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In Between Realms: The Search For Feminine Selfhood In The Essais Of Montaigne, Anna Suarez
In Between Realms: The Search For Feminine Selfhood In The Essais Of Montaigne, Anna Suarez
Comparative Woman
My purpose is to explore factors of the Renaissance that determined women’s selfhood in Montaigne’s Essais. I argue that the shift into modernity is responsible for the loss of women’s autonomy as well as the anxiety experienced by men regarding their power as well as their potential. Montaigne and Renaissance discourse defines women only by their bodies (sexual organs) and I explore the elements that established biological essentialism. This paper exemplifies comparative literature in the sense that it combines literature, theory, and art for the purpose of creating a well-researched examination of the root causes for why women were …
Inventing An Ethics: Existentialism And Engagement Through Literature, Michael Foster Wickham
Inventing An Ethics: Existentialism And Engagement Through Literature, Michael Foster Wickham
LSU Master's Theses
The existentialist ethics of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir offers a unique perspective that challenges a traditional, normative picture that has been dominant throughout the history of ethical thinking and continues to dominate in contemporary discourse. The perspective in question refuses to rely on essence to ground its positions, opting instead to focus on the contingency of the subject and the interpersonal as being fundamental in the invention of moral values and ethical practices. This thesis looks to – in the first chapter – explore the relationship between the subjective and the interpersonal through a discussion of Heidegger’s Mitsein …
The Genealogy Of Mass Surveillance: Foucault, Diagrams, And The U.S. Intelligence Community (1945-2001), David Williams
The Genealogy Of Mass Surveillance: Foucault, Diagrams, And The U.S. Intelligence Community (1945-2001), David Williams
Honors Theses
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Emmanuel Levinas And The Meaning Of Ecological Responsibility, Joe Matthew Larios
Emmanuel Levinas And The Meaning Of Ecological Responsibility, Joe Matthew Larios
LSU Master's Theses
Recent work in eco-phenomenology has often tried to find a way to situate Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy in a way that would be productive for environmental ethical concerns. This has often proved difficult due to the anthropocentrism of Levinas’s philosophy and the sometimes inconsistent interpretations of what the face of the Other signifies and whether it should be understood as perceptually present to the one who “sees” it in any way. This, combined with a general lack of engagement with Levinas’s writings on politics, has often made an ecological interpretation of Levinas difficult or awkward.
In this thesis, I try …