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Rothwell, Andrew Thomas.
Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich.
Degree: MA, Philosophy, 2014, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/153633 
► The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the causes and effects of existential despair and estrangement on man, and additionally the methods in which…
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▼ The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the causes and effects of existential despair and estrangement on man, and additionally the methods in which man can be saved from them by Christ, as found in seminal works of Søren Kierkegaard‘s The Sickness unto Death and Paul Tillich‘s Systematic Theology Vol. II. In-depth analysis will be given to these two works in order to show how traditional existential concepts of despair and alienation are understood within a heavily Christian framework. Within Christianity, these two authors will show the theological import of despair and estrangement on the soul of man. Both conclude that these aspects of existence are a terrible burden on the soul and, ultimately, constitute a unique interpretation of sin outside of the traditional ethical framework.
Kierkegaard builds up a unique ontology of man as dialectical politics of multiple syntheses and showing how despair is actually the result of misrelations within these synthetic relationships. He also examines the consequences of conscious and unconscious despair. Tillich, on the other hand, believes that estrangement is related to the separation of man from God as a result of vices. Conscious that we are separated from God and desiring salvation, man seeks various methods of self-salvation that Tillich believes unilaterally fail. After analyzing the theology of atonement, Tillich ultimately agrees with Kierkegaard. The only thing that saves us from our despair and estrangement, which constitute sin, is the individual‘s acceptance of the saving grace of Christ‘s forgiveness.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pappas, Gregory (advisor), McDermott, John J (advisor), Villalobos, Jose (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Kierkegaard; Tillich; Existenialism; Despair; Sin; Estrangement; Salvation
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Rothwell, A. T. (2014). Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/153633
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rothwell, Andrew Thomas. “Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/153633.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rothwell, Andrew Thomas. “Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Rothwell AT. Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/153633.
Council of Science Editors:
Rothwell AT. Salvation from Despair and Estrangement: An Analysis of Religious Existentialism as Found in Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/153633
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Carlson, Charles.
Hybridization and the Typological Paradigm.
Degree: MS, Biology, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10507
► The presence of parasites in a population has an impact on mate choice and has substantial evolutionary significance. A relatively unexplored aspect of this dynamic…
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▼ The presence of parasites in a population has an impact on mate choice and has substantial evolutionary significance. A relatively unexplored aspect of this dynamic is whether or not the presence of parasites increases the likelihood of hybridization events, which also have a significant role in ecological adaptation. One explanation of increased hybridization in some areas and not others is that stress from parasites results in selection for an increase of novel genotypes. Two swordtail species Xiphophorus birchmanni and Xiphophorus malinche maintain an active hybrid zone. The patterns of hybridization are unique in that they do not match up directly with expectations. We set out to test whether or not individuals can sense, using chemical cues, whether conspecifics in their immediate vicinity have high parasite loads and also whether this has an effect on mating and association behavior toward both conspecific and hybrid mates. Our hypothesis being that females will have greater association times with hybrid/heterospecific mates if conscpecifics are heavily parasitized. We found that females exposed to parasitized males had a weaker preference for conspecific odor than those exposed to unparasitized males, both relative to a water control and relative to hybrids.
The empirical investigation described above is coupled with a historical and philosophical discussion of some of the issues surrounding the acceptance and understanding of the concept of hybridization. This discussion takes as its major themes: an analysis of the role that social views have on the formation of scientific hypothesis; the lag between epochal change in the scientific community and the assimilation of the consequences into social beliefs; the survival of hierarchical and teleological thinking in our concept of species and purity; and the failures of contemporary evolutionary theory to provide satisfactory explanations about the meaning and upshot of hybridization. Two specific misconceptions about hybridization are addressed. First, that hybridization clashes with the belief in kinds/types/species having separate and pure identities. Secondly, the teleological view that reads purpose into nature and places all instances of variation on a hierarchical scale; the top and bottom of which are determined by estimated closeness to the predetermined perfection of a type.
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Advisors/Committee Members: Rosenthal, Gil (advisor), Jones, Adam G. (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Hybridization; Parasites; Philosophy of Biology; Species
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APA (6th Edition):
Carlson, C. (2012). Hybridization and the Typological Paradigm. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10507
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Carlson, Charles. “Hybridization and the Typological Paradigm.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10507.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Carlson, Charles. “Hybridization and the Typological Paradigm.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Carlson C. Hybridization and the Typological Paradigm. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10507.
Council of Science Editors:
Carlson C. Hybridization and the Typological Paradigm. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10507
Texas A&M University
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Lee, Seung Hee.
Writing Woman’s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse.
Degree: PhD, English, 2014, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154072
► This dissertation examines the interplay between the language of empire and femininity in antebellum literary culture by focusing on texts that offer gendered meanings of…
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▼ This dissertation examines the interplay between the language of empire and femininity in antebellum literary culture by focusing on texts that offer gendered meanings of America as a new empire in their depiction and imagination of the types of femininity the novelty of the land would give rise to. Where Amy Kaplan’s “Manifest Domesticity” posits that the imperial subjectivity of white women took shape in and through the language of domesticity during the time of Manifest Destiny, I start by showing that the imperial construction of white femininity began earlier in the Revolutionary period by revisiting the tenet of Republican Motherhood. In the first chapter, I discuss how the colonial context shapes the question of the divided American female subject in Wieland, the very first text by the first professional American novelist, Charles Brockden Brown. Wieland portrays America as the place where the enlightened white female subject transforms itself through the contact with savage otherness both from within and without. The new type of female subjectivity that Brown depicts as arising from the nation that continuously expands its borders and expels the original inhabitants is the divided subject whose inner psychological terrain resembles and mirrors the exterior terrain—a subject that uncannily anticipates Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderland subject. Using Anzaldúa’s theory, I trace how Brown disrupts the equation of whiteness with rationality to question white ownership of the land. If C.B. Brown treats white femininity as the site of colonial confusion and anxiety, Lydia Maria Child and Margaret Fuller cast it as the major imperial source for the nation by rewriting the national history as the story of woman’s empire and fusing utopian hope for a better world for women with the nation’s imperial aspirations. Chapter two discusses Hobomok where Child opposes masculine forms of colonial venture to offer feminine forms of colonization as more humane and effective ways of building an empire by feminizing sentimentality. Chapter three traces the development of Fuller’s imperialism from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 to Woman in the Nineteenth Century. I revise the previous understanding that the two texts represent Fuller’s growing criticism of the American empire by showing that Fuller does not so much disapprove of her nation’s imperial progress as attempt to elevate it through the moral source of white women. Chapter four examines the intersection between emancipation and empire that underwrites the plot of the first Afro-American novel, Clotel. William Wells Brown criticizes the notion of America as a woman’s empire, but he still reproduces the discourse of white women’s moral power and its attendant imperial claims to enlist their support. Rather than giving white women’s moral duty a nationalist cast, however, Clotel puts it in the transatlantic context of the emancipationist politics of the British Empire.
Advisors/Committee Members: Berthold , Dennis (advisor), Portales , Marco (committee member), Bhattacharya, Nandini (committee member), McDermott , John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; 19th Century; Imperialism; Women in Literature
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Lee, S. H. (2014). Writing Woman’s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154072
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lee, Seung Hee. “Writing Woman’s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154072.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lee, Seung Hee. “Writing Woman’s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse.” 2014. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lee SH. Writing Woman’s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154072.
Council of Science Editors:
Lee SH. Writing Woman’s Empire: Imperialism and the Construction of American Femininity in Antebellum Literary Discourse. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/154072
Texas A&M University
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Moore, Cody.
Beyond Biomedicine: Developing New Models of Medical Practice from the Pragmatist and Existentialist Traditions.
Degree: MA, Philosophy, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11099
► This thesis seeks to address two distinct sets of criticisms that have been offered at medical practice. The first criticism suggests that medicine today is…
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▼ This thesis seeks to address two distinct sets of criticisms that have been offered at medical practice. The first criticism suggests that medicine today is too exclusive in its application of the term 'disease.' As a consequence, important biological phenomena are marginalized by physicians and scientists. The second criticism suggests that medicine has been too inclusive in its understanding of disease. As a result, many biological phenomena that were once considered 'natural' or 'normal' aspects of human life are now given a medical dimension that they previously did not have.
The goal of this thesis is to understand why two seemingly contradictory criticisms have been applied to the same practice. To answer this question, I invoke Edmund Husserl's important analysis of modern science to argue that medicine suffers from a problem of 'naive objectivism.' This problem is present under the dominant paradigm of medical diagnosis, the biomedical model.
