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Gilday, Patrick E. "Musical thought and the early German Reformation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0ac3d705-c00e-4fc9-b90c-4902f9b54f8f.
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German musicology has customarily situated a paradigm shift in musical aesthetics some time during the first half of the sixteenth century. This dissertation examines the suggestion that German Reformation theology inspired a modern musical aesthetic. In Part One, the existing narrative of relationship between theological and musical thought is tested and rejected. Chapter 1 analyses twentieth-century music historians' positive expectation of commensurability between Luther's theological ideas and the sixteenth-century concepts of the musical work and musical rhetoric, concluding that their positive expectation was dependent on a Germanocentric modernity narrative. Chapter 2 assesses Listenius' Musica (1537), the textbook in which the concepts of the musical work and musica poetica were expounded for the first time. I argue that, since Listenius' textbook was intended as a pedagogical tool, it is inappropriate to read his exposition of musica poetica and opus as if logical sentences on musical aesthetics. Part Two investigates the treatment of musica in the theology of early German Reformation disputants. Chapter 3 finds that Luther's early musical thought was borrowed from the late mediæval mystics, and resisted the influence of the Renaissance Platonists. Chapter 4 shows that, far from embracing humanist ideas of musical rhetoric, Luther's Reformed musical aesthetic became increasingly anti-rational and sceptical of music's relation to verbal meaning. Chapter 5 examines the discussions of music by the German Romanist polemicists. It finds that their music-aesthetic assertions were opportunistic attempts to situate the Lutherans outside the bounds of orthodoxy. The dissertation concludes that the discussions of music in early German Reformation texts ran counter to the general sixteenth-century trajectory towards a humanistic or modern aesthetic of music. It further argues that the aesthetic proposals of sixteenth-century German theologians should be taken seriously in the formation of our present-day picture of sixteenth-century musical thought.
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Michelbach, Philip A. "Finding voice the presence of German political thought /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3208278.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 5, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 478-509).
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Backhaus, Ursula Margarete. "A history of German and Austrian economic thought on health issues." [S.l. : [Groningen : s.n.] ; University Library Groningen] [Host], 2007. http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/30422698X.
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Nelson, Scott B. [Verfasser]. "Tragedy and History : The German Influence on Raymond Aron’s Political Thought / Scott B. Nelson." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1187619469/34.
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Greineder, Daniel. "Conceptions and functions of mythology in German thought from Winckelmann to the early Schelling." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404198.
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Petzschmann, Paul. "Challenges of Mass Society - German Emigre Political Thought in the United States 1933-1942." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508660.
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Bryant, G. H. "Redesigning life and art : the quest for a Gesamtkunstwerk in modern German art and thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597040.
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The thesis traces a theme in modern art and intellectual history, the idea of a “total work of art”, from its inception in the “aesthetic revolution” of Early Romanticism and Idealist philosophy around 1800, via its programmatic articulation in the mid-nineteenth century, to some exemplary manifestations in art and architecture in the early twentieth century. Whilst references to a Gesamtkunstwerk abound a critical study dealing with its conceptual foundations, socio-political implications, ideological context, and its ambivalent place in the history of architectural modernism in particular, has long been missing. Chapter One deals with the literary-philosophical anticipation of the Gesamtkunstwerk in German Idealism and Early Romanticism. In Chapter Two the conceptual foundations of the idea of Art as a prefiguration of life are discussed, followed by an analysis of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the context of nineteenth-century Romantic Historicism, in which, among other issues, the significance of the wide-spread notion of a “Great Style” and the idea of a Stilsynthese are emphasised. Chapter Three is devoted to the programmatic launch of the Gesamtkunstwerk by Richard Wagner, the aestheticization of past culture in the writings of the historian Jacob Burckhardt, and the culmination of the “aesthetic revolution” in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The second half focuses on important exponents of the quest for a Gesamtkunstwerk in the early twentieth century, that is, certain aspects of the Jugendstil and the œuvre of Peter Behrens in Chapter Four, and German Expressionism in Chapter Five. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the integration of the machine into the realm of Art. The proclaimed synthesis of aesthetics and technology in the first decades of the twentieth century is discussed as a reformation of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk with far reaching consequences in modern culture.
