Sökning: "Age of Enlightenment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 avhandlingar innehållade orden Age of Enlightenment.

  1. 1. Lyckoriket: Studier i svensk upplysning

    Författare :Jakob Christensson; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Encyclopaedism; History of the Book; Swedish Enlightenment. Cultural History; History of philosophy; Political Culture; Filosofins historia; history of ideas; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This study considers the spread, character and development of the Swedish Enlightenment from the early Age of Liberty to the late Karl lohan period. This is done in six case studies three of them biographical and three of them of a more general character partly concerned with the history of concepts; all six case studies touch on the writers' world in the period. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Upplysning utan förnuft : begär och frihet hos Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume och Montesquieu

    Författare :Victoria Höög; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; postmodernism; modernity; women; political freedom; classical republicanism; human nature; reason; virtue; passions; Enlightenment; desire; David Hume; Charles de Montesquieu.; History of philosophy; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This essay has three main aims. The first one is to give an overview of some hundred years of European intellectual history, bringing out new aspects of the classical thinkers. The analysis of the four philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume and Charles de Montesquieu aims at illustrating a general historical process, viz. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Stable Media in the Age of Revolutions : Depictions of Economic Matters in British and Swedish State Newspapers, 1770–1820

    Författare :Sarah Linden Pasay; Göran Rydén; Jonas Lindström; Joachim Östlund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic language; Sweden; Britain; newspapers; public sphere; embeddedness; Enlightenment; modernity; London Gazette; Post- och Inrikes Tidningar; Ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : The dissertation examines how economic matters were depicted between 1770 and 1820 in two European kingdoms. Britain and Sweden are studied during this Age of Revolutions from the state’s perspective; state-managed newspapers are examined, one from Britain, the London Gazette, and two from Sweden, Stockholms Post-Tidningar and Inrikes Tidningar. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Att styra genom känslor : Regeringskonst i tre gustavianska projekt

    Författare :Sara Ekström; Annika Berg; Linn Holmberg; Elisabeth Mansén; Kristiina Savin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gustav III; History of Emotions; Politics of Emotion; Eighteenth Century; Governmentality; National Identity; the Order of Vasa; the National Dress; the Swedish Academy; Gustav III; känslohistoria; känslopolitik; 1700-tal; governmentality; nationell identitet; Vasaorden; Nationella dräkten; Svenska Akademien; History of Ideas; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : The eighteenth century is sometimes referred to as the Age of Sentiment. Emotions were attributed great importance, both as driving forces for human behaviour, and as a moral compass. They were also important in political rule. This also pertains to Sweden and the reign of Gustav III. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Der lange Weg des Zen-Buddhismus nach Deutschland : vom 16. Jahrhundert bis Rudolf Otto

    Författare :Jürgen Offermanns; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; J.-B. Du Halde; F. Caron; F.M. de Marsy; I. Kant; G.W. Leibniz; A. Kircher; Counter-Reformation; Reformation; Age of Enlightenment; travel literature; Jesuit theater; Germany; Europe; China; Japan; Jesuits; New Age; Christianity; West; Zen; Buddhism; sodo; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia; German language and literatur; Tyska språk och litteratur ;

    Sammanfattning : At the beginning of the 21st Century, Zen Buddhism is no longer an unknown religion in the West. Zen-meditation enjoys great popularity, the books regarding the subject are among the bestsellers and the auditoriums are crowed if the topic concerns the bringing home of Zen Buddhism to a Western audience. LÄS MER