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Siddhartha's Smile: Schopenhauer, Hesse, Nietzsche, Benjamin Dillon Schluter

Senior Projects Fall 2015

In this project, I argue that Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha can be read as an attempted reconciliation the antithetical worldviews of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. The first two chapters show that the figures of Gotama and Siddhartha represent Schopenhauerian and Nietzschean worldviews, respectively. The third chapter analyzes the smile as a symbol used to reconcile Siddhartha and Gotama. In the fourth and final chapter, I investigate Hesse’s development of symbol of the smile in relation to his engagement with Chinese philosophy, specifically Taoism, a tradition of thought based on the ultimate reconciliation of apparent opposites.

The Government Facilitation Of North Korea's Human Rights Abuses Eclipsed By The Threat Of Nuclear War, Kim Kathryn Angstro Doom

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

A Problem Of Biography: A Study Of Simón Bolívar In Historical Record, Austin Crittenden

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

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IV. Primary Documents and Headnotes………..34

Literature And The Remnants Of Feudal Ideology In The Meiji Period: An Analysis Of Ogai, Ichiyo, And Soseki, Zhen Yuan Yao

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Mind, The Brain, And The Self: The Limits Of Sense And Nonsense In Neurology And Psychology, Max Boris Baird

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

India And Its Northeast Exception: From Frontier To Forefront, Akshita Manjari Bhanjdeo

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Sour Milk: Women And The Hindu Nationalist Movement In India, Saumya Dadoo

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Plain Sight, Paloma Rebecca Dooley

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Plain Sight is my attempt to mine the detail of the landscape around me in search of hidden magic. When I photograph I often find myself in awe of these places that seem at once wholly ordinary and wholly exceptional. They fill me with wonder; they make me glad that they exist, as if ready to be found and wanting to be seen. I am attracted to their beauty and their oddness. Each place seems to be so rich with detail that it is a whole world unto itself, a microcosm to be magnified. I want each viewer to be …

The Versatility Of The Cello: From Bach To Barber, Nicholas John Wetherell

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Romanus Sum Ergo Sum: Claims To Romanitas From Late Antiquity To The Dawn Of Humanism, Alexander Amir D'Alisera

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies and The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Ways Of Light: An Analysis Of The Motif Of Light In Thomas Brussig`S Wie Es Leuchtet, Noemi Sallai

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

"I" Am History: The Individual As A Historian, Samyukta Srinath Dore

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Iranian Islands?: Bahrain, Abu Masa, And The Tunbs In The Persian Gulf, Lucy Flamm

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Philip Roth/Nathan Zuckerman/Philip Roth Written/Written/Unwritten, Grayson Gibbs

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

How To Map A Desert, Ariana Perez-Castells

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Immersion, Nelson James Doak

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Nelson Doak

Immersion

When I surf I feel an equilibrium, rhythm, a wholeness, synchronicity of myself deeply immersed in a process. Surfing is a complete satisfaction with the moment. This fullness or sensation fills a void that I always carry. I can't say exactly what that void is, but it is comprised of: The weight against moving forward, general dissatisfaction, and a stagnancy that comes from a lack of order or discipline.

My project involves finding the equilibrium or rhythm found in surfing through a creative process. One example is throwing a pot on the wheel which is a momentary …

Us: My Thoughts On Everything So Far, Samuel James Buffett-Haygood

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Growing up in two different households meant living two different lives for 18 years. Constantly changing environments led me to seek stability in other aspects of my life. I never knew how to feel about the whole situation; there were times of happiness but many times that I did not think I could manage. Art has always been my way of expressing the feelings that I did not necessarily know how to vocalize or explain. Rather than letting my emotions wreak havoc on my life, I got into the habit of translating these synnical comments that I had on society …

The Lens Of Language, Eli Ridley Segal

Senior Projects Fall 2015

This project seeks to contextualize the iconic philosophical questions regarding skepticism, object existence, perception, and emotion, within the discourse of ordinary language philosophy. Aided by Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell, I argue for the non existence of objects-in-themselves. This provides the scaffolding for an examination of perception and emotion unhindered by a reliance on, or appeal to, the so-called 'objective world.' Recognizing the influence exerted by language over our conscious experience, I argue for an ordinary-language formulation of embodied cognition. With this in mind, I demonstrate the philosophical implications of such a picture through the canonical problem of 'other minds.' Ultimately …

The World Through Your Eyes: An Analysis Of Spike Jonze's Her, Thatcher Kupple Snyder

Senior Projects Fall 2015

The skeptical concerns of Spike Jonze's Her mirror those of Stanley Cavell's, representing a cinematic adaptation of his therapeutic analysis of philosophical skepticism. Her addresses the loneliness of the skeptic, and demonstrates a way by which one can pacify, or better understand, the skeptical impulse.

Something Rotten In The State Of New Jersey: The Tragedy Of The Sopranos, Georgia Grace Frances Graham

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Masks Of Heidegger: National Socialism And Anti-Semitism, Julia Lauren Haerr

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The Sympathetic Oppressor, Irena Jaffe Goldstein

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

An Ancient City For The Future: Reconstructing Physical And Intellectual Narratives In Beirut In The 1990s, Theo Noonan Lowrey

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Habituated, Jade Valentina Boccia

Senior Projects Fall 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Midnight Cowboy Rides Again, Ilana R. Dodelson

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts at Bard College.

A Contested Future: Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Native American Performers, And The Military's Struggle For Control Over Indian Affairs 1868-1898, Alexander Erez Echelman

Senior Projects Spring 2015

My project explores how and why William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody glorified the military's wars against Native Americans on the Great Plains through his career as a showman in the United States and in Europe. The military's and the Interior Department's competition for control over Indian Affairs allowed Buffalo Bill to support the army's image by adhering to popular white supremacist ideas in the nation. I look at how Buffalo Bill used his Native American performers to exemplify the military's peace keeping skills in the West while devaluing the Interior Department's authority in Indian Affairs.

Silence, Speech, And Solidarity In Contemporary Asian American Literature, Amanda Gersten

Senior Projects Spring 2015

This project seeks to overturn popular misconceptions about Asian American literature by situating it in a political context while also attending to complexities of language and form. Chapter One explores the significance of silence in the work of Toshio Mori, whose Yokohama, California (1949) was the first book of short stories published by a Japanese American in the United States, ultimately finding that Mori’s work resists the notion of silence as indicative of “model minority” assimilation. Chapter Two uses Fredric Jameson's problematic theory of Third World “national allegory” as a compelling framework through which to criticize ongoing concerns about the …

Walls Have Ears But They Also Speak –A Comparative Study Of Two Playgrounds, Anna Hirson-Sagalyn

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

To Each Brick Woman, Ruby Podmore Jackson

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

This body of work represents both a newfound interest in “uncovering” my family’s history as it relates to my own, and in exploring how the physicality and materiality of ceramics can establish relationships between one’s body and physical forms. This collection of work is an attempt at bridging the gap between my “presence” and the past through the associations I make with color, form, material, process and scale.

These pieces are intended to reference the human form through their gestures, stances, their displacement of space (the way bodies do), …

Area Maior: The Functions Of Venus In Ovid's Fasti Iv, Luke Wilder Johnson

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.