O presente estudo procura compreender Edith Stein (1891-1942), personagem emblemática do século XX, através de uma perspectiva histórica, psicanalítica e de um método hermenêutico. De origem judaica, nascida em Breslau, Prússia, dedicouse aos estudos filosóficos e ao magistério. Foi aluna de E. Husserl e realizou importantes investigações fenomenológicas, em várias áreas. Discriminada por ser mulher e judia, não pôde seguir uma carreira acadêmica, apesar de suas importantes contribuições teóricas. Converteu-se ao catolicismo tornando-se monja carmelita descalça. Foi presa pela polícia nazista e assassinada em Auschwitz, na câmera de gás, em 1942. Beatificada pelo Papa João Paulo II em 1998, tornou-se co-patrona da Europa. Neste trabalho busquei, através de seu idioma pessoal, as raízes que fecundaram o seu pensamento e a maneira como tentou responder às questões cruciais que a habitaram como mulher, filósofa, judia-católica, vivendo a tensão entre o judaísmo e o catolicismo. As principais fontes utilizadas foram sua autobiografia, cartas, obras e escritos diversos, assim como a literatura produzida sobre ela e sua época, além de material iconográfico. / The focus of this research is to understand Edith Stein (1891-1942), an iconic XX century figure, using historical and psychoanalytical perspectives as well as an hermeneutical method. From Jewish origin, Stein was born in Breslau, Prussia, studied with E. Husserl and developed important phenomenological investigations, in education, womanhood, philosophy, theology and mystic. However could not be an academic because of discrimination against both women and Jews. Subsequently she converted to Catholicism and even became a Carmelite monk, neither of which was enough to escape persecution of the Nazis. She flew to Holland, but was arrested by the Gestapo, taken to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942, where her life ended in a gas chamber. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1998. This work examines the roots and influences of her theoretical contributions as well as the way she answered the fundamental human questions that she dealt with during her lifetime as a woman, a philosopher and a Christian-Jew. The main sources are Steins autobiography, letters, writings and other literature dealing with her life and times.

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This study explores the fruitful interchanges between modernist literary technique, the culture of modernity, and children's literature. While some recent scholarship has examined works that modernist authors like Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Cummings produced for child readers, modernist children's literature remains a largely neglected field. Examining texts by A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner), Gertrude Stein (The World is Round), and J.M. Barrie (Peter and Wendy) through the lens of literary modernism, this project explicates how these authors adapt modernist techniques, ideologies, and preoccupations in their writing for children. Focusing on themes of alienation, disillusionment, memory, imagination, gender construction, child development, and the disruption of Arcadian myths, I argue that these texts adopt modernist techniques to explore, uphold, or challenge modernity's construction of the child. Embracing modernist indeterminacy and ambiguity, these texts directly engage with constructions of childhood as a mode of modernist experimentation. Recontextualizing these children's works in the context of literary modernism reveals how the two genres are symbiotically related, thereby broadening our understanding of literary culture and discourses of childhood in the early twentieth century. / McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts; / English / PhD; / Dissertation;

This thesis analyzes Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons through the framework of the cult of domesticity. In understanding the ways in which Stein mocks and transgresses gender constrictions, while simultaneously adopting the language of domesticity, I understand the ways in which Stein breaks with the antebellum notion of separate spheres.

Thesis advisor: John A. Baldwin / We study the relationship between knots in contact three-manifolds and complex curves in Stein surfaces. To do so, we extend the notion of quasipositivity from classical braids to links that are braided with respect to an open book decomposition of an arbitrary closed, oriented three-manifold. Our main results characterize the transverse links in Stein-fillable contact three-manifolds that bound smooth holomorphic curves in Stein fillings. This characterization is made possible by new techniques in the theory of characteristic and open book foliations on surfaces in three-manifolds. We also explore the Seifert genera of cross-sections of complex plane curves, minimal braid representatives of quasipositive links, and the relationship between Legendrian ribbons in contact three-manifolds and strongly quasipositive braids with respect to compatible open books. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Mathematics.

Drawing on criminological history, visual studies, modernist scholarship, sociological treatises, and theories of archives and collection, this study proposes that literary texts of the early twentieth century approached the problem of knowing and representing others through collections. Inspired by the supposed divide between the city and the small town, modernist writers depict—but also resist—a vision of the group and the individual as inscrutable. The criminological apparatus of the turn of the century attends to both urban and provincial modes of existence, promising the small circles, close study of individuals, and knowability of the small town while also acceding to the urban vision of people in vast unknowable quantities and a perpetual psychic distance from others. Criminology was positioned, and positioned itself, as decidedly modern in its data-driven approach to managing the presumed unknowability of the individual and the group. The texts in this study continually grapple with accessing individual identity amidst the masses of modern humanity, and articulate this struggle through representation of small groups, circles, and coteries. It is through the enclosed set of people that Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, and Carl Van Vechten demonstrate a fixation on both the individual and the group, and the relationship between the two. Their literary output and personal associations—which center on observation, portraiture, and collection—are fundamentally criminological in their efforts to negotiate the distance and intimacy of modern life.

