This thesis offers an analysis of selected works by Virginia Woolf through the theoretical framework of technology of place. The term “technology”, meaning both a finished product and an ongoing production process, a mode of concealment and unconcealment in Martin Heidegger's sense, is used as part of this thesis's argument that place can be understood through constant negotiations of concrete place perceived through the senses, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “earth”, and abstract place perceived in the imagination, a concept based on the Heideggerian notion of “world”. The term “technology of place”, coined by Irvin C. Schick in The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse (1999), is appropriated and re-interpreted as part of this thesis's adoption and adaptation of Woolf's notion of ideal biographical writing as an amalgamation of “granite” biographical facts and “rainbow” internal life. Woolf's granite and rainbow dichotomy is used as a foreground to this thesis's proposed theoretical framework, through which questions of space/place can be examined. My analysis of Flush (1933) demonstrates that place is a technology which can be taken at face value and, at the same time, appropriated to challenge the ideology of its construction. My analysis of Orlando (1928) demonstrates that Woolf's idea of utopia exemplifies the technological “coming together”, in Heidegger's term, of concrete social reality and abstract artistic fantasy. My analysis of The Years (1937) demonstrates that sense of place as well as sense of identity is ambivalent and constantly changing like the weather, reflecting place's Janus-faced function as both concealment and unconcealment. Lastly, my analysis of Woolf's selected essays and marginalia illustrates that writing can serve as a revolutionary “place-making” technology through which one can mentally “make room” for (re-)imagining the lives of “the obscure”, often placed in oblivion throughout the course of history.

The thesis: "The easiest thing of all is to pass judgement on what has a solid substantial content; it is more difficult to grasp it and most of all difficult to do both together and produce the systematic exposition of it". (Hegel). Since at least 1960 there has been a considerable amount of critical attention paid to Beckett. Besides articles, reviews, chapters and paragraphs, by 1979 more, than sixty books had been published devoted exclusively to him. A lot of this critical work has been of the highest standard and certainly it is hard to imagine how a serious appreciation of Beckett could survive without it. But it is my opinion that at the heart of his writing there is an inescapable mass of involvement with the fundamental issues of existence that has yet to be dealt with adequately. In this thesis I intend to attack this central core of Beckett's work by associating it with the discipline which, by definition, operates in the same area - philosophy. This will provide a new "reading" of Beckett and at the same time show how far philosophical analogy can illuminate a writer.

xi, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / This dissertation develops an interpretation of Martin Heidegger's philosophical project in On the Way to Language and some of his earlier works that pave the way for this text and offers criticism of Heidegger's project in light of this interpretation. On the Way to Language stands apart from most twentieth century philosophy in arguing that, although human beings are within language in one sense, our relationship to language is nevertheless an estranged one. Heidegger often describes this condition as "lacking the word for the word." Because we are constantly speaking, we rarely if ever stop to wonder about the nature of language itself. Heidegger calls this our "entanglement" within language, a concept rooted in Being and Time 's exposition of the human being's thrownness. Read in terms of language, thrownness describes how we inherit concepts and find ourselves entangled in words prior to our reflection upon them. Heidegger presents what motivates us to bring the word to word in two ways. First, this need is rooted in the human being's fundamental structure of thrownness. Second, the need makes itself manifest through translation. My reading expands upon these two explanations of how we come to experience this entanglement, arguing that everyday communication regularly offers such experiences and demands that we modify, therefore temporarily distancing ourselves from, given language inheritances. The dissertation employs three other theorists, Roman Jakobson, Judith Butler, and Julia Kristeva, to flesh out how this need naturally arises in ordinary language development. Though he underestimates the extent to which everyday communicative situations require ongoing transformations of ordinary language, Heidegger nevertheless considers social encounters to be an important vehicle for language transformation. In this way, the goal of bringing our thrownness into language to word is not to disentangle ourselves from social relations, as some commentators have suggested. The last chapter shows how Paul Celan's poetics, in its inheritance of Heidegger's project, expands upon the role of social relations in language entanglement. / Committee in charge: Scott Pratt, Co-Chairperson, Philosophy; John Lysaker, Co-Chairperson, Philosophy; Beata Stawarska, Member, Philosophy; Peter Warnek, Member, Philosophy; Jeffrey Librett, Outside Member, German and Scandinavian

