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- This dissertation explores critiques of mass education alongside the rise of the research university as they appear in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin. More specifically, it traces the development of a theory of (un)learning that inserts distance into the pedagogical relation to produce a discretized educational...
- Keyword:
- Bildung, Nietzsche, Education, Benjamin, Youth Movement, and Pathos of Distance
- Subject:
- German literature and Philosophy
- Creator:
- Laport, Theodore F.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1013555 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16750
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- Description:
- This dissertation is an in-depth exploration of Clarke Distributions (for 10), an original musical composition based on the use of text to establish interrelational listening and performance patterns between performers, in place of any fixed musical material. Inspired by research into improvisation, cognition, aesthetics, and linguistics, these patterns manifest as...
- Keyword:
- music composition, music philosophy, experimental music, text scores, and indeterminacy
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Music, and Musical composition
- Creator:
- Zucker, Benjamin Bartels
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16469 and etdadmin_upload_977600
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- Description:
- This dissertation reinterprets Michel Foucault’s theory of sovereignty to offer an explanation and critique of repressive state violence. Commentators typically locate Foucault’s contribution to political thought in concepts of power that are irreducible to sovereignty or the state. In contrast, I draw on Foucault’s early genealogies of power to argue...
- Keyword:
- Violence, Foucault, Critique, Sovereignty, and Genealogy
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Lichtenstein, Eli
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_934011 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16293
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- Description:
- Contemporary decolonial criticism and critical phenomenological thought may be characterized as proceeding from a disenchantment with the philosophical aspiration towards universality. The overarching argument put forward in this dissertation is that there is, to the contrary, an intimate and even necessary connection between the decolonization of philosophy and the affirmation...
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- De Schryver, Carmen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16144 and etdadmin_upload_915763
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- Description:
- Aristotle says that true assertions in practical philosophy are true “for the most part.” I argue an assertion is true “for the most part” if it refers to the hypothetical realization of a substance’s essential capacities under some set of impediments. The removal of impediments to the full realization of...
- Keyword:
- Ancient Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Nussbaum, Aristotle, Marx, and Bookchin
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Hull, Andrew Tyler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_929335 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16267
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- Description:
- My dissertation defends a hermeneutic conception of ideology and its critique that situates both in the world-disclosing function of language.I argue that we must conceive of ideologies as world-disclosing embodied interpretive schemas insofar as they guide our cognitive, affective, and conative access to reality by providing the background knowledge, meanings,...
- Keyword:
- Linguistic world-disclosure, Heidegger, Epistemic injustice, Immanent critique, Hermeneutics, and Ideology critique
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Schwarz, Michael
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16154 and etdadmin_upload_916701
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- This dissertation develops a causal theory of the relevant alternatives in a situation and applies this theory to the semantics and epistemology of conditionals, the theory of knowledge, and the epistemology of stereotyping. The first chapter presents the theory of causal models and causal alternatives. The second chapter applies this...
- Keyword:
- Causal Modeling, Counterfactuals, and Knowledge
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Vandenburgh, Jonathan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_903305 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16094
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- Description:
- Does race matter globally, beyond national and regional contexts? If yes, then how exactly? I argue that race matters globally and develop an account for understanding that significance. I call the account “global racial capitalism.” In chapter 1, I offer background to motivate and defend the thesis that race matters...
- Keyword:
- Race, Global Justice, Racism, Justice, Capitalism, and Racial Capitalism
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Political science
- Creator:
- Alnusf, Marzouq
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_897062 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16000
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses two distinct but related questions. First, how should we conceive of social freedom? Second, given this conception, what ideals would best satisfy the demands we are under as citizens and moral agents? In answer to the first question, I defend a novel account of social freedom, where...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Ethics, Equality, Republican, Liberal, and Freedom
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Kissel, Joshua Paul
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15839 and etdadmin_upload_858535
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- Description:
- This dissertation reorients political theory to the concepts of use and utility for a more critical and emancipatory perspective on contemporary communal life. The reorientation entails a recovery of Aristotle’s and Marx’s overlapping approaches to use, whose contemporary reception indexes the surprising alignment of critical political theory with economics. That...