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Vardi, Gil-li. "The enigma of German operational theory : the evolution of military thought in Germany, 1919-1938." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/123/.
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From the end of the Second World War historians have sought to answer one of its most intriguing questions: to what - and to whom - did the Wehrmacht owe its shocking initial operational successes? What was the nature of German strategic and operational perceptions, and were they new — or even, as some researchers have suggested, 'revolutionary'? Was German post-1918 military culture conducive to a thorough investigation of past mistakes, a re-evaluation of traditional notions, and the pursuit of new ideas? In reality the Reichswehr officer corps jealously defended its inherited conceptual boundaries, retreated ever-deeper into a one-dimensional self-perception and strategic outlook, and offered conceptually ossified solutions to the Republic's pressing security problems. German officers, convinced that their doctrine and military world-view were flawless, never challenged the axioms and values that had brought army and nation to catastrophe in 1918: extreme warfare, culminating in the most destructive and eventually self-destructive actions; extremes of risk-taking; the endless pursuit of annihilational battles that dictated the reduction of strategy to meticulous operational and tactical planning; the trust in 'spiritual superiority' to overcome enemy advantages in material and manpower; ruthlessness; and an exaggerated drive for action at all costs. Idiosyncratic operational planning that was at times completely detached from strategic reality completed the picture of a military organisation unable to renew itself. No comprehensive analysis has yet convincingly explained this astonishing continuity, or linked it to the allegedly innovative operational theory and doctrine that evolved in the second half of the 1930s. The concept of military and organisational culture can however provide the necessary theoretical foundations for understanding both that continuity and the doctrinal shape that it assumed in the imminence of the Second World War. It can explain - as this thesis demonstrates - the disastrous and seemingly inexplicable wrong-headedness of a group of otherwise highly intelligent men.
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Riley, Matthew. "Attentive listening the concept of Aufmerksamkeit and its significance in German musical thought, 1770-1790 /." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.325815.
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Kasulke, Maren S. "V.F. Odoevskij and Novalis, the heritage of the German Fruehromantik in Odoevskij's thought and Russian nights." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ51203.pdf.
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Biddle, Ian Duncan. "Autonomy, ontology and the ideal : music theory and philosophical aesthetics in early Nineteenth Century German thought." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/371.
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This thesis falls into two distinct parts. The first gives an account of the economic and social factors which contributed to the emergence of the new post- Cartesian world order in early nineteenth-century Germany and attempts to ground the German response to the French theories of mimesis in this broader context. The second, larger, part engages in an analysis of the philosophical aesthetics of the critic and writer Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, and the Idealists Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, paying particular attention to the notions of musical closure embedded in the their usage or intimation of the terms autonomy, ontology and the ideal. To this end, this thesis attempts to analyse the relationship between the organic structures of early nineteenth-century Naturphilosophie and aesthetic approaches to music from that same period.
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Lehleiter, Christine. "Inheriting the future, generating the past heritage, pedigree and lineage in German literature and thought around 1800 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274274.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007.Title from dissertation home page (viewed April 8, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2962. Adviser: Fritz Breithaupt.
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Ahnert, Thomas. "Religion and the origins of the German Enlightenment : faith and the reform of learning in the thought of Christian Thomasius /." Rochester (N.Y.) : University of Rochester press, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40155060r.
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Higgins, Edwina. "German aesthetics as a response to Kant's "Third Critique" : the thought of Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Holderlin and Friedrich Schlegel in the 1790s." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54819/.
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This thesis is about the way aesthetic thought changed or developed in Germany in the years immediately after the publication of Immanuel Kant's third critique - A Critique of the Power of Judgement. Besides many comparatively minor developments, it identifies three important changes in aesthetic thinking after Kant. Firstly, there was an increased emphasis on the integrated and interdependent nature of the human thinking that Kant had been more concerned to classify and analyse. Secondly, the change in aesthetics marks the change from Enlightenment classicism to Early German Romanticism. Thirdly, the role of aesthetics itself changed, from attempting to define the concept of beauty and explain how we perceive it, to claiming that aesthetics is concerned with humanity's search for meaning in the work of art. This last development amounts to a suggestion that the hermeneutic strand in philosophy grew out of early post-Kantian aesthetics. Three thinkers have been selected as a means of showing these changes. They are Friedrich Schiller, the poet and dramatist, Friedrich Holderlin, the poet, and Friedrich Schlegel, the literary theorist and essayist. Chronologically, our period begins in 1793 and ends about 1800, just before the death of Kant (1804), the death of Schiller (1805), the mental collapse of Holderlin (1806), and with the final editions of Schlegel's literary journal, Athendum (1800). This timespan allows a fairly close study of Schiller's influential series of essays on philosophical aesthetics, which he wrote in direct response to the Third Critique, re-examining Kant's claim that the judgement of taste is subjective, and expanding Kant's account of how it is possible to create works of art and also of Friedrich Holderlin's and Friedrich Schlegel's most productive years, when both worked out aesthetic theories that moved onwards from Schiller, but nevertheless remained indebted to Kant in several respects.
