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1	Meaninglessness phenomenological perspectives / Jordan, Noel V. January 2003 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-406).
2	Occupational Choice and Meaninglessness: A Study of Graduate Students Hunter, James R. January 1965 (has links) No description available. Sociology Meaninglessness Philosophy Alienation Social psychology
3	Agir à l'épreuve de l'insensé : enjeux éthiques de l' introduction de la phénoménologie en France / Acted faced with the meaninglessness : ethical issues of the introduction of phenomenology in France Pams, Mathieu 09 March 2018 (has links) Il s’agit pour partie d’un travail historique consacré à l’introduction de la phénoménologie en France, et au rôle qu’ont pu jouer à cet égard Levinas, Sartre et Ricœur. Le contexte de cette introduction est étudié pour faire ressortir l’unité d’un moment philosophique, celui d’une phénoménologie lue à l’aune d’une réception concomitante, celle de Kierkegaard. C’est ainsi que Levinas, Sartre et Ricœur se retrouvent dans le problème formulé par Camus, celui d’un insensé oblitérant l’action de l’homme dans le monde. Il s’agit donc pour une autre part de rendre compte de l’usage de la phénoménologie pour élucider les modes de l’agir humain. Il s’ensuit à la fois un cadre conceptuel partagé, autour des notions de contingence et de transcendance, et une démarche qui vise à épouser les contours du drame que l’insensé fait subir au sujet agissant. Mise à profit dans des directions variées, et souvent antagoniques, la phénoménologie guide à cette occasion une défense de la subjectivité par la mise en question de la subjectivité, avant d’ouvrir la voie à l’élucidation d’un ultime pouvoir du sujet, la narrativité. / This work is partly devoted to trace the history of the introduction of phenomenology in France and to investigate the role that Levinas, Sartre and Ricœur have played in it. The context of this introduction is studied with the aim of underlining the unity of a philosophical moment, the one of a phenomenology that is understood through the concomitant reception of Kierkegaard. In this context, Levinas, Sartre and Ricœur share the problem that was formulated by Camus, the meaninglessness that obliterates the action of man in the world. Therefore, this work is also devoted to set out the use of phenomenology that is intended to elucidate the modes of human action. It follows that they share a same conceptual framework, structured by the ideas of contingency and transcendence, and a same approach that intends to keep pace with the drama that the meaninglessness makes the acting subject play. Exploited in different and often antagonistic directions, the phenomenology guides a defense of subjectivity that proceeds with the questioning of subjectivity, until the elucidation of a last power of subject, the narrativity. Action Phénoménologie Existentialisme Absurde Éthique Récit Phenomenology Meaninglessness Narrativity 142.7
4	Rule-following and recursion rethinking projection and normativity / Podlaskowski, Adam C. January 2006 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Full text release at OhioLINK's ETD Center delayed at author's request
5	This side of despair : forms of hopelessness in modern poetry / Jackson, Patrick Earl, January 2007 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-340). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
6	Determinants of Mental Health Problems Among College Students Mirbaha-Hashemi, Fariba 12 1900 (has links) Many college students have reported struggling with mental health problems while dealing with challenging demands of college. The initial theoretical framework for this research was Pearlin's stress process model (SPM). Building on the SPM, the three additional mediating variables of perceived control, meaninglessness, and financial worries were added to create a composite model for the research. Mental health outcomes in the model were measured by a comprehensive range of factors, which included: psychological distress, suicide, substance abuse, and anger. Data were collected from a non-probability convenience sample of 463 undergraduate students attending a large state supported university in the southwestern region of the United States. Among the social status variables measured, being married, female, and white were significant predictors of poor mental health in the sampled college students. Poor self-image, feeling of meaninglessness, and worrying about current and future finances were significant mediating variables. Poor mental health could make individuals overwhelmed and discouraged. This is a formula for failure in college. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of the correlates of mental health problems among college students. A greater understanding means that families and college administrations will have better ideas about how to intervene to reduce the stress of students and to focus the available and often limited resources to help young adults in their college experience. Mental health meaninglessness self-image social status mediators college students College students -- Mental health. College students -- Psychology.
