//// Abstract: By reading some parts of Hölderlin’s poetry and the thought of Nietzsche and Heidegger, the author tries to show the relevance of the dialogue between philosophie and literature in Modern age. Specially after the separation of faith and…

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This thesis studies al-Ghazali's theory of knowledge, particularly his concept of knowledge of God in his three later works: "The book of Knowledge" of the Ih&dotbelow;ya', al-Munqidh, and Iljam al-`Awamm. From his conception of knowledge of God the first book…

The contemporary study in the philosophy of language concentrates extensively on a cluster of questions defining the problem of linguistic knowledge (Evans 1981, Davies 1989, Dummett 1991). What explains a speaker's language mastery? Is it knowledge that underwrites our linguistic…

The present dissertation postulates the dead body as a cultural signifier in which it is possible to read social, political, ethical, and aesthetic meanings and practices during the first half of twentieth century Latin America. Drawing from a close examination…

Los paradigmas, las técnicas y las prácticas producto de tradiciones regulan las formas de transmisión del saber, estableciendo las concepciones de sujeto, así como las nociones de cuerpo, de prácticas corporales y, sobre todo, de cómo se educa lo “corporal”.

A goal of fisheries management is to predict the probability of successful
establishment of invasive fish species. To address this goal, species distribution models
are used to project species distribution under different climate-change scenarios. In this
study, the geographic distribution…

Focusing on the A-text (1604) version of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus , this study further assesses biographical information on the poet and intellectual currents of the Counter Reformation, so as to investigate the play's relation to emergent trends of individualism in…

This thesis considers the design of receivers for multi-user communication systems based on asynchronous direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA). Its primary aim is to improve current receiver designs which exhibit shortcomings in systems using long sequence spreading (where the spreading sequence…

This dissertation offers both a theoretical investigation into the relationships between narrative, knowledge and personhood and a literary critical analysis of a group of Samuel Beckett's works in which narrative, knowledge and personhood are the central themes., I present an…