Browsing by Subject "aesthetics"
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(2015-07-31)Department: AnthropologyThis dissertation combines archaeological and ethnohistorical methods to examine the lived experiences of enslaved African laborers on the wine haciendas of San Joseph de la Nasca and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, owned ...
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(2013-03-11)Department: ReligionMusics and the Generosity of God appeals to French theological phenomenology, a re-translation of Heidegger’s concept of "Ge-Stell," and an analysis of musical compositions from the postwar avant-garde to critique the ...
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Placebos of Development: A Critique of Modern Health Objectivity in Kant, Marx, and Psychoanalysis (2009-12-16)Department: PhilosophyIn my dissertation, I critically examine the relationship between health, development, and the unconscious conditions of our symbolic use of objects of value. If we look at the average biomedical and cognitive-behavioral ...
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(2006-08-09)Department: GermanThe dissertation investigates how anthropological discourses in lexica, novels, moral weeklies, and essays shaped the constitution of the moral individual during the Enlightenment. By integrating historiography and methods ...
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(2004-12-20)Department: PhilosophyKant’s Critique of Judgment discusses reflective judgment as a faculty that mediates the concept of nature and freedom. The dissertation provides a detailed exploration of the concept of intellectual interest as a significant ...
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(2012-05-07)Department: ReligionThis dissertation explores the ways in which religious experience is supported by aesthetic structures in the works of Howard Washington Thurman, twentieth century mystic, scholar of religion, poet and pastor. I theorize ...