<p>The intent of this study is to consider changes in the naturalization of the self-as-object in both behavioral and mental spheres, or the "self-as-instrument" and "self-consciousself", respectively. The concern here is on the naturalness versus historicalness accorded these two aspects of the self-as-object. A focused examination of the treatment of the self-as-object in three theoretical schools, the Chicago School, Mass Society Theory, and Post-Modern school, assists in drawing the conclusion that the more the self-as-object is separated in these two spheres, the more the self-as-instrument, and in particular and self-as-egoistic-instrument, is naturalized. Further attendant with this separation is a selfconscious-self that becomes an increasingly historical and problematic construct.</p> / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

erica monteiro’s collection, (evol)ution is love spelled backwards, is book of poetry created to give readers a glimpse into the personal politics of a woman of color coming into her own. The selected pieces are written as a journey through the writer’s heart. monteiro creates a mosaic through lyrical prose that is both tangible and illusive. Some of her pieces speak to current contemporary issues as in the poem “goodnight obama”, and others deal strictly with matters of love, as in “the last hurrah”. Each poem is flavored by its own unique brand of language reminiscent of twentieth century urban lyricism. monteiro’s “text speak” and new derivations on old words allow her to style shift between poetic lines, making for a creative blend of both academic and pedestrian imagery and symbolism. (evol)ution is love spelled backwards, is a mix of monteiro’s different voices, balanced to give her readers a unique perspective of her verses.

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This dissertation seeks to comprehend and respond to deterioration in what is considered to be a very significant foundation of human flourishing - a sense of vigour, vitality, purpose and meaningfulness in work. The term flourishing in the workplace is offered both in the sense that work satisfies a person's economic needs (fair pay and job security) and in the sense that it satisfies a person's deeper sense of vocation, of Spirit-led calling. This dissertation responds to the concerns that the postmodern workplace, for a number of reasons, inhibits a person's ability to flourish. Yet, this dissertation will argue, there is a deep thirst for meaningfulness in our daily endeavour. We are settling for less. From the research conducted, this dissertation develops an approach to practices of leadership that bring about deep purpose to be derived from our work. Further, this dissertation develops an approach for ministry that might facilitate these Spirit-led practices. The premise is that leadership that is self-centred must be transformed into leadership that is other-centred. Leadership is conceived as critical to the nurturing of human flourishing, ultimately affecting our behaviours beyond the workplace. There are two dimensions to the qualitative research designed for this dissertation, as described by the questionnaires completed by research respondents. The first is to seek an unaided broad response to questions regarding peoples' sense of purpose, self-esteem, value, and self-actualization. The second is to seek an understanding of the degree to which such responses are shaped by a person's sense of faith. Beyond these dimensions, the research explores the extent to which respondents engage with a minister or spiritual counsellor.

Lucidity is a novella set in the near future of a man living in a city in the United States as a successful businessman. The novella criticizes the idea of consumerism through Aurora, a character who believes that a drug is being introduced into the water and food supply by the corporate-backed government. Characters find advertising to be almost irresistible, experience strange cravings for things like cheap beer, and are generally preoccupied with the latest products. James Simmons, the protagonist of the novella, finds himself in the lap of luxury. He has a job that pays well, a penthouse apartment, a fast car, and women. Even though he has the material riches that society tells him he needs to be happy, he knows that something is missing, something is wrong with the world in which he lives. For reasons unknown to him at the time, James is fired from his job and sets out on a journey to discover why. Over the course of his journey, he is finally able to begin piecing together the nature of deeper questions about himself that he never had a chance to answer.

<p>For hermeneutics, liberal universality—the belief that rights for being humans <em>as such</em> are universally true—is a sort of <em>subjective</em> universality. Subjectivity is just another way of saying that universality is historically situated, and whoever claims universality cannot objectify herself from her own history; accordingly, universality is not universality-as-the-thing-is (a sort of “objective” universality), but universality-for-person P -in-her-historical-situation, even if the claimer is totally unaware of the restrictions imposed by her own tradition and historicity.</p> <p>Subjective universality reveals the fact that the content of universality is affected by the <em>personal dimension</em> of its claimer. That is, the claimer’s personal background, including culture, language, tradition, education, social-economical aspects, even gender and race, are reflected, consciously or unconsciously, explicitly or implicitly, directly or indirectly, in her view of what universality ought to be.</p> <p>How to treat the <em>other­</em>— a political and metaphysical category of existence that is radically different from oneself—reveals the subjective nature of liberal universality. In history, this subjectivity worked negatively, for liberals, to select and exclude some groups e.g. women, the propertyless, and the colonized subjects. But in light of our contemporary understanding of what is truly free and equal, this subjectivity can function positively to assure respect for the other and avoid producing new types of alienated other. The advocated liberal approach is a hermeneutic approach, which asserts the practices of being humble, dialogical, non-violent, and voluntarily self-dislocated, in dealing with the other.</p> / Master of Philosophy (MA)

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the stylistic development of the Italian architect Aldo Rossi from Modern to Post-Modern design. A summary of the Modern architectural movement is presented along with an analysis of the developments in Post-Modern architecture since 1960. The influence of Italian culture on Rossi's career is discussed through a brief survey of Ancient Roman archetypal motifs and Italian architecture of the early 20th century. Several key buildings proposed or constructed by Rossi from 1960-1990 are discussed based on his concepts of analogy, typology, morphology and rationalism.

