Sökning: "Weimar Republic"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Weimar Republic.
1. Mellan akademi och kulturpolitik : Lektorat i svenska språket vid tyska universitet 1906–1945
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the establishment and development of lectureships in the Swedish language in German universities during the first half of the 20th century. Building on earlier research about the role of language teaching abroad for public diplomacy, the study sees the lecturer as a part of both the the academic and political fields in Germany and Sweden. LÄS MER
2. Psykets laboratorium : Skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken
Sammanfattning : Psykets laboratorium – skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken investigates texts produced during psychiatric self-experiments with psychedelic drugs in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, featuring the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) as a research subject. In these self-experiments, physicians and volunteer subjects wrote down their experiences of psychotic states that were evoked through the use of psychedelic drugs. LÄS MER
3. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources
Sammanfattning : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. LÄS MER
4. Academics and Politics : Northern European Area Studies at Greifswald University, 1917–1991
Sammanfattning : The decision to institute Area Studies in German universities in 1917, was born out of a perceived need to widen the intellectual horizon of the public and academia alike. At Greifswald University this ambitious reform programme saw the foundation of a Nordic Institute, charged with interdisciplinary studies of contemporary Northern Europe. LÄS MER
5. Det politisk-teologiska komplexet. Fyra kapitel om Carl Schmitts sekularitet
Sammanfattning : In 1922, the German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) wrote that “all significant concepts of modern state theory are secularized theological concepts”. He qualified this statement by describing the connection between theology and state theory as being both historical – signifying a process of transition and transmission – and structural-systematic – signifying a structural likeness. LÄS MER