Sökning: "the unknown"

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  1. 1. The forgotten encyclopedia : the Maurists' dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences, the unrealized rival of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert

    Författare :Linn Holmberg; Mohammad Fazlhashemi; Caroline Boucher; Daniel-Odon Hurel; Antony McKenna; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the congregation of Saint-Maur; the Maurists; Dom Antoine-Joseph Pernety; the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert; the Dictionnaire de Trévoux; history of science and ideas; history of encyclopedism; history of Monasticism; history of the book; the French Enlightenment; classification and organization of knowledge; Eighteenth-Century sciences and arts; microhistory; History Of Sciences and Ideas; idé- och lärdomshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : In mid-eighteenth century Paris, two Benedictine monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur – also known as the Maurists – started compiling a universal dictionary of arts, crafts, and sciences. The project was initiated simultaneously with what would become one of the most famous literary enterprises in Western intellectual history: the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Old, the New and the Unknown : The continents and the making of geographical knowledge in seventeenth-century Sweden

    Författare :Charlotta Forss; Mats Hallenberg; Henrik Ågren; Kristiina Savin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical geography; Ottoman Empire; colonial America; conceptual history; history of knowledge; history of cartography; history of science; religious geography; early modern history; historisk geografi; kartografi; begreppshistoria; kunskapshistoria; Osmanska riket; vetenskapshistoria; religiös geografi; tidigmodern historia; det koloniala Amerika; History; historia;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates early modern ways of looking at the world through an analysis of what the continents meant in three settings of knowledge making in seventeenth-century Sweden. Combining text, maps and images, the thesis analyses the meaning of the continents in, first, early modern scholarly ‘geography’, second, accounts of journeys to the Ottoman Empire and, third, accounts of journeys to the colony New Sweden. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Den surrealistiska erfarenheten: Upplevelsen. En tolkning av surrealismens åskådning

    Författare :Jan-Gunnar Sjölin; Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; the future; absence of direct communication. Experience of presence: surprise; transparency; derangement of the senses; unimpeded experience; Experience of absence: waiting and anticipation; being a stranger in front of one s own work; the unknown; the absurd; the new; incomprehensibility; le jamais vu ; absence of expression; special meaning. Experience of latent or hidden meaning: meaning as unknown; special order and logic; the unaccountable reactions; as latent; experience of fear; as unconscious; obstacles to the experience of manifest meaning; absence of latent or hidden meaning; as hidden; mystery versus mystification; nature of special meaning; symbolism. Experience of meaning as manifest: enigmas; the inaccessible and the inexpressible. True experience of meaning: the golden age; manifest nature of meaning; immaculate experience; privileged moments; preconditions of true experience; illumination; revelation;

    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

  5. 4. Pedagogies of the unknown : studying for a future, without guarantees

    Författare :Lisa Nyberg; Anette Baldauf; Renate Lorenz; María do Mar Castro Varela; Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Pedagogy; Freire; future studies; utopia; unknown; critical consciousness; meditation; guided meditation; imagining otherwise; pedagogik; framtidsstudier; Freire; utopi; anti-fascism; meditation; guidad meditation; Konstnärlig forskning; Artistic research;

    Sammanfattning : Lisa Nyberg's PhD project starts from the question: how can we study for a future unknown? In light of anthropogenic climate change, a global environmental crisis, and its destabilizing impact on social and economic systems, there is an urgency to examine how we relate to the future in our pedagogy; how we anticipate, imagine and prepare through our teaching and our studies. At the basis of this research is a teaching practice; the classroom of aesthetic education at the intersection of study, creative work and the institution. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Picturing the Public : Advertising Self-Regulation in Sweden and the UK

    Författare :Caroline Dahlberg; Göran Ahrne; Laurent Thévenot; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; advertising self-regulation; images; decision-making; reflexive cognition; interpretation; evaluation; justification; worlds of worth; moral conventions; moral conflicts; gender; the public; the unknown other; viewers; offence; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : Across the globe, people are everyday audiences of advertising images, which have become integrated in our life worlds. Advertising images are entangled with interesting moral conflicts. LÄS MER