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Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, 2016. / Submitted by Camila Duarte (camiladias@bce.unb.br) on 2016-07-15T18:30:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LucasTiagoMilhomeGalvão.pdf: 1123859 bytes, checksum: e1e070cf188e84a9701db13654ff0bf0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2017-02-14T22:02:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LucasTiagoMilhomeGalvão.pdf: 1123859 bytes, checksum: e1e070cf188e84a9701db13654ff0bf0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-14T22:02:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LucasTiagoMilhomeGalvão.pdf: 1123859 bytes, checksum: e1e070cf188e84a9701db13654ff0bf0 (MD5) / Esta dissertação de mestrado tratará da obra de Mallarmé a partir de suas obras inacabadas, especialmente dos dezessete fragmentos de Épouser la notion, com o objetivo de pensar a natureza da obra literária, em aproximação com o pensamento predominantemente de Heidegger, Derrida e Levinas, sob o horizonte do que os trabalhos em torno da Ontologia, da Desconstrução e da Ética podem fazer pensar sobre a linguagem enquanto fenômeno, lugar da aporia e dom ao outro, mas sobretudo enquanto lance que não pode abolir o acaso. / This master's thesis will address Mallarme's oeuvre from his unfinished works, particularly the seventeen fragments of Épouser la notion, in order to think on the nature of literary work in closer ties with Heidegger's, Derrida's and Levinas' thought. This, from the standpoint of the work around the Ontology, Deconstruction and Ethics, may help to reflect on language as a phenomenon, a place of aporia and as a gift to the other, but chiefly as a throw of the dice that cannot abolish le hasard.

Orientador: Zeljko Loparic / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T06:38:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_EderSoares_D.pdf: 715602 bytes, checksum: 42e9f6b0d61cb2fd4ef311c2f2cc0a72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Objetiva-se investigar, nesta tese, uma possibilidade de articulação entre a teoria do amadurecimento pessoal de Winnicott e a teoria da acontecência (Geschichtlichkeit) de Heidegger. Utiliza-se a noção de paradigma de Kuhn para, no quadro do desenvolvimento histórico da psicanálise, distinguir a psicanálise de Winnicott da psicanálise tradicional (Freud e Klein). Destaca-se que, em relação à tradicional, a winnicottiana promove uma mudança paradigmática em todos os elementos que compõem a matriz disciplinar da teoria psicanalítica. O estabelecimento desta distinção permitiu tomar um dos componentes dessa matriz para tema de estudo, a saber, o componente ontológico. Essa escolha pretende mostrar, por um lado, que a ontologia presente na teoria de Winnicott aproxima-se de um modo de pensar a natureza humana, que é muito próximo às concepções pós-metafísicas de Heidegger, podendo a teoria da acontecência desse filosofo iluminar a compreensão dos elementos ontológicos que compõem a teoria winnicottiana. Por outro lado, esse movimento de aproximação aponta para um distanciamento, que permite notar que a psicanálise de Winnicott apresenta várias questões instigantes e suplementares a uma fenomenologia existencial. A investigação sobre as possíveis aproximações e distanciamentos entre essas duas teorias fez com que se questionasse a localização da psicanálise de Winnicott em relação a um pensamento pós-metafísico e deu margem à discussão sobre as possibilidades de se erigir uma ciência do homem / Abstract: The aim of the present work is to investigate the possibility of establishing a bond between Winnicott's theory of personal maturation and Heidegger's theory of Geschichtlichkeit (historicity). We used Kuhn's notion ofparadigm to distinguish Winnicott's psychoanalysis from traditional psychoanalysis (Freud and KIein) within the framework of historical development of psychoanalysis. What stands out is that in comparison to traditional psychoanalysis, Winnicott's psychoanalysis promotes a paradigm shift in alI elements that compose the disciplinary matrix of psychoanalytical