@misc{Long, author = {Long, Matthew Christopher}, title = {>Enthusiastic Jew and Lover of Humanity<: August Bondi and the Roots of Transnational Freedom during the Long Nineteenth Century, Master's thesis (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Arts, History, Graduate School, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States 2021, 157+9 pp., English. [tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4566\&context=all_theses]}, abstract = {Migration is a decidedly human condition that has influenced the development of all nations. Yet the cultural and demographic impacts upon the United States during the long nineteenth century brought about by the mass movements of peoples from Africa, Europe, and beyond were especially pronounced. Immigrants to North America brought with them more than linguistic and cultural artifacts, however; propelled by intellectual currents in their countries of origin, they often carried with them a sensibility of revolution, radical republican politics, and a moral suasion that they employed as they navigated the political and social realities in their new countries. Many immigrants would come to view America and the New World generally through a prism of their own making, and thus see opportunity to dismantle and remake the world - economically, socially, culturally, and politically - when conditions at home had failed them. Two fundamental events shaped this trans-Atlantic consciousness situated toward revolution during the nineteenth century: the European Revolutions of 1848-51, and an increasingly radical anti-slavery and abolitionist movement in the United States during the leadup to sectional conflict and the Civil War. Both events sought to upend the established order through political, social, and cultural revolution, and both came to reinforce one another intellectually and strategically. Both revolutions sought to attack the existing systems - monarchy, capital, and the legal institutions that upheld slavery - and replace them, in the spirit of revolutions prior, with more egalitarian and liberal structures. Immigrants were often the main vehicles of this transnational cooperation. When it became clear to freedom fighters on both sides of the Atlantic that moral and political gradualism toward parliamentary, democratic systems of governance, or toward anti-slavery and abolitionist movements, were to be ineffective, they would turn to markedly more radical approaches, and sometimes to violence to enact the changes they sought. This paper investigates these broad trends through the individuals who personally lived them. One such figure, August (Anshl) Mendel Bondi, was a German-speaking, Hungarian Jew who participated in the revolutionary events in Vienna. Upon the restoration of the Hapsburg Monarchy, Bondi would be forced to flee with his family to the United States. Forging a new life in his new home, he would variously spend time in Louisiana and Texas, and work as a waterman on the Mississippi River. Eventually he would settle in Kansas Territory, where he became radicalized and joined Free Soilers in their fight against pro-slavery forces and Missouri border ruffians. Riding with John Brown during the Bleeding Kansas episode would inspire Bondi to a lifetime of freedom fighting; he and his eventual wife, Henrietta Einstein, another German-speaking immigrant from Bavaria, would be pivotal in establishing stops along the Underground Railroad.}, language = {en} } @misc{Halperin, author = {Halperin, Robert}, title = {Is Another World Possible?: Herbert Marcuse and Possibilities for >Real< Change, Master's thesis (in partial fulfillment of the requirements), Theory and Criticism, The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada 2021, 102+5 pp., English. [ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10679\&context=etd]}, abstract = {It has been difficult to effect concrete changes in our society that might adequately approach confronting the intersecting crises of capitalism, inequality, and ecology that we face in our era. Herbert Marcuse's critical theory, and his notion of quantitative development leading to qualitative change, in combination with Hannah Arendt's theories of action, natality, and the will, provide us with an appropriate lens through which to view these crises and diagnose the problems at hand. Additionally, Thomas Kuhn's concepts of paradigms and 'normal science,' as well as Richard Rorty's distinction between movements and campaigns provide us with more concrete ideas of what 'quantitative development' means. Paul Ricoeur's theory of metaphor and metaphoricity can provide us with an understanding of what a guiding principle, such as inspiration or hope, can help us to achieve in attempting to effect concrete change. We must aim to make real the phrase 'another world is possible.}, language = {en} } @misc{Jiarong, author = {Jiarong, Lin}, title = {The Exploration Into the Influence of Social Unconscious on the Individual Through Cyberpunk, Master of Fine Arts in Illustration, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Illustration), Fine Arts, Syracuse University, New York, USA 2021, 22 + 6 pp. [surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1583\&context=thesis] [application of Fromm's theories to art].}, abstract = {The main purpose of this thesis is to explore the influence of the social unconscious on human beings in a future context. In psychoanalyst Erich Fromm's view, the social unconscious refers to Individuals who are afraid of being separated from the society they live in, they often adapt and distort their human needs to meet the requirements of our social system. However, with the strengthening of personality and self-awareness in our present society, how will the relationship between the social subconscious and people's self-awareness change in the future? This is the key issue of this thesis. In the first part, by studying the definition of the social unconscious and related works, this thesis tries to understand the root cause of the influence of the social unconscious and how it affects people's behavior and decision-making. In the second part, this thesis makes an in-depth study of Cyberpunk and objective imagery in related works, revealing that Cyberpunk is a projection of the real world, and clues for many problems in the real world can be found in the Cyberpunk world. In the third part, this thesis explores the changes in people's consciousness in the Cyberpunk world. Finally, this thesis concludes people will not be rid of the influence of the social unconscious whether in the real world or the future world. Even as people's self-awareness is constantly enhanced, self-awareness and social unconscious will always exist as contradictory to one another.}, language = {en} }