This thesis is about the life and work of Gertrude Bell, a British woman born in the late nineteenth century, whose extensive knowledge of Middle East cultures and people won her a job as the Oriental Secretary in Iraq after World War One. Modern historians, including Toby Dodge and Edward Said, consider Bell to be an irredeemable orientalist, one whose work is only ethnocentric and essentialist. Using the work of Billie Melman and Mohja Kahf, my aim is to contextualize Bell's work, and to see if, given the various circumstances in which she worked, a more sympathetic reading is not possible, and if perhaps Said and Dodge are not sometimes guilty of essentialism. I will also examine Said's theories in Orientalism, and though this thesis is in no way an attempt to discredit Said's work, I wish to pose a question; if one can take a small piece of the Orientalist puzzle (Bell's work) and shows that it differs from Said's description, does this undermine the idea of orientalism as a cohesive body of ideas?

The impact of the visual arts upon Rilke's work is obvious and indisputable; it has been the subject of much detailed discussion and study and is now more or less taken for granted by Rilke's critics. This emphasis on the visual arts can, in part, be explained by the amount of material readily available: the Worpswede and Rodin monographs, for example, or the highly important Cezanne letters to Clara Rilke. Rilke did, after all, marry a sculptor and act for a while as secretary to Rodin. Perhaps because of this clearly acknowledged debt, the importance of music in Rilke's life and work has been largely overlooked, if not expressly denied. The early writers were fond of regarding Rilke as a Slav musician-poet; but more recent critics have, without more ado, proclaimed that Rilke was not in the least musical and that music never in any way influenced his poetry. One good example here is K.A.J. Batterby, the author of the most recent English study of Rilke, Rilke and France. K.A.J. Batterby states repeatedly that Rilke, unlike the French symbolists, whose writings meant so much to him, was interested exclusively in the representational arts; and, by wisely keeping away from music, he thus avoided the pitfall into which Mallarme fell. When, however, he comes to discuss the late verse, Batterby, like many other writers, realizes that music cannot be entirely disregarded; he therefore gets round the problem by explaining that Rilke, under the influence of Valery, who had studied the Symbolists' preoccupation with music, was suddenly enabled to make use of the true 'music' of his native German language. Those critics who have mentioned Rilke's contact with music have tended to assume that the only decisive experience was in 1914, the year of Rilke's meeting with Frau von Hattingberg, the reason for this being, presumably, the publication of her book Rilke und Benvenuta (which describes their meeting in that year), and, later, of her correspondence with Rilke. Such critics were therefore surprised to find Rilke expressing a marked interest in music in his letter of 1912 about the French scholar and musicologist, Fabre d'Olivet. Eudo C. Mason, however, has hinted that music helped to influence the changes of style in Rilke's poetry after the period of the Neue Gedichte and Malte Laurids Brigge, in the same way as the visual arts effected the changes of style between the StundenBuch and the Neue Gedichte. Indeed, Rilke himself indicated this. There has been only one published study of Rilke's relationship with music: Clara Magr's Rainer Maria Rilke und die Musik. As the author herself states, this work is aimed, not at the Rilke-scholars, but at the Rilke-lovers; she therefore devotes a considerable amount of space to the external details of his life, and quotes all the poems on music in full. She is chiefly concerned to bring together chronologically what she regards as all the available material, without subjecting it to detailed scrutiny. Quite rightly, she stresses the dispersed and fragmentary state of the available material - doubtless the main reason why no attempt at a more minute study of the subject has been made. Clara Magr deals almost exclusively with Rilke's practical attitude to actual music. It is, however, his theoretical idea of music that is most important. His idea of music fits a symbol, and the frequent fluctuations and refinements of that idea played a significant part in his theory of art in general and in the development of the language of his late poetry in particular: the 'Bezug' that prevails in the mature verse certainly owes something to his thoughts on musical form. Each of the two parts of the Neue Gedichte begins, significantly, with a poem to Apollo, god of the visual arts; the Orpheus of the Sonette is at once the god of poetry and of music. This thesis aims at showing that Rilke's contact with music, though not so marked, not so immediately fruitful as his contact with the representational arts, was, nevertheless, highly significant. By doing so, it touches upon common misconceptions concerning the relationship between poetry and music, misconceptions which have caused some critics to see the late verse as 'musical', others as decidedly 'unmusical', and hopes to illuminate Rilke's own idea of the relationship between the two arts.