Search for dissertations about: "critique"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 226 swedish dissertations containing the word critique.

2. 1. Critique of Exaggeration : Thinking Beyond

   Author : Ervik Cejvan; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; critique; exaggeration; thinking beyond; Artaud; Bataille; Derrida; Descartes; Plato; creation of concepts; transgression; extravagance; excess; critique; exaggeration; thinking beyond; Artaud; Bataille; Derrida; Descartes; Plato; creation of concepts; transgression; extravagance; excess;

   Abstract : This study examines the function of exaggeration for thinking beyond the current concepts of God and the human. An example of thinking beyond in philosophy is the exaggeration “beyond being” in Plato’s Republic. In the philosophy of religion, generally, we deal with the questions of God. READ MORE

4. 2. "Women", welfare, textual politics and critique : different categories of "women", the making of welfare states and emancipation in a Nordic welfare state context

   Author : Mona Livholts; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Academic social work; social categorisation; marginalisation; different categories of women; feminism; the Nordic women-friendly welfare states; emancipation; social construc¬tionism; discourse analysis; individual memory work; academic writing; forms of knowledge; critique; social change; Social work; Gender studies;

   Abstract : The overall purpose of this thesis is to analyse and interpret the relationship between the social construction of different categories of 'women' and the making of welfare states in specific mo­ments of textual politics in a Nordic welfare state context. Furthermore, the aim is to develop a methodology for critical self-reflection in the process Of producing academic knowledge. READ MORE

5. 3. Normative Recursion : on Recursive Grounding and the Capacity for Radical Critique in Formal Pragmatics, Recognition, Social Freedom and Justification

   Author : Jakob Strandgaard; Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Formal Pragmatics; Recognition; Social Freedom; Justification; Recursion; Normative Validity Surplus; Critique; Reconstruction; Normative Foundations; Jürgen Habermas; Axel Honneth; Rainer Forst;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the meta-ethical question: What properties would be required of a normative critical concept in order for it to be (a) derived from the social facticity of prevailing norms, practices and institutions in a given society and (b) still be capable of informing radical critique? This thesis takes radical critique to mean one that escapes all charges of status quo biases and thus truly transcends the immanent content of the norms, practices and institutions from which it was derived.This thesis asserts that the necessary property of such a concept is recursion. READ MORE

6. 4. Perseverance without doctrine : Adorno, self-critique, and the ends of academic theology

   Author : Mattias Martinson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; academic theology; academy; Adorno Th. W.; aesthetics; critical theory; dialectics; dogmatism; fundamental theology; ideology; materialism; negativity; philosophy of music; self-critique; Tracy D; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Systematic theology; Systematisk teologi; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies;

   Abstract : The study approaches the question of the role and legitimacy of academic theology given a certain theoretical conception of the intellectual situation. From the perspective of a critical interpretation of some contemporary problems of theology, on the one hand, and some problematic aspects of secular thought, on the other, the study inquires into the notion of theology for a self-critical theoretical potential of general academic value. READ MORE

7. 5. Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism

   Author : Carl Cederberg; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Hans Ruin; Staffan Carlshamre; Bettina Bergo; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Levinas; Heidegger; The Human; Humanism; Critique; Antihumanism; Human Rights; The Other; Universalism; Violence; Responsibility; Transcendence; The Political; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Abstract : In this reading a notion of the human is developed through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Emanuel Levinas. The argument is that, with the help of Levinas, it is possible for the idea of the human to be understood anew, for the notion to be ‘resaid’. READ MORE