Browsing by Department "Social and Political Thought"

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    • Borders, Bordering and the Limits of Democracy: Rethinking the Boundaries of Territorial Sovereignty 
      Whitt, Matt Spencer (2007-12-13)
      Department: Social and Political Thought
      This thesis argues that, contrary to some prevalent intuitions, national borders are not being rendered obsolete by the increasingly global or deterritorialized character of social and political life. Rather, as state ...
    • René Girard and the exorcism of the possessed consumer 
      Fulmer, James Burton (2006-04-17)
      Department: Social and Political Thought
      This thesis describes René Girard’s mimetic theory of desire and explicates its relevance for a critique of consumerism, emphasizing the loss of identity that can result from mimesis in a consumer society. It first presents ...
    • Who's Afraid of Reason? 
      DeSante, Christopher David (2007-04-14)
      Department: Social and Political Thought
      This thesis examines the role of Reason-guided reason-giving in the deliberative democratic arena as a response to the theories of Iris Young, Chantal Mouffe and Lynn Sanders. I will aim to do two things. First, I will ...