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Intellectual Origins Of The French New Left: Sartre, Lefebvre, Castoriadis, Arthur Eli Hirsh

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study is a critical appraisal of the intellectual origins of French New Left social theory, as it emerged from the leftist critiques of traditional Marxism carried out by such thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Lefebvre, and Cornelius Castoriadis in the period 1945 to 1968. Sartre’s existentialist critique revolved around what he considered to be the lack of a Marxist theory of subjectivity. Lefebvre’s revisionist critique questioned the validity of the traditional Marxist view of advanced industrial society. Castoriadis’ gauchiste critique denied Marxism revolutionary status, claiming it had been transformed into a bureaucratic ideology.

The study begins with a survey …

Meta-Naturalism In Selected Twentieth Century American Novels, Johanna Wojewski Higgins

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

A twentieth century literary naturalism does exist, but critics must confront the problem of an “impure” naturalism which does not lend itself to neat theories and formulas. The intent of this dissertation is to examine the permutations of literary naturalism in selected twentieth century American novels; the term “meta-naturalism” has been chosen to denote the various aesthetic and philosophical complexities arising from a literary naturalism which goes beyond recognizable nineteenth century conventions and increasingly confronts the problematical and the irrational.

This study discusses three forms of meta-naturalism in the modern American novel: mythic and archetypal; existential and absurd; humanistic. The …

From Empire To Dependence: The Evolution Of Turkish Underdevelopment, Doğu Ergil

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Both Turkish and western explanations of the decline and demise of the Turkish (Ottoman) Empire, and later, of the inability of Republican Turkey to become a developed polity have generally been of a superficial nature. To Western scholars, the Turks lacked the necessary qualities to become a civilized (Western) nation due partly to their “barbaric” past and partly to the incompatibility of Islamic culture with Western ideas and institutions. The Turkish thinkers on the other hand emphasized other explanations at different historical periods: the Ottoman scholars believed that the moral strength of the nation had loosened up and corrupt practices …

Thunder Without Lightning : Working Class Discontent In The United States, 1929-1937, Robert S. Mcelvaine

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

In nature, thunder cannot exist without lightning. In the political realm, however, the two are separable. Rumblings of discontent can, and often do, occur without the firebolt of revolution.

The depression of the 1930s was a decade of thunder on the left in the United States. The working class became increasingly conscious of itself and discontented with the existing socio-economic system. The peals were always there, and they often reached crescendos. Yet the full force of the tempest never broke upon America in the thirties. The pages that follow explore the thundering and seek to explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt …

Factor Substitution And Complementarity In Greek Manufacturing, 1961-70, Kimon John Constas

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

...It is the purpose of this thesis to proffer two alternative hypotheses about the behavior of the ratio of salaried employees to wage—earners and to use these to explain the changing relationships of salaried to non-salaried workers in Greek manufacturing.

The first proposition states that changes in the ratio are due to changes in relative factor prices. More precisely, if the wage rate rises faster than the salary rate, substitution of salaried labor for non-salaried will lead to differential shifts in labor demands, and, therefore, the ratio will rise.

The second hypothesis states that, because of capital influx to Greece …

Potential Output And Sources Of Economic Growth In The Indian Economy, 1950-51 To 1964-65, N. R. Murthy

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The study of potential output and the sources of economic growth has become in the last fifteen years an important part of economic literature. Most of the studies on potential output and the sources of economic growth have been carried out mainly for the United States, some Western European countries and Canada. There is a small number of such studies on the less developed economies. In fact, there are no studies on potential output and sources of economic growth in the Indian economy. The present study is an attempt to fill in this gap.

This chapter attempts to present an …

Esthetics Of Dedalus And Bloom: Nineteenth Century Roots, Structural Metaphors, And Resolutions, Marguerite Harkness

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in Portrait, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through Ulysses the evolution of the esthetic and its counter-traditions in the esthetics represented …

Agricultural Policy-Making In The Eisenhower Administration, David Miller Tiffany

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation traces agricultural policy—making during the Eisenhower Administration. Four specific goals are involved. First, by providing a general review of the Eisenhower farm programs, this work continues the efforts of many scholars to provide a collection of monographs tracing American agricultural policy. Since several of the programs put into operation during the Eisenhower Administration differed substantially from those of previous years, a somewhat detailed examination of these new programs is justified. Second, this study investigates the procedures followed by the Eisenhower Administration in developing its farm policy: these reveal a good deal about the operations of the Administration, as …

The Final Man; The Poetry Of Theodore Roethke, Floyd Charles Stuart

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

The intent of this dissertation is to delineate how Roethke'e use of the Eden motif informs his poetry and shapes his particular world outlook. I will illustrate how Roethke's growing conviction that time points to eternity leads him to insist on the value of intuitive modes of knowing. He slowly adopts an Edenic imagery that operates both explicitly and implicitly. Although the conflicts in his poetry are never without their contradictions, although one finds few "solutions," one can see developing in various concrete speakers a dichotomy between man as he is --“fallen man” -- and man as he should be …