Sökning: "mikael carleheden"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden mikael carleheden.
1. Det andra moderna : Om Jürgen Habermas och den samhällsteoretiska
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2. Depression : vor tidsalders vrangside
Sammanfattning : What are the social conditions that enable depression to play a significant societal role in contemporary Western societies? This is the leading question of the dissertation. As an alternative to those who claim that contemporary depression is constructed by the exorbitant consumption of antidepressants, it is stated that both depression and the consumption of antidepressants is possible due to contemporary social conditions. LÄS MER
3. From Antagonism to Alienation : Redirecting Radical Democracy
Sammanfattning : How can democratic theory address contemporary problems of alienation? Today, alienation manifests itself primarily in processes of precarization and deprofessionalization. When the subject’s work security or professional autonomy is undermined, her relations – not only to others, but also to herself – can become inhibited. LÄS MER
4. Den frånvarande intellektuelle : En diskursteoretisk analys av en kollektiv representation
Sammanfattning : From an institutionalized conception of contemporary intellectuals as silent or absent, the aim of this thesis is to analyse how the representation of the intellectual changed from a hero of reason to a more or less absent actor. Descriptions of intellectuals that were initially analysed which showed that the representation of the intellectual, besides being linked to modernity, contained a relationship between the individual actor and political power, a relationship which could be traced back to ancient myths. LÄS MER
5. Radical democracy redux : politics and subjectivity beyond Habermas and Mouffe
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates two contemporary theories of radical democracy, Jürgen Habermas’s deliberative and Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic democracy. By bringing the two scholars together and constructing a debate between them, their respective strengths and weaknesses are highlighted and the similarities and differences are pointed out. LÄS MER