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Clouds: The Tyranny of Irony over Philosophy

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 ...
A Derridean-Kierkgegaardian Interpretation of Writing: Imprisonment and Freedom

Mahan, William (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)

My thesis is an argument that writing is a struggle of imprisonment and freedom. I argue that a text gains a certain level of power, such that it controls the writer, reader, and critic alike. Yet at the same time, the ...
Disability as Epistemic Experience: Autofictional Representations of Disability in German and American Literature

Yeomans, Kaitlin (University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)

This thesis seeks to explore how authors with disability create knowledge about the experience of disability that differs from cultural perceptions of disability. This thesis also utilizes autofictional narratives as a ...
The Face as a Fingerprint: Mediation, Silence, and the Question of Identity in Ingmar Bergman's Persona

Stern, Michael (University of Oregon, 2010)

This volume is dedicated to readings of the borderline informed by Psychoanalysis. My essay is the exception. In it, I analyze Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) with an eye to the dangers of a one-way conversation. ...
Introduction: Kierkegaard and German Thought

Stern, Michael (University of Oregon, 2015)

Kierkegaard's own fondness for prefaces introduces our volume.
Nietzsche, Reification, and Open Comportment

Currie, Luke (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)

This work primarily discusses the “fallacy of reification” from the perspective of Nietzsche’s late philosophy (particularly in the chapter on ‘Reason’ in philosophy in his Twilight of the Idols). While reification is ...
Telling Stories To Survive: The Writings of Saša Stanišić. An Approach To Decolonizing Discourses In German Studies

Klueppel, Joscha (University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)

This dissertation project is the first comprehensive analysis of Saša Stanišić. It transcends the valid, but restricting focus on migration in his works by tracing a common narrative strategy that spans all his writing. ...
The Farce of Fascism: A Tragedy of Othering and Power in Three Acts

Bailey, Natalia (University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)

In his essay Urfascism, Umberto Eco outlines the various ideological traits that he perceives to be the basic “familial resemblances” of fascism – one of these traits being “the natural fear of difference”. In acknowledgement ...
The Poetics of Affirmative Fatalism: Life, Death, and Meaning-Making in Goethe, Nietzsche, and Hesse

Barto, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

The fundamental role that tragedy has played in the development of European philosophy and, by extension, psychology, has in part been due to its inextricability from an understanding of human life, facilitating its many ...
Trumpestilence

Stern, Michael (University of Oregon, 2017)