7	The Sacred and Sacrifice within an Economy of Wasteful Expenditure in Thomas Pynchon's <em>V</em>. Hallén Rizzo, Pamela January 2009 (has links) <p>Thomas Pynchon’s <em>V.</em> is often criticized for its preoccupation with meaninglessness and the inability to make sense of ‘who’ or ‘what’ <em>V</em>. is about. The failure to make sense of <em>V</em>. is thematized within the novel particularly during the sacred moments or epiphanies which critics describe as ‘bizarre’, ‘disturbing’ or ‘unsettling’. These sacred moments raise issues that cannot be answered by traditional tools. Yet, critics and readers have responded to the novel with readings that reinscribe conventional modes of making sense and show a resistance to the inadequacy of traditional tools. This dissertation examines how Pynchon undermines modernist notions of the sacred moment as “moments of vision” which yield a higher knowledge or revelation. I argue that the sacred moments in <em>V</em>. allude to George Bataille’s notion of waste within a restricted and general economy. The violence of the sacred moments in <em>V</em>. are examined in relation to waste, sacrifice, the erotic, the inanimate, sovereignty and laughter. I conclude that rather than bringing about death, entropy and apocalyptic endings, the epiphanies’ violence and wasteful expenditure reveal the power structures at work in the literary use of the sacred. Paradoxically, the necessary existence of wasteful expenditure increases sense-making and offers the critic/reader the possibility of confronting waste, “the accursed share”.</p> waste restricted and general economy accursed share sacred epiphanies sacrifice erotic inanimate sovereignty meaninglessness entropy apocalyptic English language Engelska språket
8	A Sight/Site for Transparency or Opacity? Notes on Knowledge Production and Feminist Technoscience Molin, Rebecka January 2011 (has links) The objective for my research has been to put forward and discuss some aspects of knowledge production in relation to the epistemological positions of feminist technoscience, which lay emphasis on the contextual and the social embeddedness of both research and technology. My main inquiry has been how the relation between the subject and the surrounding context can be perceived epistemologically and how this in turn can be connected to and found relevant to the supposed new mode of knowledge production termed Mode 2. The licentiate thesis is built on three essays which together form my main arguments around the epistemological questions of if and how it is possible to gain and attain knowledge, and how its value might be ascertained. In the three essays I have attempted to illustrate some aspects of and possible hindrances to understanding and knowledge, while addressing what a feminist technoscience epistemology could signify for knowledge production. My intention in these three essays has also been to emphasize the ideological foundation of epistemological understandings, its implications both on what is viewed and valued as knowledge, and on what purpose knowledge production and research should have for and in society. In relation to these discussions I have tried to underline how feminist technoscience, as a research field, should be open to ongoing discussions about its own methodological, epistemological and ideological stances and its effects on research and society. epistemology knowledge production feminist technoscience situated knowledges Mode 2 meaninglessness transparency opacity function representation Other Social Sciences Annan samhällsvetenskap
9	The Sacred and Sacrifice within an Economy of Wasteful Expenditure in Thomas Pynchon's V. Hallén Rizzo, Pamela January 2009 (has links) Thomas Pynchon’s V. is often criticized for its preoccupation with meaninglessness and the inability to make sense of ‘who’ or ‘what’ V. is about. The failure to make sense of V. is thematized within the novel particularly during the sacred moments or epiphanies which critics describe as ‘bizarre’, ‘disturbing’ or ‘unsettling’. These sacred moments raise issues that cannot be answered by traditional tools. Yet, critics and readers have responded to the novel with readings that reinscribe conventional modes of making sense and show a resistance to the inadequacy of traditional tools. This dissertation examines how Pynchon undermines modernist notions of the sacred moment as “moments of vision” which yield a higher knowledge or revelation. I argue that the sacred moments in V. allude to George Bataille’s notion of waste within a restricted and general economy. The violence of the sacred moments in V. are examined in relation to waste, sacrifice, the erotic, the inanimate, sovereignty and laughter. I conclude that rather than bringing about death, entropy and apocalyptic endings, the epiphanies’ violence and wasteful expenditure reveal the power structures at work in the literary use of the sacred. Paradoxically, the necessary existence of wasteful expenditure increases sense-making and offers the critic/reader the possibility of confronting waste, “the accursed share”. waste restricted and general economy accursed share sacred epiphanies sacrifice erotic inanimate sovereignty meaninglessness entropy apocalyptic Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk
10	Beckett, Barthelme, and Vonnegut : finding hope in meaninglessness Britten, Alex M. 16 April 2012 (has links) This thesis is a study of the shifting philosophical trends in the works of Samuel Beckett, Donald Barthelme, and Kurt Vonnegut as representations of a greater shift from modernism to postmodernism. I have chosen to explore Beckett's plays Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape, Barthelme's short stories "Nothing: A Preliminary Account," "The New Music," and "Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegal," and Vonnegut's book Timequake to see how each author seeks to find a new hope in the face of a collapsed causal system. This work is an examination of the form and content of each author's work as it pertains to their own philosophical standing and in relation to the other two authors' works. I argue that each author finds a different hope for humanity depending on their place among the philosophical trends during their time. / Graduation date: 2012 Barthelme Beckett Vonnegut Death of God Existentialist Modernism Postmodernism meaninglessness existentialism sublime humanism nothingness Kant Timequake Waiting for Godot Sixty Stories Krapp's Last Tape The New Music Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegal Nothing: a Preliminary Account Palm Sunday structuralism Nietzsche humanist delight causal causality post-structuralism philosophical trends real symbolic semiotic Alex Britten Vonnegut, Kurt -- Philosophy Barthelme, Donald -- Philosophy Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Philosophy Hope in literature

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