This thesis argues that the notion of African identity, in its essentialist and anti-essentialist conceptions, does not have the conceptual and theoretical purchase to imagine socio-political and cultural spaces of agency ...

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This dissertation exposes the status of eros in the works of Levinas, Irigaray, and, Nancy. I begin by evaluating Levinas’s phenomenological analyses of eros in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity. In order to ...

This dissertation addresses various aspects of the question “What does it mean to be human?”, approaching the issue from biological, philosophical and ethical perspectives. The discussion focuses primarily on the philosophical ...