Arts and Politics

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Department of Politics G53.1500 COMPARATIVE POLITICS Spring 2006

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Department of Politics G53.1500 COMPARATIVE POLITICS Spring 2007

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...

Divine Vision: Islamic Arts and Horizontal Thought

Islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. Using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in Islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. The main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCE Department of Politics Fall 2007 G53.3500: SEMINAR IN C0MPARATIVE POLITICS ANALYZING POLITICAL COMPETITION