Essays about: "maurice merleau-ponty"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words maurice merleau-ponty.

  1. 1. Beyond Vision: Eyeless Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Marie-Helen Stahl; [2019]
    Keywords : Modernism; Virginia Woolf; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; vision; eyeless writing; anti-ocularcentrism; nonanthropocentrism; body;

    Abstract : In the early 20thcentury, a “crisis of ocularcentrism” arose in philosophy, replacing the Cartesian epistemological notion of a disembodied mind inspecting the object-world from the outside with an ontological and phenomenological approach to vision and being, embedding humans corporeally in a world exceeding their perceptual horizon (Jay 94). In response, modernist artists abandoned realist and naturalist techniques, rejecting mimetic representation, and experimented with new artistic forms, trying to account for the new complexity of life. READ MORE

  3. 2. Aesthetic Experiences and the Miracle of Action : On the Radical Possibility of Art in Teaching and Learning

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Estetiska lärprocesser; Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Petra Lundberg Bouquelon; [2019]
    Keywords : aesthetic experience; aesthetic learning; teaching; phenomenology; clown knowledge; not-knowing; unlearning; space for action; homo faber; sustainable teaching; constructive alignment; NPM.; estetisk erfarenhet; estetiska lärprocesser; undervisning; fenomenologi; clownens kunskap; icke-vetande; av-lärande; handlingsutrymme; homo faber; hållbar undervisning; konstruktiv länkning; new public management;

    Abstract : This master essay starts with the author having an encounter with two 14-years old boys who claim that they are Nazis. In a school project where the pupils made films about norms in the society they made a film with a clearly racist and homophobic message. READ MORE

  4. 3. A little story about big issues : an introspective account of FEMEN

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Yelena Myshko; [2018]
    Keywords : FEMEN; Yelena Myshko; sextremism; embodiment; feminist activism; feminist snap; feminist polemic; body image; militant feminism; sweaty concept; autophenomenography; autoethnography; feminist writing; evocative storytelling; retrospective diary; dialogic meaning; censorship; national politics; police persecution; generational feminism; Resistance; protest technology; Ukraine; Netherlands; Sara Ahmed; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Elizabeth Grosz; Mikhail Bakhtin; Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson; Carolyn Ellis; Laurel Richardson; Rosemarie Buikema; Marta Zarzycka; Steven Pressfield;

    Abstract : This research contributes a detailed personal account of a FEMEN activist. It presents an autophenomenographic analysis of cultural artefacts, including a Retrospective Diary, resulting from the activity of Yelena Myshko in FEMEN between 2012 and 2014. READ MORE

  5. 4. In the mood for Being : Grammatical mood and modality through phenomenological notions

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Adam Forsström; [2016]
    Keywords : mood; modality; phenomenology; Heidegger; Being;

    Abstract : Linguistic mood is a grammatical term as well as a morphological category of the verb. Due to its often philosophical implications it is challenging to find a definition or a common understanding of the notion; it has been proven historically and linguistically difficult to analyze. READ MORE

  6. 5. At Peace on The Carpet and Curious in The Garden Pond : Researching and expressing a memory of place

    University essay from Grafisk Design & Illustration

    Author : Katrine Gram Sloth; [2013]
    Keywords : memory; identity; phenomenology; embodiment; place; materiality; tactility; senses; gaston bachelard; maurice merleau-ponty; installation art; photography; visual communication; hukommelse; identitet; erindring; fænomenologi; sted; plads; materialitet; taktilitet; sanser; sansning; gaston bachelard; gaston bachelard; maurice merleau-ponty; installationskunst; fotografi; visuel kommunikation; minnet; identitet; minne; fenomenologi; plats; utrymme; materialitet; taktilitet; gaston bachelard; maurice merleau-ponty; installationskonst; fotografi; visuel gestaltning; visuel kommunikation;

    Abstract : My degree project At Peace on The Carpet and Curious in The Garden Pond evolves around the memory of a specific place of my personal past and the issues of translating a poetic inner memory into a concrete outer expression. Thus also relating to the artistic practice and the critical choices made when bringing out ideas as visual communication. READ MORE