Search for dissertations about: "polemics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the word polemics.

2. 1. Hermannus Samsonius to Axel Oxenstierna : Latin Correspondence from 1621 to 1630 with Linguistic and Historical Commentaries

   Author : James Dobreff; Latin; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; theology; Lutheranism; 17th century history; Hermann Samson; Axel Oxenstierna; Swedish Livonia; Polish Livonia; polemics; Jesuits; Erasmus; Counter-Reformation; Livonia; Latin; Neo-Latin; Christianity; Kristendom; Latin language; Latinska språket;

   Abstract : The core of the present work is a first edition of the first part of the Latin correspondence of Hermann Samson, Sweden's Superintendent of Churches in Livonia (1622-1643), with Axel Oxenstierna, the Chancellor of Sweden (1612-1654). The epistles date from 1621 to 1630, covering a period of tremendous change for Samson, Livonia, Sweden and Poland. READ MORE

4. 2. On the notion of mental illness : Problematizing the medical-model conception of certain abnormal behaviour and mental afflictions

   Author : Tommy Svensson; Lennart Nordenfelt; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; anti-psychiatry; concept of mental illness; medical model of mental illness; theory of psychiatry; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Abstract : This study inquires into some polemics concerning the notion of mentalillness or disease. Some central arguments in the debate on psychiatry, of the 1960's and early 70's, are focused on.The analysis is performed in two steps. READ MORE

5. 3. A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum : Ritschl in Context

   Author : Leif Svensson; Arne Rasmusson; Thomas Girmalm; Mats Wahlberg; Johannes Zachhuber; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Albrecht Ritschl; the kingdom of God; theology; Christian ethics; Kulturprotestantismus; Bildungsbürgertum; nineteenth-century Germany; historical criticism; historicism; the historical Jesus; materialism; late idealism; Luther and modernity; criticism of religion;

   Abstract : The subject of this historical-theological investigation is the German Lutheran theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889). Ritschl’s theology is understood in the context of the de-Christianization of the German Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle class). READ MORE

6. 4. “Swarming European Consciousness” : Europe and Tradition in the Work of William Carlos Williams

   Author : Elin Käck; Carin Franzén; Hélène Aji; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; American poetry; William Carlos Williams; Euro-American relationship; Europe; tradition; recontextualization; hegemony; counterhegemonic; modernism; Amerikansk poesi; William Carlos Williams; den euro-amerikanska relationen; Europa; traditionen; rekontextualisering; hegemoni; kontrahegemonisk; modernism;

   Abstract : This study focuses on how the American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) deals with Europe and tradition in works published between 1917 and 1928 and in unpublished material from the same period. Poems from Al Que Quiere! (1917), Sour Grapes (1921), Kora in Hell (1920) and Spring and All (1923) as well as The Great American Novel (1923) and A Voyage to Pagany (1928) constitute the core of the material. READ MORE

7. 5. Otherness and disease in Reunion : The politicisation of the 2005 to 2007 chikungunya epidemic

   Author : Karine Aasgaard Jansen; Tove Ingebjørg Fjell; Astrid Blystad; Line Alice Ytrehus; Pamila Gupta; University of Bergen; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : In this dissertation I investigate how decolonisation through inclusion instead of independence has affected processes of othering, and reactions to being othered. By othering I mean discursive colonial practices described by post-colonial theories, in which racial and cultural difference is produced as inferior vis-à-vis the “superior” West. READ MORE