Search for dissertations about: "Civilization - Philosophy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words Civilization - Philosophy.

2. 1. Sketching the Invisible : Patterns of Church and City in Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Philotheos Historia

   Author : Andreas Westergren; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Late Antiquity; biography; hagiography; panegyric; asceticism; monasticism; Syria; Antioch; Symeon the Stylite; pilgrimage; relics; cult of the saints; civic ideals; invention of tradition; the role of the bishop; ecclesiology; sacralization; christianization; philosophy; Neoplatonism; Libanius; Dionysius Areopagita;

   Abstract : The fundamental question in this work concerns the ideal relation between asceticism and society in a 5th c. writing (C.E.), the Philotheos Historia (PH), written in elaborate Greek by the learned bishop of Cyrrhus, Theodoret. READ MORE

4. 2. Herodotus and the Origins of Political Philosophy : The Beginnings of Western Thought from the Viewpoint of its Impending End

   Author : Otto H. Linderborg; Johan Tralau; Eric Cullhed; Elton Barker; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Herodotus; Herodotean studies; origins of political philosophy; origins of political theory; early history of political thought; beginnings of Western civilization; contemporary social analysis; Sino-Hellenic studies; Grekiska; Greek;

   Abstract : This investigation proposes a historical theory of the origins of political philosophy. It is assumed that political philosophy was made possible by a new form of political thinking commencing with the inauguration of the first direct democracies in Ancient Greece. READ MORE

5. 3. Shame and guilt : Sociology as a poietic system

   Author : Vessela Misheva; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; shame; guilt; poietic and autopoietic systems; social selves; language; sociology; society; community; civilization; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This dissertation had a clear and simple task: to define what shame is. This necessarily entailed clarifying the distinction between shame and its main modem counterpart, guilt. READ MORE

6. 4. The Politics of property in a European periphery : The ownership of books, berries, and patents in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1850–1910

   Author : Matti La Mela; Youssef Cassis; Pauli Kettunen; Lionel Bently; Luca Molà; Youssef Cassis; European University Institute; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; property; copyright; patents; property rights; natural resources; Finland; history; conceptual history; Historia; History; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : In the late nineteenth century, the Grand Duchy of Finland benefited from its backward position in the peripheral corner of Europe; its export markets expanded, career opportunities were sought abroad, and foreign ideas and technology were translated and appropriated. At the same time, the identity of the young nation state as a part of the Russian Empire was being put together by its educated elite, whose national projects would react to foreign developments and amalgamate with the expertise acquired abroad. READ MORE

7. 5. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film

   Author : Valeria Alejandra Villegas Lindvall; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; feminist philosophy; decolonial thought; monstrosity; Latin America; horror cinema; Mexico; Argentina; La Llorona; witch; monster;

   Abstract : This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster in relation to Mexican and Argentinian national identity discourses. The thesis looks at two distinct iterations of gendered monstrosity in Mexican and Argentinian visual culture: La Llorona and the bruja (witch), respectively. READ MORE