Speculative fiction is a genre that is gaining urgency in the contemporary Canadian literary scene as authors and readers become increasingly concerned with what it means to live in a nation implicated in globalization. This genre is useful because with it, authors can extrapolate from the present to explore what some of the long-term effects of globalization might be. This thesis specifically considers the long-term effects of globalization on communities, a theme that speculative fictions return to frequently. The selected speculative fictions engage with current theory on globalization and community in their explorations of how globalization might affect the types of communities that can be enacted. This thesis argues that these texts demonstrate how Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s notion of “cooperative autonomy” can be uniquely cultivated in the conditions of globalization – despite the fact that those conditions are characterized by the fragmentation of traditional forms of community (Empire 392).

The home is a physical place that provides isolation, comfort, access to essential needs on a daily basis, and it has a strong impact on a person’s life. Computational and media technologies (digital and electronic objects, devices, protocols, virtual spaces, telematics, interaction, social media, and cyberspace) become an important and vital part of the home ecology, although they have the ability to transform the domestic experience and the understanding of what a personal space is. For this reason, this work investigates the domestication of computational media technology; how objects, systems, and devices become part of the personal and intimate space of the inhabitants. To better understand the taming process, the home is studied and analysed from a range of perspectives (philosophy, sociology, architecture, art, and technology), and a methodological process is proposed for critically exploring the topic with the development of artworks, designs, and computational systems. The methodology of this research, which consists of five points (Context, Media Layers, Invisible Matter, Diffusion, and Symbiosis), suggests a procedure that is fundamental to the development and critical integration of the computationally enhanced home. Accordingly, the home is observed as an ecological system that contains numerous properties (organic, inorganic, hybrid, virtual, augmented), and is viewed on a range of scales (micro, meso and macro). To identify the “choreographies” that are formed between these properties and scales, case studies have been developed to suggest, provoke, and speculate concepts, ideas, and alternative realities of the home. Part of the speculation proposes the concept of DomoNovus (the “New Home”), where technological ubiquity supports the inhabitants’ awareness, perception, and imagination. DomoNovus intends to challenge our understanding of the domestic environment, and demonstrates a range of possibilities, threats, and limitations in relation to the future of home. This thesis, thus, presents methods, experiments, and speculations that intend to inform and inspire, as well as define creative and imaginative dimensions of the computationally-enhanced home, suggesting directions for the further understanding of the domestic life.

What impact do social media have on mental well-being and how can design become a tool for increasing awareness among users? To interact on social media means to find new ways of seeking a sense of belonging, of being part of a society that can validate our existence and attribute value to what we decide to share. But what happens when there is a gap separating the ways in which we create value and sense of selfworth online and offline? How does it impact our mental well-being and the capacity to become a productive element of our society? Like Me is a speculative design project that explores the gap between the virtual and the real, while researching how it impacts our mental well-being and sense of self-worth in society. This Bachelor’s thesis delves into this topic through design methods and visual communication, resulting in a short fictional film about a speculative scenario. The aim of this research is to raise a discussion about embracing what is to come, finding a new sense of awareness to improve our impact on social sustainability. KEYWORD

With reference to the existing literature on liquidity, three key questions have emerged during the last several decades: (i) How to measure liquidity in the most efficient way? (ii) What is the empirical pattern in the relation between market liquidity and stock returns? (iii) What are the determinants of the changes in the Return-Liquidity Relationship? This thesis take the above three questions as its principal focus and studies them by undertaking three separate empirical chapters, using a substantial dataset that covers all the listed firms in these four global economies – Germany, the UK, the US and China from 2001 to 2013. The empirical results imply the following: (i) The Transaction-Cost based liquidity measures, particularly the Quoted Proportional Spread, should be regarded as the most representative liquidity measurement. (ii) There is no evidence consistent with a fixed empirical pattern in the Return-Liquidity Relationship across these four countries as market liquidity is preferred in both Germany and UK, while the opposite results have been obtained for the Chinese stock market. That is, higher market leads to higher stock returns in these two European countries as the higher market liquidity facilitates capital movements to more efficient investments. However in China, the huge number of individual investors generates higher market liquidity through speculative trading rather than as a result of value-related investments, which heightens market risk and thus results in a decrease in stock prices. (iii) There is weak evidence that stock market returns have positive determinant effects on both MLIs (the market impact of liquidity on stock returns) and FLIs, (the firm-level impact of liquidity on stock returns) Return-Liquidity relation on market and firm level respectively. While only FLIs are positively correlated with stock market volatility and the inflation rate and negatively affected by the short-term interest rate.

