Thesis (M.A.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2002. / Committee chair Professor Phillip McMillion. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-209).

Thesis (M.A.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2002. / Committee chair Professor Phillip McMillion. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 191-209).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 244-248). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Orientador: José Oscar de Almeida Marques / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T05:24:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bezerra_GustavoCunha_D.pdf: 1717732 bytes, checksum: fbc87388c8d0ec85cd68213a555e0350 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: O presente trabalho discute a presença do olhar rousseauniano dirigido à natureza no contexto da Profissão de fé do Vigário saboiano e procura mostrar que, ao voltar-se para a natureza, Rousseau encontra na noção de ordem aí existente o fundamento de seu pensamento filosófico e religioso. Tal pensamento expressa, por sua vez, o desejo de interiorizar essa ordem que ele percebe existir no universo. A fim de explorar o referido processo de apreensão da ordem, o estudo aqui realizado versa sobre três aspectos relevantes desse processo, que são: os fundamentos filosóficos que sustentam a concepção de ordem da natureza, o olhar rousseauniano dirigido ao espetáculo da natureza, que se contrapõe ao desastre das relações humanas e, por fim, a repercussão da ideia de ordem da natureza no pensamento religioso de Rousseau / Abstract: The present work discusses the presence of Rousseau's regard turned to nature in the context of the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar and seeks to show that by turning to nature, Rousseau finds in the notion of order the foundation of his philosophical and religious thought. Such thought express the desire to internalize this order that he perceives exist in the universe. To exploit such seizure of order, the study deals of three important aspects of this process, which are: the philosophical foundations that underpin the conception of the order of nature, the Rousseau's regard on the spectacle of nature, which opposed to the disaster of human relations, and finally, the impact of the idea of order of nature in the religious thought of Rousseau / Doutorado / Filosofia / Doutor em Filosofia

The topics of identity and subjectivity are well-trodden paths in posthuman thought, and the trend has been to reduce the self to its material, social, and technoscientific components. Yet the posthuman model of subjectivity—influenced by the tenets of postmodernism—tends to be disabling because it does not focus on the subject’s agency or the possibility of liberation from social tyranny. In this thesis, I use a sampling of what I call “religious wisdom literature”—specifically, the wisdom books of the Old Testament and contemporary Buddhist writings—to challenge the assumption that the self is indistinguishable from the ideologies that produce it. I provide models from religious texts that instead, emphasize critical agency, flexibility, and resistive power. I also suggest that focusing on these qualities may ultimately be useful in the composition classroom, where we can use “self-centered” expressivist techniques (reflective assignments, emotional awareness) to meet the social-epistemic goal of ideological critique. Ultimately, posthumanism, with its emphasis on the construction of subjectivity, is better suited to question strict materialism and inquire into the inspiring possibilities of ancient wisdom. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013.

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