of analyzing the Iranian reportages by Foucault from its textual construction, of concepts introduced and several interpretations surrounding them. Therefore, this paper is structured in three axis, the first having the purpose of retrieving the internal conceptual scheme of the reportages; the second being the analysis of criticism received and its theoretical context; the third being to present the political spirituality as the main innovation introduced to Foucault¿s theoretical framework. It is intended to emphasize yet the resonances of the Iranian texts in other issues elaborated by Foucault / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História
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Foucault, Levinas and the Ethical Embodied Subject

Lok, Wing-Kai 05 July 2011 (has links)
This dissertation attempts to interrogate whether the postmodern anti-essentialist approach to the body can truly recognize the ethical value of the body. For the postmodernists, the value of the human body has long been repressed by Cartesian rationalism and dualism that privileges the mind over the body. Dualism is a form of reductionism that reduces either the mind to the body or the body to the mind. It not only fails to recognize an interaction between mind and body, but also privileges one side at the expense of the other. For instance, rationalism is a dualist reductionism since it always explains the body and matter in terms of mind or reason. Thus, dualism not only refers to a split or separation between mind and body, but also refers to a reductive relation between mind and body.

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