Having identified the source of these two criticisms, my goal is to then develop new models of medical practice that can address these criticisms. First, I turn to
John Dewey's philosophical naturalism to develop a medical model that can address the problem of exclusion in biomedicine. Then, I turn to Martin Heidegger?s existential analytic to develop a medical model that can address the problem of inclusion in biomedicine. I supplement both of these analyses with research generated in the medical humanities fields, attempting to show how the biomedical model of medicine fails to meet the goals of medical care.
The end result of such analysis is the development of two new medical models that can serve to replace the biomedical model. I offer no attempt to adjudicate between these two models, instead leaving such issues to be handled by the patient and the physician throughout the course of his or her treatment.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), George, Theodore D. (committee member), Sanders, Charles W. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Medical Humanities; Existentialism; Pragmatism; Biomedicine
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Moore, C. (2012). Beyond Biomedicine: Developing New Models of Medical Practice from the Pragmatist and Existentialist Traditions. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11099
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Moore, Cody. “Beyond Biomedicine: Developing New Models of Medical Practice from the Pragmatist and Existentialist Traditions.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11099.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Moore, Cody. “Beyond Biomedicine: Developing New Models of Medical Practice from the Pragmatist and Existentialist Traditions.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Moore C. Beyond Biomedicine: Developing New Models of Medical Practice from the Pragmatist and Existentialist Traditions. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11099.
Council of Science Editors:
Moore C. Beyond Biomedicine: Developing New Models of Medical Practice from the Pragmatist and Existentialist Traditions. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11099
Texas A&M University
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Tucker, Richard Thorp.
Deweyan Naturalism: A Critique of Epistemic Reductionism.
Degree: MA, Philosophy, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9518
► This thesis articulates a critique of scientific naturalism from the perspective of John Dewey. Scientific naturalism can be defined by two explicit, metaphysical commitments, one…
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▼ This thesis articulates a critique of scientific naturalism from the perspective of
John Dewey. Scientific naturalism can be defined by two explicit, metaphysical commitments, one ontological and one epistemological. Implicit to these commitments is a further commitment concerning the nature of human experience. This understanding of human experience can be described as epistemic reductionism because it reduces the whole of experience and all empiricism to epistemology.
Scientific naturalism is the orthodox position for most contemporary, Anglo-American philosophy. Many philosophers within this tradition are dissatisfied with scientific naturalism and attempt to critique scientific naturalism from the perspective of "liberal" naturalism. One major objection from the liberal perspective concerns the ontology and placement of moral qualities: where are moral qualities to be placed in a scientifically naturalistic ontology? However, due to the fact that liberal naturalists share with scientific naturalists a commitment to an epistemically reductionistic understanding of the nature of human experience, liberal naturalism fails to adequately address the placement problem.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pappas, Gregory F. (advisor), McDermott, John J. (committee member), McIntosh, William A. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: John Dewey; scientific naturalism; epistemic reductionism; ontological presuppositions
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Tucker, R. T. (2012). Deweyan Naturalism: A Critique of Epistemic Reductionism. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9518
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tucker, Richard Thorp. “Deweyan Naturalism: A Critique of Epistemic Reductionism.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9518.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tucker, Richard Thorp. “Deweyan Naturalism: A Critique of Epistemic Reductionism.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tucker RT. Deweyan Naturalism: A Critique of Epistemic Reductionism. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9518.
Council of Science Editors:
Tucker RT. Deweyan Naturalism: A Critique of Epistemic Reductionism. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9518
Texas A&M University
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Gerhart, Olga S.
The Experience of Aging: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Time's Passing within the Classical American Philosophical Tradition.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2013, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151132
► The provocation for this dissertation is a brief contention: aging is not synonymous with disease. This contention is a corrective reaction to the pervasive sensibility…
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▼ The provocation for this dissertation is a brief contention: aging is not synonymous with disease. This contention is a corrective reaction to the pervasive sensibility that aging is a disease, and which therefore casts the character of time’s passing as a process of destruction. The upshot of this corrosive sensibility is that we are not aging well. Guided both by the belief that we can reconstruct the meaning of time’s passing and an ameliorative sensibility to heal human suffering, the dissertation offers an alternative, more fruitful understanding of aging in which the character of time changes from a process of destruction into one of creative individual genesis. This is how we should experience time as time passes. Living in this way is an achievement: It is the activity of ferreting out the best possible ways in which to live so that life is deep and robust with concatenated meaning.
This philosophical diagnosis of aging is situated within two philosophical traditions—first, existentialism and, second and primarily, the pragmatism of classical American philosophers. The deceptively simple insights from existentialism at work in the dissertation are this: that we are ontologically free to choose our own persons and that our freedom resides in the ever-present possible. The next philosophical move that is made is the pragmatic turn: that, with a sense that there is always something better, we attend to how it is that we press into our possibilities by listening to and heeding experience so that we adapt and grow as individuals.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Austin, Scott (committee member), Erlandson, David (committee member), McCann, Janet (committee member), Pappas, Gregory (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy of Aging; Pragmatism; Classical American Philosophy; Aging
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Gerhart, O. S. (2013). The Experience of Aging: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Time's Passing within the Classical American Philosophical Tradition. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151132
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gerhart, Olga S. “The Experience of Aging: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Time's Passing within the Classical American Philosophical Tradition.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151132.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gerhart, Olga S. “The Experience of Aging: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Time's Passing within the Classical American Philosophical Tradition.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Gerhart OS. The Experience of Aging: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Time's Passing within the Classical American Philosophical Tradition. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151132.
Council of Science Editors:
Gerhart OS. The Experience of Aging: A Reconstruction of the Meaning of Time's Passing within the Classical American Philosophical Tradition. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151132
Texas A&M University
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Chouinard, James Babson.
Social Structure as an Embodied Experience.
Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2013, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358
► An overarching goal of my dissertation is to delineate social systemic processes as first and foremost embodied, experiential processes. I argue that such processes manifest…
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▼ An overarching goal of my dissertation is to delineate social systemic processes as first and foremost embodied, experiential processes. I argue that such processes manifest through and depend upon the organism’s affective integration with her environment. Whereby, I delineate concepts like alienation and agency as manifesting through an affective intelligibility. Symbolic alienation, then, represents a circumstance in which institutional narratives purport moral or aesthetic truths that denigrate and deny the organism’s affective understanding of a circumstance. Agentic growth refers to the organism’s affective adaptation to an environment. Such growth follows from the process of working through experiential discordance (i.e., the disturbance of experiential flow or continuity) and manifests as a new-found sense of trust and understanding. Experiential discordance is an unavoidable occurrence because the organism-environment relationship is a dynamic one. If the organism is unable to mitigate and repair such discordance, she will face the threat of traumatization. Furthermore, those who disrupt the conventional-institutional organization or channeling of experience take on the character of dirt and thereby represent a dirty Other. If institutions react to the troubling, dirty Other by means of systemic repression, rather than genuine communication and reintegration, then said dirty Other takes on the character of shit. In such a circumstance, the presence of the dirty Other likely reveals deep, social systemic inadequacies and thereby ruptures the collective’s existential confidence and praxeological competence.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mestrovic, Stjepan G (advisor), McIntosh, William A (committee member), Saenz, Rogelio (committee member), McDermott, John J (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Embodiment; Sociology of the Body; Dirt; Shit; Trust; Trauma; Psychoanalytic Sociology
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Chouinard, J. B. (2013). Social Structure as an Embodied Experience. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chouinard, James Babson. “Social Structure as an Embodied Experience.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chouinard, James Babson. “Social Structure as an Embodied Experience.” 2013. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Chouinard JB. Social Structure as an Embodied Experience. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358.
Council of Science Editors:
Chouinard JB. Social Structure as an Embodied Experience. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149358
Texas A&M University
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Bechtol, Harris Bennett.
Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2016, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156817
► This project brings into focus the nature of an event in continental philosophy as it relates to the phenomenon of the death of another person.…
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▼ This project brings into focus the nature of an event in continental philosophy as it relates to the phenomenon of the death of another person. In this, I offer a description of what is philosophically happening when another person dies for those who survive this person with particular focus on the ontological, ethical, and theological implications of such a death. I maintain that the best such phenomenological description comes through engaging the death of the other in terms of the technical usage of the event in continental philosophy. In short, I argue that the death of the other is an event because such a death is not only the loss of the person but also the loss of the meaning of the world to and with this person. So the death of the other is a death of the world. To argue this, I trace the discussion about the nature of an event from Martin Heidegger’s account of the event through the French reception of this aspect of Heidegger’s philosophy in the works of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion. Moreover, through unfolding these complex accounts on the nature of an event, I develop the relationality that attends this event of the death of the other by focusing on the disclosivity of such death. The death of the other as an event shows us not only the ontological insight that being itself is relational but also that this event impacts our ethical life. When an other dies, we have a responsibility to mourn and remember the other. Through this ontology and ethical impetus of the death of the other, I maintain that we broach an important distinction between modalities of otherness based on the relational involvement that we have with people in our lives. Such a relational, existential difference within alterity spans from the others with whom we have little relation to the others whose relation structures our understanding of the world. By using this existential difference, my account of the death of the other includes the death of not only humans but also animals and even God.