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Julie_estagiaria Moraes (julie.moraes@fgv.br) on 2012-01-17T15:24:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 000068128.pdf: 4860322 bytes, checksum: f702dc896affec5539c7c0588161b1cc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-17T15:25:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000068128.pdf: 4860322 bytes, checksum: f702dc896affec5539c7c0588161b1cc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1986 / This paper aims at presenting Michel Foucault's theory on the institution and existence of disciplinary society. It also aims to show, based on Foucault's viewpoint, an analysis on the modus operandi of two 1st degree public schools from some documents. This analysis intends to make explicit the mechanisms and instruments of that discipline in the relationships maintained among members of the school, emphasizing the role of the teacher. Among these lines we make an attempt to describe Foucault's theory on disciplinary society by using his studies on patterns he developed prior to such society so as to better understand it. Therefore, such goals were determined by the need of ascertaining the viability of an analysis on the complex generating net of power relations. It was also possible to ascertain the existence of a commitment involving all the members of school concerning the production of knowledge and facts made necessary for the maintenance of the established order. Such a commitment is felt in the school practice due to the use of procedures intended at the scope and continuity of power effects brought about by those relations. The attendance to control mechanisms that support the school discipline normalizing function can be verified in the granting of functional roles to cach professional including the teacher himself. It must also be stressed the constraints imposed by the analysis scope here used, permitting one the foresce the advantages for applying this study on a more comprehensive research scope with a view to verifying the level of generality of the statements made herein, from this particular study. / A proposta deste trabalho consiste, primeiramente, em apresentar o pensamento de Michel Foucault quanto à instauração e existência da sociedade disciplinar. Apresenta ainda, inspirado na visão foucaultiana, uma análise do funcionamento de duas escolas públicas do 1o grau, a partir de alguns documentos. Tal análise pretende tornar explícitos os mecanismos e instrumentos da disciplina nas relações entre os elementos da escola, enfocando especialmente o papel do professor. Procuramos descrever a visão foucaultiana sobre a sociedade disciplinar, tomando seus estudos sobre as formas anteriores à disciplina, para melhor compreendêla. Tais objetivos foram determinados, portanto, pela necessidade de verificar a viabilidade de uma análise da complexa rede de produção de relações de poder na escola. Foi possível verificar a existência de um comprometimento dos atores da escola, na produção dos conhecimentos e das verdades que se fazem necessários à manutenção da ordem instaurada. Comprometimento este que se percebe na prática escolar, pelo uso de procedimentos que visam o alcance e continuidade dos efeitos de poder que essas relações trazem. O atendimento a mecanismos de controle que asseguram a função normalizadora da disciplina escolar, pode ser verificado na atribuição de papéis funcionais a cada profissional e, dentre estes, o professor. Ressalta-se, no entanto, os estreitos limites do campo de análise aqui utilizado, o que deixa antever as vantagens de utilização deste estudo a um universo de pesquisa mais abrangente, a fim de verificar o grau de generalidade das afirmações aqui contidas, a partir deste estudo particular.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-08-15Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:07:09Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 pereira_la_dr_assis_parcial.pdf: 85115 bytes, checksum: ca1a2ba27f5a89654b2a5afe494b0c90 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2014-12-19T18:32:48Z: pereira_la_dr_assis_parcial.pdf,Bitstream added on 2014-12-19T18:33:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000725355.pdf: 951170 bytes, checksum: 07376833115f5e7013dc7af7dd69fe0e (MD5) / La relation entre l'histoire et la philosophie a travesé plusier phases tout au long du XXe siècle, à partir d'un rejet explicite au début du siècle, temps de scientificité de l'historiographie, à un rapprochement au cours des dernières décennie. Durant cette période, la relation entre les historiens et les philosophes était tendue marquée par la méfiance des deux parties.Cependant, certains auteurs ont pu briser cette méfiance et engager un dialogue entre les fonctionnaires de Clio et Sophia. Comme un philosophe-historien,ainsi nommée par les deux Gilles Deleuze et de Jacques Le Goff, Foucault a ouvert un champ fertile de la recherche qui a guidé les transformations théoriques de la 'nouvelle histoire'. Nous notons la présence constante des théories de Foucault parmi les historiens des Annales, journal qui a établi par tradition le refus de la philosophie. L'objectif de cette thèse est comprendre comment Foucault a été promu au poste de philosophe-historien par la réception de leurs textes par les historiens liés aux Annales, en raison de la vaste dialogue entre les deux depuis le milieu des années 1960 et qui a duré jusqu'à la mort du philosophe en 1984. / A relação entre história e filosofia passou por transformações marcantes ao longo do século XX, partindo da rejeição às filosofias da história no começo do século, período no qual a história se tornou progressivamente científica, até uma reaproximação nas últimas décadas. Neste período a relação entre historiadores e filósofos foi tensa, marcada por desconfianças de ambas as partes. No entanto alguns autores conseguiram romper essa desconfiança e empreender o diálogo entre os oficiais de Clio e de Sophia. Como um filósofo-historiador, assim denominado tanto por Gilles Deleuze quanto por Jacques Le Goff, Foucault abriu um campo profícuo de pesquisas que orientaram as transformações teóricas da chamada “Nova História”. Notamos ai a presença constante das teses de Foucault entre os historiadores dos Annales, periódico que estabeleceu por tradição, justamente, a rejeição à filosofia. O intuito da presente tese é o de compreender como Foucault foi alçado à posição de “filósofo-historiador” através da recepção de seus textos pelos autores ligados aos Annales, em função do amplo diálogo entre ambos a partir de meados da década de 1960 e que se estendeu até a morte do filósofo em 1984.