Thesis advisor: Richard Kearney / The present study seeks to address the general question of the relation between Levinas's ethics and his account of religion. The specific questions pursued here include the following: Is his ethics secular or religious, and in what sense is it so, either way? Does his ethics depend on religion? How does Levinas himself understand 'religion'? This thesis will show that any interpretation of Levinas's ethics cannot be separated from its religious dimension, namely, the openness to exteriority as Desire for the Infinite. Religion, despite all consolations it may bring, cannot dispense with this ethical demand. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Philosophy.

Submitted by Igor Lula Pinheiro Silva null (igorlulaps@gmail.com) on 2018-03-18T21:33:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Igor-Lula.pdf: 816978 bytes, checksum: 6f8c32dc6109f3c8b4b06e3750e7a6a5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Milena Maria Rodrigues null (milena@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-03-19T13:41:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_ilp_me_arafcl.pdf: 816978 bytes, checksum: 6f8c32dc6109f3c8b4b06e3750e7a6a5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-19T13:41:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_ilp_me_arafcl.pdf: 816978 bytes, checksum: 6f8c32dc6109f3c8b4b06e3750e7a6a5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-05 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender alguns fundamentos do debate teórico-metodológico estabelecido entre Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) e Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) sobre a dialética. Este debate foi documentado nas correspondências trocadas entre ambos durante a década de 1930 e repercute diretamente nos textos produzidos por cada um deles nesse mesmo período, revelando determinadas convergências e divergências que permeiam aspectos fundamentais da dialética. A seguir, o problema da pesquisa e os elementos teórico-metodológicos apresentados estão dispostos em uma constelação estratégica para se realizar um estudo a respeito de alguns desdobramentos da dialética no âmbito da teoria crítica. Partimos da observação de que os escritos da década de 1910 e início da década de 1920 do jovem Benjamin apresentam uma concepção de linguagem e crítica de arte que extrai sua vitalidade de uma determinada forma de imediatez em relação ao objeto. Entretanto, na década de 1930, ao considerar metodologicamente os ensaios mais recentes de teoria estética e crítica literária de Benjamin, Adorno observa que a relação de imediatez com o objeto é incompatível com a dialética materialista, sendo imprescindível realizar uma mediação do objeto com o processo social total. Após traçar esse panorama, o problema em questão é remetido aos textos programáticos em que ambos elaboram suas respectivas tarefas filosóficas, com o intuito de compreender o sentido da dialética no pensamento dos autores naquele contexto. / The present work aims to understand some foundations of the theoretical-methodological debate established between Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) on dialectics. This debate was documented in the correspondences exchanged between them during the 1930s and directly affects the texts produced by each of them during the same period, revealing certain convergences and divergences that permeate fundamental aspects of dialectics. In what follows, the research problem and the presented theoretical-methodological elements are arranged in a strategic constellation to carry out a study about some developments of dialectics in the scope of the critical theory. We begin with the observation that the writings of the young Benjamin in the 1910s and early 1920s present a conception of language and art criticism that extracts their vitality from a certain form of immediacy in relation to the object. However, in the 1930s, when considering methodologically Benjamin's most recent essays on aesthetics and literary criticism, Adorno notes that the relation of immediacy to the object is incompatible with materialist dialectics, and it is essential to mediate the object with the social process in its totality. After picturing this panorama, the problem in question is referred to the programmatic texts in which both elaborate their respective philosophical tasks, in order to understand the meaning of dialectics in the thought of the authors in that context.