Advisors/Committee Members: George, Theodore (advisor), McDermott, John J. (committee member), Conway, Daniel (committee member), Dox, Donnalee (committee member), Caputo, John D. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: event; death; Heidegger; Derrida; Marion; phenomenology; mourning
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Bechtol, H. B. (2016). Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156817
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bechtol, Harris Bennett. “Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156817.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bechtol, Harris Bennett. “Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event.” 2016. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bechtol HB. Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156817.
Council of Science Editors:
Bechtol HB. Inflections of the Event: The Death of the Other as Event. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156817
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Kainer, John Michael.
More Please: Food and the Infinity of Desires.
Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2017, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165753
► This dissertation might best be described as a discussion and analysis of the tendency towards excess at the heart of modern American culture. In studying…
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▼ This dissertation might best be described as a discussion and analysis of the tendency towards excess at the heart of modern American culture. In studying excess, the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer—whose writings on the limitless desire of the will had such a profound influence on the writers and thinkers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century— is linked to Emile Durkheim’s theory, which informs much of this study. Durkheim’s conception of anomie is examined using a combination of etymology and hermeneutics culminating in the understanding of anomie as derangement, or, as rules that are lack of rules.
To illustrate this tendency in a concrete way, food is employed as a vehicle for discussion. I outline and critique the various definitions of food, and offer my own definition of food as something that sustains life, but does so through the utilization of the collective constituent elements (vitamins, minerals, calories) that naturally occur within a material substance. Defining food holistically and in terms of nature allows me to also identify unnatural foods by employing Durkheim’s concept of derangement.
I trace the origins of excessive willing in modern American culture back to the
Protestant religious doctrines of predestination and the calling, arguing that tendency towards worldly asceticism has been removed—replaced by an insatiable desire to consume more—and resulting in the formation of what I am calling the consumption industry. Recontexualizing Mestrovic’s postemotional theory, I contend that the food industry in particular, and the consumption industry in general, rely on prepacked ideas as well as prepacked emotions to sell their foods in modern American society. This includes the consumption industry’s research on human biology and neurology—which has led to the production of deranged foods that actually induce hunger in consumers. Finally, the rise of monopoly capitalism is examined in light of Eros’ unitive power—highlighted through a comparison of Plato, Freud, and Durkheim— leading to the conclusion that the modern spirit of capitalism is postemotional Eros – a drive towards greater unity, divided against itself, fueled by recycled emotions and inflamed desires.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mestrovic, Stjepan G (advisor), McIntosh, William A (advisor), May, Reuben B (committee member), McDermott, John J (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Food; Anomie; Emotions; Desire; Durkheim; Mestrovic; Schopenhauer; Postemotional theory; Eros
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Kainer, J. M. (2017). More Please: Food and the Infinity of Desires. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165753
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kainer, John Michael. “More Please: Food and the Infinity of Desires.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165753.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kainer, John Michael. “More Please: Food and the Infinity of Desires.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Kainer JM. More Please: Food and the Infinity of Desires. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165753.
Council of Science Editors:
Kainer JM. More Please: Food and the Infinity of Desires. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/165753
Texas A&M University
10.
Carley, Robert.
Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics.
Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10850
► The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the impact that historical (and cultural) contexts have on the production of theories and concepts. In specific,…
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▼ The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the impact that historical (and cultural) contexts have on the production of theories and concepts. In specific, I am interested in the relationship between historical and cultural contexts and the production of theoretical knowledge. I define historical periods in theory as modernist and an "after-modern" context, which comprises poststructuralism, postmodernism and post-Marxism. My case is the life and work of Antonio Gramsci; a "classical theorist" whose work remains salient across the social sciences and humanities. I hypothesize that in order to understand the historiography of knowledge in the social sciences, from the classical period to the present, significant points of "departure" in theory (e.g. Gramsci, Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism) need to be viewed contextually. By extension, a better way to fully understand Gramsci's insights, and their endurance, for the study of race, sexuality, culture and politics is to situate his methodology, theories, and concepts historically. In the dissertation propose two ways to test this hypothesis:
1. I provide an historically grounded interpretation of Gramsci's political thinking (a orienting place for much of Gramsci's thought) which includes, for example, changes in his perspective about the strategic role of specific political groups, e.g. social movement organizations, in achieving political goals;
2. I embed his theoretical and conceptual framework within the theoretical discourses prevalent during his time, which would include, for example, the rise and predominance of Italian positivist criminology as a racial discourse. I also hypothesize that in this case, such an interpretation is necessary to fully and accurately understand the potential contribution of Gramsci's theoretical framework to contemporary theoretical discourses in both the social sciences and humanities-based disciplines.
This dissertation is organized around the following sets of questions. My originating question, which establishes the analytical framework for the dissertation, is: What impact does historical (and cultural) contexts have on the production of theories and concepts? As it pertains to my specific case, the life and work of Antonio Gramsci, I sharpen the point by asking: In the context of the originating research question, In what ways have the historical (and cultural) contexts effected the production of theories and concepts in Gramsci's work?
This dissertation represents a contribution to the sociology of ideas as well as to classical theory by providing a new lens through which to look at the early contributions of sociological knowledge. Further, each individual section?which represents explorations of specific theoretical rubrics?may lead to contributions within these distinct areas.
Advisors/Committee Members: Jewell, Joseph O. (advisor), Gatson, Sarah N. (committee member), Mackin, Robert (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Sociological Theory; Gramsci; Race; Social Movements
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Carley, R. (2012). Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10850
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Carley, Robert. “Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10850.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Carley, Robert. “Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Carley R. Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10850.
Council of Science Editors:
Carley R. Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10850
Texas A&M University
11.
Tyler, John.
A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885
► American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of…
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▼ American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law.
These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism.
In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method.
This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior.
The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent.
The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will.
Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Pappas, Gregory (committee member), Austin, Scott W. (committee member), Welch, Ben D. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: natural law theory; legal positivism; HLA Hart; William Blackstone; John Locke; Jeremy Bentham; John Austin; Galileo; Socrates; Trotsky; Athens; Soviet law; Stuart dynasty; John Dewey; Dewey Commission; Sidney Hook; Congregation of the Holy Office; Galileo Affair; trial of Socrates; Moscow Trials; trial of Galileo; heresy; trial of Trotsky; reason; autonomy; consent; philosophy of law; pragmatism; Kant; Inquisition; ostracism; Anaxagoras; Protagoras; Alcibiades; Arginusae; Pericles; Peloponnesian War; Solon; Ephialtes; Apology; Plato; Herodotus; Xenophon; Plutarch; Roscoe Pound; common law; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; The Common Law; The Path of the Law; Learned Hand; Christopher Columbus Langdell; Ronald Dworkin; Lon Fuller; Lenin; Stalin; King Rex; Sergei Kirov; Permanent Revolution; Socialism in One Country; Great Terror; Dekulakization; Holomodor; Terror Famine; Italian positivist school; Harold J. Berman; Gustav Radbruch; Ramon Mercader; Trotsky assassination; Marteman Ryutin; Old Bolsheviks; Genrikh Yagoda; Pope Urban VIII; Walter Duranty; Harold Denny; New York Times; Joseph E. Davies; Mission to Moscow; New Republic; John F. Finerty; Lev Sedov; Military Collegium; Vasili Ulrikh; Gaspare Borgia; Cardinal Robert Bellarmine; Pericles; Father Commissary Michelangelo Segizzi; Cardinal Francesco Barberini; Cardinal Maffeo Barberini; Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican; Siderius Nuncius; Starry Messenger; Accademia dei Lincei; Letters on Sunspots; Friar Tommaso Caccini; Niccolo Lorini; Commentaries on the Laws of England; Second Treatise on Civil Government; Henry de Bracton; Sir Edward Coke; Sir John Fortescue; Matthew Hale; Ranulf de Glanvil; James I; Charles I; James II; Charles II; ship money; forest fines; distraint of knighthood; impositions; dispensing power; royal prerogative; Duke of Buckingham; Oliver Cromwell; Bishops Wars; William Prynne; Great Migration; Declaration of Indulgence; Settlement Act; Test Act; Protectorate; Clarendon Code; Quaker Act; William and Mary; English Civil War; Puritan Revolution; Glorious Revolution; Thirty Years' War; Earl of Shaftesbuty; William Laud; Historiomatrix; Long Parliament; Rump Parliament; Barebones Parliament; sociological jurisprudence; Red Terror; war communism; New Economic Policy; 1926 Criminal Code; Kirov Amendments; judicial discretion; semantic sting; The Concept of Law; Fragments on Government; The Province of Jurisprudence Determined; A Fragment on Government; Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals; Anarchical Fallacies; primary rules; secondary rules; rule of recognition; legal validity; internal point of view; external point of view; law as prediction; the bad man perspective on law; life of the law; page of history; Basilikon Doron; Trew Law of Free Monarchies
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Tyler, J. (2012). A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tyler, John. “A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tyler, John. “A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tyler J. A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885.
