Sökning: "Levinas"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Levinas.

1. 1. Un-common Sociality : Thinking Sociality with Levinas

   Författare :Ramona Rat; Fredrika Spindler; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Robert Bernasconi; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Levinas; sociality; community; un-common; Nancy; Blanchot; facing; inside-out; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Sammanfattning : The present investigation develops the notion of sociality based on Emmanuel Levinas’s thought, and proposes an understanding of sociality that resists becoming a common foundation: an un-common sociality which interrupts the reciprocal shared common, and thereby, paradoxically, makes it possible. By engaging in the larger debate on community, this work gives voice to Levinas on the question of community without a common ground, a topic and a debate where he has previously been underestimated. LÄS MER

3. 2. Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism

   Författare :Carl Cederberg; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Hans Ruin; Staffan Carlshamre; Bettina Bergo; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Levinas; Heidegger; The Human; Humanism; Critique; Antihumanism; Human Rights; The Other; Universalism; Violence; Responsibility; Transcendence; The Political; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Sammanfattning : In this reading a notion of the human is developed through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Emanuel Levinas. The argument is that, with the help of Levinas, it is possible for the idea of the human to be understood anew, for the notion to be ‘resaid’. LÄS MER

4. 3. Narrative Ethics and Intuition of the Infinite: E. L. Doctorow´s Gnostic Hope for the Postmodern Era

   Författare :Catharine Walker Bergström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ethics; postmodernism; narrative ethics; metaethics; intertextuality; intuition; truth; Self; moral agency; deconstruction; Gnosticism; Kabbalah; Levinas; Emerson; Jung; Derrida;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract: Walker Bergström, Catharine. Narrative Ethics and Intuition of the Infinite: E. L. Doctorow s Gnostic Hope for the Postmodern Era, Department of English, University of Gothenburg, 2008. LÄS MER

5. 4. Of Ethics and Multilingualism in Internationalising Academia : Ethical Events in Swedish University Life

   Författare :Luke Holmes; Caroline Kerfoot; Linus Salö; Anthony Liddicoat; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ethics; multilingualism; ethical event; responsibility; hospitality; Levinas; higher education; internationalisation; linguistic anthropology; linguistic ethnography; language policy and planning; language ideology; tvåspråkighet; Bilingualism;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis engages ethnographically with actors whose practices constitute contemporary Swedish universities and who pose and respond to everyday questions of ethics and multilingualism. In contradistinction to the discursively monolingual horizon of contemporary academia, the thesis thinks questions of language differently, contributing to the growing body of knowledge on socially and linguistically diverse practice in internationalising university life. LÄS MER

7. 5. Terrängbeskrivning. P. O. Sundman, moderniteten och medmänniskan

   Författare :Johanna Lundström (Gondouin); Beata Agrell; Gunnar D Hansson; Rikard Schönström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Swedish 1960 s; nouveau roman; narratology; deixis; realism; parataxis; modernity; prose fiction; short fiction; Gesellschaft-Gemeinschaft; metonymy; authority; behaviorism; objectivity; epistemology; Robbe-Grillet; Weber; Levinas; Wittgenstein; Genette; Riffaterre; Bauman;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to elucidate the relationship between aesthetics, modernity andsociaJ interaction in Sundman's works. Sundman is known for his behavioristic, "objective"narrative method as Linked to an epistemological, sceptical view of reality as conventionallyunders tood. LÄS MER