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Simmons, William Sherwin
(University of Oregon, 2014)
This essay considers continuities between the impetus towards abstraction within Jugendstil and Expressionism. Both Hermann Obrist and Franz Marc sought through empathy to intuit and image abstract forces at work within ...
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Ostmeier, Dorothee
(University of Oregon, 2022)
Short experimental films by the German female director duo Lina Sieckmann und Miriam Gossing put domestic environments on cinematic display in new and challenging ways. The essay discusses the links between the films’ ...
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Weber, Samuel
(University of Oregon, 2010)
Freud begins his well-known essay on the Uncanny with a disclaimer that raises the question
of why he writes the essay in the first place. This text argues that the explanation is to be
found in the shift his thinking ...
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Gölz, Sabine I.
(University of Oregon, 2018)
“Apostrophe’s Double” is part of a larger research project studying the (often subliminal) strategies by which literary language writing controls its readership. Part I of the essay argues that the rhetorical trope ...
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Gliboff, Sander
(University of Oregon, 2014)
In their pathbreaking discussions of the human family tree in the 1860s and 1870s, Ernst Haeckel and Charles Darwin had to account for both the ascent of the species and its diversification into races. But what was the ...
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Appelbaum, David
(University of Oregon, 2015)
In this presentation, I examine the doubleness of the thing that is usually masked by the appropriative tendencies of life. Once the enigma of thingliness is given its place, the influence of its own non-intentional ...
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Kangas, David J.
(University of Oregon, 2015)
This article is a reading of Kierkegaard's 1847 discourses on "The lilies of the field and the birds of the air." In these discourses, I argue, Kierkegaard pursues the problem of the being of the human being—that is, engages ...
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Gokberk, Ulker
(2008)
This paper explores the multifaceted discourse on Islam in present-day Turkish society, as reflected upon in Orhan Pamuk’s 2002 novel Snow. The revival of Islam in Turkish politics and its manifestation as a lifestyle that ...
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Cantin, Lucie
(University of Oregon, 2010)
How do we think the problem of the “Borderline” within psychoanalysis and the structural conception of
psychic organization it proposes? As for the notion of a border between neurosis and psychosis that the
case of the ...
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Bergeron, Danielle
(University of Oregon, 2010)
The borders between autism and psychosis are determined by the position that the subject
takes with respect to the entry into language during the mirror stage. An ethical choice on the
part of the subject of the unconscious ...
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Nail, Thomas
(University of Oregon, 2020)
We tend to think of migrants as moving between states and borders as fortifications of states. I would like to prove the reverse: that migrants produce and reproduce the state in the first place. I think we have got this ...
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Livingston, Paul M.
(University of Oregon, 2009)
Within contemporary analytic philosophy, at least, varieties of “naturalism” have attained a widespread dominance. In this essay I suggest, however, that a closer look at the history of the linguistic turn in philosophy ...
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Marlan, Dawn
(University of Oregon, 2017)
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Meir-Cruz, Benjamin
(University of Oregon, 2020)
The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing extremism in Sweden in the wake of growing migration has affected Sweden’s global reputation as a model progressive welfare state that prioritizes human rights and ...
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Klebes, Martin
(University of Oregon, 2018)
Review Essay
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Stern, Michael
(University of Oregon, 2015)
Both Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche maintained an abiding concern for Socrates throughout their productive lives. Kierkegaard wrote his dissertation on irony through a Socratic lens and Nietzsche once declared ...
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Gurley, D.
(University of Oregon, 2015)
“The Concept of Byrony” examines Kierkegaard’s lyrical relation to Lord Byron. As an alternative to models of German influence, this paper discusses Kierkegaard’s quotations of Byron’s poetry and allusions to the poet ...
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Wallace, Peter
(University of Oregon, 2013)
Political geographers draw distinctions in English between borders, usually conceived of as lines on a map, and frontiers, which are seen as zones. In German, Grenze, a word borrowed from Slavic, and reflecting ethnic ...
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MacCannell, Juliet Flower
(University of Oregon, 2010)
This paper reviews the key concepts underlying the diagnosis of “borderline personality
disorder” as exemplified in the work of Otto Kernberg. It looks both to history and philosophy
(Rousseau), to social thought (Erving ...
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Misselhorn, Catrin
(University of Oregon, 2009)
The fact that we develop feelings towards androids, i.e., objects with a humanlike appearance, has fascinated people since ancient times. However, as a short survey of the topic in history, science fiction literature and ...
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