Sökning: "Arthur Schopenhauer"

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  1. 1. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of Pessimism : Schopenhauer, Hartmann, Leopardi

    Författare :Tobias Dahlkvist; Thomas Brobjer; Mats Persson; Andreas Urs Sommer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of science and ideas; Pessimism; Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Eduard von Hartmann; Giacomo Leopardi; Philipp Mainländer; Julius Bahnsen; Agnes Taubert; Eugen Dühring; Nihilism; Melancholy; Eternal Recurrence; Hamlet; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of the predominantly German pessimistic tradition in the philosophy of the late nineteenth century, and of Nietzsche’s complex relation to that tradition. The aim of the dissertation is firstly to analyse how pessimism came to be established as a philosophical concept by Schopenhauer and a later generation of pessimistic thinkers, and secondly to investigate how Nietzsche understood pessimism. LÄS MER

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

    Författare :Monica Libell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :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;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  4. 3. La Poétique de Houellebecq : réalisme, satire, mythe

    Författare :Jacob Carlson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Michel Houellebecq; poetics; metaphysics; Arthur Schopenhauer; Auguste Comte; positivism; Jean Cohen; aesthetic categories; lyricism; literary genre; Erich Auerbach; literary realism; Mikhail Bakhtin; satire; Menippean satire; cynicism; Novalis; Michael Riffaterre; motif of light vs; darkness; motif of the sun; myth; literary myth; myth of androgyny; symbol; romanticism;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis sets out to explore French writer Michel Houellebecq’s poetics of the novel. It is advanced in the introduction that Houellebecq’s work could be read against the novelist’s 1997 suggestion that “if somebody today was able to craft a mode of expression that was at once honest and positive, they would change the world”. LÄS MER

  5. 4. ’’... is it hunger or superabundance that has here become creative?’’ : Nietzsche on Creativity in Art and Life

    Författare :Anna-Lena Carlsson; Lars-Olof Åhlberg; Claes Entzenberg; Arnfinn Boe-Rygg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetics; Nietzsche; Aesthetics; Art; the Artistic; Aestheticism; Aestheticization; Creativity; Life; Schopenhauer; Shusterman; Welsch; Estetik; Aesthetics; Estetik; Aesthetics; estetik;

    Sammanfattning : Art and the artistic are concepts Friedrich Nietzsche uses in a narrow sense regarding works of art and in a broader sense concerning our lives. He thereby attempts to vitalise the philosophical theme that links life and art. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Jag kan sjunga hur jag vill : Tankevärld och konstsyn i Edith Södergrans diktning

    Författare :Boel Hackman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literature; critical research; gender; symbolism; modernity; Arthur Schopenhau-er; Friedrich Nietzsche; Rudolf Steiner; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

    Sammanfattning : The basis of this dissertation is a critical examination of the biographical and psychological perspective which has to date dominated work on Södergran and which explains Södergran's writings as a product of her distinctive personality and tragic circumstances. It is a view that is presented here as deceptive, enervating, and counterproductive to a deeper understanding of how her body of work relates to the development of verse during the twentieth century. LÄS MER