This thesis, called The Relationship between Redemption and Emancipation in the Political Theology of J. B. Metz, concerns the political theology of J. B. Metz. The first part summarizes the influences, which shaped his theological thinking and it presents his concept of political theology. The next part asks a question about the relationship between the ideas of redemption and emancipation in Metz's theology. This is based on the interpretation of a chapter from his book, Glaube in Geschichte und Gesellschaft, which concerns the topic. But before the interpretation of Metz's text, the problems of relationship between the two terms and of their origin are described. The extent of the field of meaning of the term "emancipation" is illustrated by the examples of the thinking of Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx and Jürgen Habermas. A large part is dedicated to the figures of the Frankfurt school, Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, and their specific approach to the idea of emancipation and the Enlightenment tradition. The final thesis rejects the opinion, that the ideas of emancipation and redemption in Metz's theology coincide too much and it puts stress on the importance of the term "history of suffering" for solving this problem of Metz's theology. Keywords political theology, J. B. Metz, emancipation,...

I och med det allmänna mottagandet av Theodor Adornos filosofiska projekt har filosofins framställningsform, "der Darstellung", ofta kommit att betraktas som betydelsefull för projektets realisering. I introduktionen till ett av Adornos viktigaste verk om logik och ontologi, Negative Dialektik, publicerat för första gången 1966, skriver han att "…the presentation of philosophy is not an external matter of indifference to it but immanent to its idea." Föreliggande uppsats skall försöka att förstå och utveckla en läsning av den i citatet antydda relationen mellan framställningsformen och "filosofins idé". Detta genom att undersöka några logiska och ontologiska teser, centrala för Adornos filosofiska projekt, i samband med en uttolkning av framställningsformens grundläggande drag. Utgångspunkten i uppsatsen kommer att vara Alison Stones artikel, "Adorno and Logic". I den föreslår Stone att framställningsformens betydelse för Theodor Adornos filosofi skall förstås i ljuset av en antagen strävan hos Adorno mot en filosofins försoning. Uppsatsen kommer därefter att utveckla vad denna Stones föreslagna försoning kan innebära för Adorno givet att fler delar av hans filosofi, hans idéer om språk och erfarenhet, introduceras i läsningen av hans filosofiska projekt. Genom att uppsatsen frångår Stones exklusiva fokus på logik för att samtidigt följa hennes läsning med hänsyn till idén om försoning skall vi avslutningsvis se hur Adornos idéer om språket kan förstås som en förlängning av försoningen Stone föreslagit, och vidare hur språkets försoning, som åstadkoms i och genom framställningsformen, är en del av "filosofins idé".

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Uppsatsen syftar till att testa den kritiska teorins relevans och användbarhet vid analysen av en modern, politisk Hollywoodfilm som Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King, 2021). Utifrån narrativ, form och reception undersöks om filmen kan sägas förmedla subversivitet och samhällskritik. Resultatet visar att filmen följer en klassisk narrativ struktur som inte ger utrymme för samhällskritik. Dock finns vissa formmässiga brott som kan sägas göra det, inte minst i hur dåtid och nutid knyts ihop. I receptionsanalysen studeras amerikanska recensioner av filmen, och här återfinns flera exempel på hur recensenterna läser in ett tydligt antirasistiskt budskap i filmen och relaterar detta till den nutida Black Lives Matter-rörelsen. Å ena sidan går det att hävda att Judas and the Black Messiah därigenom förmedlar subversivitet och samhällskritik till åskådarna. Å andra sidan är frågan om antirasism idag verkligen kan ses som genuint subversivt, och huruvida detta vederlägger den kritiska teorin eller ej.

