M.Dissertation (Archaeology)-University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

In this essay I discuss conscience as analyzed by Heidegger in his magnum opus Being and Time from 1927. In Heidegger´s phenomenological ontology conscience is an uncanny call that comes from ourselves and is directed to ourselves; an inner foreign voice that suddenly strikes us in our everydayness and summons us to face our own being, that is: our own uncanniness. According to Heidegger to face one´s being is to face the human existence itself as essentially free, finite and historical, which in its extension means to face oneself as the conscious being one is. My question focuses on the who: who is the one that calls inside of us – who is it that we listen to? Or, to put it differently: what in our existence makes it possible for us to simultaneously be the caller and the one that is being called on? Whereas Heidegger answers by referring to the distinction between Being and being(s), which is essential in his philosophy, I choose another and extended direction of interpretation, namely one that points precisely at the uncanny – demonic – character of existence. This interpretation is developed specifically in relation to some of Heidegger´s later writings, his readings of Sophocles´ Antigone as well as his Letter on Humanism. It is my intention to show that Heidegger through his analysis on the uncanny and historical human being implicitly makes room for a demonic understanding of conscience as an ethical phenomenon that relates it not only to being and death, but also to the dead.

Sitting at a rarely examined intersection between aging, disability, and popular culture, this project explores how the aging body becomes the disabled body in the context of popular music. In what follows, I trouble the distinction between bodies and mediation, between lived-experience and cultural product, and I argue that the voice of the aging artist engages with his lived-experience even as he performs socially-constructed conceptions of aging and disability. I read Johnny Cash’s 2002 cover of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt” on American IV: The Man Comes Around as a performance of the singer’s age and disabled condition. Through pain- saturated lyrics, music filled with unresolved tension, a damaged voice, and a video that puts his aged body on display, Cash performs a disability script that presents his age and personal health as disabling burden. I explore how country music, Cash’s performance past, and strategies pursued by his producer, Rick Rubin, all contribute to a performance that is both successful popular song and a manifestation of the singer’s declining condition. The project invites subsequent explorations of the intersection of age and disability in popular music, and highlights several artists whose voices and performances of old age and disability demand attention. The project aligns with an interactive approach to disability research, breaking down the dialectic between social and individual priorities in disability studies and foregrounding how each influence the overall performance.

The Thesis acquaints consumers with Czech and European legislation regarding food quality and safety. There are also described in detail the supervisory autorities for food authenticity operating in Czech Republic and related terms such as food quality and safety. The following is a pivotal part dedicated to the food authenticity, which describes the problem of food adulteration, including the reasons and methods of food adulteration. The practical part contains the results of inspections of food by SZPI for the year 2015. The analysis of the data is based on the website "Potraviny na pranýři". Another part relates to the evaluation of questionnaire, which focuses on consumers's relationship to authenticity and adulteration of food on the Czech market. The practical part is concludes by the evaluation of set hypotheses.

In my thesis, I argue "against the grain," asserting that the war over authenticity among first-wave and second-wave-Asian-American writers is in fact a red-herring argument. The diversity within Asian American literature--be it nationalist, multiculturalist, or globalist--is initiated by a subversive kernel borne out of Asian American writers' frustration at the manner in which Asians had, up until now, been portrayed in popular culture. This thesis will pay particular attention to how Chinese American writers, namely Frank Chin and David Henry Hwang, contest the emasculated stereotype of Asian American identity by reclaiming historical agency, demanding representational authenticity, and urging for political equality in their literature. Following a discussion of Charles Taylor's location of the originality of identity in dis/re-covery, this thesis will commence with a Freudian and Benjimanian analysis of history in Chin's Donald Duk (1991) and Hwang's Golden Child (1996). This thesis then examines the role of Chinese literature in the composition of Chinese American literature, especially in Donald Duk, Gunga Din Highway (1995), FOB (1983), and Dance and the Railroad (1983). I ascertain that the similarities/differences yielded between the "ur-myth" of Guan Gong, a general warlord who served under Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms era, and the Asian American depictions of Guan symbolically indicate Chin and Hwang's political beliefs on how Asian American literature should be interpreted in a post-civil-rights-movement era. To continue exploring the matrix of Asian American identity in a multicultural context, I contend that post-hyphenated identity is a conscientious performance of self by drawing on Chin's The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972) and Hwang's Yellow Face (2009) as examples.

