This project provides a philosophy of surfing. Its purpose is to give an expansive, philosophical account of the lived practice of surfing. The primary thesis is that surfing cannot be whittled down to an essence, and that instead it is best brought into view through a variety o…
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This dissertation aims to show how the relationship between reification and music discloses problems in modern philosophy and critical musicology. In chapter one, I attempt to articulate the relationship between reification and music in order to put forward a vision for a non-re…
This thesis contributes towards understanding the dynamic phenomenon of entrepreneurship by exploring how entrepreneurs developed resilience within institutional constraints at the lived experience level. This is a qualitative research based on several assumptions of the phenome…
This dissertation examines the Black Hermeneutic Situation in order to uncover Black Rhetoric's possibilities for thinking Being. Martin Heidegger's phenomenological hermeneutics and his theories on thinking and Being provide the theoretical framework through which this disserta…
Does Nietzsche’s inquiry into the question of truth take him beyond the sense of truth as correctness found in Platonism toward a more Greek understanding of truth that brings concealment into an unsettling prominence within truth? I explore in this thesis a possible double read…
In Plato’s Symposium, we get a pessimistic myth not only about love, but about the first experience of loss, in which we were once globular cosmic beings who were split in two by Zeus’s thunderbolts as punishment for not obeying the Olympian gods. Falling down to earth after the…
The settler imaginary creates Hawaii as a distinct space from Hawaiʻi. Drawing on the work of Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Eve Tuck I seek to explore the overlapping of two distinct epistemological territories sharing the same physical location. This …
Text Machines explores the rhetorical and technological resonances of Martin Heidegger’s “event of appropriation” and Paul de Man’s “material event”. The crucial questions here are what it would mean to approach the “text machine” of which de Man writes as a “question concerning…
A case can be made that the greatest fear of our time is the fear of boredom. We live in an age in which things change daily. New technologies are developed, old inventions are reconceived, the entertainment industry churns out movies, shows, and music constantly, and yet, peopl…
The history of philosophy has been haunted by a singular dilemma manifesting itself in two ways. Metaphysically, it manifests as the One/Many problem: if Being is primarily one, then how do we account for multiplicity, if, however, it is fundamentally many, then how can there be…
This dissertation explores Levinas’s phenomenology of death in order to unveil the religious dimension in his ethical thought through examining the political moment of the third party. I argue that death is neither a pure phenomenon transparently intelligible in the noema-noesis…
This dissertation investigates exactly what role the proofs for the existence of God, and rational theology more widely, played in the history of modern philosophy from Descartes up to our own day. If the proofs are poorly suited to the role of religious apologetics, just as lit…