Browsing by Subject "Desire"

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Anthony trollope on akrasia, self-deception, and ethical confusion
(Indiana University, 2014) Fessenbecker, P.
This essay takes as its point of departure Anthony Trollope’s tendency to reuse a version of the romantic triangle, one where a protagonist is committed to one character, becomes attracted to another, and hence delays fulfillment of the first relationship. This formal feature makes the philosophical problem of akrasia central, as the novels return repeatedly to agents who act against their own best judgment. Trollope’s novels reveal a complex array of irrationality, considering how our desires can lead to self-deception and how even judgment unbiased by desire may fail to move an agent. Perhaps most interestingly, Trollope challenges standard assumptions about rational behavior in depicting states of “ethical confusion,” where characters act irrationally precisely by acting on their best judgment. © 2014, Indiana University Press. All rights reserved.
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Consumption of counterfeit designer brands : reasons, practices and consequences
(2005) Akkoç, Ali Utku
This thesis examines the consumption reasons, practices and consequences of nondeceptive counterfeit designer brand clothing, which has been becoming rampant in Turkey as stressed by diverse resources. Utilizing qualitative research methods, the study was conducted through interviewing twenty counterfeit designer brand consumers nine of which additionally possessed the authentic items. Three consumers who solely consume the authentic items were also included in the sample. Findings suggest that consumers prefer counterfeit designer brand clothing not only for economic reasons, but also for symbolic reasons such as ardent desire, reference group influence, experiential fulfillment, nostalgic appeal as well as perceivably unfair prices of authentic items. Consumers selectively display the counterfeit items in different public domains and selectively disclose information about their consumption to avoid social anxiety and embarrassment. As a consequence, consumers authenticate an otherwise strange identity through such consumption practices. It is not only fantasy and real that commingle, but also fake and authentic, which mesh through a process of authentication as determined by the desires of the consumer. The study has implications for the literature on counterfeit consumption, price fairness, symbolic consumption as well as postmodernism and concludes with a discussion of limitations and opportunities future research.
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Desire and its discontents
(1988) Goodheart, Eugene
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Nationalizing the desire : female identity in the novels written between 1909-1928
(2018-12) Yavuz, Ayşe Duygu
In this study, it is aimed to examine the decisive role of desire in the acquisition of national identity. The novels which caused a break in the fictionalization of women, such as Raik’in Annesi (1909), Seviyye Talip (1910), Handan (1912), Yeni Turan (1912), Aydemir (1918), Gönül Hanım (1920), Gün Batarken (1920), Kiralık Konak (1920), Çalıkuşu (1921), Kan ve İman (1922), Ateşten Gömlek (1922), Sözde Kızlar (1923), Vurun Kahpeye (1923), Mahşer (1924), Meliha Nuri Hanım (1928) are analyzed in a comparative perspective. In the study, the role of corporeality and desire in the making of the representation of the ideal woman has been mentioned in the context of the period from the modernization of 1908 to the Republic Era to the years of war in which territorial integrity had been vital. This study aims to touch upon alternative identity propositions of the idealized women characters in the world of fiction presented against the identity of woman who had been included in the public life by becoming genderless in the historical reality presented by the social platform. Desire has an emancipatory role of abolishing ascribed identity roles and establishing an alternative identity. In this dissertation, it is aimed to evaluate different data which will eliminate the understanding in the “woman in national literature” works which codify womanhood in the occupational groups in public life, which covers womanhood confined in a genderless area created by militarism and nationalism and covers it in an identity fiction in which womanhood serves the nationalist ideal. Topics that are covered in this study are the emphasis on the corporeality of the TurkishMuslim woman’s identity to which a kind of sanctity is attributed, the woman’s position as the conveyor of the ideology through the way in which she is desired by the opposite sex, the decisiveness of desire in the binary of love and cause, the metaphor of sickness in the inspection of the female sexuality, the position of woman as the object of desire and as the desiring subject and the view of heroines embracing the nationalist discourse on the other identities.