Essays about: "transcendence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 essays containing the word transcendence.

  1. 1. Separation in Plato's Phaedo

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Johannes Wilhelmsson; [2024]
    Keywords : Plato; Forms; separation; transcendence; Phaedo; independent existence;

    Abstract : An investigation into whether Plato was committed to separate Forms in the Phaedo. Two accounts of separation are distinguished: Gail Fine's modal account where separation is a capacity to exist independendently from sensible particulars, and Daniel D. Devereux' non-modal account where separation is equivalent with non-immanence. READ MORE

  3. 2. "Sound and Vision": Thomas Pynchon, Perception, and Transcendence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Viktor Ferdinand Kovács; [2023]
    Keywords : Perception; transcendence; auditory self; phenomenology; modalities of experience; perceptual mode; imaginative mode; Thomas Pynchon; Gravity s Rainbow; The Crying of Lot 49; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Previous studies of Thomas Pynchon’s works have made progress in defining numerous aspects of what could be construed as the Pynchonian worldview. However, they have mainly identified them in general, visual terms, separated from the level of the direct experience of his characters. READ MORE

  4. 3. LightPulse, breathing through light

    University essay from KTH/Ljusdesign

    Author : Alejandro Lizarralde; [2022]
    Keywords : LightArt; Light for Health; Art in hospitals; Perception; Dynamism;

    Abstract : Through a personal decision to create and promote psychological states of calm, relaxation, and transcendence, this project was born to study and research light, art, and health to find points in common to create an experience focused on health care spaces, specifically cancer facilities. This exploration aims to improve or enhance the well-being of users in waiting rooms to some extent through light. READ MORE

  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. An Ecocritical Exploration of McCandless’ Pilgrimage Into the Wild : A Literary Analysis of the Representations of Nature in Into the Wild

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Vicky Taylor; [2022]
    Keywords : into the wild; mccandless; ecocriticism; nature; culture; transcendence; interdependence; linguistic construct; cultural construct;

    Abstract : This essay examines Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild from an ecocritical perspective. It aims to analyse three representations of nature: its interdependence with culture, its connection with transcendence, and nature as a linguistic or cultural construct in Into the Wild and relate them to ecocriticism today. READ MORE