The theme of the work " Education at totality - oral history and literature" is the comparison of written literature and other sources with specific testimony of a man who was educated at totalitarian regime from primary school to postgraduate studies. It is based on the assumption that childhood experiences are what leaves a deep trace in man for the rest of his life. The main goal of the paper is to explain the formation of children's consciousness and consequences associated with it. An important role in this period occupies school. For a comprehensive view, therefore, the work is divided into four parts. The first part is devoted to general psychological aspect of totalitarianism and democracy. The second part is devoted to transform education after the onset of a totalitarian regime to power. The third part concentrates on the period of consolidation of the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. The fourth part focuses on the specific testimony of the respondent. In conclusion, these findings are summarized and assessed. Key words Totality, school, totalitarian Education, democratic school, oral history

A partir do entendimento de que as transformações do espaço compõem um movimento único e totalizante, buscamos problematizar a questão na composição das transformações que se sucedem em Sorocaba. O recorte do Eixo Sudeste nos serve como base empírica da sustentação de nossa problemática. As transformações do espaço urbano deste Município estão diretamente ligadas aos interesses de diversas escalas e níveis da realidade. Para isto, a compreensão histórica da materialização deste setor do espaço urbano, assim como sua identidade no território sorocabano nos aproxima do movimento social em suas diversas instâncias, desta forma, exploramos a possibilidade da realização de um exercício teórico de aproximar as transformações no espaço urbano de Sorocaba à reprodução da sociedade como todo. / From the understanding that the transformations of space make up a unique and totalizing movement, we try to problematize this question in the composition of the transformations that succeed in Sorocaba. The cutting of the Southeast Hub serves as an empirical basis for sustaining our problematic. The transformations of the urban space of this Municipality are directly linked to interests of different scales and levels of reality. For this, the historical understanding of the materialization of this urban space industry, as well as its identity in Sorocaba territory approaches in the social movement in its various instances, therefore we explored the possibility of carrying out a theoretical exercise to bring the changes in the urban space Sorocaba to the reproduction of society as a whole.

Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a categoria da totalidade presente na fase tardia do pensamento de Theodor W. Adorno, sobretudo na Dialética Negativa, e sua relação com o diagnóstico de tempo proposto pelo filósofo na década de 1960. Apesar de sua crítica enfática à categoria da totalidade, Adorno não deixa de utilizá-la em âmbitos variados de suas análises, como por exemplo, no diagnóstico do capitalismo tardio mediante o conceito de mundo administrado. Se, no entanto, a totalidade deve ser exposta apenas em sua negatividade, ou se ela conserva dentro dela, de algum modo, um horizonte normativo, é uma questão que não encontra consenso na literatura secundária, e que buscaremos desdobrar nessa pesquisa. Com isso, pretendemos alcançar uma melhor compreensão acerca do próprio projeto adorniano de uma dialética negativa e de sua relação com o diagnóstico de tempo proposto pelo filósofo na década de 1960. / This research aims to investigate the category of totality in the late Theodor W. Adorno, specially in Negative Dialectic, and its relation with the time diagnosis of the 1960s. Despite his emphatic criticism of the category of totality, Adorno still uses it in several fields of his analysis, such as the diagnosis of late capitalism through the concept of administered world. If, however, the totality must be exposed only in its negativity, or if it still keeps in itself, in a certain way, a normative horizon, is a question that does not reach consensus in the secondary literature, and which will be developed in our research. Therewith, we intend to achieve a better understanding of Adorno\'s own project of a negative dialectic and of its relation with the time diagnosis proposed by the philosopher in the 1960s.

Un tournant s'est opéré dès la fin du XXème siècle dans la littérature hispano-américaine, après quelques tentatives inachevées de recherche d'une « totalité » à travers le mouvement du boom latino-américain des années 60.Une nouvelle littérature postmoderne s'est alors développée, opposée aux objectifs « utopiques » du boom (tel que celui de « roman total », qui embrassait tous les genres, proposait un érotisme exalté, une réflexion métatextuelle et un engagement politique). Les écrivains nés dans les années 1950 se sont appropriés de nouveaux procédés qui visaient à « morceler » la littérature. Parmi ces procédés figurent des voix narratives multiples, des univers parallèles, l'hybridité générique, une écriture « cinématographique » (visuelle et sonore), fragmentée, parsemée d'analepses et de prolepses.Afin de pouvoir analyser les limites de la totalité littéraire – plus précisément, romanesque – et de définir cette écriture postmoderne « éclatée », « antitotale », je me suis centrée sur trois œuvres qui englobent les années 1995-2010, écrites par des auteurs hispano-américains d'origine diverse (bien qu'appartenant à la même génération post-moderne ou post-nationale), imprégnées d'une esthétique propre, mais parsemées de personnages, d'une réflexion sur la littérature et d'une atmosphère/tonalité communs.Le roman fragmentaire, bref et polyphonique Flores (2004), du Mexicain Mario Bellatin, raconte de nombreuses histoires qui s'entrecroisent, dans un espace