Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ilana Viana do Amaral.pdf: 1044064 bytes, checksum: b98d2712d86d324c4ed1db149a0f3847 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-21 / Fundação Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico / This present research investigates the concept of paradox in S.A. Kierkegaard´s work, starting from the critical dialogue present in the kierkegaardian apprehension of Hegel´s philosophical effort. This investigation searches to show the connections presented in the concept of paradox between faith, language and history, having as a background Kierkegaard´s dialogue with the hegelian categories. Considering that the center of Kierkegaard´s theorical opposition to Hegel is a critique to historical freedom´s formalization from objectivist criterions, we intend to explicit, by means of Hegel and Kierkegaard´s dialogue with Hans Georg Hamann, that the language´s apprehension is an experience of freedom´s exteriorization. The starting point of this Kierkegaard´s opposition is grounded in a lecture incompatible with an objectivation turned out to be autonomous, whose historical-referencial element is the State: this starting point will show itself nucleated in the spirit´s distinct apprehensions realized by both authors / A presente pesquisa investiga o conceito de paradoxo na obra de S. A. Kierkegaard a partir do dialogo crítico presente na apreensão kierkegaardiana do esforço filosófico de Hegel. Esta investigação busca mostrar as conexões apresentadas no conceito de paradoxo entre a fé, a linguagem e a história, tendo como pano de fundo o diálogo de Kierkegaard com as categorias hegelianas. Considerando que o centro da oposição teórica de Kierkegaard a Hegel é uma crítica à formalização da liberdade histórica a partir de critérios objetivistas, explicitaremos, por meio do diálogo de Hegel e Kierkegaard com Hans Georg Hamann, a apreensão da linguagem como experiência de exteriorização da liberdade. O ponto de partida desta oposição kierkegaardiana está ancorado numa leitura incompatível com uma objetivação tornada autônoma, cujo elemento histórico-referencial é o Estado: ele se mostrará nucleado nas distintas apreensões do espírito realizadas pelos dois autores

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-11-28T16:38:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Olmaro Paulo Mass_.pdf: 1280501 bytes, checksum: 24a42da0cab36557c085f1c099acf2af (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-28T16:38:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Olmaro Paulo Mass_.pdf: 1280501 bytes, checksum: 24a42da0cab36557c085f1c099acf2af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-24 / Nenhuma / A presente tese tem por finalidade desenvolver a filosofia como exercício de abertura ao não-idêntico a partir da Dialética Negativa de Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund-Adorno. Além disso, visa compreender as principais contribuições e concepções filosóficas do seu pensamento, destacando a importância da autonomia alicerçada na interdisciplinaridade da teoria crítica. O pensamento de Adorno cobra que a filosofia assuma seu principal papel: o efetivo exercício crítico e uma rigorosa compreensão da realidade por meio do pensamento dialético que preserva em sua essência a negatividade. Esta pesquisa tem, ainda, por objetivo analisar criticamente como se gestou, no seio da sociedade, uma forma de vida banalizada nas diversas formas de violência e administrada sob uma racionalidade técnico-científica que, na concepção de Adorno, possui sua identidade conceitual e sua expressividade na sociedade contemporânea. Os processos de instrumentalização da razão e suas consequências foram desastrosos no decorrer dos séculos XX e XXI: o fim das utopias, a produção da vida danificada exposta ou posta à disposição de um poder que a rege, administra-a e torna-a mero produto de descarte nas estratégias de poder do controle das massas. A filosofia adorniana tem por objetivo dar voz ao pensamento crítico da dialética negativa e, assim, abrir-se ao não conceitual para realizar uma nova experiência filosófica de resistência ao conhecimento instrumentalizado. Assim, o pensamento crítico tem sua expressão na não identidade da negatividade enquanto instrumento para aproximar-se do não conceitual, potencialidade da dialética negativa. / This thesis aims to develop an analysis of philosophy as the exercise of non-identical with the theoretical support of Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund-Adorno. It also seeks to understand the main contributions and philosophical conceptions of thought, highlighting the importance of autonomy grounded in interdisciplinary critical theory. The thought of Adorno requires that philosophy takes its main role: the actual critical exercise and a thorough understanding of reality by means of dialectical thinking that preserves in its essence the negativity. This research has also aims to analyze critically how it developed, within society, a form of banal life in the various forms of violence and administered in a technical-scientific rationality that, in the design of Adorno, has its conceptual identity and expression in contemporary society. The process of the instrumentalization of reason and its consequences were disastrous over the centuries XX and XXI: the end of utopias, the production of damaged life exposed or made available to a power that governs, manages it and becomes a mere product disposal in power strategies of control of the masses. The Adornian philosophy aims to give voice to the critical thinking of negative dialectics and thus be open to non-conceptual to make a new philosophical experience of resistance instrumentalized knowledge. Thus, critical thinking has its expression in the non-identity of negativity as a tool to approach the non-conceptual, the potential negative dialectics.