Cette thèse se décompose en six chapitres plus ou moins distincts. Cependant, tous font appel au calcul de Malliavin, aux notions de processus gaussien et processus de Lévy, et à leur utilisation en statistique. Chacune des trois parties a fait l'objet de deux articles. <br />Dans la première partie, nous établissons les théorèmes d'Itô et deTanaka pour le mouvement brownien bifractionnaire multidimensionnel. Ensuite nous étudions l'existence de la densité d'occupation pour certains processus en relation avec le mouvement brownien fractionnaire.<br />Dans la deuxième partie, nous analysons, dans un premier temps, le comportement asymptotique de la variation cubique pour le processus de Rosenblatt. Dans un deuxième temps, nous construisons d'une part des estimateurs efficace pour la dérive de mouvement brownien fractionnaire et d'autre part des estimateurs biaisés de type James-Stein qui dominent, sous le riqsue quadratique usuel, l'estimateur du maximum de vraisemblance.<br />La dernière partie présente deux travaux. Dans le premier, nous utilisons une approche menant à un calcul de Malliavin pour les processus de Lévy, qui a été développée récemment par Solé et al. , et nous étudions des processus anticipés de type intégrale d'Itô-Skorohod sur l'espace de Lévy. Dans le deuxième, nous étudions le lien entre les processus stables et les processus auto-similaires, à travers des processus qui sont infiniment divisibles en temps.

The distribution question of the land is a distribution question of the social wealth at the same time,but because will produce the antithesis of the position to assign naturally, so a successful land reform is to need accepting by society and cooperating. Republic of Taiwan in 38 years onwards to promote land reform,by most scholars, is praised as a model of successful reform.The achievement is considered to be effective at easing or solving the land problem, and because of narrowing the wealth gap, reduce the contradiction of the society,thus stable at the time of Taiwan society,later, more to promote economic development miracle. Taiwan's land reform as a starting point,enhance the tenant farmer economic, social status,improving rural life,adequate stable social environment, in fact, the social level, is also a successful social reforms. Lorenz von Stein, is a national scholar, is also a pioneer in sociology, administrative science and history scholars,jurists, Its academic contribution to the integration of the four areas of the national science, economic theory, social theory, administrative theory and financial theory,advocated the philosophy of man and state the purpose of considering and development, countries with independent ability to promote "national organism," said,the individual must be set free only in groups,the purpose of groups in the protection of individual freedom,the problem for society, social order and social change, and other social issues and more insights. This article by Lorenz von Stein social theory perspective,to observe Taiwan's land reform process,and bring about social reform its evolution, and to explore the social changes in, the interaction between state and society, And the idea of control Society, it is not the social inequality, But society does not flow,and countries in social class inequalities caused by the flow of the class should not play a role.So that the task of the State to break the social classes in the defense and on special interests dominated,and integration of the interests of all social classes, to avoid special interests above the national class of cases. Therefore, Taiwan's current social problems,state if the integration by the interests of all social classes, uphold the principle of priority of public interest, although the social problems will continue to occur,but society still more to upgrade because of reform.

Harmonious Society's concept is the social life¡¦ picture that numerous bosom political ideal¡¦ philosopher have been expected together. passed over 2000 years, Human society¡¦ civilization had been many different social development stage and social types, whether the ideal harmonious social life can be clear? or still was not well-known state which likes a stone dropped into the sea? This paper attempted to base on stein¡¦ State Theory that can outline Harmonious Society' cognitive picture and possible way to realize. Stein¡¦ thought background establish in the theory framework of the historical observation, dialectical philosophy, spirit-material dualism and organism ontology philosophy mutually. This paper integrate namely human being, society and state three concepts into Social-Theory and State-Theory which has eternal essence, under the fore-mentioned to research how to construct Harmonious Society. Human being and society has separately conditions or agencies that make state become an organism which has mechanisms to overtake interests of personals and social groups. However, any sort of social-theory practice sides must get concrete practice ways and procedures by value theory(methodology) and real society¡¦ condition, harmonious society's construction way concerns with all real society has variation Because of time and space, hence it¡¦s an analysis of ¡utheory/ practice¡vrelation. But due to limited contexts and the length limits, this text only discuss how to construct Harmonious Society by approach to between¡umaterial/social structure¡vand¡uspirit/agency¡v, and it drew multi-dimensional conclusions of harmonious society's construction way. Finally, this article except continues Stein¡¦ thought to extend, hoped that can inherit and broaden theory's explanatory ability and analysis scope, by have more widespread being suitable. On the other hand, also carries on the empirical analysis by Taiwan 1949-2008 period's cases, analyzes its important national policy for several items of developing process, Does which have positive or negative of Taiwan¡¦ harmonious society's construction?

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