Inaug.-Diss.--Erlangen. / Lebenslauf. Bibliography: p. 41-42.

Giessen, Universiẗat, Diss., 2005.

« Socrate, dit-on, n’allait pas à la tragédie », écrit Clément Rosset dans son livre Philosophie tragique. Selon la philosophe américaine Martha C. Nussbaum, c’est spécifiquement cette pulsion anti-tragique qui caractériserait la philosophie dès Platon. Au XIXe siècle, le Nietzsche de La naissance de la tragédie avait déjà déclaré le meurtre de la tragédie par la philosophie ; bien que Nussbaum soit généralement en accord avec le diagnostic du philosophe allemand, elle y apporte un élément novateur. De fait, elle voit dans la philosophie aristotélicienne une brèche dans la tradition : un contre-argument à la théorie platonicienne ainsi qu’une continuité de la pensée tragique. Premier penseur de la tragédie, Aristote accordait déjà une part importante à la fortune (tuchè) dans sa théorie éthique. Or, cette vulnérabilité ontologique, c’est-à-dire le fait que l’être humain soit jusqu’à un certain point à la merci de forces qui le dépassent, phénomène que nous tenterons de penser sous le mode de la teneur tragique de l’existence, serait précisément ce qui permettrait, selon notre auteure, de fonder une philosophie contemporaine « pleinement humaine ». Cependant, pour appréhender le tragique, l’être percevant doit présenter une organisation du monde lui permettant de le voir comme tel. Pour Nussbaum, cette reconfiguration du vécu serait possible par l’imagination ; plus spécifiquement, par la littérature. Plus encore, l’imagination morale ici proposée par notre auteur serait à proprement parler cette rencontre avec la composante fondamentalement tragique de la vie. Nous pouvons donc dire que, en s’appuyant sur la méthode aristotélicienne ainsi que sur l’expérience tragique, l’auteure se situe dans la tradition d’un questionnement sur la notion d’imagination morale, et y apporte une contribution riche et particulière. / “Socrates, it is said, did not attend to tragedies,” wrote Clement Rosset in his book Tragic Philosophy. According to the American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, it is specifically this anti-tragic impulse that has characterized philosophy since Plato. In the nineteenth century, the Nietzsche of The Birth of Tragedy had already declared the murder of tragedy by philosophy; although Nussbaum generally agrees with the diagnosis of the German philosopher, she adds an innovative element to it. Indeed, she sees in Aristotelian philosophy a breach in tradition: a counterargument to Platonist theory as well as a continuity of tragic thought. Aristotle, the first great thinker of tragedy, had already given an important role to fortune (tuchè) in his ethical theory. However, this ontological vulnerability, that is the fact that human beings are to a certain extent at the mercy of forces beyond their control, a phenomenon that we will try to think of as the tragic content of existence, would be precisely what, according to our author, would make it possible to found a contemporary philosophy that is “fully human”. However, in order to apprehend this tragic component, the perceiving being must present an organization of the world that allows him to see it as such. For Nussbaum, this reconfiguration of experience would be possible through imagination; more specifically, through literature. Moreover, the moral imagination hereby proposed by our author is, specifically, the encounter with life’s fundamentally tragic components. We can therefore say that, by relying on the Aristotelian method as well as on tragic experience, Nussbaum belongs to a tradition that addresses the notion of moral imagination and makes a rich and particular contribution to it.

This thesis investigates new late Quaternary vegetation records from four sites in the Craven District of the Yorkshire Dales. The chosen sites fall along an east-west transect broadly following the line of the south Craven Fault. The rationale for site selection was not based on conventional palynological considerations of potential for rich core samples, rather to provide a range of different locations within a distinct micro-region each existing in some specific proximity to known archaeological features. The logic was to attempt to get beyond broad 'natural' climatological and vegetational inferences to understand the nature and level of potential anthropogenically produced change at a local scale as a sub-set of natural change in a broader regional zone over time. The sites reveal varied vegetation histories from the Late Glacial period to the present day and all show signs of being influenced by changes in their arboreal structure at some time, although no two sites have exactly the same vegetation communities until around 5000 BP when the tree canopy is opened to allow an open grassland to dominate. The results indicate the possibility that Betula values, in particular, might indicate cooling events found in the Greenland ice cores for Greenland Interstadial 1 as well as the Pre-boreal Oscillation and the Holocene 9.3 ka BP Event. Closer chronological control of such values could help to determine whether vegetational dynamics were synchronous with fluctuations in temperature and the speed with which trees respond to severe temperature fluctuations. Various hiatuses identified during analysis of the cores may be caused by human influence on the wetlands, given that archaeological evidence from caves shows human occupation of the Craven area from the late Upper Palaeolithic onwards.