<p>Det finns få vårdvetenskapliga studier av personer som lever med eller vårdas för olika former av förmakstakykardi. Det saknas även riktlinjer för sjuksköterskor hur de ska omhänderta patienter med förmakstakykardier i lika stor utsträckning som vid andra hjärtsjukdomar. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att beskriva innebörder att leva med och vårdas för förmakstakykardi. Studien har ett livsvärldsperspektiv och ett dialektiskt perspektiv på processen mellan vård och besvär. Data samlades in med kvalitativa intervjuer. Fyra män och tre kvinnor intervjuades. Datan analyserades med en fenomenologisk hermeneutisk metod enligt Lindseth och Norberg (2004). I resultatet belyses processen mellan vård och besvär av förmakstakykardi. Resultatet visar att patienter vars förmakstakykardi har gått över innan de kommer till sjukhus har svårt att få någon diagnos. Resultatet påvisar också att vården inte förser patienterna med den kunskap de behöver i sitt dagliga liv och att det är ett större problem för patienterna att takykardin återkommer än när den pågår. Om dessa aspekter inte tillgodoses så kan det uppstå ett vårdlidande.</p> / <p>There are few studies with a caring science perspective of people who lives or being cared for different forms of supraventricular tachycardia. There is also a lack in guidelines for nurses how to care for patients with supraventrikulär tachycardia in comparison with other heart conditions. The aim of this study is to describe meanings of living with and being under care for supraventricular tachycardia. The study has an lifeworld perspective and a dialectic perspective on the process between caring and inconvenience. Data was collected with qualitative interviews. Four men and three women where interviewed. The data was analyzed using an phenomenological hermeneutic method as described by Lindseth and Norberg (2004). The result enlightens the process between care and inconvenience of supraventricular tachycardia. The result shows that patients with a supraventricular tachycardia that ends before they reach the hospital have difficulties to be diagnosed. The result also points out that the given care dos not provide the patients with the knowledge they need in their daily life and it is a greater problem for the patients that the tachycardia returns then it is when its actually going on. Failing these aspects may inflict a suffering caused by care.</p>

The primary purpose of this study is to explore a case of remarkably powerful contemporary rhetoric, namely Robert Parker’s wine writing, which has had an unprecedented impact in the world of prestigious wine for more than two decades. Parker, an American autodidact who gave up his career in law to become a fulltime wine critic, is considered the most influential critic of all time. This background motivates the approach of the current enquiry, which targets the persuasiveness in Parker’s writing. The investigation strives to bring to the fore both explicit and implicit elements of his wine reviews that have the potential to contribute to rhetorical success. The material selected for analysis comprises a corpus of reviews extracted from Parker’s extensive bulk of wine writing. The texts are studied against the backdrop of socio-cultural and institutional frames. Considerable importance is assigned to the fact that the reviews occur within a strictly specialized field of discourse with a highly conventionalized configuration. This hermeneutic enquiry approaches the topic from three analytical perspectives, designed to highlight persuasiveness in representations, argumentation and appraisal. The presentation reports on schematic patterns in Parker’s discourse as well as close interpretation of individual texts. The analysis of representations shows that both visual and verbal representations contribute to the persuasiveness of the text. The argumentative exploration of Parker’s discourse, which is assisted by the analytical tools of pragma-dialectics, demonstrates that the reviews involve rational argumentation on several subordinate levels, given in support of assessments and recommendations. Finally, the perspective of appraisal draws on the analytical resources provided by the Appraisal model to shed light on the way in which the audience is positioned to respond with respect to emotional, associative and perceptual values. The results indicate that the persuasiveness of Parker’s discourse arises as a result of concordance among an intricate array of interrelated factors. The audience is recurrently demonstrated to play a crucial role as co-constructors of the message. The present study also has methodological outcomes, presenting a novel combination of analytical methods to perform contextually situated discourse analysis. In addition, the material is allowed to challenge the theoretical ideas and notions that are addressed.