This dissertation examines literary modernism as foremost an endeavor that concerns the imagination. Gaston Bachelard, whose studies on material and dynamic imagination provide the theoretical underpinning for the dissertation, defined the imagination as "nothing other than the subject transported inside the things." Reformulation of subject-object relations, clearly suggested in that definition, is indeed an important element in the aesthetics of Bachelard and that of Adorno, another thinker whose thought informs the dissertation. As the principle behind modernist responses to the crisis of the modern world, the crisis Georg Lukács captured in the phrase "transcendental homelessness," reformulation of subject-object relations impels the mobilization of creative energies in the way that may very well be called "the modernist imagination." I first state the premise for the dissertation and situates it in the present landscape of modernist scholarship. Then I examine Adorno and Bachelard at the intersections of their thoughts, in preparation for a theory of the modernist imagination. Next I consider Mrs. Dalloway as a modernist probing of the sensual, in which familiar dualisms – subject vs. object, the external vs. internal, life vs. death, mind vs. body – collapse. Following this, I examine The Magic Mountain as an attempt at what Adorno calls materialist metaphysics. The novel's preoccupation with death in all its aspects, its problematizing of the human body and the imagination of cold are examined in light of Adorno's view on reviving metaphysics in modernity. Then I read in Ulysses water's lyricism, a lyricism learned from water, into which important modernist themes (not least the ones considered previously in the dissertation) converge. Lastly I look at a film – Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris – and a science fiction novel from the 1950s – Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 – in light of what may be called the "philosophy" of modernism. The spirit of modernism – the primacy of the object as a modernist dictum, modernism‘s resistance to identity thinking and its dismantling of dualisms – is shown to continue in genres other than literature and in the period now called "post"-modern.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-08-12T12:54:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2184501 bytes, checksum: 0d33b2b753ec45269f08b2f66afba1da (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-12T12:54:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 2184501 bytes, checksum: 0d33b2b753ec45269f08b2f66afba1da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Cette thèse se propose de mettre em routle une investigation critique du roman Avalovara(1973), d'Osman Lins, à partir de quelques rapports établis entre les manifestations de courant de conscience de ses personnages et la dialectique de la négativité esthétique, formulée sous les conceptions philosophiques de Theodor Adorno. Au cours de cette investigation, nous aborderons d’abord la manière dont se présente la disposition formelle de la technique du courant de conscience et ses achèvements critiques au long du XXe siècle. Nous fournirons aussi, dans la première partie de la recherche, un panorama de compréhension de la pensée esthétique d'Adorno, en mettant en relief ses discussions sur la Dialectique Négative (1966), le narrateur dans le roman contemporain et ses lectures des procédés artistiques de Samuel Beckett. Notre but est de retrouver une signification littéraire pour la déconstruction des structures romanesques manifestées à l'intérieur d'Avalovara, selon les conceptions de non identité et critique du sujet moderne, développées par Adorno. Dans la deuxième partie de la recherche, nous analyserons le roman d'Osman Lins, afin de comprendre comment son organisation structurelle, de caractère fragmentaire, produit un mouvement de tension thématique où certains types de violence impliquant de la souffrance sont remplacés par une transgression érotique médiatrice d'une attitude d'autonomie et d'authenticité des protagonistes. Notre intention est de comprendre que l'emploi de la technique du courant de conscience, comme moyen de nous tenir au courant de ce qui se passe dans la pensée des personnages, nous permet de voir, d'une façon plus large, que, en insistant dialectiquement, en son intérieur, à exposer la négativité des concepts sur le monde dans lequel il s'expérimente, le sujet s'éloigne d'une objectivité positive et ontologique en faveur d'une hétérogénéité négative de la conscience de l'être dans le monde. / Lins, based on some relationships established among the manifestations of the stream of consciousness of their characters and the dialectics of the aesthetic negativity, elaborated through the philosophical concepts of Theodor Adorno. Throughout the thesis, we will discuss initially how the formal disposition of the stream of consciousness' technique and its critical development are given alongside the 20th century. In the first part of the research, we will also provide a framework for the understanding of the aesthetic thinking, focusing their discussions about the Negative Dialectics (1966), the narrator in the contemporary novel and his readings about Samuel Beckett's artistic procedures. The purpose is to find a literary meaning for the deconstruction of the novelistic structures that were manifested inside Avalovara through the concepts of non-identity and criticism of the modern individual developed by Adorno. In the second part of the research, we will analyse the novel by Osman Lins seeking to comprehend how its structural constitution with fragmentary aspect produces a movement of thematic tension in which certain types of violence that implicate into suffering are replaced by an erotic transgression that intermediates an atitude of autonomy and authenticy of the characters. Our intention is to understand that the use of the technique of the stream of conciousness, as a manner of being acquainted about what is going on in the characters’ mind, give us condition to perceive with a wider perspective that in the interior of the individual exists a dialectic insistence in exposing the negativity of the concepts about the world in which one experiences, evading from a positive and ontological objectivity in favor of a negative hetereogeneity of the conscience of being in the world. / Lins, a partir de algumas relações estabelecidas entre as manifestações do fluxo de consciência dos seus personagens e a dialética da negatividade estética, formulada nas concepções filosóficas de Theodor Adorno. Em seu decorrer, discutiremos inicialmente como se dá a disposição formal da técnica de fluxo de consciência e seus desdobramentos críticos ao longo do século XX. Também forneceremos, na primeira parte da pesquisa, um quadro de compreensão do pensamento estético de Adorno, focalizando suas discussões sobre a Dialética Negativa (1966), o narrador no romance contemporâneo e suas leituras sobre os procedimentos artísticos de Samuel Beckett. A finalidade é encontrar, nas concepções de não-identidade e crítica do sujeito moderno, desenvolvidas por Adorno, um significado literário para a desconstrução das estruturas romanesca que se manifestam no interior de Avalovara. Na segunda parte da pesquisa, analisaremos o romance de Osman Lins buscando entender como a sua organização estrutural, de caráter fragmentário, produz um movimento de tensão temática em que determinados tipos de violência que implicam em sofrimento são substituídos por uma transgressão erótica mediadora de uma atitude de autonomia e autenticidade dos protagonistas. Nossa intenção é entender que a utilização da técnica de fluxo de consciência, como maneira de nos inteirarmos do que se passa na mente dos personagens, nos dá condição de perceber de maneira mais ampla que no interior do sujeito existe uma insistência dialética em expor a negatividade dos conceitos sobre o mundo no qual se experimenta, fugindo de uma objetividade positiva e ontológica em favor de uma heterogeneidade negativa da consciência do ser no mundo.

