Search for dissertations about: "Reason"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 2077 swedish dissertations containing the word Reason.

  2. 1. No time for reason : Deliberation, status and democracy in the modern democracy

    Author : Johan Wänström; Eric Kramer; USA University of Oklahoma Department of Communication; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reason; Deliberation; Democracy; Society; Social capital; Media and communication studies; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Economic use of time (efficiency) and democracy are common features in many modern western societies. However, a strong egalitarian democracy requires equal participation in the social construction of meaning, reason and ultimately knowledge. READ MORE

  4. 2. Reconceiving Public Reason : Neutrality, Civility, and the Self-Defeat Objection

    Author : Johan Elfström; Elena Namli; Lars Lindblom; Dan-Erik Andersson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Rawls; Jeffrey Stout; Cécile Laborde; Steven Wall; public reason; social cooperation; neutrality; civility; political legitimacy; Etik; Ethics;

    Abstract : How should we live together? The question is at the heart of social ethics and it is an as urgent political question as ever. In this thesis, one particularly attractive reply to this central issue is analysed—John Rawls’s theory of public reason, and three different objections that have been put against it. READ MORE

  5. 3. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory

    Author : Andreas Gottardis; Ulf Mörkenstam; Näsström Sofia; Owen David; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Emancipation; Critical Theory; Jürgen Habermas; Frankfurt School; Enlightenment Philosophy; Enlightenment Skepticism; Deliberative Democracy; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. READ MORE

  6. 4. Goodbye Reason Hello Rhyme : a study of meaning making and the concept development process in music composition

    Author : Peter Falthin; Kungl. Musikhögskolan; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; making musical meaning;

    Abstract : This thesis comprises two articles based on qualitative empirical studies and a theoretical introduction. All three texts deal with the same problem area concerning musical meaning making and the concept development process in the course of composition learning. Each text could be read separately. READ MORE

  7. 5. An Essay on Copper Flat Axes

    Author : Björn Magnusson Staaf; Arkeologi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Arkeologi; Archaeology; value rationality.; being-in-the-world; conceptual polemic; reason; cultural discourse; typology; Copper flat axe; project; domain; station; trajectory; Agency; cognition;

    Abstract : This dissertation can be read on at least two levels. On one level it will deal with- how general patterns of cognitive perception set frames for and affect human action in history and how these patterns may change. A study on copper flat axes will serve as a foundation for this discussion. READ MORE