Essays about: "postmodern philosophy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words postmodern philosophy.
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1. The dancing qualities of the cinematic space: a methodological experiment in order to perceive the motion picture as a dancing body.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : The thesis is proposing a method to perceive the cinematic space as a body in motion. The foundation for such an experimental method is traced within the investigation of the movement in the study of the motion picture, as well as in a phenomenological approach to dance, and in selected theories from the continental philosophy of the 20th century. READ MORE
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2. The Theatre of a Thousand Plateaus : How can architecture accommodate the postmodern conceptions of the theatre and provide spaces for non-conventional theatricals where narrative is deconstructed and the audiences are active co-creators or co-participants?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitetAbstract : Today’s world has undergone through a variety of changes shifting from metaphysical way of thinking into postmodernism which has left its footprint in the aspects of literature, art and theatre. But architecture doesn’t reflect those changes in the theatrical world because buildings are not adjusted to the postmodern performances. READ MORE
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3. The Point of Play : Resuscitating Romantic Irony in Metamodern Poetics
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This essay investigates the prospect of Romantic Irony’s potential resurgence in contemporary poetics and discusses its relevance and likeness with metamodernism. The internet has by now not only seeped into, but fully permeated, the process of literary production and distribution. READ MORE
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4. The Postmodern self in Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 : Dismantling the unified self by a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Abstract This essay is about identity and the self in Thomas Pynchon's critically acclaimed masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49. Through a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading, it examines instances of postmodernist representations of identity in the novel. READ MORE
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5. Western and Indian theories of consciousness confronted A comparative overview of continental and analytic philosophy with Advaita Vedanta and Madhyamaka Buddhism
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : The burgeoning field of cognitive studies in the West is motivated by a renewed interest in conscious experience, which arose in the postmodern zeitgeist in response to the positivist, scientific ideal of objectivity. This work presents a historical overview of Western philosophy from its dawn, focusing on the evolution of key concepts in metaphysics, ontology and epistemology, to arrive at the examination of modern theories on consciousness. READ MORE