theory. The establishment of that distinction allowed us to singIe out one ofthe components ofthat matrix for our study, i.e., the ontological component. By this choice, we intend to show, on one hand, that the ontology found in Winnicott's theory approaches a way of thinking human nature which is very dose to Heidegger's post-metaphysical conceptions so that his theory appropriation could illurninate the comprehension of the ontological elements that compose Winnicott's theory. On the other hand, that movement of approximation points towards a distancing, which shows that Winnicott's psychoanalysis contains several instigating and additional issues in relation to existential phenomenology. The investigation ofthe possible nearness and farness between those two theories leads us to question Winnicott's psychoanalysis in relation to a post-metaphysical thinking and gave way to the discussion on the possibilities of creating a science of mano / Doutorado / Doutor em Filosofia

Orientador: Zeljko Loparic / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T08:15:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ferreira_AlexandredeOliveira_D.pdf: 1187565 bytes, checksum: e3b80b936ca7fb5018f17cc8d4c84fa0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer um estudo da Kehre, a inflexão que se inicia no pensamento de Heidegger a partir dos anos trinta, relacionando-a ao problema da técnica. A assim denominada ¿virada¿ é definida como a mudança da pergunta pelo ¿sentido de ser¿ à pergunta pela ¿verdade do ser¿, esta última pensada como uma ¿topologia do ser¿. Essa trajetória filosófica de Heidegger será abordada buscando conciliar duas linhas de interpretação, quais sejam: aquela que pensa a Kehre como decorrente de contradições internas ao projeto da ontologia fundamental; e aquela que a concebe como resultado de novos desafios, os quais teriam surgido em meio ao caminho do pensar: fundamentalmente, a técnica e o envolvimento com o Nacional-socialismo. A tese a ser defendida é de que, devido a dificuldades internas à analítica existencial, o projeto de uma ontologia fundamental mostra-se, já no final do anos 20, insuficiente para a tarefa de desconstruir a metafísica da presentidade (Anwesenheit). Entretanto, é apenas através do problema da técnica que essas dificuldades se intensificam e tornam-se mais claras, conduzindo a problemas que não poderiam ser vislumbrados no âmbito da ontologia fundamental. Com relação às dificuldades internas à ontologia fundamental, serão destacados três aspectos, quais sejam: 1) a impossibilidade de se levar a cabo o projeto de uma ciência do ser; 2) a dificuldade em superar a assim denominada ¿filosofia da subjetividade¿ e 3) a insuficiência da analítica existencial para a destruição da história da ontologia e para que o Dasein se aproprie de sua época. No que diz respeito à técnica será dada ênfase ao diálogo que Heidegger estabelece com Ernst Jünger; ver-se-á também que a confrontação com a técnica é responsável pelo engajamento e pela decepção com o movimento Nacional-socialista, pelas reflexões acerca da arte e da linguagem (as quais se iniciam na segunda metade dos anos trinta) bem como pela elaboração de conceitos fundamentais do pensamento tardio do filósofo, como: Ereignis; ¿topologia do ser¿ e quadrindade (Geviert). Por fim, dever-se-á provar que a Kehre é processo gradual, porém radical, na medida em que diz respeito à própria origem da verdade. Ela marca o abandono gradativo da temporalidade (Zeitlichkeit) como horizonte transcendental para o entendimento do ser, mostrando a necessidade de buscar a origem da verdade nos envios epocais do próprio ser / Abstract: This work¿s objective is to study the Kehre, the inflection initiated in Heidegger's thought during the 30s due to his relationship with the question of technique. The so called ¿turn¿ is defined as a conversion of the question of the ¿meaning of being¿ to the question of the ¿truth of being¿, thought of as a ¿topology of being¿. Heidegger¿s trajectory will be considered by conciliating two lines of interpretation: one which treats the Kehre as a consequence of inner contradictions in the project of fundamental ontology; and another one which comprehends it as the result of new challenges that occurred to his way of thinking: fundamentally, technique and the involvement with National-Socialism. The thesis argues that, in consequence of the inner difficulties of the existential analytic the project of a fundamental ontology proved, already at the end of 20s, to be insufficient to deconstruct the metaphysics of presence. However, these difficulties became intensified and clearer only by means of the problem of technique, which lead to problems which could not be perceived in the field of fundamental ontology. In relation to the inner difficulties of fundamental