Sökning: "Adorno"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Adorno.
6. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity
Sammanfattning : In sociology shock is often seen as emblematic of modernity. However, while Benjamin and Simmel famously portray the big city crowd - and by extension modernity itself - as an arena of shock, shock sensations are notable for their absence in depictions of the crowd as well as of modernity as a whole in much contemporary literature. LÄS MER
7. Naturen, vetenskapen och förnuftet : upplysningens dialektik och det andra moderna
Sammanfattning : The topic of this study is one specific area where the tension between instrumental rationality and value rationality becomes prominent: the question whether we have a rational responsibility for nature or not. Such a responsibility cannot be derived from instrumental reason, but it is argued that it can be derived from discourse ethics and communicative rationality. LÄS MER
8. Between Colonialism and Nationalism : Art, History, and Politics in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Sammanfattning : Through a thorough analysis of all eighteen episodes of Ulysses, this study advances a dialectical reading of Ireland’s pre-revolutionary imagination as it unfolds in James Joyce’s novel. By tracing Joyce’s engagements with British colonialism, national romanticism and the Celtic Revival, this study views Joyce’s modernist project as a comprehensive literary response to Ireland’s changing aesthetic sensibilities, political fortunes, and social concerns. LÄS MER
9. En himmel av sten : Willy Kyrklund och det grekiska
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the notion of the ‘Greek’ in the work of Willy Kyrklund [1921–2009].Kyrklund authorship can be interpreted as a dialogue with the mythology and literature of ancient Greece. LÄS MER
10. Perseverance without doctrine : Adorno, self-critique, and the ends of academic theology
Sammanfattning : The study approaches the question of the role and legitimacy of academic theology given a certain theoretical conception of the intellectual situation. From the perspective of a critical interpretation of some contemporary problems of theology, on the one hand, and some problematic aspects of secular thought, on the other, the study inquires into the notion of theology for a self-critical theoretical potential of general academic value. LÄS MER