indéterminé et claustrophobique, dans lesquelles les personnages sont réduits à leur « Corps ».Vidas perpendiculares (2008), du Mexicain Álvaro Enrigue, utilise la même stratégie du « puzzle », de la fragmentation et simultanéité des récits. Ici, le narrateur relate cinq histoires d'amour qui ont marqué la vie d'un même personnage, Jerónimo, sous la forme de « réincarnations » successives, sur un ton ironique et plaisant.Quant au long roman (anti)total et apocalyptique du Chilien Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004), il évoque le destin de nombreux personnages – liés dans leur majorité au monde de la littérature- dans la ville fictive de Santa Teresa (Ciudad Juárez).Le Mexicain Jorge Volpi a intitulé l'un de ses articles les plus polémiques « La literatura latinoamericana ya no existe », mais le fait que la littérature se déconstruise, rompe avec les codes qui la définissaient, joue avec eux et/ou les réinvente, n'est-ce pas finalement une forme de littérature (et non pas d'absence de littérature), celle de l'éclatement, de la dislocation ?C'est justement cette nouvelle esthétique qui se cherche, en pleine quête identitaire, qui constitue à mon sens un grand intérêt. Et ce, particulièrement à une époque de « l'entre-deux » (siècles, générations, mondes).Pour approfondir ces aspects de la littérature contemporaine de langue hispanique, je me focaliserai essentiellement sur quatre aspects de l'esthétique élaborée par les écrivains qui conforment mon corpus : je définirai tout d'abord le concepts de totalité, d'unité, de modernité et de postmodernité, essentiels à toute réflexion ultérieure ; puis j'examinerai la structure à la fois totalisante et détotalisante de l'Œuvre de Bolaño, Bellatin et Enrigue ; et enfin, je m'intéresserai à la nature paradoxale et dichotomique de la littérature postmoderne latino-américaine, toujours à travers le prisme des trois auteurs.C'est seulement grâce à une étude comparative, théorique et analytique que je pourrai prétendre apporter un plus au domaine de la critique littéraire. Il s'agit donc pour moi de déterminer les caractéristiques (communes ou différentielles) de la littérature contemporaine, post-moderne, d'en souligner les desseins, les limites et les contradictions, tout en prenant en compte un contexte (politique, social, culturel, économique etc.) de plus en plus (omni)présent. / A turning point was apparent from the end of the twentieth century in Latin-American literature, after a few uncompleted attempts to search for “totality” through the literary movement of the Latin-American boom of the ‘60s.Then, a new postmodern literature developed, opposed to the “utopian” objectives of the boom (such as the “total novel”, which embraced all the genres, proposed exhilarated eroticism, a metafictional reflection and a political commitment). The writers born in the ‘50s took over new processes which aimed for “dislocate” literature. Among these processes figure numerous narrative voices, parallel universes, generic hybridity, a “cinematic” (visual and sonorous), fragmented writing, scattered with flashbacks and flash-forwards.In order to analyze the limits of literary totality –more accurately, novelistic totality– and to define this postmodern “dislocated”, “antitotal” writing, I focused on three works which cover the years 1995-2010, published by Spanish-American writers from diverse countries (even though they belong to the same postmodern or postnational generation), being spread through a proper aesthetics, but sprinkled with communal characters, reflection on literature and atmosphere/tone.Mario Bellatin's fragmentary, short and polyphonic novel Flores (2004) relates many criss-crossed stories, in an indeterminate and claustrophobic space, in which characters are come down to their “body”.Vidas perpendiculares (2008), by the Mexican Álvaro Enrigue, uses the same strategy as a “puzzle”, as stories' fragmentation and simultaneity. Here, the narrator recounts five love stories which left a mark on the life of one character, Jerónimo, in the form of successive “reincarnations”, on an ironic and pleasant tone.As for the long (anti)total and apocalyptic novel of the Chilean Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (2004), it evokes the destiny of many characters –most of them related to the literary world– in the fictional city of Santa Teresa (Ciudad Juárez).The Mexican Jorge Volpi entitled one of his most polemical article ”La literatura latinoamericana ya no existe”, but the fact that literature disintegrates itself, breaks with the codes that defined itself, plays with them and/or reinvents them, isn't it after all a form of literature (and not of lack of literature), such as the form of splitting, dislocation?It is precisely this new aesthetics that tries to find itself, in pursuit of identity, that constitutes, according to me, a major interest. And even more in an intervening period (between two different centuries, generations, worlds).To deal with these aspects of contemporary Latin-American literature in depth, I will principally focus on four angles of the aesthetics elaborated by the writers of my corpus : I will define first the concepts of totality, unity, modernity and postmodernity, essential to any later reflection ; then, I will examine the structure both totalizing and distotalizing of Bolaño, Bellatin and Enrigue's work ; and finally, I will be interested in the paradoxical and dichotomous nature of postmodern Latin-American literature, always through the prism of the three authors.This is only thanks to a comparative, theoretical and analytical study that I could try to provide the literary criticism field with other approaches. Therefore, I will attempt to determine contemporary, postmodern literature's (differential and similar) features, to underline its intents, limits and contradictions, while I will take a political, social, cultural, economic context each time more (omni)present.

