Browsing by Author "Idit Dobbs-Weinstein"

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    • A politics of the ordinary: Wittgenstein and new familial practices 
      Peter, Mark E. (2015-03-31)
      Department: Philosophy
      My thesis aims to defend Wittgenstein’s concept of the “ordinary” as a unique conception of “home” which can model a form of political subjectivity crucial for our complex form of contemporary life. I use the term of the ...
    • Echoing Demystified Aspirations: Human Flourishing and the Dialectic of Happiness 
      Ahern, Patrick Joseph (2015-02-09)
      Department: Philosophy
      PHILOSOPHY Echoing Demystified Aspirations: Human Flourishing and the Dialectic of Happiness Patrick Joseph Ahern Dissertation under the direction of Idit Dobbs-Weinstein The question of the possibility or even the ...
    • Immanuel Kant and the Theory of Radical Democracy 
      Vaprin, Nathanael William (2013-08-16)
      Department: Philosophy
      This dissertation is intended as an intervention in the interminable and apparently antinomical philosophical exchange between political theories of radical democracy descended from Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and ...
    • Kant and the Crisis of Symbolic Rationality 
      Eamon, Kathleen Margaret (2008-12-30)
      Department: Philosophy
      This dissertation develops a theory of symbolic rationality, which it posits as an affectively informed mode of cognition modeled on Kant’s conception of reflective judgment as presented in his Critique of Judgment but ...
    • Memory and Its Vicissitudes: An Examination of Memory, Trauma, and History 
      Moore, Jacqueline (2009-05-20)
      Department: Philosophy
      Partially borrowing a title from Freud’s “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes,” this thesis will take up a similar project in the sense that it will examine the different destinies or variations that memory fulfills as a ...
    • Spinoza's Materialist "Epistemology" 
      Whitman, Norman Lee (2015-03-30)
      Department: Philosophy
      Scholars have begun to explore Baruch Spinoza’s critique of rationalism, largely because of his importance for later thinkers deeply concerned about the nature of body, including Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Frankfurt school ...
    • The living system: Life, ideation and freedom in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 
      Matocha, Johanna Martha (2015-03-16)
      Department: Philosophy
      This dissertation engages the question of the relation between nature and rationality, and the conditions of our freedom, through the lens of the concept of Life. It begins by analyzing biological life in Kant’s Critique ...