Det finns få vårdvetenskapliga studier av personer som lever med eller vårdas för olika former av förmakstakykardi. Det saknas även riktlinjer för sjuksköterskor hur de ska omhänderta patienter med förmakstakykardier i lika stor utsträckning som vid andra hjärtsjukdomar. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att beskriva innebörder att leva med och vårdas för förmakstakykardi. Studien har ett livsvärldsperspektiv och ett dialektiskt perspektiv på processen mellan vård och besvär. Data samlades in med kvalitativa intervjuer. Fyra män och tre kvinnor intervjuades. Datan analyserades med en fenomenologisk hermeneutisk metod enligt Lindseth och Norberg (2004). I resultatet belyses processen mellan vård och besvär av förmakstakykardi. Resultatet visar att patienter vars förmakstakykardi har gått över innan de kommer till sjukhus har svårt att få någon diagnos. Resultatet påvisar också att vården inte förser patienterna med den kunskap de behöver i sitt dagliga liv och att det är ett större problem för patienterna att takykardin återkommer än när den pågår. Om dessa aspekter inte tillgodoses så kan det uppstå ett vårdlidande. / There are few studies with a caring science perspective of people who lives or being cared for different forms of supraventricular tachycardia. There is also a lack in guidelines for nurses how to care for patients with supraventrikulär tachycardia in comparison with other heart conditions. The aim of this study is to describe meanings of living with and being under care for supraventricular tachycardia. The study has an lifeworld perspective and a dialectic perspective on the process between caring and inconvenience. Data was collected with qualitative interviews. Four men and three women where interviewed. The data was analyzed using an phenomenological hermeneutic method as described by Lindseth and Norberg (2004). The result enlightens the process between care and inconvenience of supraventricular tachycardia. The result shows that patients with a supraventricular tachycardia that ends before they reach the hospital have difficulties to be diagnosed. The result also points out that the given care dos not provide the patients with the knowledge they need in their daily life and it is a greater problem for the patients that the tachycardia returns then it is when its actually going on. Failing these aspects may inflict a suffering caused by care.

This dissertation explores how argumentation theory can supplement models of responsible persuasion in rhetoric and writing studies. In particular, it demonstrates how reasoning as envisioned in the pragma-dialectical approach of argumentation can provide an alternative to exclusionary, unethical operations of reason. Despite longstanding work with models of argument from Aristotle to Stephen Toulmin, rhetoric and writing has paid little attention to the potential uses of dialectical argumentation theory. Such theory deserves greater consideration given its ability to meet the ethical demands voiced by rhetorical critiques of traditional ways of arguing. Critiques of reason demonstrate how the abstractions necessary for logical certainty exist in tension with the inherent ambiguity of human arguments. In attempting to strip away that ambiguity, some discussants unfairly exclude relevant details from others and may exclude entire populations who should be included in a fair deliberation. Goals of understanding and inclusion unite the variety of calls for new ways of arguing made in rhetoric and writing under titles of Rogerian, non-agonistic, listening, and invitational rhetorics. Nevertheless, as Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca describe, even as our arguments involve irresolvable ambiguities, they must also function as stable and coherent viewpoints such that our interlocutors can hold us accountable to agreement or disagreement. In this way, we responsibly argue questions of ethics, politics and law. Though no final resolution of ambiguity is possible in such questions, we can reason together for a better understanding of each other's positions and craft pragmatic policies to deal with our disagreements. In order to explore the disciplinary questions about the relationship between rhetoric and argumentation, the dissertation examines a series of case studies drawn from judicial disputes over church-state separation in the United States. In examining problematic rhetoric of these disputes, the dissertation builds an understanding of responsible reason informed by dialectical argumentation and demonstrates its utility for both critical and pedagogical applications. / text