Submitted by Fabricia Fialho Reginato (fabriciar) on 2015-08-28T00:31:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseXarao.pdf: 1413710 bytes, checksum: fa6148c8c30c304e6d086d27e7ce1bfb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-28T00:31:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoseXarao.pdf: 1413710 bytes, checksum: fa6148c8c30c304e6d086d27e7ce1bfb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-30 / Milton Valente / Crise e revolução: lugar e modo da transformação social, segundo Karl Marx é um estudo sobre a correlação entre os conceitos de crise e revolução na obra marxiana. Comumente esses termos têm sido associados de forma subordinada, ou a uma teoria da revolução cujo estopim é a crise, ou a uma teoria das crises cujo desfecho é a revolução. Neste trabalho, sustentamos a tese de que somente sob um enfoque filosófico reunindo os dois termos em uma teoria da criação e revolução das formas políticas é que ambos os termos podem ser coerentemente relacionados, tornando plausível a abordagem política (teoria da revolução) e a abordagem econômica (teoria das crises). / Crisis and revolution: place and manner of social change, according to Karl Marx it is a study on the correlation between the concepts of crisis and revolution in the marxian work. Commonly these terms have been associated as subordinated either to the theory of revolution, which the spark is a crisis, or to a theory of crisis, which the outcome is a revolution. In this paper we defend the thesis that just under a philosophical focus combining the two terms into the theory of creation and revolution of the political forms is that both terms may be coherently related, becoming plausible the political approach (theory of revolution) and the economical approach (theory of crisis).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roberto Ribeiro de Almeida.pdf: 784507 bytes, checksum: 925dd0117df252aac1730c1a839605bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-18 / This dissertation intends to further study the phenomenon of reification and its relation to the category Totality, outlining the approach in the light of the concepts outlined in History and Class Consciousness (1923) by György Lukács, prepared by collection of literature, architected to point the effects of commodity fetishism as a mediator of social relations (reification), constitutes a specific reality and seemingly insurmountable to those who live under modern capitalism. With the homogenization of the capitalist mode of production, under the aegis of increasing specialization and rationalization of the mechanized work process, mankind has been organized to produce and meet their needs through the exchange of goods, placing individuals, who have to relate to things, a state of confrontation and contemplation of its activities. This research presents the views and vicissitudes of a work in context, the heart of which was to show that the unveiling of the ways the structure of the commodity fetish, the proletarian cause, the consciousness of their class condition, from which it could grasp the whole historical of social reality, the question of the party as mediator of active consciousness, and thereby establish benchmarks legitimate revolutionary action, beyond the reified conceptions of social transformation, and thus, says Lukacs, lead humanity to a higher step of its development, with ownership and conscious control of production, which is possible only with the abolition of the capitalist mode of production / A presente dissertação pretende aprofundar os estudos do fenômeno da Reificação e sua relação com a categoria Totalidade, delimitando a abordagem à luz das concepções esboçadas em História e Consciência de Classe (1923) de György Lukács, elaborada mediante coletânea de pesquisa bibliográfica, arquitetada para apontar os efeitos decorrentes do fetichismo da mercadoria como mediadora das relações sociais (coisificação), constitui uma realidade específica e aparentemente intransponível para quem vive sob capitalismo moderno. Com a homogeneização do modo de produção capitalista, sob a égide da crescente especialização e da racionalização mecanizada do processo de trabalho, a humanidade foi organizada para produzir e satisfazer suas necessidades mediante o intercâmbio de mercadorias, colocando os indivíduos, que passaram a se relacionar como coisas, numa condição de enfrentamento e contemplação de suas atividades. A presente pesquisa traz as concepções e vicissitudes de uma obra em contexto, cujo cerne era mostrar que o desvelamento das formas fetichistas da estrutura da mercadoria, causaria ao proletário, a consciência de sua condição de classe, a partir da qual poderia apreender a totalidade histórica da realidade social, a questão do partido como mediador dessa consciência ativa, e com isso estabelecer referenciais legítimos de uma ação revolucionária, para além das concepções reificadas de transformação social, e com isso, como diz Lukács, conduzir a humanidade a uma etapa mais elevada do seu desenvolvimento, com a apropriação e controle consciente da produção, que somente será possível com a abolição do modo de produção capitalista

