This paper seeks to explore the emergence of collective agency from collective outrage. With a theoretical foundation in Althusser’s ideological state apparatuses it is stated that the general conceptualization of anger is affecting the subject’s activistic potential.
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis seeks an understanding of the phenomenon ecological shame (or eco-shame) by exploring theoretical perspectives on the emotional dimension of climate change. Furthermore, this paper investigates whether or not eco-shame promotes climate-friendly behavior. The theoretical perspectives are presented by Sara Ahmed, Martha Craven Nussbaum and Michel Foucault.
Read MoreThis paper attempts to examine the relations between the nuclear family, gay marriage and Western capitalism through a theoretical analysis with the help of Herbert Marcuse’s Eros & Civilization and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. Respectively, these theoreticians allow the use of a Freudo-Marxian and a schizoanalytic perspective to answer the following theoretical question: How can Marcuse’s terminology together with that of Deleuze and Guattari’s be applied to explore desire within the relationship between the nuclear family and the societal structure of capitalism to understand the historical emergence of gay marriage?
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis seeks to explore the differences between the subject model in behavioral economics and the one in neoclassical economics. The neoclassical economics have been widely criticized because of their lack of understanding of reality, as they e.g. assume perfect rationality in man.
Read MoreThis paper seeks out to explore the relationship between phenomenological philosophy and psychology in the light of a current debate about the legitimacy of phenomenological psychology, where it has been problematized whether or not the original phenomenological project is compatible with empirical sciences. One of the advocates for the incompatibility is the Husserl expert, Dan Zahavi, who argues, that phenomenology is limited to the domain of philosophy, whereas opponents such as Frederick Wertz argues, that phenomenological psychology and phenomenological philosophy are compatible and can contribute with insights to each other.
Read MoreThis bachelor thesis examines the concept of stigmatization related to schizophrenia and its effects on the individual. It is explored how different understandings of schizophrenia can contribute to stigmatization. Based on theories of stigmatization, it is argued that the stigmatization that people with schizophrenia experience may result in a decrease of agency and possibilities of action.
Read MoreThis project takes as its starting point the idea of transnational economic competition as a structural condition for the subject, and how it affect subjective choices and desires. The question is raised why this globalizing development is not regarded as a historical-ideological process but as a basic living condition?
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