-
Limits Of Language Moments Of Instability Kristeva
642 wordsA central argument in contemporary literary criticism remains to be the role of the author. Many theories approach a text with the intention of completely disregarding the author and solely analyzing the text as it exists. However, there are other theories which see the author as an element of larger consequence. The contribution of the individual to the meaning of a text may alter the affect entirely as Each individual is different, each possesses a unique subjectivity; yet also, paradoxically,...
Free research essays on topics related to: subjectivity, psychosis, instability, limits, p 132 -
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
1,654 words... h a universal right to freedom does indeed imply equality in the sense that people are equal because of there shared inherent right to freedom. He writes, .".. equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world: natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers. Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free. " 7. Voltaire seems to suggest that all people have equal access to freedom. Foucault's a...
Free research essays on topics related to: le guin, ny simon, tao te ching, lao tzu, wu wei -
Personality Disorder External Objects
1,446 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20 th century, equivalent to the German Einfhlung and modelled on "sympathy. " The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most ob...
Free research essays on topics related to: totally dependent, living things, sexual pleasure, personality disorder, external objects -
'not Guilty But Accused' Guilty But Accused' Responsibility
1,105 wordsIn this essay I want to explicate the intuition that literature demands an ethical response that not only precedes interpretation but also serves as its basis. I am not arguing that the response to texts should be ethical, but simply that it is ethical before it is interpretive. The interpretive position adopted by critics of literature is determined not by the 'interpretive community' to which they belong, nor by their "a priori" biases and ideological perspective, but by the responsibility the...
Free research essays on topics related to: injustice, respond, conscience, consciousness, ethics -
Johns Hopkins Bloomington Indiana
1,049 words... uth, now dwell forever in texts. That this is not possible, but that it was possible for Germans to burn Jews and for the world to keep silent, that it was possible for slavery to have endured in a land that called its people free, is the accusation to which we must respond in interpreting literature. Works Cited (Annotated) Cohen, Richard A. Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. This was offered to me by Dr. Fisher as a pos...
Free research essays on topics related to: indiana university, johns hopkins, hopkins university, bloomington indiana, first philosophy -
Kant And Kierkegaard Moral Imperatives Freedom
794 wordsKant and Kierkegaard For both Kierkegaard and Kant the moral and spiritual center is how I, as a particular, express myself through convention. For both, the structure of pre-established humanity is strikingly similar: freedom, integrity, and trust in (or respect for) an absolute are virtues that define a fully human self, at home in a conventional matrix. To become truly moral, Kant requires that our motives reflect Reasons categorical imperatives. Kierkegaard finds the transcendental locus of ...
Free research essays on topics related to: moral worth, kierkegaard, philosophical, kant, imperatives -
The Anthropology Of Space And Time Locating Culture
1,592 wordsThe Anthropology of Space and Time: Locating Culture To begin with, the book title, The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture, I thought, is very suggestive in terms of advancing recognition of womens political subjectivity in the construction of their particular imagined community. Practices of social networks and group formations are posited as critical strategies of empowerment for women, which in turn enable them to exploit the political moment to speak out and to speak on behalf...
Free research essays on topics related to: gender equality, nation building, political and economic, socio economic, gender roles -
White Noise Post Modernistic Novel
1,841 wordsWhite Noise post modernistic novel. White Noise is probably the best selling novel by Don Delillo, mostly because readers think of it as the most human and the warmest of his books. The ideas in the book seem to captivate Delillo and are embodied in a real life examples in such a way that no other of his books has. White Noise has won the National Book Award in 1985 and it of course brought Delillo more fans and a larger reading audience. "The sky above the port was the color of television, tune...
Free research essays on topics related to: natural environment, noise, delillo, white noise, fear of death -
Life Existence Man
764 wordsExistentialism: A WorldView Existentialistic thought is predominately a 20 th century revelation. As a philosophy, it states that man possesses free will over his fate and the direction he wants his life to take. Those who follow this believe they are in a world that does not always make sense, a world that is filled with uncertainty where well intended actions can become obscure and chaotic. This belief is contrary to Christian morality in that it asserts the complete individualism and unimport...
Free research essays on topics related to: chaotic, existentialism, nihilism, infinite, essence -
Human Existence D E
862 wordsWhen the word " existentialism" is mentioned, what comes to mind? Lack of faith? Secular beliefs? It is a belief in living life. Could it be any simpler than that? Existentialists believe in free will, making choices, and living with those consequences. This is not some kind of weird " hippy" philosophy; it makes sense. Existentialistic thought is predominately a 20 th century revelation. As a philosophy, it states that man possesses free will over his fate and the direction ...
Free research essays on topics related to: d e, p 1, 1999 p, 1999 november, human existence -
York Oxford University Oxford Blackwell
930 wordsWhen the word existentialism is mentioned, what comes to mind? Lack of faith? Secular beliefs? It is a belief in living life. Could it be any simpler than that? Existentialists believe in free will, making choices, and living with those consequences. This is not some kind of weird hippy philosophy; it makes sense. Existentialistic thought is predominately a 20 th century revelation. As a philosophy, it states that man possesses free will over his fate and the direction he wants his life to take....
