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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 84 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Enlightenment.
6. Reason and Utopia : Reconsidering the Concept of Emancipation in Critical Theory
Sammanfattning : What does emancipation mean today? In political theory, the idea of emancipation has typically been understood as a process of rationalization involving the promotion of human rights or the historical overcoming of capitalism. However, in contemporary social criticism the earlier antagonism between liberalism and Marxism has largely been replaced by the conflict between Enlightenment thinking and Enlightenment critique. LÄS MER
7. Das eigensinnige Kind : Schrecken in pädagogischen Warnmärchen der Aufklärung und der Romantik
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with how didactic fiction and writers of child literature of the 18th and 19th centuries tried to strike terror into their young listeners to make them obedient to the social and moral norms of adults. Particular attention is devoted to texts where children themselves function as protagonists. LÄS MER
8. Samordning, hyfs och reda : Stabilitet och förändring i svensk planpolitik 1945–2005
Sammanfattning : Based on some central assumptions of the Enlightenment – particularly the ability of mankind to change and choose its future – this thesis investigates how thoughts on planning have changed since the Second World War. A Weberian ideal type of modern planning is outlined, based on the concepts of rationalism, voluntarism, utopianism and the collective good. LÄS MER
9. Litteraturens uppodling : Läsesällskap och litteraturkritik som politisk strategi kring sekelskiftet 1800
Sammanfattning : The aim of the dissertation is to study the distribution of literature as a means to disseminate knowledge in the context of two reading societies and three critical journals based in Uppsala and Åbo. This dissemination, regarded as a strategy towards social and political reform, took place in these societies and journals, which were geographically, biographically, intentionally and functionally connected. LÄS MER
10. Authenticity and its Contemporary Challenges : On Techniques of Staging Bodies
Sammanfattning : In this thesis I investigate what ‘authenticity’ means in a contemporary popular context and how it is used in the staging of bodies. Furthermore, I analyse works of dance and fashion from the past fifteen years with a focus on their strategies of challenging the notion of ‘bodily authenticity’. LÄS MER