ontology three aspects will be emphasized: 1) the impossibility to conclude the project of the science of being; 2) the difficulty to surmount the so-called ¿philosophy of subjectivity¿; 3) the insufficiency of existential analytic to destroy the history of ontology and to cause the Dasein to appropriate its own time. Concerning technique, the dialog with Ernst Jünger will be emphasized as well as the fact that Heidegger¿s confrontation with technique is responsible for his engagement and for his disappointment with the National-Socialist movement; for his reflections concerning art and language (which start in the second half of the 30s); and also for the elaboration of some fundamental concepts of his late thought, like: Ereignis; ¿topology of being¿ and Geviert. Finally, it should be proved that the Kehre is a gradual process, although radical, since it relates to the origin of truth. It represents a gradual abandonment of temporality as a transcendent horizon for the understanding of being, showing the necessity to search for an origin of truth in the epochal sendings of being itself / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:06:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ELIANA BORGES.pdf: 616051 bytes, checksum: 182db974c5f16ec819ed5c2101c39748 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-28 / This work discusses the concept of existence, presented in major work of Martin Heidegger, Being and time. This concept will be characterized as the singular way of being of the man, named in the context of Being and time, Dasein. Thus, we address the issue in four stages. At first, we present a brief exposition of Heidegger s ontological project, necessary for a correct understanding of all this work. At this time, should be highlighted why Dasein figure as the privileged being and, thus, thematized throughout the book. In the second phase, the theme being developed is the existence as a new way of understanding the entity that exists always in relation with being. Since, in Being and time, Heidegger abandons the older categories that only apply to entities other than ourselves, and forge the existential expression to refer to the characteristics of Dasein. In the third step we will address the opening of existence as the place where the manifestation of being is given, as will e shown that the decay is the instance that characterizes the improper existence, but through the anguish it can choose to be at their own since it do not run away to be faced with their true condition. Finally, at the last moment of our thesis, the aim is to explain how the phenomenon of death and conscience allow the fundamental openness of Dasein to its own existence. / O presente trabalho aborda o conceito de existência, apresentado na obra capital de Martin Heidegger, Ser e tempo. Este conceito será caracterizado como o modo de ser singular do homem, chamado, no contexto de Ser e tempo, Dasein. Desse modo, abordamos o tema em quatro momentos. No primeiro momento, apresentamos uma breve exposição do projeto ontológico heideggeriano, necessária para uma correta compreensão do todo deste trabalho. Neste primeiro momento, deverá ser destacado o porquê de o Dasein figurar como o ente privilegiado e, portanto, tematizado ao longo da obra. No segundo momento, o tema a ser desenvolvido é a existência como um novo modo de compreender o ente que existe sempre em relação com o ser. Uma vez que, em Ser e tempo, Heidegger abandona as velhas categorias aplicáveis apenas aos entes que não somos nós mesmos, e forja a expressão existencial para se referir as características próprias do Dasein. No terceiro momento abordaremos a abertura da existência como lugar onde se dá a manifestação do ser, assim como será mostrado que a decadência é a instância que caracteriza a existência imprópria, contudo através da angústia ele pode escolher existir de modo próprio desde que não fuja ao se ver diante de sua verdadeira condição. Por fim, no último momento de nossa dissertação, a meta é explicitar como os fenômenos da morte e da consciência possibilitam a abertura fundamental do Dasein para a existência própria.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:26:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcos A de Souza Brito.pdf: 1070216 bytes, checksum: 3b5b6935ae7fa2ad4fba2dfc9bff1167 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present research investigates two themes (parts of a single issue) connected to two distinct phases in Heidegger's thinking . In relation to the first phase (the so-called "first Heidegger"), the search is returned strongly to the shades affective (Stimmungen) according to that were addressed in Being and time, especially in §. 