Sökning: "American intellectual history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden American intellectual history.
1. "I wanted to know how this deed was done" : Raul Hilberg, the Holocaust and History
Sammanfattning : Raul Hilberg was a pioneer of Holocaust studies and for many decades the Holocaust scholar par excellence. He embarked upon the study of the Nazi genocide after the war, and established the understanding of the Holocaust as a bureaucratically administered “destruction process,” carried out by men who were not different from the German population in general. LÄS MER
2. Planeringsforskningens genombrott : Försvarets forskningsanstalt och det globala kalla krigets planeringsexperter
Sammanfattning : This dissertation highlights the impact of Swedish defense research in Cold War Sweden, with an emphasis on the impact of planning experts from the Swedish Defense Research Establishment (Försvarets forskningsanstalt, FOA). FOA was established as a research institute for applied military science in 1945. LÄS MER
3. Det moderna samhällets vetenskap : Om etableringen av sociologi i Sverige 1930-1955
Sammanfattning : This work describes how sociology as an academic discipline was introduced, established and pursued at Swedish universities during the period 1930-1955. The main purpose is to follow the establishment of sociology and call attention to dominating ideas of sociology, science and society, and also to reflect the relation between sociology and the demands and expectations of society. LÄS MER
4. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism
Sammanfattning : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. LÄS MER
5. The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses a contemporary debate on the Islamization of science. The four persons discussed here are individuals belonging to a Muslim intellectual elite: the French convert and physician Maurice Bucaille, the Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the British-Pakistani author Ziauddin Sardar and the Arab-American scholar Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. LÄS MER
