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Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene
Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Selfish, Jacopo Mavica
Selfish, Jacopo Mavica
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Balancing On The Edges: The Phenomenological Children Of Children's Literature, Zoe Stone
Balancing On The Edges: The Phenomenological Children Of Children's Literature, Zoe Stone
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature and The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Auf Die Schiffe!, Koben Morgenthaler
Auf Die Schiffe!, Koben Morgenthaler
Senior Projects Fall 2023
I argue that metaphors of water and fluidity are essential to both the content and form of Nietzsche’s work. In regards to the content, many important ideas such as a healthy response to the death of God and a philosophy of the future are, at their core, characterized by embracing fluidity. As for the form, just as Zarathustra tells us his teachings have become a river, Nietzsche’s work uses metaphor, aphorism, and poetic language to embody the qualities of dancing water. Consequently, it defies rigid interpretations that would turn it into a system and avoids falling prey to its own …
How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze
How Aesthetics Shape Our Ethics: Exploring Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, And Digital World, Nika Kokhodze
Senior Projects Fall 2022
Every day, we encounter numerous amount of images, films, news and propaganda. The different forms and manifestations of aesthetics haunts our lives daily. What if I told you that Aesthetics has immense amount of power? This project aims specifically at that as it explores authoritarian states and the liberal democracies alike. How could the moral compass that we all cherish and hold dearly be predicated and shaped by something so remote as aesthetics? Exploring through examples from the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the digital world we all live in, one might find some answers and the right questions to …
Dimentia: Footnotes Of Time, Zachary Hait
Dimentia: Footnotes Of Time, Zachary Hait
Senior Projects Spring 2021
Time from the physicist's perspective is not inclusive of our lived experience of time; time from the philosopher's perspective is not mathematically engaged, in fact Henri Bergson asserted explicitly that time could not be mathematically engaged whatsoever. What follows is a mathematical engagement of time that is inclusive of our lived experiences, requiring the tools of storytelling.
Poetic Becoming: Building With Heidegger, Isabella Menuez Santana
Poetic Becoming: Building With Heidegger, Isabella Menuez Santana
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Orientation Of The Soul, Caleb M A Short
Orientation Of The Soul, Caleb M A Short
Senior Projects Spring 2020
an ontology and phenomenology of the meaning mechanism
in search of the life best lived and the capacity of human agency
Nietzsche And Expressionism: The Neue Mensch In Kafka, Kaiser, And Strauss, Marion Stoll Adams
Nietzsche And Expressionism: The Neue Mensch In Kafka, Kaiser, And Strauss, Marion Stoll Adams
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Nietzsche's Übermensch and the Expressionist Neue Mensch are two difficult, cryptic, and contradictory ideas. This project compares the Neue Mensch to the Übermensch through the process of transformation, in hopes of better understanding both concepts. The following chapters are an analysis of Franz Kafka’s short story “Das Urteil”, Georg Kaiser’s play Von morgens bis mitternachts, and Richard Strauss’ opera Salome. Through a side-by-side reading of Expressionist literature and Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra, we can see how the Expressionists expanded upon, and experimented with, the concept of the Übermensch.
What's The Problem With Noumenal Affection?, Leonardo Mugi Santoso
What's The Problem With Noumenal Affection?, Leonardo Mugi Santoso
Senior Projects Spring 2018
According to transcendental idealism, our experience of the empirical world is the result of our minds being causally affected by supersensible things in themselves; however, transcendental idealism also holds that things in themselves are unknowable by us. The seeming incompatibility of these two claims is known as legendary 'problem of noumenal affection.' This problem has led many scholars to conclude that Kant's theory is inconsistent. In this project I offer a new diagnosis of the problem by reexamining the supposedly incompatible components: The doctrines of noumenal affection and noumenal ignorance. I argue that there are philosophical and textual worries surrounding …
The Objectivity Of Subjectivity: The Dialectics Of Marx, Lenin, And Brecht, Timothy Wells
The Objectivity Of Subjectivity: The Dialectics Of Marx, Lenin, And Brecht, Timothy Wells
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Everyone And No One: Freedom, Politics And God In Hegel's Philosophy Of Freedom, Samuel J. Copeland
Everyone And No One: Freedom, Politics And God In Hegel's Philosophy Of Freedom, Samuel J. Copeland
Senior Projects Spring 2018
This senior project is an exploration of G.W.F. Hegel's philosophy of freedom. It draws primarily on Hegel's texts The Phenomenology of Spirit, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, and Lectures on the Philosophy of History. The exploration of Hegel's concept of freedom brings in an analysis of Hegel's Lordship and Bondage Dialectic, his critique of Kantian morality, his philosophy of the State and his philosophy of Religion and God.
