Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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While the Lonely Mingle with Circumstance: Levinas and the Politics of Ethical Subjectivity

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Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Newman, Samuel David, Thesis advisor (ths): Stavro, Elaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Holdsworth, David, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy focuses on the idea that no human subject exists outside of their relationship to other people. Each of us holds a profound degree of responsibility to and for all others. Since responsibility is fundamental to human (co)existence, it does not impede on freedom but proves that the sovereign individual is a dangerous myth: any philosophical, political or… more
Full Text: “WHILE THE LONELY MINGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCE” THE POLITICS OF ETHICAL SUBJECTIVITY A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …

Becoming Hybrid: Towards a Critical Theory of Agency in War

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Year: 2015, 2015
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Noiseux, Joshua David, Thesis advisor (ths): Stavro, Elaine, Degree committee member (dgc): Holdsworth, David, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>Institutional military strategists are developing theories of asymmetric and unconventional warfare that complicate the notion of strategic agency, the idea that military action emanates from a coherent agential source or subjectivity. This thesis attempts to push the conceptual trajectories of the theories of Hybrid War, Unrestricted War and Onto-power towards an even more radical… more
Full Text: BECOMING HYBRID: TOWARDS A CRITICAL THEORY OF AGENCY IN WAR A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …