Search for dissertations about: "idealism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the word idealism.

2. 1. After idealism and difference : subjects of yellow feelings and sentimental narratives of migration

   Author : Lan Kieu; Maria Carbin; Linda Berg; Lene Myong; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Idealism; difference; universality; ethics; ethnicity; love; migration; endurance; mimetic desire; monolingualism; power; gratitude; agency.; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

   Abstract : After Idealism and Difference is a critical and ethical project of reading the postcolonial other. Taking a void from postcolonial and poststructuralist feminist critique, my thesis aims to deconstruct the privilege of the “marginalia” as the beloved object of feminist scholarship. READ MORE

4. 2. Transcendental idealism and the organism : essays on Kant

   Author : Marcel Quarfood; Dugald Murdoch; Camilla Serck-Hanssen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kant; things in themselves; transcendental idealism; perspective; intelligible world; epigenesis; biological functions; teleology; organism; antinomy; regulative maxim; discursivity; acquisitio originaria; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Abstract : The notion of the organism has a somewhat ambiguous status in Kant’s philosophy. On the one hand it belongs to natural science, on the other hand it is based on an analogy with the structure of reason. Biology therefore has a peculiar place among the sciences according to Kant: it is a natural science constituted by the use of a regulative maxim. READ MORE

5. 3. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism

   Author : Bruno Hamnell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dewey; R. G. Collingwood; Idealism; Pragmatism; Liberalism; Unity; Experience; Practical Knowledge; Intellectual History; History of Philosophy; Anglo-America;

   Abstract : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. READ MORE

6. 4. Death and the Self : A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate

   Author : Johan Eddebo; Mikael Stenmark; Karin Johanneson; Charles Taliaferro; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; death; subjectivity; selfhood; afterlife; irreducibility; critique of naturalism; immaterialist ontologies; dualism; idealism; philosophy of religion; quantum theory; interpretations of quantum mechanics; modernity; Philosophy of Religion; Religionsfilosofi;

   Abstract : This dissertation's purpose is to test the hypothesis that beliefs in the possibility of post-mortem survival can be rationally held within the context of the contemporary scientific and philosophical environment. In terms of criteria of rationality, a basic evidentialism is assumed, such that propositions which are sufficiently supported by the available evidence can be rationally held. READ MORE

7. 5. The End of Piracy : Rethinking the History of German Print Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century

   Author : Jens Eriksson; H. Otto Sibum; Peter Josephson; Martin Fredriksson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Authorship; piracy; reprinting; authorial rights; idealism; romanticism; mechanical reproduction; fair catalogs; bibliopolitics; the German book market; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : This dissertation is an historical study of the German book trade in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In this period, German states passed authorial rights reforms that prompted energetic discussions about the definition of authorship and unauthorized reprinting. READ MORE