Council of Science Editors:
Tyler J. A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885
Texas A&M University
12.
Diaz, Kim.
Radical Democracy in the thought and work of Paulo Freire and Luis Villoro.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11133
► This project explores democracy as a way of life (radical democracy) by drawing from both North and Latin American philosophers. I work with ideas from…
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▼ This project explores democracy as a way of life (radical democracy) by drawing from both North and Latin American philosophers. I work with ideas from Paulo Freire (Brazil) and Luis Villoro (Mexico) to develop (a) a criticism of mainstream liberal assumptions regarding freedom, tolerance and the nature of the relationship between the individual and the community as well as (b) a criticism of liberal democracy as a political system, and (c) a formulation of democracy as a way of life. This is relevant because the experiences in Freire's and Villoro?s historical background (colonialism, feudalism, dictatorships) have been neglected from the Western liberal approach which emphasizes property rights, individual rights and community obligations towards the individual. Working with philosophers whose theories have been informed by the liberal tradition but whose work was developed in response to living in environments of dehumanizing oppression and corruption provides us with relevant criticisms of the Western liberal tradition as well as its assumptions regarding central concepts such as freedom, tolerance and community.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pappas, Gregory F. (advisor), McDermott, John J. (committee member), Burch, Robert W. (committee member), Curry, Tommy (committee member), Murguia, Edward (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Radical Democracy; Paulo Freire; Luis Villoro
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Diaz, K. (2012). Radical Democracy in the thought and work of Paulo Freire and Luis Villoro. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11133
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Diaz, Kim. “Radical Democracy in the thought and work of Paulo Freire and Luis Villoro.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11133.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Diaz, Kim. “Radical Democracy in the thought and work of Paulo Freire and Luis Villoro.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Diaz K. Radical Democracy in the thought and work of Paulo Freire and Luis Villoro. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11133.
Council of Science Editors:
Diaz K. Radical Democracy in the thought and work of Paulo Freire and Luis Villoro. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-11133
Texas A&M University
13.
Carlson, Charles.
Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11861
► This dissertation is centered on problems within the history and philosophy of biology. The project identifies the philosophical roots of the current ecological movement and…
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▼ This dissertation is centered on problems within the history and philosophy of biology. The project identifies the philosophical roots of the current ecological movement and shows how a version of philosophical naturalism might be put to use within contemporary ethical issues in biology, and aid in the development of research programs. The approach is historically informed, but has application for current dilemmas. The traditions from which I primarily draw include classical American philosophy, particularly C.S. Peirce and
John Dewey, as well as thinkers associated with the German Naturphilosophie movement, such as Goethe and Schopenhauer. There are deep, but often overlooked, resonances between these seemingly disparate traditions and contemporary biology that are located in the conflict between the developing organism and the ever-fluctuating environment. The dissertation makes the case for a shared description of nature among these traditions and proposes applications to burgeoning contemporary ecological interpretations of issues such as hybridization and epigenetics.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), George, Theodore (committee member), Austin, Scott W. (committee member), Rosenthal, Gil G. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Evolution; Philosophy of Biology; American Philosophy; Naturphilosophen; Hybridization; Chance; Growth
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Carlson, C. (2012). Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11861
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Carlson, Charles. “Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11861.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Carlson, Charles. “Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Carlson C. Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11861.
Council of Science Editors:
Carlson C. Some Philosophical Origins of an Ecological Sensibility. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11861
Texas A&M University
14.
Harden, B. Garrick.
The Way of the Bar: A Postmodern Application of Nietzsche's Methodology.
Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2011, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7598
► This study is an attempt to combine Nietzschean thought with postmodernism (already greatly influenced by Nietzsche) to take what I am calling a "pastiche approach."…
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▼ This study is an attempt to combine Nietzschean thought with postmodernism
(already greatly influenced by Nietzsche) to take what I am calling a "pastiche approach."
I do not mean pastiche in the strictest sense of the word as simply a hodgepodge of
various things with little connection to one another but as a combination of modernist
schools of thought, such as the structuralists, with various postmodern and poststructural
"schools," such as those strains of thought coming from figures such as Jean Baudrillard,
Jean Francois Lyotard and Jacque Derrida. I am also referring to various methodological
approaches, such as ethnography, historical comparative, textual and content analysis and
positivistic approaches. These approaches are used in concert in order to paint a
"portrait" from a stance of Nietzschean perspectivism of barworkers as people operating
in cultural patterns both local and global.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mestrovic, Stjepan G. (advisor), McIntosh, Alex (committee member), May, Reuben A. (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Postmodernism; Nietzsche; Theory and Methods; Bar Culture
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Harden, B. G. (2011). The Way of the Bar: A Postmodern Application of Nietzsche's Methodology. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7598
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Harden, B Garrick. “The Way of the Bar: A Postmodern Application of Nietzsche's Methodology.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7598.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Harden, B Garrick. “The Way of the Bar: A Postmodern Application of Nietzsche's Methodology.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Harden BG. The Way of the Bar: A Postmodern Application of Nietzsche's Methodology. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7598.
Council of Science Editors:
Harden BG. The Way of the Bar: A Postmodern Application of Nietzsche's Methodology. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7598
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15.
Haitos, Alexander Nicholas.
Finding the Foundations of the World in Aesthetic Experience: The Radical Empiricism of William James and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2018, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173929
► In this manuscript I widen the interpretive parameters of Alfred North Whitehead’s thought in an effort to make his philosophy more readily available to concerns…
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▼ In this manuscript I widen the interpretive parameters of Alfred North Whitehead’s thought in an effort to make his philosophy more readily available to concerns it is not usually taken to address, such as those that define an existential sensibility. I contend that an adequate rendering of Whitehead’s philosophy must include a consideration and discussion of the aesthetic dimension and character of experience. By conceiving of the world in processual and compositional terms, Whitehead is conceiving of the world in aesthetic terms, in terms of feeling, affect, value, possibility, and achievement. Without this grounding in aesthetic experience and expression, Whitehead’s philosophy loses its experiential purchase.
What I offer herein is a two-pronged approach to understanding Whitehead that will be salutary for opening engagement with Whitehead’s thought, both within and outside of circles already familiar with his philosophy. The first prong is to develop the connection between Whitehead and the thought of William James, especially James’s radical empiricism. Whitehead, alongside James, was a radical empiricist in a thorough sense. The second prong is to emphasize Whitehead’s rendering of aesthetics as the fulcrum of his philosophy, the node through which its various complexities are synthesized. But Whitehead’s aesthetics cannot be adequately grasped without working through James’s radical empiricism and Whitehead’s own understanding of time and possibility. For this reason, this manuscript is largely devoted to elaborating the necessary metaphysical substructure to working on Whitehead's aesthetics in broader existential, social, political, environmental, and scientific contexts.
In pursuing these aims, I articulate the metaphysical sweep of radical empiricism and its unwavering commitment to rendering the world intelligible in experiential terms. I also extend the spirit of radical empiricism to the discussion of time and possibility and show that these two ideas, properly understood, are essential to understanding Whitehead’s theory of actual occasions and thus his rendering of process and of experience. The resultant version of Whitehead’s metaphysics makes the transition to understanding the aesthetic dimension of experience and the various applications of Whitehead’s ideas that much more coherent.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Conway, Daniel (committee member), George, Theodore (committee member), O'Farrell, Mary Ann (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: William James; Alfred North Whitehead; Metaphysics; Radical Empiricism; Process Philosophy; Time; Possibility; Aesthetics
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Haitos, A. N. (2018). Finding the Foundations of the World in Aesthetic Experience: The Radical Empiricism of William James and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173929
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Haitos, Alexander Nicholas. “Finding the Foundations of the World in Aesthetic Experience: The Radical Empiricism of William James and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173929.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Haitos, Alexander Nicholas. “Finding the Foundations of the World in Aesthetic Experience: The Radical Empiricism of William James and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.” 2018. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Haitos AN. Finding the Foundations of the World in Aesthetic Experience: The Radical Empiricism of William James and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173929.
Council of Science Editors:
Haitos AN. Finding the Foundations of the World in Aesthetic Experience: The Radical Empiricism of William James and the Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/173929
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16.
