Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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All I've Found is Pain and Terror: Aesthetics and Moral Status in Contemporary Popular Narratives

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Year: 2018, 2018
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Chiasson, Ross, Thesis advisor (ths): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Norlock, Kathryn, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis is concerned with how specific aesthetic elements function in various contemporary texts to distort, obscure, or illuminate the immoral actions and behaviours being represented. This thesis applies the moral status philosophy of Mary Anne Warren, along with the moral philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and Zygmunt Bauman. Close reading and critical analysis are supported by… more

A Pedagogy of Renaturalization: Moving Through and Beyond Intellectual Slut Shaming

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Perkins, Joanna, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton-Jiminez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Norlock, Kathryn, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This three-part dissertation will consider both theoretical and practical implications that Baruch Spinoza's (1632-1677) immanent philosophical system holds for developing a contemporary "pedagogy of renaturalization." One of the intents of this thesis is to draw out how "intellectual slut shaming" is a naturalized part of neoliberal subjectivity. </p><p… more

Nietzsche and Deleuze: On the Overman, the Nomad and the Eternal Recurrence

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Burchat, Cari, Thesis advisor (ths): Holdsworth, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Norlock, Kathryn, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Gilles Deleuze claims that understanding the eternal recurrence as a recurrence of the same is a misreading of Friedrich Nietzsche, yet, this assertion is not supported by Nietzsche's texts. In all instances where Nietzsche describes the eternal recurrence, he emphasizes that it is one of the same events. One's willingness to love one's fate and to will the eternal… more

THE ETHICS OF BEING-WITH: EXPLORING ETHICS IN HEIDEGGER'S BEING AND TIME

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Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Rejak, Adam, Thesis advisor (ths): Holdsworth, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Norlock, Kathryn, Degree committee member (dgc): Angelova, Emilia, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>ABSTRACT</p><p>The Ethics of Being-With: Exploring Ethics in Heidegger's Being and Time</p><p>Adam Rejak</p><p> Martin Heidegger is perhaps best known for his work Being and Time, in which he tries to re-discover what he deems to be a forgotten question; the meaning of being. However, what many have missed in this work is the ethical potential it… more