Search for dissertations about: "cultural logic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 38 swedish dissertations containing the words cultural logic.
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1. Rationality and Cultural Understanding
Abstract : In this dissertation I criticize a common conception of rationality prevalent in analytic philosophy. Rationality is here often seen as a purely cognitive, inner phenomenon which is static and universal, detached from any moral or cultural aspects of human life. READ MORE
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2. Making Enemies : The Logic of Immorality in Ciceronian Oratory
Abstract : This thesis examines the role played by the topic of immorality in the extant speeches of the Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)and subsequently in the Roman political culture of the late Republic. It traces the portraits of immorality that Cicero made of his political and forensic enemies throughout his political career and his use of immorality as an argument in the Roman Senate, public assembly, and the courts. READ MORE
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3. Uncontainable Life : A Biophilosophy of Bioart
Abstract : Uncontainable Life: A Biophilosophy of Bioart investigates the ways in which thinking through the contemporary hybrid artistico-scientific practices of bioart is a biophilosophical practice, one that contributes to a more nuanced understanding of life than we encounter in mainstream academic discourse. When examined from a Deleuzian feminist perspective and in dialogue with contemporary bioscience, bioartistic projects reveal the inadequacy of asking about life’s essence. READ MORE
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4. "Building the nation back up" : The politics of identity on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Abstract : This dissertation deals with the formation of a discourse on ethnic identity among theOglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The material upon whichthis study is based is literature, archival material, and approximately eleven months offieldwork in 1991, 1993 and 1994. READ MORE
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5. Performing Co-production : On the logic and practice of shopping at IKEA
Abstract : Contemporary western society has often been described as a “consumer society” in relation to the producer oriented form that characterised the industrial society. While consumer habits used to be seen as a reflection of a person’s occupational status or place in a stable societal hierarchy, it has now become recognised as a practice through which people’s identity and status is partially defined by the choices they make as consumers. READ MORE