Na presente tese, apresentamos uma nova abordagem para combinar reuso e prvisão de seqüências dinâmicas de instruções, chamada Reuso por Especulação em traces (RST). Esta técnica permite a identificação dinâmica de traces de instruções redundantes ou previsíveis e o reuso (especulativo ou não) desses traces. RST procura resolver a questão de traces que não são reusados por seus valores de entradas de Traces (DTM). Em estudo anteriores, esses traces foram contabilizados como sendo cerca de 69% de todos os traces reusáveis. Uma das maiores vantagens de RST sobre a combinação de um mecanismo de previsão com uma técnica de reuso de valores em que mecanismos não são relacionados é que RST não necessita de tabelas adicionais para o armazenamento dos valores a serem previstos. A aplciação de reuso e previsão de valores pela simples combinação de mecanismos pode necessitar de uma quantidade proibitiva de espaço de armazenamento. No mecanismo RST, os valores já estão presentes na Tabela de Memorização de Traces, não incorrendo em custos adicionais para lê-los se comparado com uma técnica não-especulativa de reuso de traces. O contexto de entrada de cada trace (os valores de entrada de todas as instruções contidas no trace) já armazenam os valores para o teste de reuso, os quais podem ser também utilizados para previsão de valores para o teste de reuso, os quais podem ser também utilizados para previsão de valores. As principais contribuições de nosso trabalho incluem: (i) um framework de reuso especulativo de traces que pode ser modificado para diferentes arquiteturas de processadores; (ii) definição das modificações necessárias em um processador superescalar e superpipeline para implementar nosso mecanismo; (iii) estudo de questões de implementação relacionadas à essa arquitetura; (iv) estudo dos limites de desempenho da nossa técnica; (v) estudo de uma implementação RST limitada por fatores realísticos; e (vi) ferramentas de simulação que podem ser utilizadas em outros estudos, representando um processador superescalar e superpipeline em detalhes. Salientamos que, em uma arquitetura utilizando mecanismos realistas de estimativa de confiança das previsões, nossa técnica RST consegue atingir speedups médios (médias harmônicas) de 1.29 sobre uma arquitetura sem reuso e 1.09 sobre uma técnica não-especulativa de reuso de traces (DTM). / In this thesis, we present a novel approach to combine both reuse and prediction of dynamic sequences of instructions called Reuse through Speculation on Traces (RST). Our technique allows the dynamic identification of instruction traces that are redundant or predictable, and the reuse (speculative or not) of these traces. RST addresses the issue, present on Dynamic Trace Memoization (DTM), of traces not being reused because some of their inputs are not ready for the reuse test. These traces were measured to be 69% of all reusable traces in previous studies. One of the main advantages of RST over just combining a value prediction technique with an unrelated reuse technique is that RST does not require extra tables to store the values to be predicted. Applying reuse and value prediction in unrelated mechanisms but at the same time may require a prohibitive amount of storage in tables. In RST, the values are already stored in the Trace Memoization Table, and there is no extra cost in reading them if compared with a non-speculative trace reuse technique. . The input context of each trace (the input values of all instructions in the trace) already stores the values for the reuse test, which may also be used for prediction. Our main contributions include: (i) a speculative trace reuse framework that can be adapted to different processor architectures; (ii) specification of the modifications in a superscalar, superpipelined processor in order to implement our mechanism; (iii) study of implementation issues related to this architecture; (iv) study of the performance limits of our technique; (v) a performance study of a realistic, constrained implementation of RST; and (vi) simulation tools that can be used in other studies which represent a superscalar, superpipelined processor in detail. In a constrained architecture with realistic confidence, our RST technique is able to achieve average speedups (harmonic means) of 1.29 over the baseline architecture without reuse and 1.09 over a non-speculative trace reuse technique (DTM).

