Search for dissertations about: "idé- och lärdomshistoria"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words idé- och lärdomshistoria.
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1. The code of Concord : Emerson's search for universal laws
Abstract : The purpose of this work is to detect a pattern: the concordance of Ethics and Aesthetics, Poetics and Politics in the most influential American thinker of the nineteenth century. It is an attempt to trace a basic concept of the Emersonian transcendentalist doctrine, its development, its philosophical meaning and practical implications. READ MORE
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2. Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914
Abstract : The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. READ MORE
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3. On the Edge : The Concept of Progress in Bukhara during the Rule of the Later Manghits
Abstract : This work is a study of the concept of progress in Bukhara between approximately 1860 and 1920. It is based on unpublished and published sources from this period. READ MORE
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4. Making Place for Space : a History of 'Space Town' Kiruna 1943-2000
Abstract : Science and technology have a tendency to clump together in places where they spawn other forms of societal activities. Sometimes these places become famous through processes known as place-making, or the social construction of place. READ MORE
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5. Ramism, Rhetoric and Reform : An Intellectual Biography of Johan Skytte (1577–1645)
Abstract : This thesis is an intellectual biography of the Swedish statesman Johan Skytte (1577–1645), focusing on his educational ideals and his contributions to educational reform in the early Swedish Age of Greatness. Although born a commoner, Skytte rose to be one of the most powerful men in Sweden in the first half of the seventeenth century, serving three generations of regents. READ MORE
