Browsing by Subject "desire"
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(2016-11-21)Department: ReligionThis dissertation proposes a novel way of reconceptualizing the nature, origins, and theological significance of egoic self-consciousness that successfully eludes the deeply-rooted impulse to ground the “self” circularly ...
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(2006-04-17)Department: Social and Political ThoughtThis 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 ...
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(2016-11-28)Department: EnglishIn light of the effluence of Islamophobia, targeted violence against black peoples, and hate speech against the Other monopolizing contemporary US political rhetoric, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice seems disturbingly ...