Free research essays on topics related to: oxford blackwell, york oxford university, religious beliefs, d e, human existence -
Construction Of Gender Wife And Mother
1,840 wordsThe world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life styles. Yet there is an area of improvement in the focus of gender: based on labour and the patriarchal working woman. The class society have a great impact on the relation women have with men. The different theories and definitions help to understand the relationship of the construction of the gender. Feminism has a great impact on the gender role in our society. Feminists have been fighting for a long time for power and control...
Free research essays on topics related to: labour force, feminist theory, construction of gender, maternal employment, wife and mother -
Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
3,397 wordsThe philosopher Michel Foucault and the ancient chinese sage Lao Tzu are separated by some twenty centuries. This seems to be of minor consequence, however, when it comes to the essence of their ideas. Both figures deal with concepts that explore the relationship between society and power. Specifically, the ways in which social bodies gain or lose power. In this paper, I will use their ideas to support my theory that equality is impossible in social interactions. These interactions may range in ...
Free research essays on topics related to: spouse abuse, wu wei, le guin, tao te ching, lao tzu -
Construction Of Gender Wife And Mother
2,676 wordsGender Roles In Society By Steve R Jean The world today has changed in many aspects of gender related life style. Yet there is an area of improvement in the focus of gender: based on labor and the patriarchal workingwoman. The class society has a great impact on the behavior women carry out. The different theories and definitions help to explain the relationship of the construction of the gender. Feminism has a great impact on the gender role in our society. Feminists have been fighting for a lo...
Free research essays on topics related to: power and control, york and london, feminist theory, wife and mother, construction of gender -
Effect On Society V Chip
940 wordsMass communications is one of the most popular college majors in the country, which perhaps reflects a belief in the importance of communications systems in society. The communications system, consisting of radio, television, film, newspapers and magazines, effects how we think, how we feel, and how we live. Therefore, we must ask ourselves, Is media mere entertainment, or are there serious side effects of the national preoccupation with the media? Long-term exposure to the media has a tendency ...
Free research essays on topics related to: objectivity, v chip, effect on society, newspapers, first amendment -
Eternal Truth Fully Understand
1,665 wordsSoren Kierkegaard is said to be one of the founding fathers of existentialism. His style of writing, his tone and vocabulary tie him closely to another forerunner of existentialist thought: Fyodor Dostoevsky (although either of them would probably deny this vehemently). However, in the course of his writings, Kierkegaard takes quite a liberal and (dare I say it? ) individualistic stand on the side of Christianity. In the passages I have read of Kierkegaard (That Individual and Truth is Subjectiv...
Free research essays on topics related to: kierkegaard, eternal, fully understand, crowd, eternal truth -
Faith In God Nietzsche
1,785 wordsKierkegaard? s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Kierkegaard? s Notions Of Risk, Faith, Passion, & Truth? ? ? ? Soren Kierkegaard puts forth a unique form of existentialism. He chooses to use the questions of subjectivity, objectivity, and the search for truth, in existentialist thought as a means for the justification of his faith. Through this he comes up with one of the purest definitions of what faith really is. The question is then; can he through his discussion of? the paradox of ...
Free research essays on topics related to: nietzsche , beliefs, theory, eternal truth, faith in god -
Emily Dickinson Fly Buzz
5,517 wordsGerhard Friedrich This poem seems to present two major problems to the interpreter. First, what is the significance of the buzzing fly in relation to the dying person, and second, what is the meaning of the double use of " see" in the last line? An analysis of the context helps to clear up these apparent obscurities, and a close parallel found in another Dickinson poem reinforces such interpretation. In an atmosphere of outward quiet and inner calm, the dying person collectedly proceed...
Free research essays on topics related to: fly buzz, emily dickinson, dickinson poem, quot dickinson, poem quot -
Quot A Glimpse Quot Quot A Glimpse Male
228 wordsJames Dougherty At some point, [Whitman] penciled a note on the script of the unpublished [poem] " Pictures" : " Break all this into several pictures. " That is, break open the casque of consciousness in which the images floated... and declare its single perceptions to be poems. Several poems from the Calamus sequence, like... " A Glimpse, " are moving toward independence from the sponsoring mind... In such poems, the order of observation implies a statement of sort...
Free research essays on topics related to: charged, whitman, glimpse, pictures, subjectivity -
Greek Myth Objective Reality
1,611 wordsSubjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Subjective Reality In Anne Carson's Autobiography Of Red Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a world of subjective reality. Carson explores the relationship between subject and object through a reworking of an original Greek myth. The original myth is of Herakles, whos tenth labor was to kill Geryon, a red winged monster who lived on an island, and steal his cattle. Carson takes the insignificant character of Geryon and creates a story based...
Free research essays on topics related to: greek myth, objective reality, blind man, writing style, autobiography
Customer center
