The basic aim of this thesis is to investigate the concepts of image in Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and of form in Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961). Bearing in mind the trajectory that these concepts play on both authors’ ...

This thesis establish the infrastructure of logos in philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Firstly we approach de structural aspects of perceptual logic to, utterly, confront this with a general reformulation of sense based on the ...

The present dissertation is an analysis of the relation between consciousness and exteriority in the second work of philosopher Henri Bergson, Matéria e memoria, 1986. The relations between psychology and metaphysics lead ...

This thesis recomposes the whole trajectory of Georges Canguilhem's thought, seeking to demonstrate the unpredictability of the mutations occurred in his work, as well as the originality of each reformulation with which ...

Our aim with the present research is a "genealogy of governmentality" based on the investigations undertaken by Michel Foucault in the last years of the Collège de France, when notions of "spirituality", "ascesis" and ...

This thesis investigates the relation between the concepts of nature and nurture (culture) in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Starting from the diagnosis of the "crisis of philosophy" at the turn of the ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the concept of history in Voltaire. Therefore the research embraces the conception of historical narration, the methodological resources established to verify them, and also the ...

The placing of the ποίησις in the Platonic Dialogues raises great controversy. On one hand, the Republic engages in a severe criticism of the art of the poets. On the other, albeit with some restrictions, Plato himself ...

This dissertation aims to present the inheritance between temporality and individuation in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze during the period from 1953 to 1968. To this end, we highlight the previous monographs Difference ...

Friedrich Nietzsche s text Five prefaces to five not-written books (concluded in December 1872) can be read as a document attesting a reserve that would grow stronger between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the ...