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    • Crist, Alexander Michael (2022-05-18)
      This dissertation reexamines the experience of human finitude in the hermeneutical works of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. In this, I claim that hermeneutic experience is an experience with human ...
    • Craig, Benjamin Taylor (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 ...
    • Small, Joseph P (2022-12-15)
      This thesis explores the connections between the artistic practice of Jerzy Grotowski and the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Specifically it seeks to examine the potential for Grotowski style performance to cultivate ...
    • Billings, Madeline Grace
      For this project, I will build upon previous work on phenomenology and the interconnectedness of the world. By utilizing past works on phenomenology, the relation of space, and subjectivity vs. objectivity, I will analyze ...
    • Bechtol, Harris Bennett (2016-01-21)
      This project brings into focus the nature of an event in continental philosophy as it relates to the phenomenon of the death of another person. In this, I offer a description of what is philosophically happening when another ...
    • Friedman, James (2012-10-19)
      This thesis attempts to follow one of the central paths through the thought of Martin Heidegger. This path sets out from the chief danger that Heidegger believes to be facing the contemporary world and then proceeds onward ...
    • Taylor, James Michael (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)
      The primary goal of this thesis is to show that Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology stems directly from his ontology. Specifically that his notion of technology, as the enframing destining spirit of this age, is a ...
    • Liwinski, Thomas (2011-10-21)
      The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the meaning of authenticity in Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. This is done first by situating the meaning of authenticity within the project as a whole, second through an exegesis ...