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Jokilehto, Jukka. "A history of architectural conservation the contribution of English, French, German and Italian thought towards an international approach to the conservation of cultural property /." Connect to PDF file, 2005. http://www.iccrom.org/pdf/ICCROM_05_HistoryofConservation00_en.pdf.
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Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of York, England, 1986.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jun. 16, 2008). "September 1986 (recomposed in PDF format, February 2005)". Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-453).
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Jokilehto, J. I. "A history of architectural conservation : The contribution of English, French, German and Italian thought towards an international approach to the conservation of cultural property." Thesis, University of York, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374168.
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Curi, Luiz Felipe Bruzzi. "Nationalökonomie nos trópicos: pensamento econômico alemão no Brasil (1889-1945)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8137/tde-15082018-115708/.
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Esta tese versa sobre assimilações, no Brasil, de linhagens germânicas de pensamento econômico, entre 1889 e 1945. A Parte I discute questões teóricas e historiográficas que orientaram a pesquisa. Situa-se a história do pensamento econômico no âmbito de alguns marcos teóricos e, dentro dessa área, esboçam-se algumas reflexões sobre a temática da difusão internacional como campo de pesquisa histórica. Na Parte II, aborda-se o pensamento econômico alemão: a formação da Nationalökonomie, as correntes oitocentistas mais influentes no Brasil e, por fim, três trajetórias pessoais de Friedrich List, Adolph Wagner e Carl Landauer que dão corpo à história de ideias feita inicialmente. A Parte III volta o olhar para os trópicos e examina as apropriações germânicas de Rui Barbosa, dos industrialistas na transição republicana, do gaúcho Francisco Simch e de Roberto Simonsen. A principal conclusão do trabalho é que houve apropriação efetiva do pensamento econômico alemão no Brasil, embora os temas não tenham sido incorporados de maneira uniforme.This thesis deals with Brazilian assimilations of German lineages of economic thought, between 1889 and 1945. In Part I I discuss the theoretical and historiographic issues involved in the research. The study of history of economic thought is placed into a theoretical framework and, within this area, I sketch some considerations on the nature of the international diffusion as a field of historical research. In Part II I approach German nineteenth-century economic thought: the formation of Nationalökonomie, the lineages most influent in Brazil and, finally, three personal cases Friedrich List, Adolph Wagner and Carl Landauer which give concrete substance to the history of ideas presented before. Part III focuses on the tropics and examines German influences on: Rui Barbosa, the industrialists of the beginning of the Brazilian Republic, Francisco Simch and Roberto Simonsen. The main conclusion of this study is that there was an effective appropriation of German economic thought in Brazil, although topics were not incorporated in a uniform manner.
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Santos, Murilo Gonçalves dos. "A teoria da história de Raymond Aron para além do Reno: "Découverte de l'Allemagne"." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8274.
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Abstract: The work is subsumed on the objective of examining the theory of history developed by Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983), accounted primarily in relation to its connection with german thought. The process of constitution of his theoretical-epistemological, as well as political thought was deeply marked by the strenuous presence of german philosophical conceptions, whose fruitful dialogue took place, especially, during the decade of 1930, which resulted in the conception of his doctoral thesis, namely, Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire: Essai sur les limits de l'objectivité Historique. The defense of this thesis is the representation of a process marked by the struggle not only of generations, but also of different systems of thought. The question of this work is, in this sense, precisely the critical analysis of the "appropriation" presented by the work of Aron, from the confrontation of the works he carried out in the 1930s with the tradition of which he is considered to belong and, finally, to prescribe its specificity. This discussion is embedded in a larger context which deals with the reception of german philosophical and sociological thought in France. Aron was from his formation linked to german philosophy, initially to Kant and, later, to phenomenology, marxism, to the philosophy of W. Dilthey, as well as to the Neo-Kantianism of the Baden School, and especially to Max Weber. This period is decisive for the constitution of his theory of history or, in Aron's terms, of his "critical philosophy of history", based on the "critique of historical reason". A theory distinguished mainly by the search of the limits of historical objectivity and by an ontological-existential perspective.