abstract: The requirements for a gender dysphoria diagnosis, and therefore access to medical interventions such as surgeries or hormones, reinforce a male/female binary and do not allow room for variability in how a transgender person identifies. Transgender individuals who wish to access medical interventions must reflect these regulatory requirements in order to receive a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. So what is the experience of transgender individuals who do not reflect this narrative? How do they develop identity, form community, and make decisions regarding their transition? Using feminist methodology and grounded theory methods, I conducted a research study with ten transgender-identified individuals from Phoenix, Arizona in order to address these questions. In interviews with these participants, I found that perceptions of others, normativity, and horizontal transphobia all affected how participants identity and decision-making. Further, I also found that these themes contributed to creating transgender authenticity, or the false sense that there is only one way to be truly transgender. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Gender Studies 2017

Esta tese de doutoramento tem como objetivo a discussão do uso do conceito de autenticidade na preservação do patrimônio edificado. Ao se observar o caráter eurocêntrico e o sentido tradicional, a ideia de autenticidade foi relativizada em razão de sua dimensão cultural, na atualidade. Um relativismo, no entanto, que poderia significar risco para a preservação da materialidade dos artefato s, tendo em vista o debate contemporâneo acerca do sentido imaterial da autenticidade. Ao supor que a autenticidade não pode ser reduzida ao substrato material do patrimônio, apesar de sua importância para a preservação de seus atributos, foram definidos dois estudos de caso, com vistas a elucidar a questão: os paradigmas de Ouro Preto e Brasília, ambos reconhecidos como patrimônio da humanidade. O primeiro, por enquadrar-se no sentido tradicional de autenticidade; o segundo, por envolver aspectos próprios da cultura material e imaterial. / This doctoral thesis affirms the necessity to discuss the usage of the existing concept of authenticity in the built heritage preservation. By considering its Eurocentric character and traditional meaning, the idea of being authentic is presently utmost important due to the cultural dimension of this concept and its relativism. A relativism that could be risky to the artifacts materiality preservation, since the immaterial value of authenticity is becoming part of the contemporary debate. Supposing the authenticity can\'t be reduced to the material substrate of cultural heritage, despite of its importance to preserve the artifact\'s attributes, two study cases were selected to discuss and further examine the posed question: the paradigms of Ouro Preto and Brasilia, both sites nominated as World Heritage. The first one because it refers to the traditional meaning of authenticity, and the second in view of the fact that it involves the material and immaterial dimensions of the concept.

