This thesis engages with the tension between political action and political speech in political understanding. This tension arises in a context whereby speech is represented as the sine qua non of being political and the way to change the conditions of being political; specifically, this thesis explores this tendency within a linguistic account of performative action (where action is understood through/as language effects). Against this backdrop, the thesis develops a notion of haptic performativity—performative action where the action (or doing) occurs without or in spite of linguistic (de)legitimation. Here, haptic performativity begins answering how marginalised populations act politically when defined by a lack of voice. To develop this notion—centering forms of action that occur in absentia of linguistic legitimation—the thesis: 1) reveals the disjunctive relation between deeds and speech with linguistic Performative Speech Act (PSA) theory; argues that 2) PSA theory reveals the inability for speech to convey the full force of bodily deeds within/through language; and, thereby, explores 3) how bodies or actors defined by a lack of social standing (or linguistic efficiency as a subject) remain politically impactful. Thus, while linguistic performativity gestures to the assembling power of speech (the power of already assembled subjects), conversely, haptic performativity testifies to the disassembling force of bodies who revolt without speech (the force of actors who are yet to be subjects). The thesis ends by bringing this haptic perspective into a contemporary context: the place of the body in the Black radical tradition of thought and the force of silent protests in the Black Lives Matter Movement. / Graduate

La duplicité de l’apparaître consiste à distinguer tout ce qui apparaît conformément à son mode d’apparaître : immanence et transcendance. Notre travail a pour objectif d’élucider par l’analyse des lectures henryennes de l’histoire de la philosophie une présupposition fondamentale qui conditionne cette doctrine de la duplicité de l’apparaître, présupposition qui joue un rôle fondamental dans la phénoménologie de Michel Henry. Notre problématique consiste donc à nous demander comment comprendre l’essence d’une telle duplicité qui ne peut que rendre difficile à penser ce qu’il y a de commun entre la transcendance, comme déploiement de l’horizon phénoménologique, et l’immanence, comme épreuve immédiate de soi dans l’affectivité. Afin de donner une réponse à cette question fondamentale, nous avons centré notre étude sur les deux ouvrages majeurs de M. Henry : Philosophie et Phénoménologie du corps et L’essence de la manifestation. Conformément à nos analyses qui suivent les lectures henryennes de Maine de Biran, Kant, Fichte, et Heidegger, nous nous sommes demandé si une distinction kantienne entre la logique formelle et la logique transcendantale ne fonctionnait pas comme une présupposition qui, d’une part détermine la duplicité de l’apparaître et, d’autre part entraîne une purification radicale de l’immanence en dehors de la transcendance, au point d’anéantir la possibilité qu’elles auraient de se rapporter l’une à l’autre. Une telle analyse nous a conduit à saisir l’enjeu de l’attachement exclusif de la doctrine henryenne de l’immanence au principe des jugements analytiques ; attachement qui conférera un caractère paradoxal à la duplicité de l’apparaître / The duplicity of appearing phenomenologically classifies appearances according to their modes of appearance: immanence and transcendence. By analyzing Michel Henry’s analysis of the history of philosophy, this study examines the fundamental presupposition that conditions this doctrine of duplicity of appearing and plays an important role in Henry’s material philosophy. The following question arises: how can we understand the essence of duplicity, which makes it difficult to comprehend the relationship between transcendence and immanence? To answer this question, we focus on Henry’s two major works: Philosophy and Phenomenology of Body and The Essence of Manifestation. By analyzing Henry’s interpretation of the works of Maine de Biran, Kant, Fichte, and Heidegger, we inquire whether the Kantian distinction between formal and transcendental logic serves as the condition that determines the duplicity of appearing and leads to the distinction of immanence from transcendence to eliminate the possibility of a relationship between them. This analysis leads to an understanding of a fundamental issue regarding the exclusive commitment of immanence to the principle of analytic judgments, with the commitment lending a paradoxical character to the duplicity of appearing.

In this essay I want to see if using theories of practical knowledge can deepen the understanding of the tradition of Pilgrimage in the 4th century. I have selected three of the most known and well preserved travelogue texts: Egeria's travels, Jeromé s Epitaphium Paulae and Itinerarium Burdigalense. In this essay I will use the theories of practical knowledge to analyse expression of emotions, corporeality and spatiality. I will use a qualitative-inductive method and a hermeneutic method and also a comparative method to compare the expression.

