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Waiting As Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, And Whiling Away, Harold Schweizer
Waiting As Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, And Whiling Away, Harold Schweizer
Faculty Journal Articles
„Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away” is a critique of the economics of consumption, suggesting that the widespread denigration of waiting as lost time and its economic and psychological displacements in consumer goods amount to a denigration of human life itself. In the practice of lingering and its related temporalities, the author proposes, we regain an appreciation of the fundamental temporality of all things, that everything, we humans included, is constituted by time. Conceptually indebted to Theodor Adorno and substantiated with reference, chiefly to Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” and other poetic works, this argument throughout opposes the …
Humanity On The Verge Of Insanity: Maintaining Cultural Identity Against Oppressive Rule, Danica Katarina Skoric
Humanity On The Verge Of Insanity: Maintaining Cultural Identity Against Oppressive Rule, Danica Katarina Skoric
Senior Theses
Ubuntu is a South African term in the Bantu language that translates to “human kindness.” This essay discusses the present-day impact of the South African philosophical concept of Ubuntu in light of the dehumanization, which Aboriginal Australians and Black South Africans faced, specifically during the period of 1960-1985. How has humanity been enslaved and degraded by assimilation and a cruel division of races, yet positively evolved and progressed due to the efforts of both female and male activists--in particular literary figure Oodgeroo Noonuccal and political leader Nelson Mandela? A lack of respect and tolerance as a result of colonialism has …
Edgar Allan Poe’S Cosmology And Natural Theology: A Constructive Postmodern Appreciation, Theodore Walker
Edgar Allan Poe’S Cosmology And Natural Theology: A Constructive Postmodern Appreciation, Theodore Walker
Perkins Faculty Research and Special Events
Contrary to some literary classifications, Edgar Allan Poe’s book-length prose poem Eureka is not intended to be fiction. In Eureka Poe was seriously attempting to advance ‘truth’ about the universe. Poe was doing natural science and poetry in the tradition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and other natural philosophers. Poe’s prose poem is natural scientific astronomy and cosmology, plus natural theology, not science fiction.
Milton And The Middle Ages: Poetic Analogues And Visual Representations Of The War In Heaven, Expulsion Of The Rebel Angels, And Michael And The Dragon, Steven Hrdlicka
Milton And The Middle Ages: Poetic Analogues And Visual Representations Of The War In Heaven, Expulsion Of The Rebel Angels, And Michael And The Dragon, Steven Hrdlicka
Quidditas
Milton is not typically connected to the Middle Ages as much as to the later Enlightenment and the Romantic periods. Yet many distinctively medieval ideas can be seen in Paradise Lost, especially in the scenes that are related to the War in Heaven. Milton’s account of the war displays a medieval understanding of history in terms of typology in the drama of salvation. Particular details about the war itself such as St. Michael and Lucifer’s sword fight, Jesus’ eventual ending of the war, and the human characteristics of the fallen angels all have clear parallels in longstanding Christian poetic and …
Books: Suggestions For Further Reading, Regennia N. Williams
Books: Suggestions For Further Reading, Regennia N. Williams
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
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Here, Thinking, Nicolas Ocean Shannon
Here, Thinking, Nicolas Ocean Shannon
Senior Projects Spring 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Poetic Possibilities: Poetry And Experience In Emerson, Nietzsche, And Freud, Amalia Astin
Poetic Possibilities: Poetry And Experience In Emerson, Nietzsche, And Freud, Amalia Astin
Senior Projects Fall 2017
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society
Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society
LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society
Logos-Sophia, Volume 14, Spring 2017. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.