Essays about: "Heidegger"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the word Heidegger.

  1. 1. Mathematical Unconcealment and the Surveying of Proofs

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Jim Skog Pirinen; [2023]
    Keywords : philosophy of mathematics; Heidegger; Wittgenstein; surveyability; unconcealment;

    Abstract : Ever since the advent of computerized methods for solving mathematical problems, the concept of surveyability has played a central role in the debate surrounding what constitutes a mathematical proof. Ordinarily, it is by surveying the argument presented that the mathematician ascertains the truth of the conclusion, but with the advent of computer assisted technologies, there are mathematical conclusions known to be true without anyone ever having been able to survey the argument in its entirety. 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. Worlds, Dress and Things in Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Lina Norén; [2022]
    Keywords : Thing theory; Heidegger; Moshfegh; Dress; Ontology; Time;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyse dress in Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, both in its independent being and in its relation to the characters of the novel. Thing theory is the main methodology of use, with the support of the Heideggerian concept of ‘world’. READ MORE

  5. 4. Tectonics & disassembly

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Augusta Blohm; [2022]
    Keywords : Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The construction of a building does not always work the way it appears to work. Within a theoretical framework rooted in writings by Eduard Sekler, Karl Bötticher and Martin Heidegger, this thesis presents a discussion on the importance of the tectonic expression when designing a building with the intent that it should be easy to disassemble. READ MORE

  6. 5. Riveted : Levinas' Early Stuff

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Aron Ericson; [2022]
    Keywords : Levinas; transcendence; excendence; phenomenology; ontology; Heidegger;

    Abstract : This study is an examination of the early philosophical writings by Emmanuel Levinas, and shows how transcendence became his guiding question. The study has three parts. Part One lays out Levinas' early enthusiasm with regard to Heidegger's phenomenology. Part Two consists of close readings of three essays by Levinas from 1933 to 1935. READ MORE