Sökning: "French Enlightenment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden French Enlightenment.

  1. 1. Trees of Knowledge : Science and the Shape of Genealogy

    Författare :Petter Hellström; H. Otto Sibum; Jenny Beckman; Hanna Hodacs; John Tresch; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; cultural history of science; science and metaphor; science and visual representation; family trees; tree diagrams; information management; classification; natural history; philology; music theory; genealogy; evolution; secularisation; Enlightenment; French Revolution; Augustin Augier 1758–1825 ; Félix Gallet 1773–c. 1840 47 ; Henri Montan Berton 1767–1844 .; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates early employments of family trees in the modern sciences, in order to historicise their iconic status and now established uses, notably in evolutionary biology and linguistics. Moving beyond disciplinary accounts to consider the wider cultural background, it examines how early uses within the sciences transformed family trees as a format of visual representation, as well as the meanings invested in them. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Förnuftets auktoritet. Upplysning och legitimitet hos La Motte, Thorild och Kundera

    Författare :Robert Azar; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; enlightenment; literature; legitimacy; reason; Europe; tradition; modernity; tragedy;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract Ph.D. dissertation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014 Title: Förnuftets auktoritet. Upplysning och förnuft hos La Motte, Thorild och Kundera English title: Authority of Reason. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Enlightening Water : Science, market & regulation of mineral waters in eighteenth-century France

    Författare :Armel Cornu; H. Otto Sibum; Hjalmar Fors; Sven Widmalm; Jakob Vogel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Mineral waters; Eighteenth century; French Enlightenment; History of science; History of chemistry; Social history; Société de Médecine; History of Sciences and Ideas; Idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : My thesis investigates the process through which French mineral waters were conceptually and materially transformed by the forces of market, regulation, and science during the Enlightenment. Tracing this process deepens current understandings of eighteenth-century societies, and presents a novel image of the development of medicine and chemistry. LÄS MER

  5. 4. En europeisk kosmopolit : En idéhistorisk studie av Immanuel Kants Om den eviga freden och dess verkningshistoria

    Författare :Rebecka Lettevall; Lennart Olausson; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of philosophy; history of ideas; Vorländer.; Kant; stoicism; effective history; enlightenment; 18th century; Europe; citizenship; federalism; perpetual peace; cosmopolitanism; peace; modern history up to circa 1800 ; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ; History of science and ideas; Idé- o lärdomshistoria; history of ideas; History of philosophy; Vorländer.; Kant; stoicism; effective history; enlightenment; 18th century; Europe; citizenship; federalism; perpetual peace; cosmopolitanism; peace; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria; Modern history up to circa 1800 ; Tidig modern historia till ca. 1800 ;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation, a contribution to the history of ideas, is a study of Immanuel Kant’s 1795 monograph Zum ewigen Frieden (Perpetual Peace) and its effective history. The intention is to show how this particular work has been formed, read, discussed and interpreted for about 200 years. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert

    Författare :Linn Holmberg; Mohammad Fazlhashemi; Caroline Boucher; Daniel-Odon Hurel; Antony McKenna; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the congregation of Saint-Maur; the Maurists; Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety; the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert; the Dictionnaire de Trévoux; history of science and ideas; history of encyclopedism; history of Monasticism; history of the book; the French Enlightenment; classification and organization of knowledge; Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts; microhistory; History Of Sciences and Ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    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