Essays about: "Derrida"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 37 essays containing the word Derrida.

  1. 1. United States of America: The land of threat and opportunity : A qualitative study of democratic autoimmunity in the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Karin Rådemar; [2023]
    Keywords : Capitol riot; Autoimmunity; Derrida; Democracy; United States;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to address and problematize how an undemocratic event like the Capitol riot on January 6th, 2021 could occur in the United States, the nation that for so long has been perceived to be the world’s leading democracy. The thesis takes a point of departure in French philosopher Jaques Derrida’s theory of autoimmunity, which is a theory aiming to explain how democracies are at constant risk of developing autoimmune reactions within their institutions, causing them to undermine their own values and principles. READ MORE

  3. 2. Hard to be Human : Shaping the Self in an Everchanging Narrative

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Lensell Rebillon; [2023]
    Keywords : Narrative self; Martyrdom; Hermeneutics; Pragmatist hermeneutics; Christian tradition; Secularism;

    Abstract : This study examines how an existentialistic perspective in a secular context can be enforcedby interpretations of the Self from a Christian martyr narrative. The existentialistic perspective being the questioning of meaning of life and death. READ MORE

  4. 3. Specters of Art: Hauntology and Limitrophy in John Banville's Frames Trilogy

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Astrid Isac; [2023]
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    Abstract : John Banville’s Frames Trilogy, comprising the novels The Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993) and Athena (1995), presents an account of the ghosts existent in both the reality and art surrounding one’s life. In an intriguing first-person narration, Freddie Montgomery, the protagonist in all the novels, describes spectral apparitions in works of art and is haunted by his violent, ghostly past. READ MORE

  5. 4. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE

  6. 5. The madness of the Search : The poetics of deconstruction in Hilda Hilst's With my dog-eyes and The obscene Madame D

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Isi de Paula; [2022]
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    Abstract : The obscene Madame D [A obscena Senhora D, 1982] and With my dog-eyes [Com os meus olhos de cão, 1986] are two short novels by the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) where the protagonists engage in a philosophical search for meaning that lead them to a state that is publicly interpreted as madness. In this analysis, they are read in light of the philosopher's Jacques Derrida theory of deconstruction. READ MORE