Romero, Rachel.
The Disconnected Body: An Examination of the U.S Military System and Its Neglect of Expressive Functions.
Degree: PhD, Sociology, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191996
► This dissertation explores the systematic negligence of expressive functions in current United States Military System (USMS) practices. I draw from classical sociological theory and employ…
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▼ This dissertation explores the systematic negligence of expressive functions in current United States Military System (USMS) practices. I draw from classical sociological theory and employ the Parsonian understanding of "expressive" versus "instrumental" social functions, to illustrate the U.S. military's abandonment of procedures that tend to the emotional needs of the group and individual soldiers. I expand beyond Talcott Parsons' understanding of the "symbolic/expressive" pattern variable, and engage this idea to discuss a variety of affective principles including leadership support, group cooperation, social cohesion, loyalty and trust, emotional stability, and reverence towards rituals. Subsequently, I wed these elaborations of pattern variables to principles which generally are coded as maternal and feminine. The main argument of this work is the following; social functions that typically are considered "feminine," "motherly," "emotional" are not characteristically valued in modern worldviews, although these functions are critically significant for the overall well-being of society. As a result, an overemphasis of the ideal types instrumental functions, "masculinity," "efficiency," and "rationality" monopolize today's most influential social institutions, including the military. The deficiency of balance between expressive and instrumental functions results in various forms of deviance and anomie; including war crimes.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mestrovic, Stjepan G (advisor), McIntosh, William (committee member), Saenz, Rogelio (committee member), McDermott, John J (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Global War Against Terror; Emotions; Military; War-crimes
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Romero, R. (2012). The Disconnected Body: An Examination of the U.S Military System and Its Neglect of Expressive Functions. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191996
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Romero, Rachel. “The Disconnected Body: An Examination of the U.S Military System and Its Neglect of Expressive Functions.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191996.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Romero, Rachel. “The Disconnected Body: An Examination of the U.S Military System and Its Neglect of Expressive Functions.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Romero R. The Disconnected Body: An Examination of the U.S Military System and Its Neglect of Expressive Functions. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191996.
Council of Science Editors:
Romero R. The Disconnected Body: An Examination of the U.S Military System and Its Neglect of Expressive Functions. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/191996
17.
Liwinski, Thomas.
Questioning the Meaning of Authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.
Degree: MA, Philosophy, 2011, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9814
► The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the meaning of authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. This is done first by situating the…
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▼ The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the meaning of authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. This is done first by situating the meaning of authenticity within the project as a whole, second through an exegesis of key parts of the text, and third, through an evaluation of certain scholarly commentaries. The ultimate aim is to argue against an interpretation of authenticity that carries an overly subjectivistic-individualistic connotation.
The second chapter seeks to provide the necessary context for the meaning of authenticity within the project of Being and Time as a whole. The goal is to make transparent the situation that Heidegger finds himself in when he conceives of the necessity for the concept of authenticity. Towards this end, it is necessary to highlight those commitments to phenomenology and hermeneutics that informs Heidegger's effort.
The third chapter first introduces the various characterizations of authenticity that Heidegger offers in Being and Time and the problematic meaning they suggest. Subsequently, the third chapter aims at creating a context for the meaning of those characterizations through an exegesis of the existentials of every existentiell disclosure of Dasein's being-in-the-world. By examining what it means for Dasein to be in the world in general, the goal is to narrow the scope of what authenticity can and cannot mean.
The fourth chapter surveys certain commentaries on authenticity that argue in favor of a subjectivistic-individualistic emphasis for the meaning of authenticity. The goal is to isolate the key points in Being and Time that are used in support of these interpretations, and subsequently to use the frameworks created in Chapters II and III to articulate why such commentaries are incorrect. Finally, Chapter IV gestures towards the right meaning of those descriptions of authenticity that carry a subjectivistic-individualistic connotation in order to place them in the right context.
The thesis concludes by suggesting that a non subjectivistic-individualistic interpretation fits more holistically with the other social-historical parts of the text, and that a subjectivistic-individualistic interpretation remains within the provenance of the kind of metaphysics that Heidegger wishes to distance himself from.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Conway, Daniel (committee member), Jamal, Tazim (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Heidegger; authenticity; subjectivism; being-toward-death
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Liwinski, T. (2011). Questioning the Meaning of Authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9814
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Liwinski, Thomas. “Questioning the Meaning of Authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9814.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Liwinski, Thomas. “Questioning the Meaning of Authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Liwinski T. Questioning the Meaning of Authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9814.
Council of Science Editors:
Liwinski T. Questioning the Meaning of Authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9814
18.
Park, Philip Yong-Hyun.
The absurd and the comic.
Degree: MA, Philosophy, 2008, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85956
► In my thesis, I propose a theory that posits a connection between our absurd existential situation and our comic tendencies. I work within a framework…
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▼ In my thesis, I propose a theory that posits a connection between our absurd
existential situation and our comic tendencies. I work within a framework of
existentialist assumptions, the most important of which being the assumption that, as
Sartre writes, "man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself." Consequently, I
focus on the process of how human beings use humor to form themselves by using it to
form their conception of reality. What I propose in my thesis is not an explanation of
humor as much as it is an existential interpretation of its source and function.
I begin with an analysis of the absurd. After considering and rejecting the
arguments against the claim that life is not absurd, I argue that the disunity that we
encounter in the world creates a need within us for stability and that one of the main
ways in which we find this stability is through the comic. I use Berger and Luckmann's
analysis of reality construction in my argument that the connections that we form with
others through comical experiences construct and maintain a system of knowledge that
satisfies what Camus calls our "nostalgia for unity," a desire that remains unfulfilled
when we attempt to encounter the absurdity of human experience alone. The conclusion
of my research is that it is through our laughing with others that we reify our expectations of reality. Our laughter at the objects that contradict our normative
understanding of reality confirms that others share the same cognitive and affective
position that we hold in a given situation, thus confirming our expectations of reality to
be valid, a confirmation that protects us against the terror of the absurd.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Clark, W. Bedford (committee member), Austin, Scott (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: absurd; comic
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Park, P. Y. (2008). The absurd and the comic. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85956
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Park, Philip Yong-Hyun. “The absurd and the comic.” 2008. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85956.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Park, Philip Yong-Hyun. “The absurd and the comic.” 2008. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Park PY. The absurd and the comic. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2008. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85956.
Council of Science Editors:
Park PY. The absurd and the comic. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2008. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85956
19.
Lasse, Stephen R.
The 'Noble Lie' and Tensions in Moral Sensibility that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day 'Dogs of War'.
Degree: MA, Philosophy, 2010, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-491
► This inquiry explores the possibility of applying principles from Plato?s education system in the Republic to modern military leadership development programs. Both are concerned with…
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▼ This inquiry explores the possibility of applying principles from Plato?s education
system in the Republic to modern military leadership development programs. Both are
concerned with producing a ?guard-dog? that will serve the interests of the state rather
than exploit vulnerable civilians. Plato proposes educating guardians with a natural
disposition to believe the ?noble lie,? that it is better to serve others than to pursue selfinterest
for personal gain; but, would the proper tension in moral sensibilities prescribed
by the Platonic Grid help or hinder a military leader to successfully act on the
battlefield?
First, I examine Plato?s theory to familiarize military leaders with the education
system from the Republic; including his views on unity, reality, the theory of the forms,
and recollection of knowledge that underlie Plato?s enquiry into the nature of justice, and
lead to the need for inner harmony of the soul through the proper tension of wisdom,
courage, and temperance to rule the three elements of the soul. Then I analyze the key
leaders from the Battle of Balaclava, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the siege of the
Alamo for possible correlations of the application of the Platonic Grid aligned with the ?noble lie? to success on the battlefield. This includes inquiry into the likelihood that
belief in the ?noble lie? can motivate soldiers to make the ultimate sacrifice. I conclude
by examining how Plato?s theories could be assimilated into a military pedagogy to
produce modern day ?dogs of war? that leads to the startling conclusion that adherence
to the ?noble lie? could also be in the self-interest of the guardian who seeks to serve the
best interest of her nation.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Austin, Scott (committee member), Erlandson, David A. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Keyword 1; Platonic Grid; Keyword 2; Noble Lie
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Lasse, S. R. (2010). The 'Noble Lie' and Tensions in Moral Sensibility that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day 'Dogs of War'. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-491
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lasse, Stephen R. “The 'Noble Lie' and Tensions in Moral Sensibility that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day 'Dogs of War'.” 2010. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-491.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lasse, Stephen R. “The 'Noble Lie' and Tensions in Moral Sensibility that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day 'Dogs of War'.” 2010. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lasse SR. The 'Noble Lie' and Tensions in Moral Sensibility that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day 'Dogs of War'. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-491.