- Keyword:
- Democracy, Critical Theory, Aristotle, Marx, Indeterminacy, and Utility
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical studies, and Political science
- Creator:
- Bradshaw, Tristan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15868 and etdadmin_upload_863374
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- Description:
- To be tempted is to be conflicted, but the conflict is not one of oscillation between two good options. Rather, it is normally easy to act on temptation and difficult to act against it. But this is puzzling, because unless temptation is a force that acts on us, it’s not...
- Keyword:
- inclination, temptation, philosophy of action , motivation, moral psychology, and desire
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Ethics
- Creator:
- Bruxvoort, Abigail
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_854362 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15809
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- Description:
- This dissertation addresses inter alia the problem of certain intertextual discontinuities across Thomas Hobbes’s oeuvre regarding the issue of ecclesiology. I find that these disparities did not result from a change in Hobbes’s private opinions, but from the regicide of 1649 as an event that liberated Hobbes to unveil his...
- Keyword:
- Liberty, Religion, Hobbes, Theology, Ecclesiology, and Hermeneutics
- Subject:
- History, Philosophy, and Political science
- Creator:
- Day, Andrew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15763 and etdadmin_upload_845265
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- Description:
- “Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...
- Keyword:
- Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature
- Creator:
- Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923
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- Description:
- Having an emotion involves having an evaluative point of view on one’s circumstances. For example, there is a sense in which being angry involves taking oneself to have been wronged, and fear seems to paint the scene as one of danger. A significant debate in contemporary philosophy of mind concerns...
- Keyword:
- Intentionality, Consciousness, Emotions, Representation, Perceptualism, and Phenomenology
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Thomson, Mark
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15485 and etdadmin_upload_797662
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- Description:
- The philosophical literature on modals is dominated by the following paradigm: modals are modeled as quantifiers over sets of possible worlds. The diversity of modal “fla- vors” (e.g., epistemic, deontic, teleological interpretations of modals) is accommodated within the paradigm by logical mechanisms that allow extralinguistic factors to restrict the quantificational...
- Keyword:
- epistemic modality, deontic modality, context-sensitity, modals, aspect, and semantics
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Linguistics
- Creator:
- Skibra, Daniel
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15323 and etdadmin_upload_770188
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- Description:
- Imagine someone who was raised to hold a number of irrational and objectionable beliefs. There seems to be an important sense in which they lack control over these beliefs, and so we might think they are not responsible for them. But many of our beliefs are like this: they are...
- Keyword:
- Norms, Answerability, Epistemic, Responsibility, Doxastic, and Belief
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Osborne, Robert Carry
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_779868 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15379
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- Description:
- This dissertation offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s notion of teaching (didaskalia). In Part I, I defend my claim that we can find in Aristotle’s works a conception of teaching, which is a crucial yet under-explored part of his theory of education. In Part II, I use this interpretation to...
- Keyword:
- Teaching, Education, Aristotle, and Moral Education
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Cochran, William Bruce McBean
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15114 and etdadmin_upload_743644
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- Description:
- Plato's readers struggle to reconcile his combination of conceptual argument and mimetic fiction. In this dissertation, I suggest we can understand this discomfiting combination if we understand the dialogues as "the mimesis of people in speech." Because speech is both referential and performative, speech is a hybrid of thought and...
- Keyword:
- Bakhtin, tragedy, poetics, Aristotle, and Platonic dialogue
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical studies, and Literature
- Creator:
- Curry, Ruth Martin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_640197 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14536
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- Description:
- The concept of epistemic infringement marks a novel entry into the social epistemology literature concerning epistemic misconduct. Epistemic infringement constitutively involves the systematic contravention of social and epistemic norms, particularly in a manner that serves to erode epistemic agency. This dissertation identifies epistemic infringement as a useful theoretical tool for...
- Keyword:
- Predatory Grooming, Gaslighting, Epistemic Agency, Collective Epistemology, Epistemic Misconduct, and Propaganda
- Subject:
- Philosophy
- Creator:
- Leydon-Hardy, Lauren
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14687 and etdadmin_upload_663369
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- Description:
- In the Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, I find that Aristotle endorses two distinct forms of political activity. The first form, which I term statesman activity, is intrinsically valuable. Aristotle thinks that we should value this kind of political activity because it is constitutive of human well-being. The second form, which...
- Keyword:
- experience, education, political activity, Aristotle, and ethics
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Classical literature, and Political science
- Creator:
- Cumella, Giuseppe Angelo
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14472 and etdadmin_upload_627287