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Showing result 11 - 15 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the word situating.

2. 11. Morality Beyond Humanity : Schopenhauer, Grysanowski, and Schweitzer on Animal Ethics

   Author : Monica Libell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Djurs etologi och psykologi; Animal ethology and psychology; Morallära; Moral science; Vetenskapshistoria; History of science; history of medicine; antivivisection; Schweitzer; Grysanowski; Schopenhauer; Germany; animal rights; animal ethics; animal welfare;

   Abstract : The study examines the character and development of the animal ethical ideas of three German thinkers: Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernst Grysanowski, and Albert Schweitzer. By situating them in their cultural and intellectual context, the study explores the differing meanings of their ethical views of animals and seeks to answer the question of how their ideas can be explained historically. READ MORE

4. 12. 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

5. 13. Rethinking the Judaism-Hellenism dichotomy : A historiographical case study of Second Peter and Jude

   Author : Anders Gerdmar; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; New testament; 2 Peter; Jude; Judaism; Hellenism; Hellenistic Judaism; Hegelianism; historiography; dichotomy; Semitisms; rhetorical criticism; midrash; aggadah; Jewish Pseudepigrapha; apocalypticism; cosmology; ethos; soteriology; 1 Enoch; 4 Ezra; Qumran; angelomorphic christology; 2 Peter 1:4; Jewish mysticism; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; New Testament Exegesis; nya testamentets exegetik;

   Abstract : Since the beginning of modern New Testament exegesis, the Judaism-Hellenism dichotomy has been influential as a heuristic tool. However, the concept of Hellenism is ambiguous and its historiographical foundation needs rethinking, having been formed out of Hegelian idealism with a Christian bias. READ MORE

6. 14. Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism

   Author : Håkan Håkansson; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; mysticism.; metaphors; symbolism; alchemy; magic; Renaissance philosophy; occultism; Filosofi;

   Abstract : This study reassesses the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield knowledge of both nature and God. READ MORE

7. 15. Rethinking the Jewish-Comics Connection

   Author : Martin Lund; Jonas Otterbeck; Johan Åberg; Beth Wenger; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish studies; American Judaism; comics; whiteness; identity formation; Religionsvetenskap;

   Abstract : Popular Abstract in English The publication of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) brought the Jewish–comics connection to popular attention. The novel illuminated the fact that many of the pioneers of American mainstream comics were Jewish. READ MORE