This dissertation examines the relation between embodiment and language, knowledge and memory, as explored in the poetry of South African poet Gabeba Baderoon. In her three published collections of poetry, namely, The Museum of Ordinary Life, The Dream in the Next Body and A Hundred Silences, she depicts seemingly trivial and everyday events or experiences with acute attention to detail, all of which are connected by her unique portrayal of their embodied nature. In doing so, her work illustrates that intellectual activities typically associated with the mind, such as language, knowledge and memory, in fact require the incorporation of the body. Therefore, this dissertation studies the mind-body relation represented in her work with regard to these thematic concerns, since it is a crucial aspect of her poetry and aids not only in understanding and interpreting her work, but also the discourse on embodiment in general. These concerns do, moreover, not remain on a thematic level, but are evident in her poetry itself; that is, her poems too act as a form of embodiment. Furthermore, Baderoon’s poems are able to transcend the supposed mind-body dichotomy in a way that shows much in common with phenomenology, and especially the perspective held by authors such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This dissertation incorporates phenomenological ideas on the body and embodiment, as these assist in interpreting Baderoon’s work, as well as for the reason that her poetry sheds new light upon the understanding of such phenomenological ideas, too. Thus, this dissertation seeks to elucidate the manner in which Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry transcends the mind-body dichotomy by means of her exceptional employment of the notion of embodiment on a thematic as well as formal level. / Thesis (MA (English))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

My original contribution to theory and practice formulates management consultancy as a social act evolving within interaction with clients whereby identity, as an emerging process, can form and be formed within consultant-client relationships. Drawing on Stacey's work on complex responsive process thinking, I have described a reflexive, social self, highlighting the implications for management consultants of this open-ended responsiveness of identity formation. Within the prevailing management literature there is a sense that consultants design interventions that change organisations, whether through working on leadership development, executive coaching, providing expertise or facilitating organisational change. As part of my original contribution I pick up on the emotional, relational and occasionally messy nature of consulting, which is frequently overlooked in the literature. My research into the emergence of intentions and the formation of identity within consultant-client relationships analyses my work as a researcher-practitioner working within large financial service organisations through a variety of consulting projects. The inquiry examines my professional practice, researched through a social, iterative and temporal method centring on reflexive, narrative inquiries. I illuminate the fundamental conversational nature of consultant-client relationships; challenging the view of consulting as a transaction whereby the consultant provides a service, withdrawing relatively unchanged. I postulate consulting as a series of conversations with interdependent people wherein emerging themes organise new ways of relating and novelty evolves. Drawing on Elias' process sociology I extrapolate the fundamental interdependence of consultant-client relationships; conceptualising management consulting from a complex responsive processes way of relating. I challenge the notion of intention as located in the individual; an independent, disembodied, thought before action predicated on an 'if-then' notion of causality, underpinned by an assumption of human beings as autonomous and rational. I develop the work of Joas arguing that intentions are emerging, social and embodied; a theme organising conversations. In particular I detail how strong emotions and embodiment occur in those arresting moments, where experiences of inclusion and exclusion, can alert the consultant to new ways of relating. My inquiry has highlighted the significance for management consultants of realising the fundamentally social nature of human interaction and the importance of responsiveness in the living present. With reference to Mead's view of conversation as a pattern of gesture/ response I highlight the consultant-client relationship as co-created and therefore not to be ordered by the consultant who can, nevertheless, pick up on and influence new patterns of relating as they evolve.

Key words: dance - body - corporeality - dance aesthetics - aesthetic experience - phenomenology - Maxine Sheets-Johnstone - contemporary dance Abstact: Dance's various forms and appearances are connected through one universal aspect - the presence of corporeality as represented by the moving human body. The role and the experience of body is essential for the description of dance even in its aesthetical and philosophical interpretation. First of all, this diploma theses aims to map the field of aesthetics and philosophy of dance from wider historical perspective and consequently to find support in dance basic division and its connected experiences in practice of inner ecstatic immersion. Furthermore, the focus is also given to the type of experience that is subordinated to visual effect of dance. This foundation is further elaborated in second part of this thesis, which discusses dance experience in its aesthetic dimension through context of phenomenological philosophy in thinking of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. This concept of dance reveals other important qualities in dance as an art. In addition, it shows one of novel approaches to corporeality in the aesthetic experience of dance, which could built on the dichotomous differentiation of the dance experience and open new perspectives on the aesthetic...