MELO, Regiany Gomes. Homem e sensibilidade em Ludwig Feuerbach: crítica à teologia cristã e à filosofia especulativa. 2012. 126f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-12T12:14:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-RGMELO.pdf: 1470990 bytes, checksum: d1a58324f8dd1afcb36a3a5eb2794ca5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-12T14:13:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-RGMELO.pdf: 1470990 bytes, checksum: d1a58324f8dd1afcb36a3a5eb2794ca5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-12T14:13:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-DIS-RGMELO.pdf: 1470990 bytes, checksum: d1a58324f8dd1afcb36a3a5eb2794ca5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / The immanent analysis that we direct about Feuerbach ’s criticism directed to religion and Christian theology and speculative philosophy, shows that the main purpose of these developed criticism is linked to the assertion of Feuerbach’s anthropology and,therefore,to understand of man as rational and also sensitive. Feuerbach articulates his critique of religion and Christian theology from the process of alienation of the generic human essence. Feuerbach search in primary sources of classical Christianity and its supernatural exponents his correlative true, material, the demystification of religious images and theological dogmatism. From then on, Feuerbach shows that the Christian religion is an expression of human feelings, human relations, sensitivity, and therefore it is anthropology. However, sentiment expressed by this religion is inhibited by the theological doctrine in the process of development and dogmatic affirmation of theological and rationality, claiming an ideal of castrated male, asexual, denatured. Likewise the modern speculative philosophy, whose maximum exponent is Hegel, based, as the base of the logical system the assertion of absolute being from the abstraction of man and the sensitivity. To Feuerbach the modern philosophy holds itself in the articulation of concepts whose elements are idealistically founded, based in the reason, in other words, the concepts are extracted from the sensible world of panoramas of reality. Thus, for Feuerbach, the modern speculative philosophy becomes an arbitrary philosophy.Moreover,the Feuerbach ’s philosophy is marked by a growing radicalism that is expressed in the defense of a new philosophy that should begin with the non-philosophy, in other words, with the methodological setback established by the "philosophy of school," namely, the sensible objects. The new philosophy must start from the sensible objects for then getting concrete and immanent foundations in the development of the concepts, validating the proper nature as that which man owes its origin and material resources for its existence. The new philosophy or sensualist philosophy seeks to reconstitute the complete knowledge: reason and sensitivity united in the problematization and understanding of man and the world. The goal of this paper is to specify the conceptual centrality of man and the sensitivity that exists in Feuerbach ’s critical framework and show tha t the criticism aimed at the implementation of emancipation and human consciousness, because, for Feuerbach, the only way man can act an active role in social development in search of the common good. Sensibility. / A análise imanente que direcionamos sobre as críticas que Feuerbach dirige à religião e teologia cristãs e à filosofia especulativa mostra que o objetivo central desenvolvido nestas críticas está vinculado à afirmação da antropologia feuerbachiana e, com isso, à compreensão do homem enquanto ser racional e, também, sensível. Feuerbach articula sua crítica à religião e à teologia cristãs a partir do processo de alienação da essência genérica humana. De modo que o autor busca nas fontes primárias do cristianismo clássico e em seus expoentes supranaturais o seu correlativo verdadeiro, material, a desmistificação das imagens religiosas e dos dogmatismos teológicos. A partir disso, Feuerbach mostra que