Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität Basel, 1922. / Vita. Published also Berlin : B. Behr / F. Feddersen, 1923. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1999. Graduate Programme in Philosophy. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-107). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ39201

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"Ich werde ganz einfach telegraphieren" — Subjekte, Telegraphie, Autonomie und Fortschritt in Theodor Fontanes Gesellschaftsromanen Electronic media influence our thoughts and behaviours. Our present situation resembles that of the industrial world in the late nineteenth century, when electrical telegraphy, the precursor of today's media technologies, gained a dominant position in telecommunications. In our day, conditioning prevents us from reaching a deeper understanding of our relationship to technical media. Because electrical media were still new in the late nineteenth century, observers then were more readily able to analyse their effects and to recognize potentials of subjects in their accounts. In Germany the writer Theodor Fontane demonstrated through depictions in his late novels of society that, by reflecting on the nature of the self and its relation to telegraphy and concomitant ideologies, subjects have the capacity to become aware not only of factors that control them, but also of their autonomous potentials. This consciousness provides the basis for their self-empowerment in the use of telegraphy. However, because Fontane critically depicts Wilhelminian society, his protagonists only attain this level of Consciousness in isolated instances. Its realisation is continuously achieved through Fontane's narrative depiction and its reconstruction by the readers. The image of the subject and its potentials that emerges in this reconstruction provides valuable insights applicable also to evaluations of our present media involvement. Contrary to a wide-spread belief as to subjects'powerlessness and insignificance, our findings imply that the position of subjects in relation to media can be described more positively. Fontane's depiction is concentrated in three identifiable areas, in which the conjunction of telegraphy and ideology exerts a controlling influence on subjects. In accordance with this focus our study examines the views of nature and technology as fateful forces, the alteration of time- and space experiences, and the construction of German, foreign and technical cultures.

El eje del presente trabajo será mostrar que en la obra de Theodor W. Adorno existe una relación entre la crítica al concepto de sujeto y el imperativo categórico qué el formula como petición de que Auschwitz no se repita. Nuestro objetivo será analizar tal relación, para mostrar de qué modo este imperativo categórico implica una autocrítica de la tradición filosófica, a los fines de sacar a luz aquellos elementos de la cultura que fueron cómplices de la ocurrencia de los campos de concentración. La idea que guía nuestro trabajo entonces es que el imperativo pos-Auschwitz que Adorno formula exige ser materializado mediante una crítica al concepto filosófico de sujeto de la modernidad. Esta hipótesis nos permitirá discutir dos puntos vinculados a esto: por un lado, nos permitirá indagar en la particularidad dialéctica y normativa del concepto de sujeto que Adorno formula y que lo distingue de otras críticas contemporáneas, y por otro lado, nos permitirá apreciar la relación entre reflexión filosófica y exigencia histórica a partir de la obra adorniana.

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The starting point of this study is the history of the reception of the German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) in Russia, which reached a highpoint around 1830. The interest in Hoffmann at this time is also reflected in the literary production of some Russian authors. One of the most important pioneers in this area was Antonij Pogorel'skij (1787-1836), at the present time an almost forgotten writer who, nevertheless, is regarded as the first significant representative of the so-called "Russian Hoffmannism." / This study sets out to analyze two comparable short stories, E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Der Sandmann" (The Sandman) and A. Pogorel'skij's "Pernicious Consequences of an Unrestrained Imagination". Besides the extensive comparative interpretation which concerns itself with the questions of origin and genre, as well as plot and character analysis, this study offers an insight into the structure and function of elements of the uncanny in these texts and their realisation in the rhetorical sphere. The correspondence in the content of these two stories justifies the title, "Mystery and Imagination", which has been borrowed from E. A. Poe.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 2005. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 345-377).

Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Magisterarbeit, 2004

Dissertation--Stockholms universitet, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-384) and index.