Orientador: Sílvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T19:46:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sgardiolli_EvertonFernando_M.pdf: 1016982 bytes, checksum: f9b18a6f2520d80bc7df6f9dcc8af2e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A presente dissertação tem por objetivo relacionar educação, filosofia e literatura, numa desenvoltura permeada pelo conceito de liberdade construído pelo filósofo francês Jean- Paul Sartre, mais especificamente em suas obras "O Ser e o Nada" e "A Náusea", ou seja, entrelaçar esse conceito com a tradição histórica e filosófica no que se refere à educação. Priorizar a liberdade existencial em detrimento da cultura essencialista "formadora" de sujeitos e investigar como seria possível pensar a educação embasada em princípios existenciais é o que caracteriza a dissertação. No processo histórico de desenvolvimento do pensamento pedagógico, a prioridade pertence às concepções que atribuem à educação a função de realizar o que o homem deve ser. A grande herança do idealismo antigo e cristão constitui a base destas concepções e a filosofia de Platão foi uma das fontes principais. Sartre, ao estabelecer um diálogo com as tradições metafísicas que aceitam uma essência que caracteriza a realidade humana e assumem uma causa a priori que a antecede, a define e a determina, aponta que segundo essa visão, a existência humana nada mais faz do que realizar essa essência pré-determinada, ou seja, existir restringe-se à realização fatalista daquilo que essa essência previamente determinou, extinguindo dos homens uma postura responsável, criativa e autêntica diante do mundo. Nesse aspecto, constatamos que a ideia de educação que infesta a nossa tradição histórica há séculos, parte deste pressuposto metafísico de que existe uma essência humana a ser concretizada na existência e que cabe, portanto a essa educação, o ilustre papel de "lustrar" essa essência, para que através dela possa irradiar o verdadeiro ser da realidade humana fazendo, assim, com que a educação institucionalize atitudes de má-fé. Não pensamos que haja um desenvolvimento linear, verticalizado e hierarquizado na Educação, mas sim, suspeitamos que esse desenrolar-se se dá por rupturas e pelas múltiplas e diferentes formas e maneiras de ser, maneiras essas, impossíveis de serem controladas, previstas, mensuradas e valorizadas a priori. Suspeitamos assim, que haja uma intensiva e assustadora gratuidade pairando sobre as mais variadas situações e ocasiões em geral e em particular na educação e, dessa forma, diferentemente da tradição essencialista, podemos praticar uma educação mais responsável, criativa e autêntica. / Abstract: This dissertation aims to relate education, philosophy and literature permeated by the concept, resourcefulness of freedom built by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, more specifically in his works "Being and nothingness" and "Nausea". Entwine this concept with the historical and philosophical tradition that regarding education. Prioritize the existential freedom to the detriment of the essentialist culture "trainer" of people and investigate how it would be possible to think of education based on existential principles is what characterizes the dissertation. In the historical process of development of the pedagogical thought, the priority belongs to the conceptions that attach to the task of conducting the education that the man should be. The great heritage of the old idealism and Christian forms the basis of these ideas and the philosophy of Plato was one of the main sources. Sartre, to establish a dialogue with the metaphysical traditions that accept an essence that characterizes the human reality and take a a priori cause that precedes, sets and determines it and it points out that according to this view, human existence is nothing more than performing such predetermined essence, there is limited the achievement of what this fatalistic essence previously determinedmen's attitude erodes, responsible, creative and authentic in the world. In this regard, we found that the idea of education that infests our historical tradition for centuries, comes from this metaphysical assumption that there is a human essence to be realised in existence and that it is, so that education, the illustrious role of "polishing" this essence, so that through it can radiate the true being of human reality by doing so, with that education does institutionalize attitudes of bad faith. We do not believe that there is a linear development, channelling and verticalised in education, but , we suspect that this take place if it ruptures and by multiple and different forms and ways of being, ways that are impossible to be tracked, measured and valued, as provided a priori. We suspect that there is an intensive and frightening gratuitousness hovering over the most varied situations and occasions in General and in particular in education and, in this way, different from the essentialist tradition, can we practice an education more accountable, creative and authentic. / Mestrado / Filosofia e História da Educação / Mestre em Educação

This thesis explores the historic preservation projects in two cities: Suzhou, China, and Pasadena, California, United States. The purpose of investigating the strategies and policies used in each of the historic districts is to discuss whether preservation strategies applied in both cases could represent historic authenticity. The first two chapters focus on the project plan of the two historic districts. By evaluating the preservation policies at both national and regional level, histories of the districts, and approaches adopted by two cities, this thesis discerns the different perceptions of “authenticity” in preservation strategies in two countries. The next part of the thesis compares the two historic districts in terms of their distinctive focuses on preservation approaches. I, therefore, conclude that even though both cases have been deemed as successful models of preservation projects in each country, both historic district has demonstrated different levels of insufficient protection in culture and social sustainability.

How can one create an aura from a digital reproduction? According to researchers like Walter Benjamin (1936) this is not possible. However with todays technology and digitalmedia it is worth looking into how it would be possible.Museums are looking for ways to expand the experiences of their exhibitions with thehelp of digital media, but research into authenticity and aura in digital reproductions islimited. This research aims to answer if it is possible to create an aura from a digitalreproduction and in what way that would be done.