School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - Theses
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ItemThe Acacian Schism( 2003)
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ItemSpace and TIme on the Via Appia( 2003)
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ItemSocial Aspects of the Development of Metallurgy in Chalcolithic Anatolia( 2003)To date most research concerned with Chalcolithic Anatolian metallurgy has neglected to consider the social roles important to its development of this technology, particularly symbolic/ideological aspects. Using cross-cultural behavioural analogy, this thesis identifies a variety of social behaviours associated with metalworking technology, demonstrating that Anatolian metalworking had social roles of a similarly complex and important nature. A set of symbolic beliefs, reflected in associated rituals, surrounded the metalwork of Chalcolithic Anatolia, whose value as a traded prestige commodity was a significant factor in the development of complex societies in this region.
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ItemOntology and constituted subjectivity : an essay in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze( 2003)The ontological position developed by Gilles Deleuze throughout his work offers the kernel for a rigourous view of subjectivity that stands as an alternative to other views which presuppose the a priori transcendence of the subject. The central claim is that, rather than basing an ontological account on a more fundamental position on subjectivity, a pre-subjective ontology must be established first, and subjectivity accounted for on this basis. This thesis unfolds this claim and develops the key set of philosophical elements necessary for an account of a non-transcendent constituted subjectivity. This will be pursued with reference to three moments in Deleuze's writings. Firstly, the texts on David Hume, and Deleuze's resultant lifelong empiricism, will be examined. Apart from being Deleuze's own starting point, these studies ground his perspective on the . constitution of subjectivity in the practices and variety of the social world. Secondly, those texts that Deleuze devotes to the philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza are examined. Spinoza offers a very great expansion of the Humean picture, most notably in his wedding of the concern with the constitution of the subject to a thorough-going immanent ontology. Thirdly, a reading of the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia provides a deepening of the Spinozist contribution to Deleuze' s thought, collapsing as it does ontological considerations into the immanent social milieu. Moreover, these books engage a conception of politics which allows the consideration of subjectivity to be t linked to the dominant forces at work in society. These three moments allow the reader of Deleuze to develop not only a coherent and cogent theory of constituted subjectivity; but also to locate subjectivity and the practice of philosophy itself within in the political milieu that they engage with and which engages them. Taken together, they provide in skeletal form a political ontology of the constitution of subjectivity grounded in a radical rejection of all forms of transcendence.