O trabalho encontra-se subsumido no objetivo do exame da teoria da história desenvolvida por Raymond Aron (1905 - 1983) considerada, primordialmente, em relação ao seu vínculo com o pensamento alemão. O processo de constituição do seu pensamento teórico-epistemológico, bem como político, foi profundamente marcado pela forte presença de concepções filosóficas alemãs, cujo fecundo diálogo foi realizado, especialmente, durante a década de 1930, o qual resultou na concepção de sua tese de doutoramento, a saber, Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire: Essai sur les limites de l'objectivité Historique. A defesa dessa tese é a representação de um processo marcado pelo embate não só de gerações, mas de sistemas de pensamento distintos. A questão de trabalho é, nesse sentido, justamente a análise crítica dessa “apropriação” apresentada pela obra de Aron, a partir da confrontação de seus trabalhos realizados na década de 1930 com a tradição da qual se julga pertencente e, finalmente, da determinação de sua especificidade. Esta discussão está inserida em um contexto maior que trata da recepção do pensamento filosófico e sociológico alemão na França. Aron esteve desde a sua formação ligado à filosofia alemã, inicialmente a Kant e, posteriormente, com a fenomenologia, o marxismo, com a filosofia de W. Dilthey, bem como com o neokantismo da Escola de Baden e, principalmente, com Max Weber. Este período é determinante para a constituição de sua teoria da história ou, nos termos de Aron, de sua “filosofia crítica da história”, baseada na “crítica da razão histórica”. Uma teoria marcada principalmente pela busca dos limites da objetividade histórica e por uma perspectiva ontológico-existencial.
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Cholee, Jin Sung. "Gender Analysis of Politics, Economics and Culture of Korean Reunification: Toward a Feminist Theological Foundation for Reunified Society." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/64.
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In this study, I have focused on the process for an eventual reunification of North and South Korea. In this process, Korean political, economic, cultural and religious issues are necessarily present. My study focuses on cultural and religious factors. I adopt the German reunification as a case study. The German reunification process provides Koreans with lessons about the negative changes in the status of German women since the German reunification caused extreme instances of the loss of status and economic opportunity for women. German reunification shows that the unequal situation and systems in society were not only due to political positions. Strong religious factors deeply influenced the German mentality.
A similar religion-factor is at work in North Korean society which is influenced by Confucianism and in South Korean society which is influenced by Confucianism and conservative Christianity. I argue that religion is one of the major factors in the political culture of Korea, and religion can either assist a fair and equal process for both women and men or it can in a biased way maintain a male-oriented form of reunification. Consequently, the cultural and religious factors in this process of reunification must include an equalization of women and men. This can only take place if Korean women are major participants in the entire reunification process. There is a serious need for a reunification theology which incorporate gender into Korean theology, thus providing a 'feminist reunification theology.' A 'feminist reunification theology' presents basic theological principles that will help build an egalitarian community. There are three important ways to include women's concern for true reunification: 1) The creation of an egalitarian community in work, family and society; 2) The restoration of humanity by healing love and forgiveness through the power of Cross; and 3) The need for religion to be reformed in which a women can be a co-leader in family, church and nation.
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Lehner, Andrea. ""Pousser au milieu des choses" : sur l'actualité des philosophies de la nature face aux défis écologiques." Thesis, Paris 10, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA100043.