Council of Science Editors:
Lasse SR. The 'Noble Lie' and Tensions in Moral Sensibility that Form the Platonic Grid; Making Modern Day 'Dogs of War'. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-491
20.
Haitos, Alexander Nicholas.
Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark".
Degree: MA, English, 2015, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156177
► My theme herein is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (1804-1864) treatment of science in his short stories, primarily “The Artist of the Beautiful” and “The Birthmark.” In particular,…
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▼ My theme herein is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (1804-1864) treatment of science in his short stories, primarily “The Artist of the Beautiful” and “The Birthmark.” In particular, I am interested in the caution he sounds against misusing the power of modern science, a caution that remains valuable for us today, enveloped as we are in its influence. The first part of this project centers on Hawthorne’s diagnosis that the core of artistic and scientific practice involves a quest for perfection and desire to transform nature. The danger that awaits those who attend too exclusively to this quest is that they may become ‘detached individuals,’ to use the phrase of Josiah Royce. The second part of this project is an exploration of the dangers of this perfection-seeking, detached profile within the context of scientific practice, as depicted by Hawthorne in “The Birthmark.” We see here that the detached scientist is not only a menace to himself, but also to others. Georgiana, Aylmer’s wife, is reduced to a mere aspect of her being and led to her death; Aminadab, Aylmer’s lab assistant, is used only as a source of labor.
We learn, then, not only how Hawthorne thought about the relationship between art, science, and human nature, but also of the value of Hawthorne’s diagnoses for contemporary society, for, as scientific and technological advancements become ever more pervasive aspects of contemporary life, the allures of such advances can easily make us lose sight of the human questions, of whether we are actually receiving nourishment from our engagement with new sciences and technologies or are falling prey to a deceptive dream.
Advisors/Committee Members: O'Farrell, Mary Ann (advisor), Howell, Jessica (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Hawthorne; science; art; power; perfection; detached individual; The Birthmark; The Artist of the Beautiful
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Haitos, A. N. (2015). Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark". (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156177
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Haitos, Alexander Nicholas. “Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark".” 2015. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156177.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Haitos, Alexander Nicholas. “Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark".” 2015. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Haitos AN. Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark". [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156177.
Council of Science Editors:
Haitos AN. Pitfalls of Perfection: Rethinking Hawthorne's Treatment of Science and the Danger of Extremes in "The Artist of the Beautiful" and "The Birthmark". [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156177
21.
Shockley, Paul Russell.
How to Bridge the Culture Gap: How John Dewey’s Aesthetics May Benefit the Local Church.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8661
► In my personal experience, I have discovered notable aesthetic problems that face many contemporary evangelical churches. In spite of these churches’ best efforts, they fail…
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▼ In my personal experience, I have discovered notable aesthetic problems that face
many contemporary evangelical churches. In spite of these churches’ best efforts, they
fail to bridge the culture gap and foster a meaningful worship service. But
John Dewey’s
aesthetic philosophy understands the shifting nature of our environment and the value of
aesthetic experience, providing beneficial insights to assist unhealthy churches.
To better understand the applicability of his philosophy, Chapter II is an exposition
of
John Dewey’s aesthetics that revolves around four central questions: What is Dewey’s
starting point for aesthetics? What distinguishes aesthetic experiences from others? What
is his criticism of the “museum conception of art”? What is the significance for Dewey
of our activities having or not having aesthetic quality?
Chapter III is a Deweyan investigation of four real churches: the elite church, which
promotes an aesthetic that is reserved for its members; the broken church, which is
divorced from community; the humdrum church, which is preoccupied with the routine;
and the sensational church, which is characterized by indulgence.
Chapter IV is a description of two recent attempts to bridge the culture gap and offer
meaningful worship activities: the seeker-sensitive movement which contends that the
church must be “culturally inviting” to the community, and the emerging movement(s),
which seeks to dismantle traditional churches using deconstructionism and
reconstructing worship services that are experiential, pluralistic, and sensory.
My Deweyan argument in Chapter V is that both the “seeker-sensitive” and the
“emerging” movements fail to adequately understand the shifting character of our
environment and our relation to it. If problem churches acknowledge that discontinuity
with environment is inevitable, seek to meet the needs of others, embrace adjustment as
a core component, and value aesthetic experience, they will be in a better position to
bridge the culture gap and offer an enriching worship experience in their services.
Three Deweyan lessons are gleaned from this inquiry: value aesthetic experience
and its contribution in bridging the culture gap, implement Deweyan insights drawn
from our examination of traditional churches, and contribute to society by generating artproducts
that will benefit the community.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pappas, Gregory F. (advisor), Austin, Scott W. (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member), Welch, Ben D. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: John Dewey; Art as Experience; Aesthetic Experience; American Philosophy; Culture Gap; Problem Churches; Spirituality; Aesthetics; Philosophy; Evangelicalism; Church Practice
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Shockley, P. R. (2012). How to Bridge the Culture Gap: How John Dewey’s Aesthetics May Benefit the Local Church. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8661
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Shockley, Paul Russell. “How to Bridge the Culture Gap: How John Dewey’s Aesthetics May Benefit the Local Church.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8661.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Shockley, Paul Russell. “How to Bridge the Culture Gap: How John Dewey’s Aesthetics May Benefit the Local Church.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Shockley PR. How to Bridge the Culture Gap: How John Dewey’s Aesthetics May Benefit the Local Church. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8661.
Council of Science Editors:
Shockley PR. How to Bridge the Culture Gap: How John Dewey’s Aesthetics May Benefit the Local Church. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-12-8661
22.
White, Lowell Mick.
The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University.
Degree: PhD, English, 2012, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8313
► The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University consists of three interlocking novellas dealing with themes of change and dislocation in contemporary Texas, focused…
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▼ The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American
University consists of three
interlocking novellas dealing with themes of change and dislocation in contemporary
Texas, focused on the institution of the modern
university, an institution that itself is
undergoing rapid and irreversible change.
Crucial to the dissertation is a thorough understanding and demonstrated proficiency
of the genre of the novella. The creative text will illustrate how the novella can be used to
achieve narrative depth and insight into the changing social context of the contemporary
individual; the critical introduction will discuss the history of the genre and its emergence
in recent years as a powerful vehicle for the depiction of change.
The overall subject of the creative text is change, and the ways in which individuals
react to change—changes to the institutions to which they devote their lives, and changes
in the localities and regions they inhabit. The immediate setting for the novellas is the
contemporary
university, an institution currently undergoing transformations which will
have implications for all of American society.
Advisors/Committee Members: Christensen, Paul N. (advisor), Loving, Jerome (committee member), Heinemann, Larry (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: fiction; novella; Texas; academic fiction
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White, L. M. (2012). The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8313
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
White, Lowell Mick. “The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8313.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
White, Lowell Mick. “The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University.” 2012. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
White LM. The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8313.
Council of Science Editors:
White LM. The Last Educations: Genre, Place, and the American University. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8313
23.
Leckey, Brittany White.
Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2017, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161471
► This dissertation seeks to provide a novel understanding of the ontological structure of the filmic image. To do this, it first evaluates three ontological perspectives…
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▼ This dissertation seeks to provide a novel understanding of the ontological structure of the filmic image. To do this, it first evaluates three ontological perspectives of the artistic image: the Platonic transcendental ideal, the Heideggerian historical and contextual provenance, and the challenge Walter Benjamin makes against these two grand traditions of aesthetics in his considerations of film. Ultimately, I argue that the filmic image does not promote or participate in any transcendental ideal, nor does it remain tired to the historical or cultural ground of its creation. With and beyond Benjamin, I argue that the radically untethered nature of the filmic image requires us to turn away from traditional notions of aesthetics that claim that an artistic image is an imitation of an idea, that is, a secondary result of a previously conceived idea, historical situation, or socioeconomic situation. Instead, I argue that the filmic image is a second with only an accidental first – by this, I mean that it is a work that need not adhere to the prior condition(s) that contributed to its creation, whether we describe that in terms of the transcendental ideals of Plato, the historical provenance of Martin Heidegger, or the material conditions of late industrial capitalism as described by Walter Benjamin. As such, the filmic image requires our deep aesthetic, social, and political consideration of it in order to ascribe for it meaning not just once, but in as many different ways as we authentically can.
I thus offer what I term an authentic existential comportment towards the filmic image. This approach, I argue, is successful because it (a) includes both past and future interpretations of the filmic image not as potential impediments to a fuller interpretation, but as necessary components of it and (b) recognizes that the task of interpretation when facing an aesthetic artifact such as the filmic image is never complete, and will always require further interpretation, further valuation, and further consideration. I then illustrate this approach by performing analyses of three films: F. W. Murnau’s Der letzte Mann (1924), Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010), and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980).
