Sökning: "finitude"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade ordet finitude.

  1. 1. Är vi som Sisyfos? : Vad Camus filosofi om det absurda säger oss om vår mänskliga existens

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Författare :Rebecca Schlottau Eckerström; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Camus; the absurd; finitude; indifference; human nature; human condition; discordance; Sisyphus; Camus; det absurda; ändlighet; likgiltighet; mänsklig natur; mänskliga villkor; diskordans; Sisyfos;

    Sammanfattning : This essay is an attempt to understand what Albert Camus philosophy of the absurd entails, using the figure of Sisyphus in The myth of Sisyphus as a reference. We all face the absurd: the discordance that results from the confrontation of the human longing for the absolute with the worlds non-absolute character. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Det ändliga livets villkor : Om Arendts förståelse av nativitet och pluralitet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Författare :Cornelia Svensson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :natality; plurality; birth; action; modernity; human conditions; finitude; beginnings; Nativitet; pluralitet; födelse; handling; moderniteten; människans villkor; begynnelse; gemenskap;

    Sammanfattning : In 1958 the German philosopher Hannah Arendt released The Human condition, a book in which she famously discusses the terms of life on earth. Amongst her many important contributions to the field of political thinking that this book contains, her understanding of the two concepts natality and plurality perhaps make up the most groundbreaking and influential ones. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Inevitable Algorimages : The Necropolitical Infrastructure of YouTube's Digital Dispositif

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Författare :Leo Hansson Nilson; [2019]
    Nyckelord :YouTube; dispositif; control; power; archive; subjectification; algorithms; database; interface; necropolitics; infrastructure; mode of production; protocol; capitalism; machines; spectacle;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the relation between technology and the social, how they determine and naturalize each other, by examining YouTube's socio-technical infrastructure. YouTube is theorized as a dispositif that produces regimes of knowledge, power and subjectification within "control societies" characterized by an informational mode of production. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Den spekulativa materialismen - en ny väg för filosofin? : En läsning av Après la finitude

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Författare :Aron Bodelsson; [2018]
    Nyckelord :korrelationism; Meillasoux; spekulativ materialism;

    Sammanfattning : In this essay I make a comprehensive presentation of Après la finitude by Quentin Meillassoux. The basic concepts of the book are introduced and the main lines of arguments are exposed. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Oändligt Ändlig : Om den ändliga tidens fulländning, en läsning av M. Heideggers Vara och tid

    Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

    Författare :Johannes Rex; [2017]
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    Sammanfattning : Through Martin Heideggers critique of the traditional metaphysical understanding of temporality the relationship between the infinite and finite has been set in a new light. Heidegger emphasizes that the human being only inheres in the realm of finitude, but, in his debate with Ernst Cassirer at Davos in 1929, he says that the human being has a certain infinitude in her ontological understanding of being. LÄS MER