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Cette thèse ambitionne de comprendre la dimension métaphysique de la crise écologique contemporaine. Pour ce faire, nous analysons d’abord ce que nous considérons comme les deux fondements métaphysiques de cette crise : d’une part l’éloignement progressif de la subjectivité vis à vis de la nature et d’autre part l’incapacité, après la révolution transcendantale kantienne, à penser la nature indépendamment de son rapport au sujet qui la pense. Nous signalons ce tournant transcendantal, où la nature est devenue une nature pour l’homme plutôt qu’une nature d’avant l’homme, comme le moment décisif de la séparation entre sujet et nature. Puis, nous examinons, à partir de la Naturphilosophie de Schelling et de l’ontologie de la nature du dernier Merleau-Ponty, les tentatives des philosophies de la nature de repenser le rapport entre sujet et nature, afin de sortir des impasses où la philosophie transcendantale avait mené. Enfin, nous esquissons, à partir des travaux de Whitehead, Simondon et Deleuze, une pensée non anthropocentrique et non-dualiste de la nature, où c’est la nature qui vient à la pensée plutôt que d’être subsumée sous les catégories a priori d’un sujet qui la déterminerait. Nous défendons l’idée qu’une telle pensée de la nature, en proposant un constructivisme respectueux qui « pousse au milieu des choses » (Deleuze), est susceptible d’être à la hauteur des défis écologiques actuels et du nécessaire tournant écologique de la pensée qui s’imposeThis thesis aims to consider the metaphysical dimension of the current ecological crisis. By narrowing down the crisis to its metaphysical components, we analyze what we identify as its main source: the growing distancing between nature and thought, which leads to our incapacity to think nature on its own terms. We argue that both the modern bifurcation of nature and Kant’s transcendental revolution are at the base of this distancing between nature and thought. And yet, limited scope of these approaches turned out to be prolific. They inspired philosophies of nature to develop a very fertile ground to think nature and the future of philosophy’s relation to nature after transcendental philosophy. It is these philosophies of nature that we seek to explore in the second moment of our research. We examine Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and the later Merleau-Ponty’s engagement with philosophy of nature, in order to locate the way in which they try to overcome certain limits of transcendental philosophy’s approach to nature. Finally, after tracing certain elements from Whitehead’s and Deleuze’s philosophy of nature, and its relevance for thinking nature in a non-anthropocentric nor dualistic way. We locate in these philosophies of nature a way of thinking where it is nature that comes to thought, and not the transcendental subject that determines or constitutes nature by subsuming it under universal concepts. This thought of nature assumes itself as constructivist, but it is a special type of constructivism, one that « grows in the midst of things » (Deleuze). One such thinking, we defend, would be able to live up to the challenges raised in an age of ecological crisis
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Whaling, Thomas Francis. "Being Thought and Thinking Being in Hegel's Science of Logic." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/491192.
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My aim in this dissertation is to explain Hegel’s motivation for, and the doctrine of, the identity of the identity and difference of thought and being and argue that while thought and being differ, their nature is identical. This identity is used to explain Hegel’s claim that what is real is rational and what is rational is real. The aim of this dissertation is squarely placed within ontology, and my interest is in the structure of being as opposed to metaphysical contents. Within this structure, I argue, Hegel shows us the irreversible method of that which comes to be and ceases to be. This method (or nature) is a rational process of being itself, which, while its contents are forever changing, they do so from the same invariant identity of thought and being. As a matter of method, there is an increasing difficulty in assessing the merit of Hegel’s account of thought and being – obscuring what merit my interpretation may offer. The difficulty is a growing trend in combining Hegel’s work with specific Kantian ambitions where Hegel is forced into cognitive restrictions he does not have. As indebted as Hegel is to Kant, I argue that Hegel’s value lies in his break with Kant’s critical program. This break affords a new understanding of category theory apart from our subjective acts of understanding. With this new understanding, we can grasp the identity of thought and being through what I take to be a more promising account of cognition than what much of contemporary Hegel scholarship has offered by interpreting Hegel’s work as a completion of Kant’s. I sequence the chapters of this dissertation to trace Hegel’s increasing philosophic distance from Kant on those issues that interfere with understanding Hegel’s identity of thought and being. However, to demonstrate this distance and still progress to Hegel’s position apart from Kant, I limit my discussion of Kant to Hegel’s interpretation of Kant’s work and motivation. This limitation comes with the weakness that Kantian responses to Hegel exist but are not presented. However, this dissertation does not aim at defending Hegel’s interpretation of Kant but explains what Hegel has made of Kant’s texts to further Hegel’s arguments. Lastly, for what philosophic utility may be gained from this dissertation, Hegel offers the freedom for critical investigation regarding ontological and metaphysical matters without the presupposition of metaphysical commitments. This topic is treated at length in the last chapter of this dissertation. What is presented in this dissertation is a method by which no more is assumed than the inability to deny that thought exists, as such a denial presupposes thought, and then to trace the implications of the existence of thought according to what its occurrence signifies. Employing this method allows us to be metaphysically neutral and approach being as philosophically accessible.
