What kinds of “selves” are ascetics who seek to purify the “self” of its partial interests? Through practices of obedience, enclosure and silence, monastics open themselves to the transforming work of the Divine, and in the process of doing so, close down their options for self-expression and self-governance, curtailing certain aspects of who they are, like narrativity and personal preference, that contemporary philosophers often construe as important elements of fully developed selves. While this activity of “purifying” the self may seem unlikely to reflect generalizable truths about selves, I identify how ascetic self-emptying finds epistemological parallels in Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein’s use of the phenomenological reductions, in pe...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
How to be authentic to the self is possibly the main goal of all human efforts. Self-actualization i...
The subject who perceives, feels, remembers or imagines is conscious of his or her experiential stat...
The concept of self has preeminently been asserted (in its many versions) by anti-reductionist, anti...
Entre 1880 et 1920, l’institution scolaire en France, les pédagogues et les professeurs de pédagogie...
Ce mémoire est consacré à la condition de l’estime de soi telle que défendue par Paul Benson au sein...
Alors que la définition des contenus scolaires constitue un enjeu social puissant du fait de la plac...
In this thesis, following Alfred Schütz' uses of Husserl's theories of perception by adumbration and...
This study questions our capacity to exceed and/or bury our condition of ‘been thrown there’, and/or...
Between 1880 and 1920 the academic institution of France, pedagogues and professors of pedagogy, tea...
L’étude qui s’ouvre se propose d’explorer, de définir et de valider une question d’un grand intérêt ...
Although Descartes’ characterization of the mind has sometimes been seen as too ‘moral’ and too ‘int...
L’éducation est une relation humaine vivante et nécessaire. Tissée de valeurs et tendue vers des fin...
Using existential anthropology in understanding contemporary history I try to reveal the value of ...
Pour un lecteur français, familiarisé avec l’écriture de Maupassant, qui étudie des oeuvres de Dosto...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
How to be authentic to the self is possibly the main goal of all human efforts. Self-actualization i...
The subject who perceives, feels, remembers or imagines is conscious of his or her experiential stat...
The concept of self has preeminently been asserted (in its many versions) by anti-reductionist, anti...
Entre 1880 et 1920, l’institution scolaire en France, les pédagogues et les professeurs de pédagogie...
Ce mémoire est consacré à la condition de l’estime de soi telle que défendue par Paul Benson au sein...
Alors que la définition des contenus scolaires constitue un enjeu social puissant du fait de la plac...
In this thesis, following Alfred Schütz' uses of Husserl's theories of perception by adumbration and...
This study questions our capacity to exceed and/or bury our condition of ‘been thrown there’, and/or...
Between 1880 and 1920 the academic institution of France, pedagogues and professors of pedagogy, tea...
L’étude qui s’ouvre se propose d’explorer, de définir et de valider une question d’un grand intérêt ...
Although Descartes’ characterization of the mind has sometimes been seen as too ‘moral’ and too ‘int...
L’éducation est une relation humaine vivante et nécessaire. Tissée de valeurs et tendue vers des fin...
Using existential anthropology in understanding contemporary history I try to reveal the value of ...
Pour un lecteur français, familiarisé avec l’écriture de Maupassant, qui étudie des oeuvres de Dosto...
Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: au...
How to be authentic to the self is possibly the main goal of all human efforts. Self-actualization i...
The subject who perceives, feels, remembers or imagines is conscious of his or her experiential stat...