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Thought And Verse: French Poetry In Conversation With French Existentialist Philosophy, Maxwell E. Edmonds
Thought And Verse: French Poetry In Conversation With French Existentialist Philosophy, Maxwell E. Edmonds
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Thought and Verse: French Poetry in Conversation with French Existentialist Philosophy
Maxwell Edmonds
Faculty Sponsor: Karen de Bruin, French Language & Literature
What is the meaning of life? Does God exist? How can we live authentically and with purpose? How can we conduct our day to day lives, while faced with our own mortality? These are several of the principle themes focused upon within existentialist philosophy, the philosophy of existing as a mortal human being.
I chose to study existentialist philosophy through the lens of one of my other interests: French poetry. This combination has allowed me to approach both …
The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico
The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico
Senior Honors Projects
The Perpetual Creation and Provocation of the Self
Krista D’Amico
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English
This project consists of four related parts. The first part is a critical and creative work of prose in which I converse with the thought of two philosophers, namely Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze. This conversation enables me to present my own thought and subjectivity in relationship to a very important aspect of my life: music-making. The second part of my project is a critical essay in which I contemplate the work of another artist, Virginia Woolf, and the way that her credo Three Guineas (1938) …