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Author:: Gonzalez, Jeffrey C
Title:: Necessary Fictions: The U.S. Novel in the End of Ideology
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: globalization
postmodern novel
literary criticism
Contemporary literature
critical theory
File:: Download Gonzalez_DissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Kathryn Hume, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn Hume, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Jared Schreier, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Member
Eric Robert Hayot, Committee Member

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Author:: O'mara, Cameron Matthew
Title:: Feminist Reflections on the Nature/culture Distinction in Merleau-pontyan Philosophy
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Phenomenology
Feminist Philosophy
Nature
Culture
Animality
Merleau-Ponty
File:: Download OMara_DissFinalDraft.pdf
Committee Members:: Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Veronique Marion Foti, Committee Member
Dr Shannon Sullivan, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Member

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Author:: Maxwell, Jason Christopher
Title:: Agonistic Discourses: Exploring the Relationship Between Literary Theory and Composition in the Contemporary University
Graduate Program:: English
Keywords:: rhetoric
composition
literary theory
File:: Download Maxwell_Dissertation_121214.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeffrey Nealon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Richard Doyle, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Eburne, Special Member

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Author:: Abdullah, Ayesha Mahasin
Title:: Time and Critique in Early Heidegger and Deleuze
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Time
Critique
Heidegger
Deleuze
Foucault
finitude
File:: Download Abdullah_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Member

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Author:: Aggleton, Sabrina Irene
Title:: VULNERABLE BODIES: THE THREAT OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND THE ERROR OF RISK REDUCTION STRATEGIES
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: rape
ethics
embodiment
phenomenology
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Simone de Beauvoir
gender
vulnerability
File:: Download sif5083_Dissertation_EtD.pdf
Committee Members:: Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member

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Author:: Brooks, Lauren Joi
Title:: KAFKA GOES TO NEW YORK: READING KAFKA IN SEINFELD'S AMERICA
Graduate Program:: German
Keywords:: Kafka
Seinfeld
YiddishTheater JewishHumor
File:: Download Brooks_Dissertation_2018.pdf
Committee Members:: Thomas Oliver Beebee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claire Mary Colebrook, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sabine Doran, Committee Member
Samuel Mark Frederick, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Outside Member

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Author:: Gault, Samuel Ormiston
Title:: Dialectic of Institution: Merleau-Ponty's Overcoming of the Antinomy of Freedom and Necessity
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology
Descartes
Ethics
Early Modern Philosophy
Freedom
File:: Download Sam_Gault_Dissertation_2018.2.pdf
Committee Members:: Leonard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Theodore Albert Toadvine Jr., Committee Member

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Author:: Posteraro, Tano
Title:: The Virtual and the Vital: Bergson's Philosophy of Biology
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Bergson
Virtual
Philosophy of Evolution
Deleuze
Time
Tendency
Novelty
Vitalism
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Committee Members:: Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Emily Rolfe Grosholz, Committee Member
Ted Toadvine, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member

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Author:: Newman, Kaitlyn Jeanette
Title:: Ethics in the Aftermath: Rethinking Post-Genocide Representations and Remembrance with Lyotard and Levinas
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Levinas
Lyotard
genocide
representation
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Committee Members:: Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Lambert Bernasconi, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Bergsma, Theodore
Title:: From Presence to Eternity: Time and Timelessness in Deleuze's Early Philosophy of the Unconscious
Graduate Program:: Philosophy
Keywords:: Bergson
consciousness
Deleuze
eternity
Freud
Husserl
ontology
phenomenology
presence
psychoanalysis
time
timelessness
unconscious
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Committee Members:: Leonard Richard Lawlor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonard Richard Lawlor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy Rebekah Allen, Committee Member
Nicolas J De Warren, Committee Member
Claire Mary Colebrook, Outside Member
Amy Rebekah Allen, Program Head/Chair

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