a religião cristã é expressão dos sentimentos humanos, das relações humanas, da sensibilidade e, portanto, ela é antropologia. Todavia, esse sentimento expresso pela religião cristã é inibido pela doutrina teológica no processo de desenvolvimento e afirmação da dogmática e racionalidade teológicas, afirmando um ideal de homem castrado, assexuado, desnaturalizado. Do mesmo modo a filosofia especulativa moderna, cujo expoente máximo é Hegel, fundamenta, enquanto base do sistema lógico, a afirmação do ser absoluto a partir da abstração do homem e da sensibilidade. Para Feuerbach, a filosofia moderna se detém na articulação de conceitos, cujos elementos são fundados idealisticamente, autofundados na razão, ou seja, os conceitos não são extraídos do mundo sensível, de panoramas da realidade. Assim, para o filósofo de Landshut, a filosofia especulativa moderna se torna uma filosofia arbitrária. Ademais, a filosofia feuerbachiana é marcada por uma radicalidade crescente que se expressa na defesa de uma nova filosofia que deve começar com a não-filosofia, ou seja, com o revês metodológico instituído pela “filosofia de escola ”, a saber, os objetos sensíveis. A nova filosofia deve partir dos objetos sensíveis, para então obter bases concretas e imanentes na elaboração dos conceitos, validando a própria natureza como aquela à qual o homem deve a sua origem e os meios materiais para a sua existência. A nova filosofia ou filosofia sensualista busca reconstituir o conhecimento completo: razão e sensibilidade unidos na problematização e compreensão do homem e do mundo. O objetivo do presente trabalho é precisar a centralidade conceitual do homem e da sensibilidade que existe no arcabouço crítico feuerbachiano e mostrar que a crítica visa à concretização da emancipação e conscientização humana, pois, para Feuerbach, somente assim o homem poderá atuar ativamente no desenvolvimento social em busca do bem comum.

Na presente tese, apresentamos uma nova abordagem para combinar reuso e prvisão de seqüências dinâmicas de instruções, chamada Reuso por Especulação em traces (RST). Esta técnica permite a identificação dinâmica de traces de instruções redundantes ou previsíveis e o reuso (especulativo ou não) desses traces. RST procura resolver a questão de traces que não são reusados por seus valores de entradas de Traces (DTM). Em estudo anteriores, esses traces foram contabilizados como sendo cerca de 69% de todos os traces reusáveis. Uma das maiores vantagens de RST sobre a combinação de um mecanismo de previsão com uma técnica de reuso de valores em que mecanismos não são relacionados é que RST não necessita de tabelas adicionais para o armazenamento dos valores a serem previstos. A aplciação de reuso e previsão de valores pela simples combinação de mecanismos pode necessitar de uma quantidade proibitiva de espaço de armazenamento. No mecanismo RST, os valores já estão presentes na Tabela de Memorização de Traces, não incorrendo em custos adicionais para lê-los se comparado com uma técnica não-especulativa de reuso de traces. O contexto de entrada de cada trace (os valores de entrada de todas as instruções contidas no trace) já armazenam os valores para o teste de reuso, os quais podem ser também utilizados para previsão de valores para o teste de reuso, os quais podem ser também utilizados para previsão de valores. As principais contribuições de nosso trabalho incluem: (i) um framework de reuso especulativo de traces que pode ser modificado para diferentes arquiteturas de processadores; (ii) definição das modificações necessárias em um processador superescalar e superpipeline para implementar nosso mecanismo; (iii) estudo de questões de implementação relacionadas à essa arquitetura; (iv) estudo dos limites de desempenho da nossa técnica; (v) estudo de uma implementação RST limitada por fatores realísticos; e (vi) ferramentas de simulação que podem ser utilizadas em outros estudos, representando um processador superescalar e superpipeline em detalhes. Salientamos que, em uma arquitetura utilizando mecanismos realistas de estimativa de