Essays about: "Merleau-Ponty"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word Merleau-Ponty.

1. 1. Chimeric Mimicry : Reflection and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

   Author : Oscar Amcoff; [2023]
   Keywords : animal-studies; human-animal relation; merleau-ponty; merleau-ponty nature; chimera; chimerical; animal reflection; reflection of nature; human-animal divide; carnologocentrism; animal philosophy; animal phenomenology; phenomenology of nature; merleau-ponty and the animal; ineinander; animal embodiment;

   Abstract : In this paper, I attempt to understand how Merleau-Ponty views the relation between nature and reflection, as well as the meaning behind the terms “human” and “animal” and the relations between them. I approach this by outlining the transition from Merleau-Ponty’s early philosophy (SB, PP) to his late philosophy (N, VI). READ MORE

3. 2. Time to Love: Romantic comedies and narratives of LOVE – from a Swedish context

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Marianne Gabrielsson; [2022-08-23]
   Keywords : love; romcoms; masculine domination; doxa; embodiment; escapism;

   Abstract : This study explores the relation between love and romantic comedies, (aka romcoms), among people living in Sweden. Romcoms, being one of the most popular film genres ever, has often been subject to critique of not being serious enough and to derange people’s perceptions love. READ MORE

4. 3. A Current Need for Continuity

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

   Author : Nils Patrik Svensson; [2022]
   Keywords : agential realism; Karen Barad; new materialism; math; infinitesimals; complexity; quantum physics; Copenhagen interpretation; phenomenology; Merleau-Ponty; continuity; Rawls; binary;

   Abstract : Throughout these last few decades, phenomenology and modern physics have slowly started to approach each other in order to bridge the gap between the subjective and objective. In this thesis I aim to show an approach done with the help of Karen Barad's agential realism; a quantum interpretation enabling us to better understand and analyse our complex world, as well as our perception of it. READ MORE

5. 4. Physical Activity Integrated into Teaching in Schools in Finland

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Johanna Salmela; [2020]
   Keywords : Physical activity; Integration; Primary school; Teachers; Finnish Schools on the Move;

   Abstract : Background: Physical activity levels have dropped among children worldwide over the past decade, and physical inactivity has become a global public health problem. The majority of the time of a school day is spent sedentarily; therefore, schools and teachers have a significant role affecting the physical activity levels and sedentary time of children. READ MORE

6. 5. This Devious Subject - about the future of this earthly life, my constructive failure to locate myself, and my being as a relationality of subjectivity, discourse and materiality

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Lovisa Sallén; [2019-10-10]
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   Abstract : Through articulating what I call my weave of understanding, in this thesis I aspire to come to a new understanding of the relation between materiality, discourse and ubjectivity as with my being composing a relationality that figures me a movement in and of the world. Inspired by Arendt’s concept of weaving in combination with Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony and what I call sympathetic reading as my method I interpret and entangle notions from Foucault, Butler, Spivak, Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, hooks, Bhabha and Barad into what I call my weave of understanding. READ MORE