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Siclovan, Diana. "Lorenz Stein and German socialism, 1835-1872." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283220.
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This thesis traces the intellectual trajectory of Lorenz Stein (1815-1890), a German legal scholar and political thinker who, despite being a significant theorist during his lifetime, is an obscure figure today, especially in Anglophone scholarship. It focuses on Stein's writings on socialism and argues that they provide crucial insights into the changing nature of socialist thought in the mid-nineteenth century. It contributes to the project of departing from a Marxist interpretation of the history of socialism that has long been predominant, and uses Stein's intellectual biography to illustrate how contingent political, cultural and personal factors have shaped both the creation and reception of socialist ideas.
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Delaney, Michelle. "Private and public in the prose works and critical thought of Volker Braun 1959-1985." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340569.
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Brandby, Cöster Margareta. "Att uppfatta allt mänskligt : underströmmar av luthersk livsförståelse i Selma Lagerlöfs författarskap. Swedish text with a German summery." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-5587.
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This thesis categorises some characteristic features in the 20th century Lutheran theology, in order to create a picture of the Lutheran theology and Lutheran pre-understanding of life which leave its marks on Selma Lagerlöf as well as on other contemporary expressions of faith and worldviews. Four Lutheran figures of thought are examined as undercurrents in the discourse of the writings of Selma Lagerlöf. They are a) The understanding of Word and Faith, which includes the understanding of justification by faith. b) Faith in God as Creator and in his providence. c) The doctrine of vocatio and God's two regiments. d) The theology of the Cross that emphasises the descent of God and God's taking part in the human life. This investigation has shown that the epic of Lagerlöf can be read in terms of Lutheran theology. The religious roots of Selma Lagerlöf are often described as ”a nothing” - a traditional background, a friendly non-doctrinal piety, and so forth. But this inconspicuous and unconscious religious background has a content, namely the Lutheran faith in the culture and society in which she grew up. Some of the great novels such as The story of Gösta Berlings saga, Jerusalem and The wonderful adventures of Nils and some stories, sagas and legends are investigated. The study shows how the Lutheran understanding of life is expressed in these texts and their interpretation of the reality.
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Mathers, Norman Wayne. "Paul Tillich‘s life, thought and German legacy (1886-1933)." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26815.
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Orizu, Michaela C. "The German influence on the life and thought of W.E.B. DuBois." 2001. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/2566.
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Nahme, Paul. "From Critical to Prophetic Idealism: Ethics, Law, and Religion in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43672.
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In this study of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen, I argue that Cohen’s revision of Kantian ethics and moral theology is permeated with concepts drawn from and logically contoured by his interpretation of Maimonidean rationalism and Jewish sources, more generally. Through an idealizing hermeneutic, Cohen normativizes certain philosophical problems in post-Kantian philosophy and addresses them under the title of "pantheism" and "positivism". Between both pantheism and positivism, Cohen’s idealism presents a middle path, which I describe as "prophetic idealism", or a philosophy of time and ideality that interprets history, law, and ethical normativity as future-oriented. In other words, "prophecy" intimates a methodological role for temporality in practical philosophy and introduces a new meaning for legality in ethics. Cohen therefore offers a philosophy of Judaism, as a philosophy of religion, by normativizing the idea of prophecy and making it a conceptual model for reason-giving, agency, legal norms and ethical action. By focusing upon the critique of both pantheism and positivism, this dissertation therefore argues that Cohen’s negotiations of nineteenth-century philosophical problems introduces a normative role for Judaism as a public philosophy and the argument concludes by suggesting that Cohen’s philosophy of Judaism is instructive for contemporary public philosophy.
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Lavallée, Marie-Josée. "Pensée, politique, totalitarisme : lire Platon avec Hannah Arendt." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11694.
