Search for dissertations about: "disenchantment"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word disenchantment.

  2. 1. Enchanting Irruptions : Wonder, Noir, and the Environmental Imaginary

    Author : Ryan Palmer; David Watson; Danuta Fjellestad; Michael Lundblad; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ecocriticism; ecofiction; re-enchantment; wonder; disenchantment; noir; environmental ethics; climate change; affect; environmental justice; Thomas Pynchon; Lydia Millet; Karen Tei Yamashita; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates narratives of re-enchantment and disenchantment in three contemporary U.S. novels, Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise, Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice. READ MORE

  4. 2. Taming the Prophets : Astrology, Orthodoxy and the Word of God in Early Modern Sweden

    Author : Martin Kjellgren; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Apocalypticism; Astrology; Confessionalization; Heterodoxy; Knowledge; Lutheranism; Magic; Orthodoxy; Politics; Power; Prophecy; Reformation; Religion; Science; Social Discipline; Apocalypticism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyse a displacement of the limits between allowable and illicit knowledge in the orthodox, Lutheran discourse of early modern Sweden. Focusing on the debate over astrology, exemplified in the works of Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (1565-1646) and Sigfridus Aronus Forsius (d. READ MORE

  5. 3. Technology in Absentia : A New Materialist Study of Digital Disengagement

    Author : Cristina Ghita; Claes Thorén; Mats Edenius; Jenny Eriksson Lundström; Magnus Mähring; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; digital disengagement; diffractive digital use; ethnography; new materialism; technology non-use; digital disconnection; digital detox; Information Systems; Informationssystem;

    Abstract : The rhetoric associated with society-wide digitalisation promises benefits such as increased quality of life, democracy, or sustainability, which point towards normative trajectories of increased automation and digitalisation of nearly all aspects of society. Meanwhile, there is evidence of a disenchantment with digital use, forming a movement that challenges the pervasiveness of digital artefacts such as the smartphone. READ MORE

  6. 4. Social action : Variations, dimensions and dilemmas

    Author : Mohammadrafi Mahmoodian; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This study focuses on several key dimensions and types of social action. It examines variousconceptions of action within sociology: in particular, Marx's labour, Durkheim's normativelyregulated action, Weber's typology of instrumentally rational, value-rational, affectual andtraditional action, as well as Goffman's dramaturgical and Habermas's communicative action. READ MORE

  7. 5. Occultism and Traditionalism: Arturo Reghini and the Antimodern Reaction in Early Twentieth-Century Italy

    Author : Christian Giudice; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Occultism; Traditionalism; Religious Studies; Western esotericism;

    Abstract : The thesis will aim to analyse the interaction between occultism and different facets of modernity in early twentieth-century Italy, focusing on the figure of Arturo Reghini (1878-1946) as a case study. In his ´The Modernity of Occultism: Reflections on Some Crucial Aspects’, Marco Pasi convincingly evaluates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (est. READ MORE