Death, America, and the Mexican in Yuri Herrera’s Signs Preceding the End of the World
Placing America within the mythical Mictlan allows Herrera to uncover the falsehoods surrounding American ideals […]
Sovereigns and Slave Morality: The Nietzschean and Hobbesian Perspective on January 6th, 2021
Using the philosophy of rebellion that both Nietzsche and Hobbes provide, it becomes obvious that the January 6th insurrection was the direct product of President Trump’s repetitive and skillful manipulation of the American public.
Colonial Legacies and the Reclamation of One’s Identity: Revisiting Fanon in Contemporary Contexts
[…] we are invited to examine and consider how, contrary to Fanon’s perspective, scholars have come to uncover and recognize the powerful influence of historical narratives in constructing efforts to challenge and dismantle colonial structures.
Trigger Warning: History Repeats Itself
In conclusion, the portrayals of creation and reproduction in the Upaniṣads objectify and demean women by implying that women exist as an extension of men to fulfill their desires and failing to give them any credit for the act of reproduction.
The Illusion of Liberty: An Analysis of Sovereignty and Collective Freedom in Hobbes’s Leviathan
While Hobbes’s conception of a sovereign appears contradictory to liberty, this paper posits that his notion of the sovereign aligns with his desire to secure liberty.
What Makes a Feminist?: Resisting Gender Roles in Antigone and Mary, a Fiction
The titular characters both reject these narrow roles, instead taking on more traditionally masculine abilities and roles to resist the men that have power over them.
Escape the Echo: From Conformity to Autonomy
The journey from conformity to autonomy exemplifies how Mary and Absal become aware of and challenge regimes of truth in their societies, demonstrating its limitations on the self-authority of both subjugators and the subjugated.
Housewives vs Magistrates: Rousseau’s A Discourse on Inequality
The determining factor to this private vs public influence is gender, showing a distinctly patriarchal mindset on Rousseau’s part. I conclude that Rousseau, while not considering women tyrannical, does not present himself as a feminist.
Social Confinement: Captivity and Society in Herman Melville’s Typee
Tommo’s reflections on the two situations interrogate the nature of freedom both in a physical and mental sense, as well as its connection with one’s environment and circumstances.
Navigating the Discontents of Civilisation: the conditions of the modern world through the lens of psychoanalysis and modernist literature
[…] it is substantial to recognise the bridge between psychoanalysis and twentieth-century literature; and how beneath the flux of modernity runs the dashing stream of human consciousness, flashing light and dark with the mind’s psychology.