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Tracing The Dispossession Of The Enslaves Black Woman And A Potential For Resistance., Lila R. O'Conell Jan 2023

Tracing The Dispossession Of The Enslaves Black Woman And A Potential For Resistance., Lila R. O'Conell

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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


Existential Analyses: Freud And Camus On Suffering, Blake Anthony Masi Jan 2023

Existential Analyses: Freud And Camus On Suffering, Blake Anthony Masi

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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


Poetics Of Finitude: Time And Death In The Poetry Of R.M. Rilke And T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene Jan 2023

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.


Ethical Anxiety: Establishing Morals In An Amoral World, Gabriel Jay Hummel Jan 2023

Ethical Anxiety: Establishing Morals In An Amoral World, Gabriel Jay Hummel

Senior Projects Spring 2023

This is a project founded on uncertainty. How can we ever judge anyone else when we can never know them as we do ourselves? How can we say that someone does wrong when they believe themselves to be doing right? Since at least the nineteenth century ethics, and philosophy as a whole, carved a new path without the aid of stabilizing pillars of objective, eternal truths. The following work demonstrates how a sense of vertigo descends on one who is forced to question the existence of those objective truths and how that fearful confusion can lead to dangerous refuges, yet …


Art And The Inescapable Spell Of Mimesis, Ziyuan Tao Jan 2023

Art And The Inescapable Spell Of Mimesis, Ziyuan Tao

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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


Plurality, Precarity, Nos/Otras: Searching For A New Guarantee Of Dignity In The Contemporary World, Antonia Salathe Jan 2023

Plurality, Precarity, Nos/Otras: Searching For A New Guarantee Of Dignity In The Contemporary World, Antonia Salathe

Senior Projects Spring 2023

One cannot comprehend the topography of our contemporary globe without seeing the chain-link lines that fractalize sand, sea, and soil. Contemporary global politics is marked by a refugee crisis of colossal proportion. At its core, the contemporary refugee crisis is perpetuated by the fact that there is no framework to apprehend the personhood of the refugee, let alone an organized and attentive global process for directing the flow of vulnerable persons toward safety.

I argue that in order to ease the burdens placed on vulnerable people we must return to philosophy and look at the refugee crisis for what it …


Cutting The Puppet Strings: Confronting The Singularity, Gabriel Joesph Weiss Jan 2023

Cutting The Puppet Strings: Confronting The Singularity, Gabriel Joesph Weiss

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Modern technology has excelled at an unprecedented rate. The rise of artificial intelligence raises many ethical questions and concerns for humanity, as it has incited many pressing debates between philosophers, computer scientists, and social critics who share concerns for the future of humanity but conflict with one another regarding whether or not we should rely on technology to govern human affairs and control society's infrastructures. Drawing from Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, Hubert Dreyfus, and others, this project weighs out the probabilities and problems of the technological singularity posited by Ray Kurzweil, confronting our habits of addressing technology and the way …


Plato And Trumpism: Look At Trumpism Via The Lens Of Plato’S Republic, Yuchen Zhou Jan 2023

Plato And Trumpism: Look At Trumpism Via The Lens Of Plato’S Republic, Yuchen Zhou

Senior Projects Spring 2023

This paper offers Plato's Republic as a lens to understand Trump Movement in today's America. On this basis, my paper has been divided into three parts. The first presents a political model to explain the underlying force beneath the degeneration of the political regime in Plato's theory. The second applies that model to conclude political features of populist movements and psychological traits of the tyrant. The last part applies above conclusions to offer a way to interpret the formation of Trumpism and offer possible solution to it.


Nothing Happens Here, Kai Diego Parcher-Charles Jan 2023

Nothing Happens Here, Kai Diego Parcher-Charles

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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


Selfish, Jacopo Mavica Jan 2023

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 Jan 2023

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.


They Yearn So High That They Have Sprouted Wings, Blake Anthony Masi Jan 2023

They Yearn So High That They Have Sprouted Wings, Blake Anthony Masi

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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