confiança das previsões, nossa técnica RST consegue atingir speedups médios (médias harmônicas) de 1.29 sobre uma arquitetura sem reuso e 1.09 sobre uma técnica não-especulativa de reuso de traces (DTM). / In this thesis, we present a novel approach to combine both reuse and prediction of dynamic sequences of instructions called Reuse through Speculation on Traces (RST). Our technique allows the dynamic identification of instruction traces that are redundant or predictable, and the reuse (speculative or not) of these traces. RST addresses the issue, present on Dynamic Trace Memoization (DTM), of traces not being reused because some of their inputs are not ready for the reuse test. These traces were measured to be 69% of all reusable traces in previous studies. One of the main advantages of RST over just combining a value prediction technique with an unrelated reuse technique is that RST does not require extra tables to store the values to be predicted. Applying reuse and value prediction in unrelated mechanisms but at the same time may require a prohibitive amount of storage in tables. In RST, the values are already stored in the Trace Memoization Table, and there is no extra cost in reading them if compared with a non-speculative trace reuse technique. . The input context of each trace (the input values of all instructions in the trace) already stores the values for the reuse test, which may also be used for prediction. Our main contributions include: (i) a speculative trace reuse framework that can be adapted to different processor architectures; (ii) specification of the modifications in a superscalar, superpipelined processor in order to implement our mechanism; (iii) study of implementation issues related to this architecture; (iv) study of the performance limits of our technique; (v) a performance study of a realistic, constrained implementation of RST; and (vi) simulation tools that can be used in other studies which represent a superscalar, superpipelined processor in detail. In a constrained architecture with realistic confidence, our RST technique is able to achieve average speedups (harmonic means) of 1.29 over the baseline architecture without reuse and 1.09 over a non-speculative trace reuse technique (DTM).

Cars have been around for over a century and have grown to become an essential part of society with an increasing number of different models being sold and developed each year. Car manufacturers steadily expand the offered product portfolio and invent new market niches constantly. Often, this is not done to meet the customers’ expectations but rather to match and rival a competitor’s model lineup. The increase in model variety results in a significant increase in the complexity of production and manufacturing, more difficult and demanding work surrounding employees, and massive negative impacts on the environment. Not only are cars unsustainable in the way they are used, but also in the way they are produced. For a more sustainable future of and with cars to be possible, this practice of product portfolio expansion needs to be critically analyzed. It is, in my eyes, additionally necessary to evaluate the essence of the car industry, the car itself, and to re-think what defines a car. This paper critically analyzes the car industry and the production and development of cars, and it proposes an alternative to standard car design based on the idea and ability of speculative and critical design to highlight issues of today. The proposed concept is a speculative design alternative to car design, aiming to put sustainability and the customers back into the focus of car development, and discover what is possible, rather than probable, in the future of cars. The proposed concept aims at changing the understanding of cars and turns the car from being fixed and immutable into alterable and changeable objects, depending on the use-case and user. By analyzing manufacturing procedures and future trends, and interviewing experts from various disciplines, insights are used to evaluate the proposed alternative.

