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Description:: This dissertation examines and seeks to revitalize the concept of "distraction," through an analysis of the changes it underwent in German-speaking philosophy, critical theory, and literature between the World Wars. Defying the sociological and psychological norms of the period, Franz Kafka, Martin Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin refused to treat distraction...
Keyword:: Philosophy
Subject:: Comparative Literary Studies
Creator:: Paul North
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/13/2018
Date Modified:: 08/13/2018
Date Created:: 2007-09-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Hegel's lectures on aesthetics bear witness not to the cessation of artistic activity as such, but to a progressive decline in its significance for human self-understanding. Still, the nature and extent of this decline remain contested. Is the creation of new art a vestigial activity in a world governed by...
Keyword:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Benjamin R Rutter
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/30/2018
Date Modified:: 07/30/2018
Date Created:: 05-15-2007
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Analytic jurisprudence is the field organized around the “What is law?” question. When most scholars approach the “What is law?” question, they suppose that the goal of such inquiry is to discover, or to accurately represent, the true nature of law. Consequently, these scholars reject the notion that the goal...
Keyword:: Philosophy
Creator:: Raff Donelson
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/26/2018
Date Modified:: 01/29/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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