This thesis investigates new late Quaternary vegetation records from four sites in the Craven District of the Yorkshire Dales. The chosen sites fall along an east-west transect broadly following the line of the south Craven Fault. The rationale for site selection was not based on conventional palynological considerations of potential for rich core samples, rather to provide a range of different locations within a distinct micro-region each existing in some specific proximity to known archaeological features. The logic was to attempt to get beyond broad ¿natural¿ climatological and vegetational inferences to understand the nature and level of potential anthropogenically produced change at a local scale as a sub-set of natural change in a broader regional zone over time. The sites reveal varied vegetation histories from the Late Glacial period to the present day and all show signs of being influenced by changes in their arboreal structure at some time, although no two sites have exactly the same vegetation communities until around 5000 BP when the tree canopy is opened to allow an open grassland to dominate. The results indicate the possibility that Betula values, in particular, might indicate cooling events found in the Greenland ice cores for Greenland Interstadial 1 as well as the Pre-boreal Oscillation and the Holocene 9.3 ka BP Event. Closer chronological control of such values could help to determine whether vegetational dynamics were synchronous with fluctuations in temperature and the speed with which trees respond to severe temperature fluctuations. Various hiatuses identified during analysis of the cores may be caused by human influence on the wetlands, given that archaeological evidence from caves shows human occupation of the Craven area from the late Upper Palaeolithic onwards. / Natural Environment Research Council

Orientador: Fábio Akcelrud Durão / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T00:44:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ponte_Charles_D.pdf: 5158221 bytes, checksum: 021381a1dcdf598dfa5687c77fa4f959 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Ao longo do último século, o modus operandi da indústria cultural foi responsável por um movimento de padronização dos artefatos culturais, constituindo um eixo tensional entre repetição e inovação que abarca em todas as artes, mas especialmente no cinema, tendo este uma maior necessidade de retorno dos investimentos feitos para sua realização. Dessa forma, considerando o cinema feito nos Estados Unidos como o principal representante do entretenimento fílmico, é natural que esta homogeneização lhe seja mais intensa, um aspecto convenientemente negligenciado pelas críticas especializadas, posto que estas costumam enfatizar, acertadamente, aqueles filmes de maior complexidade, terminando por iludir os leitores acerca da real porcentagem de filmes com tal qualidade. Assim, o objetivo desta tese é observar a composição de uma dessas obras costumeiramente não contempladas pela crítica, a trilogia de horror Pânico (1996; 1998; 2000), dirgida por Wes Craven, partindo da leitura cerrada de seus principais componentes estruturais - enredo, personagens, espaço e foco narrativo - e comparando-a a outros de seu subgênero, para verificar a existência de uma tensão dialética de aproximação ou distanciamento da estandardização das formas diegéticas e como esses movimentos estão relacionados com as estratégias de comercialização dos produtos. Para isso, este trabalho lança mão de um corpo de teorias de diversas áreas, desde a literatura e o cinema até o grupo de pensadores abarcado pelo epíteto Teoria, mas sempre permeado pelo conceito de indústria cultural de Adorno e Horkheimer (1985) e pelas elaborações posteriores de Adorno (2001) sobre do tema. No corpus, por um lado, a tensão entre a repetição das formas e seu rearranjo ocorre em todos os componentes selecionados, de modo que a trilogia Pânico continua a pertencer ao subgênero slasher em sua composição, ao menos na superfície, apesar de conter uma grande parcela de hibridização de outros gêneros, notadamente a estruturação das duas personagens principais, heroína e monstro, bem como de parte de sua découpage; por outro lado, há uma parcela de inovações atribuídas à trilogia, em especial a presença de uma variada veia metaficcional, uma raridade em todo o gênero horror, mas também a diminuição das cenas violentamente explícitas. Contudo, pode-se confirmar, através da interpretação dos resultados, que as modificações permitidas nunca ameaçam a quebra da quarta parede, ou mesmo a expectativa da plateia em relação aos filmes, de modo que se devem considerar praticamente todas as alterações como controladas para emular uma novidade falaciosa / Abstract: Throughout last century, the culture industry's modus operandi was responsible for a standardizing movement in cultural artifacts, constituting a tensional axis between repetition and innovation that embraces all arts, but mainly in film, having the latter a greater need for returns in its production investments. That way, regarding the American cinema as the main representative of filmic entertainment, it is natural that its homogenization is more intense, an aspect conveniently overlooked by specialized critiques, since they tend to emphasize, correctly, those films of higher complexity, ultimately deluding readers about the actual percentage of quality works. Thus, the objective of this dissertation is to observe the composition of one of these usually non critically contemplated ones, the horror trilogy Scream (1996; 1998; 2000), directed by Wes Craven, starting by the close reading of its main structural components - plot, characters, setting and point of view - and comparing it to others pertaining to the same subgenre, in order to verify the existence of a dialectic tension of approximation or distancing to the standardized diegetic forms and how these movements are related to product selling strategies. For doing so, this work makes use of a body of theories from multiple areas, from literature and film studies to the group of thinkers encapsulated under the alias Theory, but always permeated by Adorno and Horkheimer's concept of culture industry (1985), and by Adorno's further elaborations on the theme (2001). In the corpus, on the one hand the tension between formal repetition and its rearrangement occurs in all selected components, so that the trilogy remains as a member of the slasher subgenre, at least in its surface, despite containing a great amount of hybridization, notably by the structuring of its main characters, heroin and monster, as well as part of its découpage; on the other hand, there is a number of innovations attributed to the trilogy, especially the presence of a varied metafictional vein, rare in all of the horror genre, but also the lessening of violently graphic scenes. However, it can be confirmed, through the interpretation of results, that the allowed modifications never threaten the breaking of the fourth wall, or even the audience expectations for the films, in a way that practically all alterations should be considered as controlled to emulate a fallacious novelty / Doutorado / Literatura e Outras Produções Culturais / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Thesis (MPhil (Philosophy))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study finds its roots in the ancient quarrel, as mentioned by Plato 400 BC, between poets (artists) and philosophers on the nature of our ethical existence. The ancient philosophers participating in the ancient quarrel, such as Plato, had a metaphysical understanding of our existence and they believed that we should communicate about our ethical existence through a style which acknowledges the transcendental nature of our human existence. The styles and language used by the philosophers of the ancient quarrel were therefore often very abstract, and mostly concerned with the rationality of human reasoning. The ancient poets participating in this quarrel, however, did not share the metaphysical worldview of their philosophical rivals. They denied the transcendental nature of our existence, and argued that our ethical existence should be portrayed and communicated through a style which acknowledges the fact that we are humans with a concrete existence. The poets of the ancient quarrel also promoted a style which acknowledges humans as beings with both rational and emotional faculties. It is for this reason that we find today in literature concerned with moral matters, both the abstract style of moral philosophy which is concerned with the rational aspects of our existence, and the concrete style of fictional literature which is concerned with the emotive aspects of our existence. The quarrel on how to communicate about the nature of our ethical existence is, however, an ongoing debate which is still prevalent in our modern times. This study turns to the modern argument of Martha Nussbaum on how to communicate about the nature of our ethical existence. Nussbaum argues that the abstract style of philosophical texts on morality acknowledges the abstract and rational aspects of our human nature and existence, but that it often fails to fully acknowledge the fact that we are concrete human beings for whom emotions play an integral part in our ethical existence. She therefore believes that moral philosophy should be presented in combination with fictional literature in order to give a true and complete