Search for dissertations about: "Transcendence"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 35 swedish dissertations containing the word Transcendence.

  2. 1. Realizing transcendence : a study of Feng Youlan's philosophy

    Author : Youqin Shen Sahlberg; Chung-ying Cheng; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sinologi; Sinology;

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  4. 2. Byzantine holy images and the issue of transcendence and immanence : The theological background of the Late Byzantine Palaiologan iconography and aesthetics of the Chora church, Istanbul

    Author : Anne Karahan; Margareta Rossholm Lagerlöf; Madeleine von Heland; Øystein Hjort; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Balance; Basil the Great; Byzantine; Cappadocian Fathers; Chora church; Chora museum; Church Father; Fresco; Gregory of Nazianzos; Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nyssa; Holy Image; Icon; Iconography; Immanence; Istanbul; John of Damascus; John Damascene; Kariye Camii; Kariye Müzesi; Kinetics; Late Byzantine; Medieval Art; Mosaic; Mural painting; Palaiologan; Palaeologan; Patristics; Transcendence; Art; Konstvetenskap;

    Abstract : On the basis of theological ideas in the Christian Orthodox tradition in general, and the Cappadocian Fathers in specific, this dissertation examines how the ontology of the transcendent triune God and the human and divine in Christ is implied or manifest in the Late Byzantine Palaiologan mosaics and murals of the Chora church.The study is divided into four chapters. READ MORE

  5. 3. Over the Threshold, Into the World : Experiences of Transcendence in the Context of Staged Events

    Author : Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen; Willmar Sauter; Anita Synnøve Hammer; Keld Hyldig; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; performance analysis; model; staged event; aesthetics of the performative; metaphysics of experience; immanent transcendence; theatre; ritual; installation; religion; spirituality; Erika Fischer-Lichte; Dorthe Jørgensen; Theatre Studies; teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to develop an apparatus of theory and method for performance analysis, the purpose of which is to analyse potentials for experiences of transcendence. These experiences are contextualised in terms of the metaphysical, the religious, and the spiritual. READ MORE

  6. 4. 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

  7. 5. Spiritual transcendence and androgyny within Swedish and Finnish transnational Symbolism

    Author : Birte Bruchmüller; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; turn of the twentieth-century art; Symbolist art; transnational art movement; Swedish historiography; Finnish historiography; spiritual transcendence; androgyny; Magnus Enckell; Olof Sager-Nelson; Ellen Thesleff; Beda Stjernschantz; Tyra Kleen;

    Abstract : This Doctoral thesis is an examination of a group of Swedish and Finnish artists and their role as important and active participants in a transnational Symbolist movement. It deals with the depiction of the spiritually enhanced human body in the work of the Swedish artists Olof Sager-Nelson and Tyra Kleen, and the Finnish artists Magnus Enckell, Ellen Thesleff and Beda Stjernschantz, as one central topic within the European Symbolist art movement. READ MORE