The thesis has three objectives. First, to examine the relationship between reason and freedom, and their experience in modernity. Second, to employ Adorno's critical philosophy to address the problem of ideology from a contemporary perspective. Third, to suggest what a 'truth o…
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This thesis examines the words and works of six Arab American rappers who use hip-hop music as a tool to create and represent selves that are informed by both individual experience and multiple group identities. In doing so, each of these six artists confront a particular catego…
The question of reason’s relationship to history poses a challenge for critical theory. If reason or rationality emerges out an historical process and is historically conditioned, not guaranteed metaphysically, on what normative and theoretical basis can present conditions be cr…
Literary modernism’s “queer” textual forms and erotic meanings were inextricable from the construction of “normal” sexuality as a statistical, racial, and gendered category in the early-twentieth century. However, scholarship on modernist sexualities has tended not to historiciz…