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Cette étude, qui s'intéresse aux appropriations de l'Antiquité grecque au XXe siècle, se propose d'analyser les impacts de la lecture de Platon sur le développement de la pensée politique et éthique de Hannah Arendt. Notre approche du sujet est historique et philosophique. Premièrement, nous considérerons la toile de fond biographique, intellectuelle et historique de cette lecture. La relation intellectuelle entre Hannah Arendt et Martin Heidegger reçoit une attention particulière, puisque le Platon arendtien présente parfois des similarités avec celui de Heidegger. Nous considérerons également la réception de Platon en Allemagne entre la période de Weimar et l'après-guerre : les lectures idéologiques de l'époque nazie, et le débat autour du statut de Platon en tant qu'ancêtre du totalitarisme, clamé par Karl Popper, ont assombri la réputation philosophique de Platon jusqu'à la fin du XXe siècle. Nous trouvons des échos de ce climat intellectuel particulier dans le traitement de Platon chez Arendt. Dans un deuxième temps, nous examinerons les thèmes et les motifs de la lecture arendtienne en observant minutieusement une sélection d'ouvrages, d'essais, d'ébauches d'Arendt, en plus des notes du Journal de pensée (Denktagebuch) et des extraits de dialogues de Platon sur lesquels s'appuient sa lecture. Arendt déconstruit, transforme, altère et utilise ces textes afin de démontrer que notre tradition de pensée politique s'est édifiée sur un mépris de la politique qui trouve sa source dans la pensée platonicienne. Ce mépris culmine dans la pensée de Marx et le totalitarisme. Mais les réflexions d'Arendt sur la pensée, le jugement et la conscience, et son traitement du cas Eichmann suggère qu'elle s'approprie par moments la pensée de Platon. Des comparaisons avec d'autres penseurs émigrés allemands, qui s'inspirent aussi de Platon et des Grecs pour édifier leur pensée politique, Leo Strauss et Eric Voegelin, vont nous permettre d'affiner notre compréhension du Platon d'Arendt.This study, which concerns the appropriations of Greek Antiquity in the 20th century, proposes to analyze the impacts of the reading of Plato on the development of Hannah Arendt's political and ethical thought. Our approach of this subject is historical and philosophical. First, we will consider the biographical, intellectual and historical background of this reading. The intellectual relationship between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger receive a special attention, since Arendt's Plato is sometimes similar to the heiddeggerian one. We also consider Platonic reception in Germany between the Weimar period and the postwar era : the ideological readings of the Nazi era, and the debate surrounding Plato's status as the forebearer of totalitarianism, as claimed by Karl Popper, darkened Plato's philosophical reputation until the end of 20th century. We find some echoes of this particular intellectual climax in Arendt's treatment of Plato. Second, we will examine the themes and motives of arendtian reading by scrutinizing a selection of Arendt's books, essays, drafts, and notes from the Denktagebuch, and excerpts from the Platonic dialogues that informs her reading. Arendt deconstructs, transforms, distorts and uses these texts in order to show that our tradition of political thought was founded on a contempt for politics that finds its source in Platonic thought. This contempt culminates in Marx's thought and totalitarianism. But Arendt's reflections on thinking, judgment and conscience, and her treatment of Eichmann's case suggests that she sometimes appropriates Plato. Some comparisons with other German Émigrés thinkers who also reads Plato and the Greeks to inform their political thought, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, will enhance our understanding of Arendt's Plato.
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Weiss, Aleš. "Buddhismus v židovských náboženských textech 18.-21. století." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-438379.
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This dissertation analyzes Jewish religious views of Buddhism in a broad historical perspective, from the end of 18th century down to the present. Through an analysis of Jewish religious texts, it shows the ways Buddhism has been contextualized and tries to uncover Buddhism's role in modern Judaism. From these texts Buddhism emerges as 1) a tool of polemics and self-definition, 2) a form of spirituality fully compatible with Judaism, and 3) a competitor of Judaism, endangering its social and ideological integrity. While Jewish religious views of Christianity and Islam have been dealt with extensively in the academic literature, the role of Buddhism in various forms of modern Judaism has been either completely overlooked or at best reduced to the JUBU phenomenon. This dissertation aims to help fill this gap.