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luis Gustavo Casale.pdf: 816786 bytes, checksum: 902ccb6834263b7fa76f1f4871cfe47d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-10-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The practical and theoretical activity of Guy Debord is marked by a strategy of refusal and combat which he called spectacle. He made his life trajectory an incessant war against the society of his time, in which understood the advent of commodity occupying all aspects of life, human and social, and consequently making it the totalizing domain of quantitative, reducing it to a mere game of appearances. Thus, this dissertation seeks to understand the nature of Debord s theoretical-practice activity, in the avant-garde groups that he directed, through themes that permeated this groups activities and also his writings and films, deliberately chosen as a strategic means to attack and refute the illusions of the spectacular-mercantile-society. At the end of the dissertation is noted that the avant-garde conception and theory in Debord has the same meanings, both are temporary, they should be used as a practical-critique of the present time, in the opportune moment. It was observed also by analyzing the concept of separation that the commodity fetish and reification reach the paroxysm in the society of the spectacle, historic stage of capital reproduction in which social relations are mediated by images / A atividade prático-teórica de Guy Debord é marcada por uma estratégia de recusa e de combate ao que ele denominou espetáculo. Ele fez de sua trajetória de vida uma guerra incessante contra a sociedade de seu tempo, na qual compreendeu o advento da mercadoria ocupando todos os aspectos da vida, humana e social e, consequentemente, tornando-a objeto do domínio totalizante do quantitativo, reduzindo-a a um mero jogo de aparências. Destarte, esta dissertação busca compreender a natureza da atividade prático-teórica de Debord, nos grupos de vanguarda que dirigiu, através da análise de temas que permearam as atividades desses grupos e também seus escritos e filmes, deliberadamente usados como meio estratégico de atacar e refutar as ilusões da sociedade-espetacular-mercantil. Ao fim da dissertação nota-se que a concepção de vanguarda e de teoria em Debord possui os mesmos significados, ambas são passageiras, devem ser utilizadas, como crítica-prática do presente, na ocasião oportuna. Observou-se, também, através da análise do conceito de separação, que o fetiche da mercadoria e a reificação chegam ao paroxismo na sociedade do espetáculo, fase histórica de reprodução do capital em que as relações sociais são mediatizadas por imagens

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-04-17T10:41:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Flávio Eduardo Cristino da Costa.pdf: 1023914 bytes, checksum: a94e552d17df0d2bb0886e702968d047 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-17T10:41:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flávio Eduardo Cristino da Costa.pdf: 1023914 bytes, checksum: a94e552d17df0d2bb0886e702968d047 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-05 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation aims to present a perspective of the so well studied totality in the literary and aesthetic debate, with emphasis on the Theory of the novel and on the Soul and form, from the young Lukács, and on the Benjaminian esssays. The effort of this project, however, does not manifest itself exclusively through a specific philosophical glossary, but it is also in the exposition of the elements that compose the totality, in the constellation of themes and images that permeate this subject of the epic, and specially with regard to the their consequent fragmentation. That is to say, in this context it is essential to have in mind the established relation between the epics of Greek antiquity (the epos of the totality) and the development of its dimensions throughout the historical process. The two main leitmotif of this text are nostalgia and the sea: the first consists in the longing for the meaning of totality, the nostalgia of the sense of wholeness of which modernity is abandoned, the second is a metaphor for the flow of narratives and metaphor for the relationship between the divine/unknown over the human / Essa dissertação tem o objetivo de apresentar uma perspectiva da tão estudada totalidade no debate literário e estético, com ênfase n’A teoria do romance e n’A alma e as formas, do jovem Lukács, e nos ensaios benjaminianos. O esforço desse projeto, entretanto, não se manifesta exclusivamente através de um glossário filosófico específico, mas está também na exposição dos elementos que compõem a totalidade, na constelação de temas e imagens que permeiam este assunto do epos, e sobretudo no que se refere às suas consequentes fragmentações. Isto é, nesse contexto é imprescindível ter em vista a relação estabelecida entre as epopeias da antiguidade grega (o epos da totalidade) e o desenvolvimento de suas dimensões ao longo do processo histórico. Os dois grandes fios condutores desse texto são a nostalgia e o mar: a primeira consiste na saudade do sentido da totalidade da qual a modernidade está desamparada, o segundo se trata de metáfora para o fluir das narrativas e metáfora para a relação entre o divino/desconhecido frente o humano