Greetings!
Welcome to Yuuki Ohta's temporary Web page. I already maintain a Web site, but this summer I'm planning on restructuring it. So this simple page (created with Google Page Creator) is to serve as a placeholder until I decide what to do.
For the time being, I plan to upload here some of my undergraduate works that I think are decent enough to be on the Web. All files are in PDF, unless otherwise noted.
Who am I?
See this page.
Papers
Performing Speech Acts: On the Dialogical Structure of Illocutionary Intention. This is my undergraduate thesis. I wrote it as the culminating project of the Distinguished Major Program (DMP) in Philosophy at the University of Virginia, from which I graduated in May 2008 with Highest Distinction. The paper won the B. J. Diggs Award for "the most outstanding thesis in the class of 2008."
I am giving a presentation based on this paper on 8 & 12 September, 2008, at VCASI (Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution = a branch of the Tokyo Foundation). A casual guide for further reading, compiled for this presentation, can be retrieved here (pdf).
Time, Text, and the Self as Self-affecting Metaphor: Heidegger and Ricœur on the center of Kant’s possibility. This is the term paper I wrote in fall 2007 for a doctoral seminar on Kant and phenomenology, in the religious studies department of the University of Virginia. In Spring 2008, it was published in The Oculus, "the University of Virginia's journal of undergraduate research and the Commonwealth's premiere undergraduate research publication."
Face, Light, and the Poetic Imperative: A Levinasian reading of Dante’s Paradiso. This is a paper written in fall 2007 for a lecture course in religious studies, entitled "Christian Visions in Literature." In it I use Levinasian ethics of encounter to read Dante's Paradiso.
Proofs and the Passion in Pascal’s Pensées: from Grace to Reason to Belief to Faith. This is a paper written in spring 2008 for an undergraduate seminar in religious studies, entitled "Faith and Reason." I tried to write a robust exposition of Pascal's Pansées.
Beauty’s Liberating Bondage: On Baudelaire’s “La Beauté”. This is a paper analyzing Baudelaire's poem, "La Beauté."
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