God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective
by Kim, Tony
fromAmerican University Studies
by Kim, Tony
fromAmerican University Studies
In order to contribute to scholarship seeking to understand Spinozism in its early-modern context as it transitions to Neo-Spinozism in the nascent German Idealist period, this dissertation takes on the more refined project of first examining the introduction of Kant’s critical …
Turkish German novelist Aras Ören's Bitte Nix Polizei is a novel that discusses the "Critical Race" problems of immigration and clandestine labor, but does so in a way that standard Postcolonial Theory models of the colonialist gaze and "mimicry" fail to fully explain. I argue t…
This dissertation presents a materialist inheritance of the idealist theory of universal history that descends from Immanuel Kant through Early German Romanticism to Walter Benjamin. I show that the division between the idealist and the materialist interpretations of universal h…
This dissertation grapples with the notion of domination in the western philosophical tradition by investigating a claim leveled from within feminist theology and Christian social ethics. That claim, first introduced by Sharon Welch, suggests that the deployment of any critique …
In the 1950s, a group of critics writing for 'Cahiers du CinaÌ#x82;ema' launched one of the most successful and influential trends in the history of film criticism: auteur theory. Though these days it is frequently usually viewed as limited and a bit old-fashioned, a closer insp…