Sökning: "classical modernity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden classical modernity.

  1. 1. Överflöd och ofullbordan : Essä om det moderna

    Författare :Bo Isenberg; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; abstraction; abundance; classical modernity; contingency; crisis; modernity; oblivion; postmodernity; the principle of insufficient reason; religion; society; sociology; structivity; Sociology; tradition; cultural sociology; historical anthropology; Sociologi; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Sammanfattning : The problem which the present study discusses is modernity. The study interprets modernity’s cultural and anthropological dispositions as historical appearances. Consequently, it is situated at the intersection of cultural sociology and historical anthropology. The aim is to generate insight and understanding rather than a coherent theory. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Shock and Naturalization : An Inquiry into the Perception of Modernity

    Författare :Carl Cassegård; Sociologi; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Japanese studies; literature; Adorno; Benjamin; modernity; critical theory; Sociology; Kawabata Yasunari; Murakami Haruki; Adorno; Benjamin; Sociologi;

    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

  4. 3. Upplysning utan förnuft : begär och frihet hos Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume och Montesquieu

    Författare :Victoria Höög; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; postmodernism; modernity; women; political freedom; classical republicanism; human nature; reason; virtue; passions; Enlightenment; desire; David Hume; Charles de Montesquieu.; History of philosophy; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This essay has three main aims. The first one is to give an overview of some hundred years of European intellectual history, bringing out new aspects of the classical thinkers. The analysis of the four philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume and Charles de Montesquieu aims at illustrating a general historical process, viz. LÄS MER

  5. 4. När dansen blev modern : Framväxt, formering och förändring av ett svenskt konstområde, 1930-1960

    Författare :Ingrid Redbark Wallander; Lena Hammergren; Karen Anfred Vedel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; choreographer; classical ballet; cultural policy; cultural theory; dance critic; dance discourses; dance pedagogue; dancer; ethnographic dance; free dance; historiography; modernity; organization; professionalization; public education; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation, When Dance Became Modern (När dansen blev modern), deals with theatrical dance in Sweden between 1930 and 1960 from a historiographical perspective and assumes that dance is interwoven with socio-cultural contexts. The aim is to investigate what factors create the conditions for certain genres and aesthetics to emerge. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Slippery paths : The performance and canonization of Turkic literature and Uyghur muqam song in Islam and modernity

    Författare :Nathan Light; USA IN Indiana University; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Folklore; Song; Islam; Muqam; Modernity; Language; literature and linguistics; Social sciences; Turkic; Canonization; Middle Eastern literature; Uyghur; Performance; China; Asian literature; Turkic languages; Turkiska språk; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Religionshistoria; History of Religions;

    Sammanfattning : In the past forty years the fluid Uyghur muqam song tradition has been transformed into a cultural canon used to represent the Uyghur ethnic group within China and on the world stage. Traditional muqam performers have provided the magma of songs that scholars and politicians have edited into an invented "great tradition" which supports a Uyghur claim to an important piece world cultural history. LÄS MER