Advisors/Committee Members: George, Theodore D (advisor), McDermott, John J (committee member), Sweet, Kristi (committee member), Hoagwood, Terence (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: philosophy of art; philosophy of film; phenomenology and existentialism
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Leckey, B. W. (2017). Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161471
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Leckey, Brittany White. “Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161471.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Leckey, Brittany White. “Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image.” 2017. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Leckey BW. Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161471.
Council of Science Editors:
Leckey BW. Irritatingly Incomplete: The Ontologically Reconsidered Filmic Image. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/161471
24.
Smith, Philip Matthew.
Persistent borderland: freedom and citizenship in territorial Florida.
Degree: PhD, History, 2009, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1532
► Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result of over two hundred and fifty years of cooperation and contention among Indians, Spain, Britain, the United States and…
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▼ Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result of over two hundred and fifty years of cooperation and contention among Indians, Spain, Britain, the United States and Africans who lived with them all. The borderland was shaped by the differing cultural definitions of color and how color affected laws about manumission, miscegenation, legitimacy, citizenship or degrees of rights for free people of color and to some extent for slaves themselves. The borderland did not vanish after the United States acquired Florida. It persisted in three ways. First, in advocacy for the former Spanish system by some white patriarchs who fathered mixed race families. Free blacks and people of color also had an interest in maintaining their property and liberties. Second, Indians in Florida and escaped slaves who allied with them well knew how whites treated non-whites, and they fiercely resisted white authority. Third, the United States reacted to both of these in the context of fear that further slave revolutions in the Caribbean, colluding with the Indian-African alliance in Florida, might destabilize slavery in the United States. In the new Florida Territory, Spanish era practices based on a less severe construction of race were soon quashed, but not without the articulate objections of a cadre of whites. Led by Zephaniah Kingsley, their arguments challenged the strict biracial system of the United States. This was a component of the persistent borderland, but their arguments were, in the end, also in the service of slavery and white patriarchy. The persistent border included this ongoing resistance to strict biracialism, but it was even more distinct because of the Indian-African resistance to the United States that was not in the service of slavery. To defend slavery and whiteness, the United States sent thousands of its military, millions of its treasure, and spent years to subdue the Indian-African alliance and to make Florida and its long shorelines a barrier to protect whiteness and patriarchy in the Deep South.
Advisors/Committee Members: Buenger, Walter L. (advisor), Bouton, Cynthia A. (committee member), Hatfield, April L. (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: borderlands; slavery; Florida; Seminole; Caribbean; Spanish; miscegenation
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Smith, P. M. (2009). Persistent borderland: freedom and citizenship in territorial Florida. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1532
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Smith, Philip Matthew. “Persistent borderland: freedom and citizenship in territorial Florida.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1532.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Smith, Philip Matthew. “Persistent borderland: freedom and citizenship in territorial Florida.” 2009. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Smith PM. Persistent borderland: freedom and citizenship in territorial Florida. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1532.
Council of Science Editors:
Smith PM. Persistent borderland: freedom and citizenship in territorial Florida. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1532
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Illich, Lindsay P.
The Rhetoric Of Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Writing Memoirs.
Degree: PhD, English, 2010, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2008-12-200
► This dissertation analyzes concepts of the writing self in works about writing by professional creative writers (writers, poets, and essayists). Through a rhetorical analysis of…
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▼ This dissertation analyzes concepts of the writing self in works about writing by
professional creative writers (writers, poets, and essayists). Through a rhetorical
analysis of these texts, I observe that writers view the writing self as a complex structure that is fully conscious as a rhetorical agent, an embodied self that interacts with the world and actively chooses linguistic representations of that experience, and maintains a concept of self that is subject to influences which the writers do not fully understand (such as inspiration and insight). The discourse used by writers to describe their writing processes challenges recent critiques of expressionism and the model of social construction that pervades contemporary composition scholarship. Chapter II examines Virginia Woolf's use of the central metaphor for invention in A Room of One's Own, a river, which sharply calls into question a unified view of the self which is central to critiques of expressivism by composition scholars. Woolf's concept of invention requires a negation of the self and harmony with nature (widely conceived
as the entire world, including texts). Chapter III, an analysis of two writing memoirs by contemporary professional creative writers, Annie Dillard's The Writing Life and Donald
Hall's Life Work, finds that Dillard and Hall use metaphors that establish freedom (rhetorical agency) and bodily presence as primary characteristics of their writing
processes. Chapter IV, an analysis of two collections of essays about writing by
professional creative writers, argues that the writers' use of metaphors of inspiration and
instrumental metaphors creates a concept of the writing self that maintains a sense of
writerly control (rhetorical agency) alternating with a sense of a diminished control; ultimately, the two concepts coexist in the minds of the writers. Chapter V proposes that the rhetorical situation of the contemporary composition classroom affects students' creativity adversely. The chapter also suggests further analyses of writing memoirs can provide new ways of understanding writing processes (as opposed to one writing process model) and therefore contribute substantially to composition scholarship and pedagogy.
Advisors/Committee Members: Killingsworth, M. Jimmie (advisor), Swearingen, C. Jan (committee member), Eide, Marian (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: composition; writing; metaphor; memoir; expressivism; Woolf; Dillard; Hall; pedagogy
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Illich, L. P. (2010). The Rhetoric Of Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Writing Memoirs. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2008-12-200
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Illich, Lindsay P. “The Rhetoric Of Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Writing Memoirs.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2008-12-200.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Illich, Lindsay P. “The Rhetoric Of Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Writing Memoirs.” 2010. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Illich LP. The Rhetoric Of Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Writing Memoirs. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2008-12-200.
Council of Science Editors:
Illich LP. The Rhetoric Of Writing: A Rhetorical Analysis of Modern Writing Memoirs. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2008-12-200
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Bowers, Abigail Leigh.
"As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature.
Degree: PhD, English, 2011, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7309
► The years following World War II symbolized a new beginning for the United States. While at the height of global power, Americans founds that they…
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▼ The years following World War II symbolized a new beginning for the United
States. While at the height of global power, Americans founds that they were able to
experience a leisurely existence where items, desired instead of necessary, could be
purchased by almost anyone. This increased prosperity, however, also caused a rise in
the number of addicts that included not only the hard-core drug users, but "junkies" who
were addicted to filling the emptiness within through the use of illegal drugs to
television to sex in order to do so. This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the
rise of addicts following World War II, using the literature of addiction in order to
elucidate the reasoning behind this surge.
Contemporary American authors formed a new genre of writing, "junkie
literature," which chronicles the rise of addiction and juxtaposes questions of identity
and the use of "junk." Burroughs's Junky and Trocchi's Cain's Book are among the first
to represent the shift in the postwar years between earlier narratives of addiction and the
rise of junkie literature through an erasure of previously held beliefs that addiction was
the result of a moral vice rather than a disease. Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, Ann Marlowe's How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z, and Linda Yablonsky's The
Story of Junk continue this trend of semi-autobiographical writing in an effort to show
the junkie's identity in society, as well as the way addiction mirrors capitalism and
consumerism as a whole. Finally, Hubert Selby's Requiem for a Dream, Bret Easton
Ellis's Less than Zero, and
John Updike's Rabbit at Rest explore a different kind of junk
addiction, focusing on the use of television, diet pills, sex, cocaine, and food to fill an
ineffable void inside that the characters of the novels find themselves unable to
articulate. Using Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection, as well as various socio-historical
critics, this dissertation investigates the rise of addiction narratives in the postwar years,
linking the questions of identity to consumerism in contemporary American culture.
Advisors/Committee Members: Robinson, Sally (advisor), O'Farrell, Mary Ann (committee member), Taylor, Chuck (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Addiction; postwar; identity; Burroughs
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Bowers, A. L. (2011). "As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7309
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bowers, Abigail Leigh. “"As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7309.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bowers, Abigail Leigh. “"As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bowers AL. "As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7309.
Council of Science Editors:
Bowers AL. "As Un-American as Rabies": Addiction and Identity in American Postwar Junkie Literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7309
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De Berg, Oak Herbert.