picture of our ethical existence. This study thus enters into a critical dialogue with Nussbaum on her proposal to combine fictional literature with moral philosophy. Accordingly, this study focuses on three specific aspects of our ethical existence, which Nussbaum argues, are acknowledged through fictional literature such as novels, but not through the typical style of abstract moral philosophy. They are; 1) that human values are plural and often incommensurable; 2) that the particulars of situations play an important role in ethical deliberation; and 3) that human emotions and the imagination form a big part of our ethical existence. The fundamental aim of this study is thus to answer the question whether the style of fictional literature actually acknowledges the three above mentioned aspects of our ethical existence. The novel which is used to determine this is Alan Paton’s Cry the Beloved Country. Nussbaum classifies the three above mentioned aspects of our ethical existence as 1) The Non- Commensurability and Plurality of Values; 2) Priority of the Particular; and 3) Ethical Value of the Emotions and Imagination. These three aspects are, however, derived from Aristotle’s ethics and they form, as Nussbaum has argued, the bases of the Aristotelian ethical position – a position from which practical knowledge can be obtained. The aim of this study is therefore not only to determine whether certain fictional literature acknowledges the three fundamental aspects of the Aristotelian ethical position, but it also aims to answer the question whether the Aristotelian ethical position (and therefore practical wisdom) can be obtained through the reading of fictional literature such as novels. The study concludes that some fictional literature, such as the novel Cry, the Beloved Country, does in fact adequately portray the three fundamental features of the Aristotelian ethical position, and that Nussbaum’s proposal should receive serious consideration, since the inclusion of some fictional literature into moral philosophy my lead to deeper ethical understanding from which practical wisdom can be obtained. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie vind sy oorsprong in die eeue oue stryd, soos al reeds geïdentifiseer deur Plato 400 vC, tussen digters (kunstenaars) en filosowe oor die aard van ons etiese bestaan. Die antieke filosowe wat deelgeneem het aan hierdie eeue oue vete, soos byvoorbeeld Plato, het ‘n metafisiese verstaan van ons bestaan gehad, en het daarom geglo dat ons oor ons etiese bestaan moet kommunikeer deur middel van style wat erkenning gee aan die transendentale aard van ons menslike bestaan. Die style en taal wat deur die filosowe van hierdie eeue oue vete gebruik is, was dus dikwels baie abstrak en uiters bemoeid met die mens se rasionele denkvermoëns. Die antieke digters wat deelgeneem het aan hierdie vete het egter nie, soos die filosowe, ‘n metafisiese wêreldbeskouing van ons bestaan gehad nie. Hulle het die transendente aard van ons bestaan ontken, en het daarom daarop aangedring dat ons etiese bestaan voorgestel en oor gekommunikeer moet word deur style wat erkenning gee aan die feit dat ons mense is met ‘n konkrete bestaan. Hulle het egter ook aangedring op ‘n styl wat erkenning gee dat mense beide rasionele en emosionele wesens is. Dit is weens hierdie rede dat ons vandag, in literatuur aangaande morele kwessies, die abstrakte en meer rasioneel geöriënteerde styl van morele filosofie, sowel as die konkrete en meer emosioneel geöriënteerde styl van fiktiewe literatuur aantref. Daar is egter vandag steeds nie klaarheid oor hoe daar oor ons etiese bestaan gekommunikeer moet word nie, en onenigheid is dus steeds te bespeur in huidige debatte oor hierdie tema. Hierdie studie ondersoek ‘n moderne argument, soos voortgestaan deur Martha Nussbaum, oor die wyse waarop daar oor die aard van ons etiese bestaan gekommunikeer moet word. Nussbaum neem die standpunt in dat die abstrakte styl van morele filosofiese tekste erkenning gee aan die abstrakte en rasionele aard van ons menslike aard en bestaan, maar dat dit nie altyd daarin slaag om erkenning te gee dat ons mense is met ‘n konkrete etiese bestaan waarin emosies (eerder as net rasionele denke) ook ‘n baie belangrike rol speel nie. Hierdie studie neem dus die vorm aan van ‘n kritiese dialoog met Nussbaum aangaande haar voorstel om fiktiewe literatuur te kombineer met morele filosofie. Gevolglik fokus hierdie studie op drie spesifieke aspekte van ons etiese bestaan, wat Nussbaum glo wel deur fiktiewe literatuur aangespreek word maar nie altyd deur tekste van morele filosofie nie. Hierdie drie aspekte is 1) dat menslike waardes uiteenlopend en dikwels onversoenbaar is; 2) dat die partikuliere elemente van