Na presente tese, apresentamos uma nova abordagem para combinar reuso e prvisão de seqüências dinâmicas de instruções, chamada Reuso por Especulação em traces (RST). Esta técnica permite a identificação dinâmica de traces de instruções redundantes ou previsíveis e o reuso (especulativo ou não) desses traces. RST procura resolver a questão de traces que não são reusados por seus valores de entradas de Traces (DTM). Em estudo anteriores, esses traces foram contabilizados como sendo cerca de 69% de todos os traces reusáveis. Uma das maiores vantagens de RST sobre a combinação de um mecanismo de previsão com uma técnica de reuso de valores em que mecanismos não são relacionados é que RST não necessita de tabelas adicionais para o armazenamento dos valores a serem previstos. A aplciação de reuso e previsão de valores pela simples combinação de mecanismos pode necessitar de uma quantidade proibitiva de espaço de armazenamento. No mecanismo RST, os valores já estão presentes na Tabela de Memorização de Traces, não incorrendo em custos adicionais para lê-los se comparado com uma técnica não-especulativa de reuso de traces. O contexto de entrada de cada trace (os valores de entrada de todas as instruções contidas no trace) já armazenam os valores para o teste de reuso, os quais podem ser também utilizados para previsão de valores para o teste de reuso, os quais podem ser também utilizados para previsão de valores. As principais contribuições de nosso trabalho incluem: (i) um framework de reuso especulativo de traces que pode ser modificado para diferentes arquiteturas de processadores; (ii) definição das modificações necessárias em um processador superescalar e superpipeline para implementar nosso mecanismo; (iii) estudo de questões de implementação relacionadas à essa arquitetura; (iv) estudo dos limites de desempenho da nossa técnica; (v) estudo de uma implementação RST limitada por fatores realísticos; e (vi) ferramentas de simulação que podem ser utilizadas em outros estudos, representando um processador superescalar e superpipeline em detalhes. Salientamos que, em uma arquitetura utilizando mecanismos realistas de estimativa de confiança das previsões, nossa técnica RST consegue atingir speedups médios (médias harmônicas) de 1.29 sobre uma arquitetura sem reuso e 1.09 sobre uma técnica não-especulativa de reuso de traces (DTM). / In this thesis, we present a novel approach to combine both reuse and prediction of dynamic sequences of instructions called Reuse through Speculation on Traces (RST). Our technique allows the dynamic identification of instruction traces that are redundant or predictable, and the reuse (speculative or not) of these traces. RST addresses the issue, present on Dynamic Trace Memoization (DTM), of traces not being reused because some of their inputs are not ready for the reuse test. These traces were measured to be 69% of all reusable traces in previous studies. One of the main advantages of RST over just combining a value prediction technique with an unrelated reuse technique is that RST does not require extra tables to store the values to be predicted. Applying reuse and value prediction in unrelated mechanisms but at the same time may require a prohibitive amount of storage in tables. In RST, the values are already stored in the Trace Memoization Table, and there is no extra cost in reading them if compared with a non-speculative trace reuse technique. . The input context of each trace (the input values of all instructions in the trace) already stores the values for the reuse test, which may also be used for prediction. Our main contributions include: (i) a speculative trace reuse framework that can be adapted to different processor architectures; (ii) specification of the modifications in a superscalar, superpipelined processor in order to implement our mechanism; (iii) study of implementation issues related to this architecture; (iv) study of the performance limits of our technique; (v) a performance study of a realistic, constrained implementation of RST; and (vi) simulation tools that can be used in other studies which represent a superscalar, superpipelined processor in detail. In a constrained architecture with realistic confidence, our RST technique is able to achieve average speedups (harmonic means) of 1.29 over the baseline architecture without reuse and 1.09 over a non-speculative trace reuse technique (DTM).

