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Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
(2015-08-28)
This study examines the neglected role of other animals and art in Aristotle’s classic conception of the human being, and argues that the work of T.W. Adorno can be drawn upon to recover this conception’s neglected promise. ...
The Twenty-Frist Century Pantagruel: The Function of Grotesque Aesthetics in the Contemporary World
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation examines whether the grotesque, an aesthetic form associated with the carnivalesque literary mode and commonly seen as aesthetically and politically subversive, can resume its function within the contemporary ...
Schopenhauer's Psychological Worldview: History, Philosophy and Relevance
(2015-08-28)
The complete philosophical works of Arthur Schopenhauer are explored through a comprehensive psychological reading that intends to highlight the holistic theories of human nature that amount to a pessimistic and metaphysical ...
At the Intersection of Ethics and Aesthetics: Emmanuel Levinas and Theodor Adorno on the Work of Art
(2015-01-26)
This dissertation undertakes a comparative study of the aesthetic theory of Theodor Adorno and the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. I argue that Levinas’s resistance to aesthetics and Adorno’s to ethics have led ...
An Aesthetic Education: Conceptualizing Education through Contemporary Artists and their Work
(2015-01-26)
This dissertation inquires into a theory of learning through an examination of the intersection of art and education. With the work of educational theorists who explore how art may call our attention to the conflicts and ...
The Phenomenology of a Simple Song: Expression, Creativity, and the Recovery of Aesthetics
(2014-07-09)
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By placing aesthetics as art back within the phenomena of experience, this work seeks to recover philosophical aesthetics from the marginal position into which it has been relegated. Merleau-Ponty’s thought and ...
Essay in Judgment: Reading for Aesthetics in Mansfield Park
(2018-11-21)
My dissertation demonstrates how Mansfield Park, which contains philosophically compelling claims about judgment generally and aesthetic judgment specifically, makes these claims through a reading experience that is itself ...
Review of William Rothman's Documentary Film Classics (New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xv + 2018 pages
(2001)
A review of William Rothman's Documentary Film Classics (New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xv + 2018 pages, published on pages 215-217 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 59, No. 2 ...
Intense Singularities: Dieter Roth's and Henning Christiansen's Processual Aesthetics
(2018-05-28)
This thesis examines the potential flux and indeterminacy within an aesthetic experience, with a particular focus on the works of Dieter Roth and Henning Christiansen. This study looks at the desires, forces, and energies ...