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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade ordet tragedy.
6. Kultiveringens politik : Martha Nussbaum, antiken och filosofins praktik
Sammanfattning : The Politics of Cultivation is a study on how the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum actualizes Ancient political philosophy to re-negotiate core assumptions in her own contemporary ethical-political discussions. The aim is to explore the potentiality Nussbaum discerns in Ancient philosophy and how this potentiality is actualized in her thoughts on cultivation as a critique of what she sees as reductive cultures of knowledge. LÄS MER
7. Aeschylus' Supplices : introduction and commentary on vv. 1-523
Sammanfattning : Aeschylus' (525-456 B.C.) drama the Suppliant women (Greek Hikétides, Lat. Supplices) is all certain to be the first in a trilogy of tragedies with appurtenant comic epilogue, 'satyr-play'. LÄS MER
8. “Only Leave Them to Themselves” : Frances Brooke’s Fictional Worlds of Emancipatory Sensibility
Sammanfattning : In conversation but frequently at odds with contemporary voices on education, British eighteenth-century writer Frances Brooke (1724-1789) argued for a thoroughly revised approach to moral education that relied on the emancipatory potential of inborn sensibility. This thesis considers Brooke’s original texts, which range from periodical writing, novels, tragedies, operas, and prefaces, in the light of education, sensibility, and form, with the intention of expanding our understanding of Brooke’s contribution to eighteenth-century proto-feminist debates. LÄS MER
9. The Tragedy of the Global Commons in Public International Law
Sammanfattning : To what extent does public international law that generally applies in our global commons enable a tragedy of the commons in the global commons? The theory of the tragedy of the commons describes the plights of overuse and degradation that shared resources face when subject to, inter alia, a freedom of use, and the theory is often applied to criticize certain positive emanations of public international law in the global commons. As the theory is routinely used in the context of economic approaches to law and commons, the method employed is a positive economic analysis of international law. LÄS MER
10. The Untimely-Image : On Contours of the New in Political Film-Thinking
Sammanfattning : This study creates and develops a concept called the untimely-image including two sub-concepts called contours of the new and the untimely-site. The untimely-image concerns the clearing for and the expression of figures of “potential” in thought in the form of moving-images. LÄS MER