The organizational consequences of information technology (IT) constitutes a core focus in information systems (IS) research. The relationship between organizations and IT has received considerable attention by IS researchers in order to develop knowledge related to how and why organizations and IT are related. While organizational use of IT continues to increase in practice, previous research has shown that the effects of IT at best are difficult to predict. Consequently, the adoption and assimilation of IT in organizational settings must be recognized as complex and challenging processes, which makes the production of knowledge related to such processes important and pressing.   This dissertation identifies, characterizes and explains a paradoxical outcome of the adoption and assimilation of an enterprise content management (ECM) system in a context of organizational information management. The outcome, labeled the duplicate systems paradox, is constituted by a situation in which an organization continuously allows multiple, overlapping, partially competing and largely incompatible information systems to persist and continue to evolve over time, despite continued awareness of the adverse consequences on organizational information management capabilities. A qualitative case study approach was used as the primary means for data collection. The case study was conducted in the administrative divisions of HealthOrg, a large organization in the medical- and health care sector. To this end, the main objective of this dissertation is to investigate how this paradox was formed, and furthermore, how and why it was able to persist. In order to do this, dialectical theory is combined with contextualism and theory on organizational information processing to form a comprehensive theoretical perspective used to inform the analytical efforts.   By using a dialectical approach, the analysis presents empirical evidence of the existence and composition of three overarching contradictions found to affect the formation and persistence of the duplicate systems paradox. More specifically, the resulting explanatory model demonstrates how three pairs of opposites, control versus support at the requirements level, options versus practices at the solutions level, and top-down versus bottom-up approaches at the transformations level, along with contextual tensions, were essential components in the formation and persistence of the paradox. Thus, the duplicate systems paradox could form and continue to evolve due to contradictory forces present at, and interconnected between, different vertical and horizontal levels within the organization. Through the identification and explanation of the duplicate systems paradox, this study provides a detailed example of how, and why, unintended consequences of IT in organizations may emerge and continue over time.   In terms of implications for research and practice, the findings of this dissertation point to six important observations. First, this research suggests that understanding and characterizing the context in which IT is to be implemented is crucial and challenging. Thus, organizations should pay careful attention to the practical side of context, rather than to the somewhat theoretical boundaries of organizations. It is suggested that the concepts of ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ context may be useful in analyzing and understanding context. Second, this research suggests that organizations should attempt to identify potentially conflicting requirements, and devise clear strategies to decide how to prioritize between such requirements as the identification and explication of requirements present at different levels in the organization may reveal problems that need to be considered when choosing information system (IS). Third, organizations need to pay careful attention to what the adoption of a new IS means in terms of adaptation and/or realignment, and to what extent organizational activities, technological functionalities, or both, should be adapted. Organizations should furthermore be aware that the adoption of systems that can also be used as development platforms may cause a cascade of effects and dependencies that are difficult to manage. Fourth, the findings of this research suggest that organizations faced with the challenge of adopting complex IT solutions need to take into account their previous strategies and planned new ones in order to devise a comprehensive strategic approach since the coexistence of radically different strategies may cause uncertainty and inertia within the overall assimilation process. Fifth, this research indicates that IT management and information management (IM) are highly interrelated activities, but are not mutually exclusive. Thus, organizations adopting technologies that are specifically focused on information management may benefit from developing distinct areas of responsibility and clear communication channels between the involved organizational units. Furthermore, these findings suggest that future research should pay careful attention to, and specifically investigate, the exact nature of the relationship between information management and IT management. Finally, this research demonstrates how a dialectical approach may be used to adequately investigate organizational information management, specifically in relation to the adoption and assimilation of IT.