[pt] Lançando mão da Crítica da Economia Política, da Psicanálise e da Teoria Crítica, o presente trabalho procura promover uma caracterização da sociedade capitalista contemporânea em função de seu modo de produção material e formas ideológicas. Levando a sério determinados elementos do pensamento adorniano, procura-se, então, partir de elaborações estéticas para construir modelos que possibilitem a rejeição da totalidade dessa sociedade, ao mesmo tempo refletindo sobre o papel, a função e as limitações das categorias críticas tradicionais. / [en] Making use of the Critique of Political Economy, Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, the present work essays a characterisation of contemporary capitalist society in function of its mode of material production and ideological forms. Working in Adornian lines, and based on aesthetical constructions, it then seeks to propose models for the rejection of the totality of this society, at the same time reflecting on the role, function and limitation of traditional critical categories.

Diploma thesis Sociology and Existentialism. Question of "Purpose" from an Existentialist Viewpoint deals with the problem of aim and purpose of sociology. First we want to doubt what we grasp as nonproblematic reception of attitudes on what sociology actually is, which is to be found especially in common sociological discourse. We want to accomplish this by challenging sociology to defend itself against what existentialism perceives as ultimate concern of human beings and by suggesting that in order to comply with this challenge sociology should become religious in Tillich's and Fromm's sense. Second we aim to conceptualize what purposeful sociology would mean and analyze how sociology has been loosing purpose. Third we aim to hint at what sociology should do in order to stay purposeful.

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Within the science fiction genre, utopian as well as dystopian experiments have found equal representation. This balanced treatment of two diametrically opposed social constructs results from a focus on the future for which this particular genre is well known. Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby, more aptly characterized as speculative fiction because of its use of magic against scientific social subjugation, each tackle dystopian qualities of contemporary society by analyzing the power that language possesses in the formation of the self and propagation of ideology. The utopian goals of these texts advocate for a return to the modernist metanarrative and a revision of postmodern cynicism because the authors look to the future for hopeful solutions to the social and ideological problems of today. Using Slavoj Žižek’s readings of Jacques Lacan and Theodor Adorno’s readings of Karl Marx for critical insight, I argue these four novels imagine language as the key to personal empowerment and social change. While not all of the novels achieve their utopian goals, they each evince a belief that the attempt belies a return to the modernist metanarrative and a rejection of postmodern helplessness. Thus, each novel imagines the revision of Žižek’s big Other through the remainders of Adorno’s inevitably failed revolutions, injecting hope in a literary period that had long since lost it.