Sökning: "nature of special meaning"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 25 avhandlingar innehållade orden nature of special meaning.
1. Den surrealistiska erfarenheten: Upplevelsen. En tolkning av surrealismens åskådning
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the study is to offer an interpretation of surrealism as lived experience or, more exactly, an interpretation of the ways in which the Surrealists themselves respond to and conceive of this experience. Thus, emphasis is put on surrealism as event and process, not as a historically limited phenomenon. LÄS MER
2. Platsens blick : Vetenskapsakademien och den naturalhistoriska resan 1790-1840
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the relationship between travel as a form of knowledge and the natural history pursued at the Royal Academy of Science during the period 1790-1840. Primarily, this dissertation deals with the perception of travel as a form of knowledge which existed at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, though a number of selected journeys are used to illustrate the era's shifting perceptions on travel. LÄS MER
3. Beyond the Controversy: A Study of African Theologies of Inculturation and Liberation
Sammanfattning : When Harry Sawyerr wrote his essay "What is African Theology?", published first in African Theological Journal, vol. 4 (1971), it appeared from its contents that he was making short comments about James Cone's Black theology that could have disappeared in the midst of more pressing African theological issues. LÄS MER
4. Neighbourhood nursing : connection, place and meaning in the everyday experience of dementia
Sammanfattning : Background: Recent policy is marked by a shift towards enabling people with dementia to remain at home and in their neighbourhoods, yet little is known about the wider perspective of neighbourhood as an everyday place of connection, practice and meaning in the lives of people with experience of dementia. Aims: The aim of this thesis is twofold. LÄS MER
5. An animal without an animal within : investigating the identities of pet keeping
Sammanfattning : If the human is an animal without an animal within—a creature that has transcended the animal condition—what is a pet? This creature balancing on the border between nature and culture, simultaneously included in and excluded from a human “we”, is the focus of this thesis. The thesis analyzes the discourses and normative frameworks structuring the meaning of pets in people’s lives. LÄS MER