La présente thèse analyse et contraste les positions de G.W.F. Hegel et de T. W. Adorno sur la nature de la pensée rationnelle et le sens de la pratique philosophique. Notre démarche consiste en une interprétation critique d’une idée que partagent Hegel et Adorno mais qu’ils développent différemment, selon laquelle la pensée rationnelle obéit à un certain besoin (Bedürfnis) qui lui est à la fois spécifique et universel. Hegel a parlé d’un « besoin de la philosophie ». L’expression est ambiguë : elle vise à décrire la nature générale de la pensée rationnelle mais aussi à exprimer la pertinence historique de la raison, c’est-à-dire sa capacité à assouvir des besoins concrets. Je démontre dans les cinq premiers chapitres que Hegel tente de réconcilier ces deux besoins en soutenant que l’identification par le concept est précisément ce qui permet d’appaiser la souffrance concrète que génère la division de l’histoire avec elle-même. La solution est en effet trouvée dans l’idée du savoir absolu, une posture de la pensée rationnelle tout aussi fondée dans la nature de la pensée elle-même que dans les aspirations de son autre, c’est-à-dire de l’histoire. Le savoir absolu est le point où chez Hegel coïncident la nature de la raison en général et la nécessité d’exprimer les besoins universels de l’histoire. Les chapitres six à neuf situent ensuite le déplacement épistémologique que propose la dialectique négative d’Adorno par rapport à cette conclusion de Hegel. Nous prenons soin de montrer qu’Adorno ne la juge pas fausse mais unilatérale. Il conçoit qu’exprimer et assouvir les souffrances historiques revient au concept mais il soutient en même temps que celui-ci échoue à cette tâche tant qu’on ne nuance pas la portée et la signification de sa « compulsion à identifier ». Nous démontrons que si cette dernière est d’après Adorno à la fois inévitable et fautive, c’est parce que le besoin qui motive la pensée rationnelle n’est pas d’abord la nécessité de concevoir l’unité dans la division mais celui de réaliser les conditions de la survie et du bonheur de l’organisme vivant qui soutient la pensée. Or pour Adorno, la société capitaliste bloque les pratiques émancipatrices qui s’attachent à combler ce besoin matériel parce qu’elle absolutise le principe d’identité. Nous soutenons que, dans ce contexte, l’approche adornienne de la philosophie comme relevant de l’essai (Essay) et développant des concepts discontinus orientés vers le non-identique n’est pas moins, mais plus rationnelle que la posture hégélienne qui considère la philosophie comme une science absolue. / This thesis analyzes and contrasts G. W. F. Hegel’s and T. W. Adorno’s positions on the nature of rationality and the task of philosophy. Its central aim is to offer a critical interpretation of a thought shared but interpreted differently by both thinkers, namely, that philosophy proceeds from a certain need (Bedürfnis) that is both specific and universal. Hegel spoke of a « need of philosophy ». The expression is ambiguous: it is meant to describe the general nature of rational thinking, but also to express how reason or philosophy can justify their historical relevance and satisfy concrete needs. I argue in chapters one to five that Hegel tries to reconcile these two needs, in order to show why identifying with concepts is the key to appeasing the concrete suffering caused by history’s own division within itself. The answer is given in absolute knowledge, grounded and justified in respect of thought itself as well as thought’s other, i.e., history. Absolute knowledge is point of equilibrium between reason in general and reason as the adequate expression of history’s universal needs. Chapters six to nine then interpret Adorno’s negative dialectics as a critical reworking of this dialectical problem of framing normativity in historical terms. Adorno agrees with Hegel that the most relevant and satisfying expression of historical suffering is conceptual, yet he also contends that the « compulsion to identity » as such fails to satisfy the need that motivates philosophical thinking. I argue that this is because striving for survival and happiness is not reducible to thought’s obsession with identity. For Adorno, happiness and “right life” are blocked in contemporary society because capitalism hypostasizes the identity principle inherent in conceptual thinking. In this context, I argue that Adorno’s view of philosophy as essay (Essay) is more, not less, rational than Hegel’s understanding of philosophy as an absolute science. / Une traduction française des "Thèses sur le besoin" de Theodor W. Adorno accompagne la thèse (annexe).

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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], vii, 82 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-82).