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  1. 1. Interpreting the Haitian Revolution: From the Rights of Man to Human Rights

    Författare :Carl Wilén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; The Haitian Revolution; Marxist critique of right; The concept of abstraction; The legal form; Social movements; Human rights; Universalism; Inequality;

    Sammanfattning : In recent decades, a ‘Haitian Turn’ has emerged as both academic and public readerships in the anglophone sphere have been flooded by a wave of essays, articles, and monographs on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). At the epicentre of the present study is one of the major interpretations of the Haitian Revolution in the Haitian Turn, which I call the ‘universality paradigm’. LÄS MER

  3. 2. La Fragilité des Limites - une lecture de la critique de la modernité chez Alain Finkielkraut

    Författare :Matilde Tiozzo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finkielkraut; Modernity; limits; literature; critique of modernity; common world; Human Plurality; egalitarianism; private-public; particularism; universalism;

    Sammanfattning : For over forty years Alain Finkielkraut has been part of debates that have structured, and sometimes divided, public and intellectual life in France. He is an intellectual who arouses controversy, disapproval and admiration. The aim of this thesis is to go beyond these normative considerations and propose a hermeneutic analysis of his work. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Resaying the Human : Levinas Beyond Humanism and Antihumanism

    Författare :Carl Cederberg; Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback; Hans Ruin; Staffan Carlshamre; Bettina Bergo; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Levinas; Heidegger; The Human; Humanism; Critique; Antihumanism; Human Rights; The Other; Universalism; Violence; Responsibility; Transcendence; The Political; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

    Sammanfattning : In this reading a notion of the human is developed through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Emanuel Levinas. The argument is that, with the help of Levinas, it is possible for the idea of the human to be understood anew, for the notion to be ‘resaid’. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Marketization in Swedish Eldercare : Implications for Users, Professionals, and the State

    Författare :Linda Moberg; Paula Blomqvist; Ulrika Winblad; Stig Montin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Marketization; Eldercare; Universalism; Social care; Privatized provision; User choice; Competition; Swedish welfare state; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : During the last decades, Swedish policy makers have implemented various marketization reforms into the public welfare sector in order to make it more cost-efficient and to improve its quality. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate what implications this marketization trend has had for the organization of Swedish eldercare. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Community, Justice, and Freedom : Liberalism, Communitarianism, and African Contributions to Political Ethics

    Författare :Isaias Ezekiel Chachine; Carl-Henric Grenholm; John Atherton; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Ethics; community; justice; freedom; ubuntu; liberalism; libertarianism; communitarianism; view of human; individualism; justification; liberation; opppression; relationship; belonging; universalism; contextualism; Etik; Etik; Ethics;

    Sammanfattning : This study deals with theories of community, justice, and freedom within liberalism, communitarianism, African philosophy and theology. The study maintains that there are different latitudes on how to formulate and articulate theories of community, justice and freedom informed by particualr moral experiences with bearing on different views of human. LÄS MER