Search for dissertations about: "historicism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word historicism.

  2. 1. F. A. Hayek's Critique of Legislation

    Author : Cyril Holm; Torben Spaak; Pauline Westerman; Wennström Bo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Hayek; legislation; rules; law; rationality; rational action; rational social order; equilibrium; utilitarianism; method of deliberation; criterion of correctness; Elinor Ostrom; Avner Greif; Vernon Smith; Joshua Epstein; complexity; knowledge; social cooperation; information; know-how; the Hayek problem; the invisible hand; Adam Smith; Mises; Keynes; Marx; welfare state; Gilbert Ryle; Michael Polanyi; theory of legislation; legisprudence; jurisprudence; Neo-Kantianism; historicism; cognitive closure; theory of prices; competition; syntax grammar; game theory; generative social science; agent-based computational modeling; institutional policy analysis; normative; primacy of economics; primacy of politics; Sheri Berman; constructivist rationalism; socialism; social democracy; Nozick; Rawls; distribution; justice; freedom; Kant; polycentric government; process of experimentation; speculative philosophy; analytical philosophy; freedom under the law; liberty; philosophy of mind; consequentialist; Jurisprudence; Allmän rättslära;

    Abstract : The dissertation concerns F. A. Hayek’s (1899–1992) critique of legislation. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify and assess that critique. READ MORE

  4. 2. Cognition and Cultural Context : An Inquiry into Gadamer's Theory of Context-Dependence

    Author : Anders Odenstedt; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Context-dependence; presupposition; tradition; historicism; hermeneutics; Gadamer; Dilthey; Heidegger; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi;

    Abstract : This study deals with the problem of the context-dependence of thought, as dealt with by the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002). Gadamer stresses what he sees as the difficulty of bringing to awareness and criticising influences which preserve such dependence, and the role of traditions (Überlieferungen) in this regard. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Theology for the Bildungsbürgertum : Ritschl in Context

    Author : Leif Svensson; Arne Rasmusson; Thomas Girmalm; Mats Wahlberg; Johannes Zachhuber; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Albrecht Ritschl; the kingdom of God; theology; Christian ethics; Kulturprotestantismus; Bildungsbürgertum; nineteenth-century Germany; historical criticism; historicism; the historical Jesus; materialism; late idealism; Luther and modernity; criticism of religion;

    Abstract : The subject of this historical-theological investigation is the German Lutheran theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889). Ritschl’s theology is understood in the context of the de-Christianization of the German Bildungsbürgertum (educated middle class). READ MORE

  6. 4. A Children’s Literature? : Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fiction

    Author : Fedja Borčak; Jørgen Bruhn; Andrea Lešić; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bosnia; Bosnian literature; the infantile; child character; subversive infantilisation; nationalism; Balkanism; socialism; international administration; discourse theory; New Historicism; Jacques Rancière; Comparative literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The past two decades of political and social disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina have given birth to literary counterreactions against hegemonic ways of imagining social life in the country. This thesis deals with a particular practice in BosnianHerzegovinian war and post-war literature, which uses infantile perspectives to critically address issues related to the socialist history of Bosnia as part of Yugoslavia, the war in the 1990s, and the socalled transitional post-war period. READ MORE

  7. 5. Reciprocal Haunting : Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy

    Author : Karen Patrick Knutsen; Mark Troy; Maria Holmgren Troy; Sharon Monteith; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Pat Barker; The Regeneration Trilogy; Michel Foucault; Mikhail Bakhtin; Raymond Williams; Cultural Materialism; New Historicism; shell shock; psychoanalysis; British literature 1900-1999; class; gender; psychology; discourse; cultural trauma; dialogue; dialogism; power knowledge; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : Pat Barker’s fictional account of the Great War, The Regeneration Trilogy, completed in 1995, is considered to be her most important work to date and has captured the imagination of the reading public as well as attracting considerable scholarly attention. Although the trilogy appears to be written in the realistic style of the traditional historical novel, Barker approaches the past with certain preoccupations from 1990s Britain and rewrites the past as seen through these contemporary lenses. READ MORE