War as Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Carl von Clausewitz as the Embodiment of John Dewey's Concept of Experience.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2011, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9773
► This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise,…
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▼ This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of
John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise, the coherency of Carl von Clausewitz’s philosophy parallels Dewey as it too leads to complete development, or flourishing, of the individual in a complex, ever-changing world. Von Clausewitz’s sets his philosophy in the context of war, but his philosophy transcends that milieu. The timelessness of the General’s philosophical concepts guarantees the appropriateness of these concepts in today’s inconstant world. To exemplify this point, this paper applied von Clausewitz’s concepts to the range of contemporary wars in which the demands on modern warriors are often perceived as qualitatively different from demands placed on individuals in the armies of the early 1800s. This perception is shown to lack credibility and, even though the methods and technologies of war are in continuous flux while the basic nature of war remains unchanged, the germane nature of the General’s philosophy to contemporary times remains unsullied and follows logically. Rather than simply asserting that the concepts of these two philosophers are apropos in the contemporary context of war, this dissertation concludes by contending that modern military thinkers employ the Clausewitzian philosophy, as synthesized by
John Boyd, as a basis for fighting in today’s contemporary environment. As an exemplar, the current doctrine of the United States Marine Corps is offered as a template of the philosophy of von Clausewitz and, by extension, Dewey. Modern war, once established as an archetype of the Deweyan philosophy, can be claimed as the primary illustration of the aesthetic.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Pappas, Gregory F. (committee member), Sweet, Kristi (committee member), Erlandson, David (committee member), Van Alstyne, John (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: War; Aesthetics; Philosophy; Military; Genius; Experience; Art
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De Berg, O. H. (2011). War as Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Carl von Clausewitz as the Embodiment of John Dewey's Concept of Experience. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9773
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
De Berg, Oak Herbert. “War as Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Carl von Clausewitz as the Embodiment of John Dewey's Concept of Experience.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9773.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
De Berg, Oak Herbert. “War as Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Carl von Clausewitz as the Embodiment of John Dewey's Concept of Experience.” 2011. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
De Berg OH. War as Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Carl von Clausewitz as the Embodiment of John Dewey's Concept of Experience. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9773.
Council of Science Editors:
De Berg OH. War as Aesthetic: The Philosophy of Carl von Clausewitz as the Embodiment of John Dewey's Concept of Experience. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9773
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Dunnington, Kent J.
Addiction and action: Aristotle and Aquinas in dialogue with addiction studies.
Degree: PhD, Philosophy, 2009, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1593
► The phenomenon of addiction has been a subject of investigation for a number of academic disciplines, but little has been written about addiction from a…
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▼ The phenomenon of addiction has been a subject of investigation for a number of
academic disciplines, but little has been written about addiction from a philosophical
perspective. This dissertation inserts philosophy into the conversations taking place
within the multi-disciplinary field of “Addiction Studies.” It contends that the
philosophical accounts of human action given by Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas
provide means for an analysis of many of the conceptual confusions in the field of
Addiction Studies, including those surrounding the concepts of choice, compulsion, and
habit. It argues that the category of habit in these two thinkers is richer and more
complex than contemporary conceptions of habit and that the category of habit in its
Aristotelian and Thomistic guises is indispensable for charting an intelligible path
between the muddled polarities that construe addiction as either a disease or a type of
willful misconduct. Furthermore, it suggests that recognizing the distance between
Aristotle’s social context and the modern social context affords powerful insight into the
character of modern addiction, and that an exploration of the parallels between the habit
of addiction and Aquinas’s development of the habit of charity offers suggestive inroads
for thinking about addiction as a moral strategy for integrated and purposive action.
Advisors/Committee Members: McDermott, John J. (advisor), Austin, Scott (committee member), Erlandson, David (committee member), George, Theodore (committee member), Hauerwas, Stanley (committee member), Huetter, Reinhard (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Addiction; Habit; Aristotle; Aquinas
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Dunnington, K. J. (2009). Addiction and action: Aristotle and Aquinas in dialogue with addiction studies. (Doctoral Dissertation). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1593
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Dunnington, Kent J. “Addiction and action: Aristotle and Aquinas in dialogue with addiction studies.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1593.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Dunnington, Kent J. “Addiction and action: Aristotle and Aquinas in dialogue with addiction studies.” 2009. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Dunnington KJ. Addiction and action: Aristotle and Aquinas in dialogue with addiction studies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1593.
Council of Science Editors:
Dunnington KJ. Addiction and action: Aristotle and Aquinas in dialogue with addiction studies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Texas A&M University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1593
Texas A&M University
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Chouinard, James B.
Postmodernity as Thanatos: the Relationship Between Illusion and Needs.
Degree: MS, Sociology, 2010, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-732
► Zygmunt Bauman and other postmodernists have argued that postmodernity is characterized by the disintegration of the legitimacy and authority of what has been referred to…
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▼ Zygmunt Bauman and other postmodernists have argued that postmodernity is characterized by the disintegration of the legitimacy and authority of what has been referred to as grand narratives or "illusions." These theorists often highlight the manipulative and obfuscating effects of illusion. As such, scholars like Bauman contend that postmodernity sets the stage for sincere, moral responsibility. However, they fail to acknowledge that these illusions provide a cultural and social function through their satisfaction of human needs. Failing to fully acknowledge the importance of this function and human needs in general leads many postmodern theorists to be unable to adequately theorize about the contemporary epoch.
In addition to the weakening authority of grand illusions, the advent of technologically advanced society coincided with the process of desublimation (a process by which instant gratification occurs). Desublimation worked to undermine what Sigmund Freud has referred to as the life instincts by promulgating false needs (i.e., wants or desires perceived as needs). As such, contemporary society may be depicted as constituting anomic, atomistic individuals seeking self-preservation. This process may be delineated as the death instincts, or Thanatos, as coming to triumph over the life instincts, Eros. A Thanatos society has significant implications for moral responsibility. The diminution of sincere emotional integration facilitates the unbridled spread of postemotionalism into more and more spheres of social life. As postemotional scripts become the prevailing moral guidelines, Thanatos manifests itself as a compulsion to repeat destructive behavior at the societal and individual level. Society and its members struggle in their attempts to choose the "right" course of action. Confusion and fear become affixed features of personal and social life and morality becomes an arbitrary endeavor.
Advisors/Committee Members: Mestrovic, Stjepan (advisor), McIntosh, Alex (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Postmodernity; Bauman; Illusion; Needs; Eros; Thanatos
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Chouinard, J. B. (2010). Postmodernity as Thanatos: the Relationship Between Illusion and Needs. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-732
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chouinard, James B. “Postmodernity as Thanatos: the Relationship Between Illusion and Needs.” 2010. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-732.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chouinard, James B. “Postmodernity as Thanatos: the Relationship Between Illusion and Needs.” 2010. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Chouinard JB. Postmodernity as Thanatos: the Relationship Between Illusion and Needs. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-732.
Council of Science Editors:
Chouinard JB. Postmodernity as Thanatos: the Relationship Between Illusion and Needs. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-732
Texas A&M University
30.
Samaha, Marylouise.
Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''.
Degree: MA, English, 2009, Texas A&M University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1020
► Robert Penn Warren has a facility for transforming region and history into fiction and poetry. His novel Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964) and…
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▼ Robert Penn Warren has a facility for transforming region and history into fiction
and poetry. His novel Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964) and his poem sequence
“Internal Injuries” (1968) stand out insofar as they share a leitmotif; that is, he uses
images of imprisonment to represent the loss of free and responsible selfhood under a
technocratic dispensation. He is the quintessential loneliness artist, as can be heard
through the voices of his characters.
His literary criticism is a testament to his concerns about how one comes to
reconcile oneself to place. His theory of literature provides us a unique window on
what it means to discover oneself in the tumult of a rapidly changing landscape. The use
and misuse of technology to augment one’s relationship to place and self is my
overriding concern. In Fiddlersburg, the town in Flood, melodrama hangs in the air like
rotting perfume. All that will remain once the town is flooded is the penitentiary.
In “Internal Injuries,” Warren’s poem-within-a-poem sequence about the loss of
self within the modern city, Warren invokes the penitentiary to represent and speak for
the loss of self and the feeling of lonesomeness. Flood speaks to “Internal Injuries” in the sense that Warren oscillates between the discovery of self in Flood to the loss of self
in “Internal Injuries.”
I give my observation of how Warren’s critical work forms a dialogue with his
creative work, offering insight as to how the oldest maximum-security penitentiary in
Kentucky speaks to the lost and found selves of Warren’s world. Finally, I deal with the
problem of modernity and Warren’s perennial concern about the alienation of the self
and how he wrestles with it from a deeply personal and experiential perspective. The
reader will find that Warren’s critical and creative works form a kind of inside passage.
Advisors/Committee Members: Clark, William Bedford (advisor), Loving, Jerome M. (committee member), McDermott, John J. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Warren; Criticism; Poetry; Fiction
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Samaha, M. (2009). Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''. (Masters Thesis). Texas A&M University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1020
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Samaha, Marylouise. “Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''.” 2009. Masters Thesis, Texas A&M University. Accessed March 01, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1020.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Samaha, Marylouise. “Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''.” 2009. Web. 01 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Samaha M. Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1020.
Council of Science Editors:
Samaha M. Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''. [Masters Thesis]. Texas A&M University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1020
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