situasies ’n belangrike rol speel in etiese besluitneming; en 3) dat ons menslike emosies en verbeelding ’n groot deel uitmaak van ons etiese bestaan. Die fundamentele doel van hierdie studie is dus om te bepaal of die styl van fiktiewe literatuur wel erkenning gee aan die drie bogenoemde aspekte van ons etiese bestaan. Die fiktiewe werk wat gebruik is om dit te bepaal, is Alan Paton se Cry, the Beloved Country. Nussbaum klassifiseer die drie bogenoemde aspekte van ons etiese bestaan as 1) Onversoenbaarheid and Pluraliteit van Waardes; 2) Prioriteit van die Partikuliere; en 3) Etiese Waarde van die Emosies en Verbeelding. Hierdie klassifikasie vind egter sy oorsprong in die etiek van Aristoteles, en vorm dus volgens Nussbaum die basis van die Aristoteliaanse etiese posisie – ‘n posisie van waaruit praktiese wysheid geput kan word. Die doel van hierdie studie is dus nie net om te bepaal of fiktiewe literatuur erkenning gee aan die drie fundamentele aspekte van die Aristoteliaanse etiese posisie nie, maar die doel is ook om te bepaal of die Aristoteliaanse etiese posisie (en dus praktiese wysheid) bekom kan word deur die lees van fiktiewe literatuur. Die studie kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat sekere fiktiewe literatuur, soos die werk Cry, the Beloved Country, inderdaad wel bevredigende erkenning gee aan die drie eienskappe van ons etiese bestaan, soos veronderstel deur die Aristoteliaanse etiese posisie, en dat Nussbaum se voorstel ernstige aandag behoort te geniet, aangesien die insluiting van sekere fiktiewe literatuur in morele filosofie ‘n dieper etiese verstaan teweeg kan bring, waaruit praktiese wysheid geput kan word.

The catalyst for the urban growth of Skipton during the formative period of the modern town between 1865 and 1914 was indigenous investment and organisational change in cotton textiles in the aftermath of the Cotton Famine. Railway investment also played an important, although lesser part. The process was facilitated notably by the relaxation of policy on land tenure by the principal landowner and by the work of a well managed local authority. The resulting net in-migration, along with the internal redistribution of population necessitated by the extension of commercial and other services in the town centre, was accommodated by house building in clusters which were either aligned with or removed from the main factory sites. This gave rise to a distinctive pattern of social and spatial segregation, the distribution of which was governed principally by the need for factories to have access to water supplies for steam raising and condensing. Thus the canal corridor beyond the existing built-up area was subject to textile colonisation while wholly residential development was more closely associated with existing high status housing elsewhere. The study considers the processes involved in creating this pattern of development with particular reference to the values and activities of the principal decision-makers. It also discusses the resultant shift in power and influence from the principal landowner to the local authority and to industrial and commercial interests which increasingly were based outside the town. Arising from this a model of urban growth is proposed and tested against neighbouring small textile towns.

Amartya Sen y Martha Nussbaum son dos de los principales teóricos que le dieron origen a la propuesta del desarrollo humano, también entendido como el enfoque de las capacidades y ampliación de libertades. Sus presupuestos filosóficos se han ido acentuando con el tiempo, siendo los más destacados aquellos que hacen referencia a la teoría aristotélica acerca del buen vivir. Desde esta perspectiva, el desarrollo de las capacidades del ser humano tiene por fin último la εὐδαιμονία, entendida como el florecimiento humano o la felicidad. Desde el enfoque, se propone que los individuos tengan acceso a las oportunidades básicas que le permitan tener libertad de elección para optar por el tipo de vida que tiene razones para valorar. En este sentido, la democracia y la deliberación pública cobran un rol fundamental para alcanzar los fines del desarrollo humano, en el marco de la ampliación de la libertad política. El principal objetivo de esta tesis reside, en este sentido, en una ampliación de la línea de investigación del enfoque de desarrollo humano en relación a la democracia y la deliberación pública. Para ello, en el desarrollo de esta investigación también se hará una fundamental referencia a las investigaciones de Iris Marion Young, quien por su parte, realiza una propuesta más inclusiva de la democracia. / Tesis

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-273). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.