<p>In this paper Mona Hatoums installation Corps étranger is discussed via a post structuralized method based on associative and semiotic comparisons with vanitas, a post-modern self-portrait, and as a representative for modern visual art. The analyze touches upon pornography, science fiction and the quest for scientific conquest in outer and inner space. Theoretical references are Foucault, Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Dolar, Said and Virilio. Hatoum makes the observer a voyageur with the aid of the latest medical technology, endoscope, which gives her the opportunity to make an introvert self-portrait when she films her own throat and rectum. But at the same time she makes the portrait of us all. I interpret this as a fictious science with postcolonial ideas, and the reference to science fiction is close at range. Hatoum takes the role as the other, the woman or the stranger and might flirt with Jülich interpretation of Corps étranger as a sign of the visual cultures colonisation of the human body’s inside, that is a conscious reference to sexuality, ethics and the search for knowledge and power.</p>

Societies progress: currently, a globalized and computer world, is a postmodern society. In it, the ways of transmitting and socializing culture have changed; new human beings have been developed postmodern individuals with very particular characteristics: they are our students. How to optimize the learning triad (student-teacher-knowledge)? It is not enough to know the contents and be a specialist in the field, it is essential to be aware of the current environment to analyze and understand the characteristics of our students, also called "sons of globalization" or "digital natives". Only then shall we know, also, our own reality as individuals and teachers. This paper seeks to analyze the characteristics of our students and reflect on our role as teachers in a complex and changing environment. / Las sociedades progresan: la actual, en un mundo que comandan la globalización y la informática, es una sociedad postmoderna. En ella, se han modificado las formas de transmitir y relacionar socialmente la cultura; se han desarrollado nuevos seres humanos, individuos postmodernos con características muy particulares: ellos son nuestros alumnos. ¿Cómo optimizamos la tríada del aprendizaje (alumno-docente-conocimientos)? No basta saber los contenidos y ser un especialista en la materia; es indispensable ser conscientes del entorno actual para analizar y comprender las características de nuestros alumnos, también denominados “hijos de la globalización” o “nativos digitales”. Solo así conoceremos, asimismo, nuestra propia realidad como individuos y docentes. El presente ensayo procura analizar las características de nuestros alumnos y reflexionar sobre nuestro papel como docentes en un entorno complejo y cambiante.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANTONIO PANCIARELLI.pdf: 397710 bytes, checksum: 539e93eacb11b3e3f0399c3f554bf192 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation belongs to area of literature and literary criticism and deals specifically about analysis of Romanesque prose in Fado Alexandrino, by António Lobo Antunes. In this study, we sought to make an immanent analysis of the work, however without disregarding the ideological, political, historical and social aspects that permeate the romance and are of fundamental importance to the understanding of the fable. The analysis presents a theoretical-analytical procedure, in a way that the privileged theoretical aspects were applied, by aiming: to identify in the romance the characteristics that define it as a post-modern literature; to approach the hybridization of genders: prose and poetry, the polyphony of voices, and also the aspects of intertextuality and, of course, the strong political and social contents. The results obtained allow concluding that Fado Alexandrino cannot be characterized only as Romanesque prose nor framed in a predetermined structure. It is a complex construction in which the author uses features of hybridism, heteroglossy and interdiscursivity elements radiographed by Mikhail Bakhtin and by him denominated as prosaic practices that different uses of language make of discourse, offering them as manifestation of plurality. At last, we can affirm that Fado Alexandrino is a work that gives voice to characters that speak, discuss ideas and seek to reposition themselves in a country that attempted a transformation in ten years that has not occurred for five centuries / Esta dissertação pertence à área da literatura e crítica literária e trata, especificamente, da análise da prosa romanesca em Fado Alexandrino, de António Lobo Antunes. Procurou-se, neste estudo, fazer uma análise imanente da obra sem, entretanto, desconsiderar os aspectos ideológicos, políticos, históricos e sociais que permeiam o romance e que têm fundamental importância para a compreensão da fábula. A análise apresenta um procedimento teórico-analítico, de forma que os aspectos teóricos privilegiados foram aplicados tendo em vista: identificar no romance as características que o definem como obra literária pós-moderna; abordar a hibridização dos gêneros prosa e poesia, a polifonia de vozes, além dos aspectos de intertextualidade e, claro, do forte conteúdo político, histórico e social. Os resultados obtidos permitem concluir que Fado Alexandrino não pode ser caracterizado apenas como prosa romanesca, nem enquadrado em uma estrutura predeterminada. Trata-se de uma complexa construção em que o autor utiliza recursos de hibridismo, heteroglossia e interdiscursividade B elementos esses Aradiografados@ por Mikhail Bakhtin e por ele denominados como práticas prosáicas que diferentes usos da linguagem fazem do discurso, oferecendo-os como manifestação de pluralidade. Pode-se afirmar, enfim, que Fado Alexandrino é uma obra que dá voz a personagens que falam, discutem idéias e procuram reposicionar-se em um país que experimentou, em dez anos, uma transformação que não acontecia havia cinco séculos