Women in the Province of Manitoba are discharged daily from provincial jails back to their communities after an interruption in their lives of anywhere from days to years. Many of these women cycle in and out of jail on a regular basis. This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored the daily lifeworlds of re-imprisoned women during their return to the community. Twelve women (nine Aboriginal, three Caucasian) were interviewed. Analysis of the study themes using van Manen’s existentials: temporality, spatiality, relationality, and corporeality revealed the complex multi-systemic issues that affect women’s lived experiences. The essence of the women’s accounts provides some insight into how the role of intergenerational, personal trauma and accumulated trauma impacted their lived experiences and continues to do so when they re-enter the community. The opportunities and options that women had to make positive life changes were obscured by insidious barriers and challenges impairing their ability to avoid re-imprisonment. / May 2016

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-27T10:20:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Carlos Neves de Souza e Nunes Dias.pdf: 2528509 bytes, checksum: 42e6065a97ba0750ae6553c04b8e1096 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-27T10:20:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Carlos Neves de Souza e Nunes Dias.pdf: 2528509 bytes, checksum: 42e6065a97ba0750ae6553c04b8e1096 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-17 / Our research has as central theme of corporeality in Merleau-Ponty, considering the expression and flesh notions articulated to the body and brought in some of his works. Our argument is based on the assertion that the body gains distinction and philosophical thickness along the Merleau-Ponty thought experiment. In order to emphasize the strength of its proposal and the contrast with certain philosophical tradition, initially present understanding the body in Descartes, without losing sight the philosophical and medical context of the XVI e XVII centuries. In a second move, we follow the phenomenological description of the body proposed by Merleau-Ponty in Phénoménologie de la perception, in order to reveal the textures of the body itself and its modes of expression in the world, and his incisive criticism of the Cartesian philosophy and its impact an empirical science. In the third and final movement of this research, we expose certain plots of esthesiological body articulated to the Merleau- Ponty’s ontological project, with reference to his last writings, L’oeil et l’esprit and Le visible et l’invisible / Nossa investigação tem como centralidade o tema da corporeidade na filosofia de Merleau-Ponty, considerando as noções de expressão e carne articuladas ao corpo e apresentadas em algumas de suas obras. Nosso argumento assenta-se na afirmação de que o corpo ganha distinção e espessura filosófica ao longo da experiência do pensamento de Merleau-Ponty. No sentido de ressaltarmos o vigor de sua proposta e o contraste com certa tradição filosófica, inicialmente apresentamos a compreensão do corpo em Descartes, sem perder de vista o contexto filosófico e médico dos séculos XVI e XVII. Em um segundo movimento, acompanhamos a descrição fenomenológica do corpo proposta por Merleau-Ponty em Phénoménologie de la perception, no sentido de evidenciar as texturas do corpo próprio e seus modos de expressão no mundo, bem como sua crítica contundente à filosofia cartesiana e seu desdobramento empírico na ciência. No terceiro e último movimento dessa investigação, expomos certas tramas do corpo estesiológico articuladas ao projeto ontológico de Merleau-Ponty, tendo como referência seus últimos escritos, L’oeil et l’esprit e Le visible et l’invisible

