Conversation Theory and dialectics, James Joyce, Modernism

本研究运用对话理论的框架，通过对文本中出现的四位哲学家詹巴蒂斯塔·维柯、勒内·笛卡尔、乔丹诺·布鲁诺和乔治·伯克利的仔细考察，探讨了詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《芬尼根的觉醒》中复杂的形而上学问题。通过对话理论和辩证法的视角，本文将在哲学家之间建立联系，考察他们不同的知识论之间的重叠是如何导致《觉醒》中的另一种哲学结构的。为此，这部作品将作为对乔伊斯对哲学的使用的质疑，产生关于笛卡尔和布鲁诺等人的新的学术研究，他们的存在在乔伊斯的作品中经常被低估，同时也致力于解决对文本的新的结构性解释。

This research uses the framework of Conversation Theory to explore the complex question of metaphysics in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake through a close examination of four philosophers who appear in the text: Giambattista Vico, René Descartes, Giordano Bruno and George Berkeley. Through the lens of Conversation Theory and dialectics, this thesis will draw links between the philosophers, examining how the overlap between their divergent theories of knowledge leads to an additional, philosophical structure in the Wake. To this end, the work will function as a questioning of Joyce's use of philosophy, producing new scholarship on those, such as Descartes and Bruno, whose presence is often underestimated in Joyce's work, whilst also working towards addressing a new, structural interpretation of the text.