Browsing by Subject "Aesthetics"
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This thesis outlines one's overcoming of nihilism by consulting two figures, Martin Heidegger and John Dewey. Each thinker holds a pivotal role for art, such that, a turn to the aesthetic allows the individual to overcome ...
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An Aesthetics of Liberation: Gonzalo Arango's Neglected Thought and Cultivating Un Sentido de Vivir (2019-05-28)In this dissertation, I focus on the theme of liberation explored through the work of 20th century Colombian poet-philosopher, Gonzalo Arango (1931-1976). Gonzalo Arango founded the countercultural movement, Nadaísmo, in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive theory of landscape experience that provides logical explanations for both similar and different landscape evaluations. In order to achieve this purpose, a new ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Continuity among architectural structures in the urban setting is an often cited component of visual attractiveness. Since urban tourism is essentially based on visual attractiveness, architectural continuity is an important ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)The use of Creative Problem Solving (CPS) as an instructional strategy to increase the creativity levels of students across all levels of the curriculum is currently a popular topic of investigation. Curriculum content and ...
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(2018-07-11)In this manuscript I widen the interpretive parameters of Alfred North Whitehead’s thought in an effort to make his philosophy more readily available to concerns it is not usually taken to address, such as those that define ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation considers the future convergence between gothic studies and humanism in the age of posthumanism and proposes “cyborgothic” as a new literary genre that heralds that future. The convergence under consideration ...
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(2012-02-14)In my personal experience, I have discovered notable aesthetic problems that face many contemporary evangelical churches. In spite of these churches’ best efforts, they fail to bridge the culture gap and foster a meaningful ...
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(2023-10-30)In the following thesis, I argue that Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) presents a clear aesthetic view, and his aesthetics clarifies his social and political thought. I argue that Hawthorne locates something uniquely human ...
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(2015-05-05)This project seeks to demonstrate human value beyond the modern will in the form of an Ur-will, a residue of the will that cannot be attributed to the historic age. By utilizing the seemingly diverse ideas of Heidegger’s ...
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(2013-08-01)This dissertation rethinks textual images of the other’s beauty, depicted in works by D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf, whose fascination with the other, called by this dissertation the beloved, urged them ...
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(2012-07-16)The main objectives of this thesis are to examine the relations between people and things in American novelist Henry James's 1897 novel The Spoils of Poynton, and thus to deepen our understanding of James's engagement with ...
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(2011-10-21)This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise, the coherency of Carl von Clausewitz’s ...