Anna Kassim

Interdisciplinary Futures undergraduate student with three years of experience in community engagement and educational leadership. Demonstrated expertise in child development support, project collaboration, and administrative tasks. Strong communication and time management skills enhance writing and research capabilities. Aiming to apply these skills in the nonprofit sector.

• Being’s Chain, God’s Death, and Atlas’ Shrug: How meaning is blurred and deferred in the consideration of godlessness and freedom
• https://pioneeracademics.com/journals/
• September 2021
• Abstract: Language is an important tool for the expression of thought and the history of ideas stands as a testament to this. However, our use of language, and our perceived world form a feedback loop where numerous, and sometimes unnoted, meanings are blurred and deferred while undergoing constant change between the literal and figurative. This phenomenon is especially prominent in the intellectual evolution that links God, godlessness and freedom—paradigmatic case studies. This paper takes this intellectual evolution and offers a potential narrative that seeks to posit and evaluate an epistemological and linguistic explanation for meaning’s undetermined fluidity. Through reference to literature, including plays, novels, and other forms of academic expression, an intellectual genealogy is established supporting my claims. I conclude this paper with an appeal to the expansion of definitions and concepts as well as a critical review of the hesitation and unease that marks this process.