Being And Itself, Chi Fung Lok
Being And Itself, Chi Fung Lok
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Wonder, Aesthetics, And Ethics: A Meditation On Technological Thinking, Psychical Distance, And The Moral Imagination, Callen Beck Gordon
Wonder, Aesthetics, And Ethics: A Meditation On Technological Thinking, Psychical Distance, And The Moral Imagination, Callen Beck Gordon
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Death, Love Duty: A Therepeutic Triptych - Written By Mouna Krupardini, Mouna Krupardini
Death, Love Duty: A Therepeutic Triptych - Written By Mouna Krupardini, Mouna Krupardini
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
An Outsider's Perspective: Walter Benjamin's Vision Of Philosophy, Bethany Alden Zulick
An Outsider's Perspective: Walter Benjamin's Vision Of Philosophy, Bethany Alden Zulick
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Intention In The World Of The Apparatus, João Otávio Rosa
Intention In The World Of The Apparatus, João Otávio Rosa
Senior Projects Spring 2016
My aim is to describe how the technical image, which is at the very core of our culture today, is in fact a technologically aided method of thinking (or imagining) which has outstripped our powers to control it and as a result come to absolutely dominate our lives. Further, through this domination, the technical image has created a type of visual culture that has ensnared us silently. Not only are we, in essence, “non-existing” if we refuse to participate in this global image network but the network and computational visual culture has evolved and become complex to the point we …
Beginning In Heidegger, Nietzsche, And Mallarmé, Austen H. Hinkley
Beginning In Heidegger, Nietzsche, And Mallarmé, Austen H. Hinkley
Senior Projects Spring 2016
This project is focused on the theme of beginning. The first chapter is a reading of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time as an attempt at beginning a new ontology that understands itself as a construct that must be, to quote Heidegger, “critical against itself.” The second chapter is a reading of three of Nietzsche's metaphors as a way of both examining and enacting a beginning. The third chapter is concerned with Mallarmé’s revolution of poetic form in Un coup de Dés, which enacts a new beginning on which the poem reflects through its images and form. Through an understanding of …
Stanza My Stone: On The Death Of God And The Nature Of Poetry, Ariella Joann Kust
Stanza My Stone: On The Death Of God And The Nature Of Poetry, Ariella Joann Kust
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Reduction Ad Absurdum (Or About Freedom), David Leonard Mamukelashvili
Reduction Ad Absurdum (Or About Freedom), David Leonard Mamukelashvili
Senior Projects Fall 2016
If I asked you what was your favorite book? Who was your favorite actor? Or which candy did you like the most? You would answer; furthermore support your response with reason. That reason would be the philosophical aspect of your response. However, even if I, also with reason, refuted your argument, there’d still be this spark of ‘just because’ in you, and that is what I want to dedicate my project to – that little sparkle of ‘just because’ – little inner faith, belief, and ambiguous attraction that we have towards things.
Philosophy asks for practice. It is something that …
Yearning For The Unhistorical: Nietzsche On Triumph And Coronation, Travis Brock Kennedy
Yearning For The Unhistorical: Nietzsche On Triumph And Coronation, Travis Brock Kennedy
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Heidegger's Attentiveness To Language: A Question Of Translation And "Original Contents", Alexander M. Moore
Heidegger's Attentiveness To Language: A Question Of Translation And "Original Contents", Alexander M. Moore
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
No One Man Should Have All That Power: Rhetoric And Its Reception In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Philip Adam Torphy
No One Man Should Have All That Power: Rhetoric And Its Reception In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Philip Adam Torphy
Senior Projects Spring 2016
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Siddhartha's Smile: Schopenhauer, Hesse, Nietzsche, Benjamin Dillon Schluter
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 World Through Your Eyes: An Analysis Of Spike Jonze's Her, Thatcher Kupple Snyder
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.
The Masks Of Heidegger: National Socialism And Anti-Semitism, Julia Lauren Haerr
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.
Forsake Your Moneymaker: Defining And Defending The True Value Of Music, Preston Rw Ossman
Forsake Your Moneymaker: Defining And Defending The True Value Of Music, Preston Rw Ossman
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The Philosopher's Diagnosis: Sickness In Plato, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, And Heidegger, Anna Menaker Daniszewski
The Philosopher's Diagnosis: Sickness In Plato, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, And Heidegger, Anna Menaker Daniszewski
Senior Projects Fall 2014
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.