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A anÃlise imanente que direcionamos sobre as crÃticas que Feuerbach dirige à religiÃo e teologia cristÃs e à filosofia especulativa mostra que o objetivo central desenvolvido nestas crÃticas està vinculado à afirmaÃÃo da antropologia feuerbachiana e, com isso, à compreensÃo do homem enquanto ser racional e, tambÃm, sensÃvel. Feuerbach articula sua crÃtica à religiÃo e à teologia cristÃs a partir do processo de alienaÃÃo da essÃncia genÃrica humana. De modo que o autor busca nas fontes primÃrias do cristianismo clÃssico e em seus expoentes supranaturais o seu correlativo verdadeiro, material, a desmistificaÃÃo das imagens religiosas e dos dogmatismos teolÃgicos. A partir disso, Feuerbach mostra que a religiÃo cristà à expressÃo dos sentimentos humanos, das relaÃÃes humanas, da sensibilidade e, portanto, ela à antropologia. Todavia, esse sentimento expresso pela religiÃo cristà à inibido pela doutrina teolÃgica no processo de desenvolvimento e afirmaÃÃo da dogmÃtica e racionalidade teolÃgicas, afirmando um ideal de homem castrado, assexuado, desnaturalizado. Do mesmo modo a filosofia especulativa moderna, cujo expoente mÃximo à Hegel, fundamenta, enquanto base do sistema lÃgico, a afirmaÃÃo do ser absoluto a partir da abstraÃÃo do homem e da sensibilidade. Para Feuerbach, a filosofia moderna se detÃm na articulaÃÃo de conceitos, cujos elementos sÃo fundados idealisticamente, autofundados na razÃo, ou seja, os conceitos nÃo sÃo extraÃdos do mundo sensÃvel, de panoramas da realidade. Assim, para o filÃsofo de Landshut, a filosofia especulativa moderna se torna uma filosofia arbitrÃria. Ademais, a filosofia feuerbachiana à marcada por uma radicalidade crescente que se expressa na defesa de uma nova filosofia que deve comeÃar com a nÃo-filosofia, ou seja, com o revÃs metodolÃgico instituÃdo pela âfilosofia de escola â, a saber, os objetos sensÃveis. A nova filosofia deve partir dos objetos sensÃveis, para entÃo obter bases concretas e imanentes na elaboraÃÃo dos conceitos, validando a prÃpria natureza como aquela à qual o homem deve a sua origem e os meios materiais para a sua existÃncia. A nova filosofia ou filosofia sensualista busca reconstituir o conhecimento completo: razÃo e sensibilidade unidos na problematizaÃÃo e compreensÃo do homem e do mundo. O objetivo do presente trabalho à precisar a centralidade conceitual do homem e da sensibilidade que existe no arcabouÃo crÃtico feuerbachiano e mostrar que a crÃtica visa à concretizaÃÃo da emancipaÃÃo e conscientizaÃÃo humana, pois, para Feuerbach, somente assim o homem poderà atuar ativamente no desenvolvimento social em busca do bem comum. / The immanent analysis that we direct about Feuerbach âs criticism directed to religion and Christian theology and speculative philosophy, shows that the main purpose of these developed criticism is linked to the assertion of Feuerbachâs anthropology and,therefore,to understand of man as rational and also sensitive. Feuerbach articulates his critique of religion and Christian theology from the process of alienation of the generic human essence. Feuerbach search in primary sources of classical Christianity and its supernatural exponents his correlative true, material, the demystification of religious images and theological dogmatism. From then on, Feuerbach shows that the Christian religion is an expression of human feelings, human relations, sensitivity, and therefore it is anthropology. However, sentiment expressed by this religion is inhibited by the theological doctrine in the process of development and dogmatic affirmation of theological and rationality, claiming an ideal of castrated male, asexual, denatured. Likewise the modern speculative philosophy, whose maximum exponent is Hegel, based, as the base of the logical system the assertion of absolute being from the abstraction of man and the sensitivity. To Feuerbach the modern philosophy holds itself in the articulation of concepts whose elements are idealistically founded, based in the reason, in other words, the concepts are extracted from the sensible world of panoramas of reality. Thus, for Feuerbach, the modern speculative philosophy becomes an arbitrary philosophy.Moreover,the Feuerbach âs philosophy is marked by a growing radicalism that is expressed in the defense of a new philosophy that should begin with the non-philosophy, in other words, with the methodological setback established by the "philosophy of school," namely, the sensible objects. The new philosophy must start from the sensible objects for then getting concrete and immanent foundations in the development of the concepts, validating the proper nature as that which man owes its origin and material resources for its existence. The new philosophy or sensualist philosophy seeks to reconstitute the complete knowledge: reason and sensitivity united in the problematization and understanding of man and the world. The goal of this paper is to specify the conceptual centrality of man and the sensitivity that exists in Feuerbach âs critical framework and show tha t the criticism aimed at the implementation of emancipation and human consciousness, because, for Feuerbach, the only way man can act an active role in social development in search of the common good. Sensibility.