This thesis argues that in order to demonstrate the possibility and sensibility of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo's 'weak religious belief', it should be understood as the becoming uncertain of traditional, metaphysical ...

This thesis is based on the premise that questions about human affairs, including questions about art, need to be considered in the context of our deep history as a species. Darwinian theories of human existence have given ...

In response to early technologies of seeing, hearing, and moving at the turn of the twentieth century, modernist authors, poets, and artists experimented with forms of textual production enmeshed in mechanical technologies ...

This thesis uses a combination of psychoanalysis and Marxism to demonstrate how James Joyce's writing enabled him to break away from his unconscious attachments to capitalism. Offering a detailed reading of Joyce's Dubliners. ...

This interdisciplinary dissertation, The Rhetoric of Wolves, attempts to answer a simple, yet broad question: What do we talk about when we talk about wolves? While even the “we” here is contentious, as there are many ...

In this thesis, the author explores the connections between developments in the fields of neuroscience and neuropsychology and the theoretical study of embodiment in political and literary theory. Through examination ...