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Fichtean Nonidentity: Faith’s Necessity in the face of Origin and Death
Introduction From the “great man theory” to critiques of political leaders’ ‘cult of personalities’ to even the Enlightenment-driven naturalist evolutionism for technology, the human species seems to be always tethered to some supreme figure in relation to any notion of ‘progress’ in their history. An interesting observation of humanity’s progression in relation to such worship or ‘ faith’ is this: the general trend of polytheism descending towards a singular, ev
Silent Marxism, or, a Marxism of NegativityAdorno and Althusser’s Negative, or Open, Dialectics and Totality
Leo Deng 3/6/24 Professor Jeffrey Williams 76898-Marxisms An Investigation towards a Silent Marxism, or, a Marxism of Negativity Adorno...
Adam Smith and Theodor Adorno: a Dialectical Materialist Psychology
Leo Deng 12/15/23 Seminar on History in Philosophy: Smith and Hume Professor Kevin Zollman (Adorno information reviewed by Professor Jay...
Abjection as Revolutionary Critique
Leo Deng 5/4/23 Professor Cash (Melissa) Ragona Critical Studies: The Precarious Body Research Paper Why has repulsion been overshadowed...
The Negative Utopia of Media from Palestine: from Azoulay to Now
Leo Deng 12/8/23 Spaces and Mobilities Seminar Professor Marian Aguiar Introduction The ongoing Israeli-Palestine conflict hit one of the...
Lenin’s Intervention and Relevance in German Philosophy and Beyond
Leo Deng August 2023 Professor Frieder Otto Wolf Freie Universität Berlin – German Philosophy: From Kant to Habermas Lenin’s Intervention...
Marx and Nietzsche: The German Rebels (of (Genealogical)-(History) and (Economic)-(Punishment))
Leo Deng PHIL353W Nietzsche Term Thesis 5/1/23 (to be expanded...) Professor Patrick Miller Introduction Two of the most prominent...
Andres Serrano: the Double Negation/Death of the Artist through Abjection
Leo Deng 3/31/23 (Edits made 5/17/23) Critical Studies: The Precarious Body It is certainly better if we separate an artist sufficiently...
Abject Performance Art as Sublimation and Desublimation
Leo Deng 2/24/23 Critical Studies: The Precarious Body The direct and indirect manifestations of psychoanalytic theory in the sphere of...
Women as Subaltern Subjects in Revolutionary China
Leo Deng 3/3/23 Modern Chinese History In Gail Hershatter’s Women and China’s Revolutions, she aims to center Modern Chinese history’s...
What If?: A Comparative Study of Spectacle between Basquiat and Warhol
Leo Deng 12/7/22 Critical Theory in Art III Research Paper Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of the many artistic geniuses of the 20th century...
Capital’s Implosion-Sustaining Concept: Fetter
Leo Deng 12/5/22 (To be edited and heavily extended in the future...) PHIL493 Marxism and Critical Theory Paper 1 In the famous line from...
The Pseudo-Reunification of the Product with the Laborer as the Spectacular Commodity
Leo Deng 10/13/22 (Revised 10/16 on Professor’s edits) PHIL493 Marxism and Critical Theory Paper 1 Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophic...
Counter-Hegemonic Music Movements and the Impacts on Political Consciousness
Leo Deng 6/5/21 PRO601: Abbot Independent Scholars Program: Political Music – Capstone Paper Counter-Hegemonic Music Movements and the...
Jane Eyre: A Proto-Feminist Philosophical Cornerstone
Jane Eyre: A Proto-Feminist Philosophical Cornerstone By Leo Deng 12/10/21 76102 Contribution Essay Professor Rebecca Wigginton Abstract:...
Dadaism: the Anti-Intellectual Intellectual Rebellion
Leo Deng 6/3/21 HSS600 Research Paper Introduction Art history’s lens of analyzing the progression of culture in Western society is not...
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