Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-85).

Dans cette thèse nous abordons la relation entre l’image et l’imagination chez Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788) et Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). La particularité de leur approche est la mise en cause de l’étroite liaison de l’image et sensibilité et la notion de l’image comme langage. Dans les ouvrages qui constituent le corpus de notre travail, il est possible de discerner trois sphères de réflexion où l’image a une importance si déterminante : la religieuse, la philosophique et la rhétorique. Dans Aesthetica in nuce (1762) et Vom Erkennen und Empfinden der menschlichen Seele (1774, 1775, 1778) se trouvent les prémisses du tournant épistémique que vise la perspective réductionniste et rationaliste de la connaissance. Dans ce tournant l’image acoustique et l’imagination gagnent une place essentielle. / The tone of the soul. The image and the imagination in Johann Georg Hamann and Johann Gottfried Herder, addresses the relationship between image and imagination in the thought of J.G. Hamann and J.G. Herder. The singularity of the approach of both german philosophers is the close connection of the image and sensibility and the definition of the image as language. The work of Hamann Aesthetica in nuce (1762) and the work of Herder, Vom Erkennen und Empfinden der menschlichen Seele (1774, 1775, 1778) represent a new epistemological model that is based on the holistic view of human being. In this model, the image acoustic and the imagination becomen the tow arguments for the assumption that the images and the activity of imagination create all knowledge of the world.

La disertación que presento hoy para optar por el Grado de Magister comprende dos partes: la primera es una breve aproximación, a modo de marco teórico, sobre la concepción del cuerpo humano en la escultura a través de las diferentes etapas de la historia del arte occidental, y sus implicancias. En la segunda parte, selecciono esculturas de diferentes etapas para elaborar una reflexión sobre mi aproximación al cuerpo humano como eje de mi propuesta escultórica. Aunque mi acento se torne categórico por momentos, quiero dejar en claro que esta interpretación parte de una reflexión desde mi situación particular al momento de realizar las obras. Y cómo es que este ejercicio del crear, plantea, fluye, se despliega, libera. Mi proyecto escultórico es también un medio para abrir nuevas brechas, a través de la reflexión, en ese misterio que es el cuerpo humano, sin que ello signifique que el problema estético quede resuelto totalmente. Por el contrario, los cabos sueltos se entrelazarán de muchas maneras y también “esos nudos”, esos amarres se soltarán. / Tesis

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-93).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-93).

Inaug.-diss.--München. / Vita. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. iv.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-93).

Tübingen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2003. / Dateien im PDF-Format.

This thesis investigates Søren Kierkegaard’s (1813-1855) reception of the writings of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788). I focus on four specific topics. In chapter one I examine Kierkegaard’s early reception of Hamann which I argue provides the basis for Kierkegaard’s conception of his own authorial task. In particular, I examine concepts of humour and systematicity and the centrality of the figure of Socrates. Central to my argument is a contrast between Kierkegaard’s reception of Hamann and that of Hegel’s review. In chapter two I show that Kierkegaard develops an argument against speculative philosophy and its claims to have achieved the absolute beginning. I argue that Kierkegaard appeals to Hamann’s critique of Kant which centres around the possibility of a priori cognition and the dependency of reason on language. I contend that Kierkegaard takes up Hamann’s critique in order to show that the absolute beginning which speculative philosophy claims to have achieved in the form of pure thinking is unachievable because of the dependency of thought on language. Chapter three examines the conception of selfhood in Hamann and Kierkegaard. I address their views of the self as unified and their critique of alternative conceptions of selfhood which undermine this unity. I show that Kierkegaard’s arguments in relation to despair and forgetfulness share important similarities with Hamann. Chapter four explores Kierkegaard’s critique and repair of post-Kantian reflection theory. I demonstrate that Kierkegaard proceeds to provide a minimal view of the self achieved through reflection which finally encounters its own limits in its own self-knowledge. I propose that Kierkegaard presents this as Socratic ignorance and that his model for outlining the limits of self-knowledge stems from Hamann. I develop my argument by arguing that for Hamann and Kierkegaard self-knowledge is only available through divine revelation.

<p>This essay concerns itself with the historical background to what it refers to as <em>existential pedagogy</em>, which designates the way in which existential literature presumably seeks to affect the reader so that he experiences his existence as isolated, and how this is done through the employment of harsh and uncompromising language and rhetorical devices. The assumption underlying this project is that there is a pedagogical purpose to the existential manner of de-livery, and this essay traces this purpose back to how in the 18th century certain thinkers – Johann Georg Hamann and Friedrich Schlegel – came to look back at Socrates rhetorical en-deavour in order to perfect their own desire to place the question of ‘meaning’, ‘knowledge’ or ‘truth’ into the hands of the receiving individual – the reader of a text or the student of a teacher. By studying the manner in which Hamann and Schlegel used this Socratic rhetoric in their own authorship, I seek to establish how they considered it vital that the recipient experi-enced himself as thoroughly alone in order to cultivate his ability to infuse meaning into the world. The essay continues to examine how Sören Kierkegaard – in his capacity as the mythi-cal ‘father of existentialism’ – conceived of the Socratic rhetoric as lacking in sufficiently accounting for the despair and sinfulness he saw as being intertwined with experiencing one-self as lonely and ignorant. By studying how Kierkegaard approached the reader in his pseu-donymous and existential literature, the essay makes it clear that the existential pedagogy util-ized by Kierkegaard works in order to simultaneously infuse the reader with a feeling of isola-tion and ignorance, as it, through repeatedly focusing on the despair involved in that condi-tion, provoked the reader into taking action, despite (or, existentially, because he was) being taught that he, on account of his inevitable loneliness and ignorance, could not.</p>