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, 2014. / Submitted by Ana Cristina Barbosa da Silva (annabds@hotmail.com) on 2015-05-28T18:02:33Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_LeandroMendanhaeSilva_Parcial.pdf: 1727743 bytes, checksum: bb26be14d30e6cb2a98aeaaf68671513 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2015-05-28T20:32:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_LeandroMendanhaeSilva_Parcial.pdf: 1727743 bytes, checksum: bb26be14d30e6cb2a98aeaaf68671513 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-28T20:32:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_LeandroMendanhaeSilva_Parcial.pdf: 1727743 bytes, checksum: bb26be14d30e6cb2a98aeaaf68671513 (MD5) / A pesquisa desenvolvida se resumiu em uma investigação com duas vertentes: uma vertical, outra horizontal. A primeira pesquisa analisou, focalizando a sua obra entre o fim da década de setenta e o início da década de oitenta, a maneira como Foucault apresentou, inverteu e problematizou três grades analíticas recorrentes no seu trabalho. Refere-se à verdade (na forma de regimes de verdade e dizer-a-verdade), ao poder (na forma do governo de si e dos outros) e a ética (na forma de um estilo ou modo de vida). Supõe-se que trazendo ao primeiro plano seus cursos no Collège de France e seus Ditos e escritos pode-se compor desenhos que tracem o percurso que tomou uma vida (êthos), trajetória da qual se deriva uma ética do intelectual. Também considera-se que apreender os problemas, as questões e o formato que aquelas grades tomaram no seu trabalho auxilia na reflexão sobre nossa atualidade (os riscos de uma sociedade de controle, o cuidado necessário na reivindicação de políticas identitárias, o controle do corpo hoje, etc.) A segunda investigação escavou a maneira pelo qual o pensamento de Foucault foi recebido em alguns jornais brasileiros, principalmente na década de setenta e oitenta, no que essas discussões públicas colocaram em confronto parte da intelectualidade brasileira. São debates a respeito da oposição entre análise estrutural e marxista, das novidades teórico-metodológicas para a análise histórica, da “morte” do sujeito, de um pensamento do poder, da pós-modernidade, entre outras querelas e temas que ainda reverberam no conhecimento que se tem do trabalho de Foucault. / The analysis developed in this research is divided in the vertical and horizontal axis. In the first one, examined the way Foucault presented, reversed and problematized three constant analytic grounds he bases his work, by focusing it between the late seventies and early eighties. Refers to truth (as regimes of truth and tell-the-truth), power (as the government of self and others) and ethics (as a style or way of life). Is assumed that bringing to front his courses at Collège de France and using what he had said and written about the subject, can be composed drawings establishing a route that lasted a lifetime (êthos), trajectory from which is could infer the intellectual’s ethics. Moreover, to take on board the problems, issues and shapes those grounds assumed in his work helps us think our present (the risks of a controlled society, the caution needed in claiming the identity politics, the nowadays control of the body, etc.). In the second part of this research, is presented the way Foucault's thoughts were welcomed in some Brazilian newspapers, mainly in the seventies and eighties, causing public discussions which placed the Brazilian intelligentsia in a difficult position. There are arguments about the opposition between the Marxist structural analysis, the theoretical and methodological innovations for historical analysis, the subject’s "death", the thought of power, the postmodernity, among other disputes and issues that still reflect on the studies about Foucault’s work.

El presente informe tiene por objetivo comprender el surgimiento del funcionalismo como teoría, y desde allí, abordar qué ocurre en su desarrollo, para llegar a delinear las razones que pudo haber tenido Putnam para abandonar el funcionalismo, planteando como opción el sociofuncionalismo, que, desde su génesis, ya no es una teoría plausible. El afán es el de unir cabos en el cambio de perspectiva que se puede leer en los textos de Hilary Putnam, quien formaliza el funcionalismo para llegar a convertirse con el tiempo en uno de sus más ávidos críticos.

La literatura y el arte influenciaron el pensamiento filosófico de Michel Foucault, dejando rastro de ello en diversos escritos. La presente tesis trata de pesquisar e indagar las problemáticas abiertas en torno al lenguaje y a la muerte del sujeto con el propósito de plantear un estética foucaultiana en el conjunto de su obra filosófica. Como estética entendemos aquella instancia de reflexión sobre la obra y su lenguaje que, en el caso de Foucault, ha interrogado filosóficamente su importancia para situarse en los límites de la cultura occidental que esta tesis destaca. Una estética de Michel Foucault, cuya configuración culmina en una apuesta estético-ética de nuestro autor sobre el lugar que podría ocupar el arte como un modo de creación de nuestra propia existencia, donde cada hombre puede ser artista de su propia vida.