29, And fundamental concepts of metaphysics: world, finitude, solitude. Such affective tones were presented as ontological structures responsible for making sure that the being-there is always in a state of "willing to ... ". The provision, "be willing to ... " since any affective tone, form, along with understanding and discourse, the existential that portray how the being-there is in the world. The second phase (the so-called "second Heidegger") the theme ruled was the poetry, designed understood how language originated. The poetry was differentiated from poem by it should not be confused with mere literary style. The poetry while language originating in (Dichtung) brings the loved for the first time in the open air to nominate him, while poem (Poiesie) is identified with the art of making poems. Affective Tone and poetry were discussed from a point of view ontological. The transition to the second phase was worked from what became known as the "turning point" (Kehre). To deal with the change we have made it clear that there is no contradiction between the phases, there is seen that Heidegger, without denying the turning point, for more than once stated that his philosophy dealing with a single issue. The turning point became evident in the 1930s and marked a repositioning of the question raised in Being and time. The project of fundamental ontology, this in Being and time, was carried out from three sub-projects: existential analytical, destruction of the history of metaphysics and hermeneutics of facticity . The existential analytical, from which were analyzed the shades, fell on the being-there and has reached its limit by the impossibility of justifying historical ontologies, hence there was talk of "failure" in Being and time . Put the themes in evidence, was the work of an analogy, possible by taking into account the ontological characteristics regarding the affective tones and the poetry. / A presente pesquisa investiga dois temas (partes de uma única questão) ligados a duas fases distintas no pensamento heideggeriano. Em relação à primeira fase (o assim chamado primeiro Heidegger ), a pesquisa se voltou enfaticamente para as tonalidades afetivas (Stimmungen) de acordo com que foram abordadas em Ser e tempo, principalmente no §. 29, e Conceitos fundamentais da metafísica: mundo, finitude, solidão. Tais tonalidades afetivas foram apresentadas como estruturas ontológicas responsáveis por fazer com que o Dasein esteja sempre em estado de disposto a... . A disposição, o estar disposto para... desde alguma tonalidade afetiva, forma, juntamente com compreensão e discurso, os existenciais que retratam como o ser-aí é no mundo. Quanto à segunda fase (o dito segundo Heidegger ) o tema pautado foi a poesia, concebida como linguagem originária. A poesia foi diferenciada de poema por que ela não deve ser confundida com mero estilo literário. A poesia enquanto linguagem originária (Dichtung) traz o ente pela primeira vez ao aberto nomeando-o, como poema (Poiesie) se identifica com a arte de fazer poemas. Tonalidade afetiva e poesia foram discutidas de um ponto de vista ontológico. A transição para a segunda fase foi trabalhada tendo em vista aquilo que ficou conhecido como viragem (Kehre). Ao lidar com a viragem deixamos claro a inexistência de contradição entre as fases, haja visto que Heidegger, sem negar a viragem, por mais de uma vez declarou que sua filosofia se ocupa com uma única questão. A viragem se tornou evidente na década de 1930 e marcou um reposicionamento da questão posta em Ser e tempo. O projeto da ontologia fundamental, presente em Ser e tempo, foi conduzido a partir de três subprojetos: analítica existencial, destruição da historia da metafísica e hermenêutica da facticidade. A analítica existencial, desde a qual foram analisadas as tonalidades, recaiu sobre o ser-aí e alcançou seu limite pela impossibilidade de fundamentar ontologias históricas, daí falou-se em fracasso de Ser e tempo. Postos os temas em evidência, procedeu-se o trabalho de uma analogia, possível pela consideração das características ontológicas concernentes as tonalidades afetivas e a poesia.

The dissertation consists of two parts: (1) the essay and (2) the composition. The essay elucidates the composer's creative process of the orchestral works, The Heidegger Collection. The Heidegger Collection has five movements. The titles of each movement are derived from the key philosophical concepts from Heidegger's most significant writing, Being and Time: (1) State-of-Mind, (2) Idle-Talk, (3) Moment-of-Vision, (4) Dread, and (5) Being-towards-the-End. The essay discusses the meanings of the five concepts, and explains how I express my reaction to Heidegger's thinking through music composition. The essay also discusses the essential musical language of The Heidegger Collection, such as interval cycles, polyrhythmic patterns, algorithmic elements, portamento effects, chaos theory, and oriental influence.