Search for dissertations about: "dualism"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the word dualism.

  2. 21. The Spirit of Revolt : Nikolai Berdiaev's Existential Gnosticism

    Author : Fabian Linde; Per-Arne Bodin; Elena Namli; Irene Masing-Delic; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian philosophy; Berdyaev; Berdiaev; Hans Jonas; Russian religious philosophy; gnosticism; gnosis; existentialism; gnostic return; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of the Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdiaev (1874-1948). The aim of the thesis is to re-examine the alleged gnostic subtext in Berdiaev’s thought by exploring a number of interrelated motifs in his world outlook, teaching on man and theory of knowledge. READ MORE

  4. 22. Soul and Self in Vedic India

    Author : Per-Johan Norelius; Nils Billing; Jens Wilhelm Borgland; Joel Brereton; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Vedic religion; Brāhmaṇas; Upaniṣads; ritual interiorization; soul; personhood; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Abstract : The study employs the analytical concept of “soul” as an umbrella term under which, it is argued, a variety of conceptions pertaining to life, personality, consciousness, and afterlife may be usefully grouped to-gether and analyzed. A survey is conducted of the various Vedic con-cepts which fall within this category, their development being traced from the earliest times to the close of the Vedic era. READ MORE

  5. 23. The Constitution of Consumption : Food Labeling and the Politics of Consumerism

    Author : Carl Yngfalk; Torkild Thanem; Jacob Östberg; Avi Shankar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; power; Foucault; consumerism; consumption; consumer culture; institutions; markets; dialectical; food labeling; best before; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Abstract : The power dynamics of consumerism is an important aspect of contemporary consumer culture. Within the field of marketing and consumption, consumer culture theory (CCT) tends to understand power in terms of agency, the ability of consumers to emancipate from a market infused by the culture of consumerism. READ MORE

  6. 24. Surprise between media, minds and world : A Peircean process semiotic approach

    Author : Pedro Atã; Lars Elleström; Kate Maxwell; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; surprise; surprise in poetry; semiosis; cognitive niche construction; Peirce semiotics; process semiotics; distributed cognition; intermediality; Humaniora; Humanities;

    Abstract : The central idea of this thesis is that the relationship between cognition,media and environments is regulated by surprise. The relationship between cognition, media and environments is a foundational problem for studies of cognition, culture and/or communication. READ MORE

  7. 25. Distorted natures : Shifting ideologies of nature in Swedish geography school textbooks 1866-2012

    Author : Sebastian Djup; Mitchell Donald; Ann Grubbström; Jonas Almqvist; Scott Kirsch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; nature; ideology; ideologies of nature; production of nature; geography school textbooks; geography education geografididaktik ; curriculum studies didaktik ; Geography; Geografi;

    Abstract : Historically, nature has worked and functioned as a powerful idea. Therefore, this thesis provides a historical account of how ideologies of nature have been articulated and transformed in Swedish geography school textbooks (secondary and upper secondary level) from 1866 to 2012. READ MORE