Sökning: "the Enlightenment project"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden the Enlightenment project.
1. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert
Sammanfattning : In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprises in Western intellectual history: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. LÄS MER
2. Uppfostran, undervisning, upplysning : linjer i svensk folkundervisning före folkskolan
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation discusses changes in Swedish popular education from the literacy campaign conducted at the end of the 17th century to the institution of universal elementary education in the middle of the 19th century. The onus is laid on the intense period of reform around 1770-1820, when popular enlightenment became an issue of political debate and both the content and organization of popular education was transformed. LÄS MER
3. Förnuftets brytpunkt : om teknikkritiken i P C Jersilds författarskap
Sammanfattning : Modern technology has enabled us to realise objectives our forebearers could only dream of. Our capacity to do both good and evil has grown dramatically. With these new capacities ensue extremely weighty moral responsibilities.P C Jersild is a Swedish author who has dedicated his work to the investigation of morality in the technological society. LÄS MER
4. Understanding Religious Diversity : A Contribution to Interreligious Dialogue from the Viewpoint of Existential Philosophy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation addresses the question of the role of religion in a world to come. It presupposes that for religion to play a positive and constructive role in future society interreligious dialogue is of utmost importance. LÄS MER
5. The intellectuals and the idea of the nation in slavophile thought
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses the first expression of Russian nationalism, formulated by the Slavophiles in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Against the common view of the Slavophiles as reactionary dreamers, indifferent to politics, it argues that Slavophilism was a conscious project for social change. LÄS MER
