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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
161

The Study of Free Will in the East and the West

Colecio, Nicholas J 01 January 2019 (has links)
The purpose of this thesis is to understand the origins of the enduring differences between the Eastern and Western interpretations of free will and determinism. In my piece, I work to determine the roots of these differences and to what degree these differences have been challenged and disrupted in the 20th century. In this pursuit, I analyze the different philosophies of free will in the East and West and then apply these philosophies to the literature of both regions. For the eastern scholarship, I am using Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea and Motojirō Kajii's "Lemon." For the Western works, I am analyzing Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan and Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." After thoroughly analyzing the pieces, I discuss the possible dialogues between the East and the West to help fully realize the legitimacy of the claim that the two regions continue to harbor distinct interpretations of free will and determinism.
162

Evolutionary mythology in the writings of Kurt Vonnegut

McInnis, Gilbert 24 May 2024 (has links)
En termes historiques, une recherche sur l'impact de la science et la technologie n'a rien de nouveau dans le champ des études littéraires. De telles études ont été réalisées depuis des siècles. Cependant, cet essai est actuel dans sa tentative de comprendre quelles sont les implications de l'influence, majeure dans le monde postmodeme, de la théorie "scientifique" de l'évolution en tant que cosmologie. Dans notre société postmodeme, on se réfère donc à cette théorie afin d'expliquer pourquoi le monde est tel qu'il est, pourquoi les choses se produisent comme elles le font, pour fournir une justification pour des coutumes et des observances sociales et pour établir les sanctions pour les règles par lesquelles les gens dirigent leurs vies. Puisque l'objectif de cette thèse portera sur l'image changeante de l'humanité telle qu'on la retrouve dans la fiction de Kurt Vonnegut et le lien entre celle-ci et la mythologie dérivée de l'évolutionnisme, mon approche théorique sera basée d'abord sur des critiques du mythe et des traités sur l'évolution et le darwinisme social. Par darwinisme social, nous entendons la théorie de Darwin, appliquée à un contexte social et donc applicable aux êtres humains. Au premier chapitre et deuxième chapitre, le concept d'une mythologie dérivée de l'évolution est discuté à la lumière de à la fois de principes de la mythologie et de la théorie de l'évolution de Darwin. Cette étude est supportée d'exemples tirés du livre Galápagos (Vonnegut 1985). Le troisième chapitre examine le lien entre la nouvelle physique et la mythologie dérivée de l'évolution. Les livres The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut 1959) et Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut 1969) sont les principales sources documentaires. Le quatrième chapitre explore Mother Night (Vonnegut 1962) en rapport avec le darwinisme social, la mythologie nazie et la mythologie dérivée de l'évolution. Le cinquième chapitre aborde le matérialisme scientifique dans Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut 1973). Cette thèse conclut que les écrits de Vonnegut dépeignent la théorie darwinienne de l'évolution comme ayant des propriétés mythiques.
163

Postmodern boundaries : challenging representation in Breakfast of Champions, "Adult World (I)," and "Adult World (II)"

Impellitier, Danielle 01 July 2003 (has links)
No description available.
164

Query: how does the never to be differ from what never was?

Whipkey, Robert Scott 24 April 2013 (has links)
The feeling of a narcotic cannot be put to words, just as the sensation one receives from her or his favorite artwork is impossible to record. Equally, both these delicacies of modern existence must be sought out. The user/viewer only gets a tiny taste and must therefore keep coming back for more. Utopia may be an unrealistic construction of culture, but I would posit the idea the both narcotics and art strive to give us just that – however tiny a taste. This paper addresses the intersections of visual art, drugs, anti-hero worship and contemporary representations of Romanticism throughout the American body politic.
165

The operas of Hindemith, Krenek, and Weill : cultural trends in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933

Babcock, Renee Elizabeth, 1963- 07 May 2014 (has links)
Not available / text
166

Limited ink : interpreting and misinterpreting GÜdel's incompleteness theorem in legal theory

Crawley, Karen. January 2006 (has links)
This thesis explores the significance of Godel's Theorem for an understanding of law as rules, and of legal adjudication as rule-following. It argues that Godel's Theorem, read through Wittgenstein's understanding of rules and language as a contextual activity, and through Derrida's account of 'undecidability,' offers an alternative account of the relationship of judging to justice. Instead of providing support for the 'indeterminacy' claim, Godel's Theorem illuminates the predicament of undecidability that structures any interpretation and every legal decision, and which constitutes the opening to justice. The first argument in this thesis examines Godel's proof, Wittgenstein's views on rules, and Derrida's undecidability, as manifestations of a common concern with the limits of what can be formalized. The meta-argument examines their misinterpretation and misappropriation within legal theory as a case study of just what they mean about meaning, context, and justice as necessarily co-implicated.
167

Neuer Adel : aristokratische Elitekonzeptionen zwischen Jahrhundertwende und Nationalsozialismus /

Gerstner, Alexandra. January 2008 (has links) (PDF)
Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2007. / Literaturverz. S. 540-584.
168

The world according to Kurt Vonnegut moral paradox and narrative form /

Pettersson, Bo. January 1994 (has links)
To be presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Åbo Akademi University on Feb. 3, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-396) and index.
169

The world according to Kurt Vonnegut moral paradox and narrative form /

Pettersson, Bo. January 1994 (has links)
To be presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Åbo Akademi University on Feb. 3, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-396) and index.
170

The Galapagos in American consciousness American fiction writers' responses to Darwinism /

Worden, Joel Daniel. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2005. / Principal faculty advisor: J.A. Leo Lemay, Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references.

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