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariane Tojeira Cara Almeida.pdf: 5557837 bytes, checksum: fb622e5ef3c9e42dd0293e390a91de07 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-23 / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo / Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the teenagers use interpersonal communication resources mediated for sociability purposes, having as first mean the wire line telephone, which lasted until the end of the 1990 s. In the early 21th century, with the advent of social networking, the body invisibility of the wire line telephone was supplanted by extra-visibility of digital photos posted on personal pages. These are images worked in details in order to present spectacular bidimensionalized corporeality. This is the object of this research that aims to analyze, from a semiotic point of view, these images that, far from simple capture of the anatomic-physiologic body arise, present, in fact, the Ideal I emulated in media images. The selection of the corpus of pictures focused on images of teenagers, because these are subjects who experience a peculiar biological stage, at a time when the body undergoes changes of puberty, surrendering to image editing, either it in stage of pre-production, production, or post-production. The conceptual frameworks first by understanding youth passes while class invented in the 19th century, highlighting the main Latin American theorists that study on the subject and reinforce the relevance of the media to the juvenile temporal clippings from the early 1950. Regarding the photographic images, bring to light the texts of Vilem Flusser, Roland Barthes and Lucia Santaella. By handling bodily images highlighted by digital photo, Act was important to consider the Sigmund Freud´s concept of narcissism, Jacques Lacan's mirror stage and the selfconstitution of the subject by Michel Foucault. Supported in this theoretical framework, the research followed to the empirical application. It is based on a methodology composed by a quantitative survey examined statistically, followed by two qualitative analysis: the first discusses the content of sentences written by teens about the Act of editing images, and the second presents a set of photographs of users of social networks, studied by the bias of peircian semiotics. From this research it was concluded that when adolescent girls post their selfportraits in the network, they become despots about themselves, enabling and disabling the signs that they represent in order to receive the approval of friends by the comments and by acts of "enjoy". It proves that the spectacular corporeality is predominantly visual production of the objectified subject on disposed images, ready to meet the gaze of the other / Desde meados do século XX, as adolescentes utilizam os recursos da comunicação interpessoal mediada com fins de sociabilidade, tendo como primeiro meio o telefone fixo, que perdurou até o final dos anos 1990. No início do século XXI, com o advento das redes sociais, a invisibilidade corporal da telefonia fixa foi suplantada pela extra-visibilidade das fotografias digitais postadas em páginas pessoais. Trata-se de imagens detalhadamente trabalhadas para apresentarem uma corporeidade espetacular bidimensionalizada. Este se constitui no objeto de estudo desta pesquisa que tem por objetivo analisar, sob um ponto de vista semiótico, essas imagens que, longe de advir da simples captação do corpo anatomofisiológico, apresentam, na realidade, o Ideal de Eu emulado nas imagens midiáticas. A seleção do corpus de fotos voltou-se para as imagens de adolescentes, porque esses são sujeitos que vivenciam uma fase biológica peculiar, num momento em que o corpo passa por modificações próprias da puberdade, rendendo-se às interferências da edição de imagem, seja na fase de pré produção, produção ou pós produção. O arcabouço conceitual passa primeiramente pelo entendimento da juventude enquanto classe inventada no século XIX, destacando os principais teóricos latino-americanos que se debruçam sobre o tema e reforçam a relevância das mídias para os recortes temporais juvenis a partir da década de 1950. No que tange às imagens fotográficas, trazemos à luz os textos de Vilém Flusser, Roland Barthes e Lucia Santaella. Por tratarmos de imagens corporais evidenciadas pelo ato fotográfico digital, foi importante considerar o conceito de narcisismo, de Sigmund Freud, o estádio do espelho de Jacques Lacan e a autoconstituição do sujeito de Michel Foucault. Apoiados nesse referencial teórico, a pesquisa seguiu para a aplicação empírica. Esta se baseou em uma metodologia composta de um levantamento quantitativo analisado estatisticamente, seguido de duas análises qualitativas: a primeira aborda o conteúdo das frases escritas pelas adolescentes a respeito do ato de edição de imagens, a segunda apresenta um conjunto de fotografias de usuárias das redes sociais, estudadas pelo viés da semiótica peirciana. Concluiu-se disso que as adolescentes, ao postarem seus autorretratos na rede, tornam-se déspotas de si, habilitando e desabilitando sua própria representação com a finalidade de receberem a aprovação dos amigos nos comentários e nos atos de "curtir". Comprovou-se também que a corporeidade espetacular é predominantemente a produção visual de sujeitos objetificados em imagens alienadas, prontas para satisfazer o olhar do outro

This thesis deals with the dramatic work of Jara Cimrman, which is based on the cooperation of two authors named Zdenek Sverak and Ladislav Smoljak. In the introductory chapters we analyze the genesis of mystifying legend named Jara Cimrman, then his way from the radio show to the theatre and also his own cult, which all leads to the general poetics of the Theatre of Jara Cimrman. We can find some related attributes in this theatre, like specific acting, phenomenon of their workshops and imaginative humour. All of these attributes leads to the definition of repetitive stereotypes in the plays of this theatre. In this thesis we also try to define the genre of the plays, also their subject matter, topics and their motives. The aim of this thesis is to describe these motives and also its gradual progress as in the particular dramas, so in the social atmosphere of those days.