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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"European Enlightenment"”.
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Sapere critico e cultura civile nel Settecento italiano: Muratori e Genovesi
… values and to the radical conclusions of European Enlightenment, with an idea of cultural renewal that remains on the thresholds of secularisation.
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Moving Worlds Through Moving Pictures: Exploring the Emancipatory Force of the Contemporary Sámi Film Industry
… back an ethic of universality propagated by European Enlightenment thought, I seek to challenge the narrow notions that have confined Indigenous ways of knowing and being. The dissertation locates power in plurality by investigating the structures and relations that constitute the dynamism of …
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A Neoconservative Theory of International Politics?
… policy, and iii) an ideology that stems from the European Enlightenment, all the way to the present day. Using this expanded conceptualization, the thesis builds a theory out of what can broadly be considered an ideology. The theory takes the form of an ideal-type construct and emphasizes hegemony …
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ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΕΝΕΤΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΒΕΝΕΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ 1848-49
… IN THE 18TH CENTURY, WITHIN THE MOVEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE POLITICAL EXPERIENCES OF THE NAPOLEONIC PERIOD. THROUGH THE EVIDENCE OF THIS TIME AND TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE PARTICULAR AS WELL AS THE MORE GENERAL PREVAILED CONDITIONS, WE CAN SEE CLEARLY THE …
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Crowded Voice: Speech, Music and Community in Milan, 1955-1974
… absent common tongue—and at the same time, a European Enlightenment tradition that sets Italy as the southern land of the beautiful voice, and yet also ineffective policies and underdeveloped language faculties. What is at stake in the musical and vocal production of 1950s and 1970s Milan, …
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Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction
… led by intellectuals educated in both Arab and European traditions. Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi is one of the gigantic pioneers of Arab Nahda. He has left indelible marks on early modern Arab thought and sociopolitical ideology. His ideas have always been a strong link between the religious, …
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DECOLONIAL MUSEUM MATH: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THE DISPLAY STRATEGIES IN THE ISLAMIC ART GALLERIES AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO AND THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
… while leaving the underlying structures of European Enlightenment/Colonial-era knowledge intact). While neither can definitively be hailed as “decolonized,” one approach is much more successful at dethroning Western forms of knowledge, indicating the agency of Middle Eastern peoples, and …
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Radical enlightenment in German literature 1771-1811
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and social movement that had a profound impact on the development of Western society, yet its complexity and impact on literature are not often fully understood. The values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood as well as the rise of the roles of reason, …
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"A Magic Deeper Still": Sacramental Poetics in William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, and C.S. Lewis
… secularized landscape. One consequence of the European Enlightenment is the disentangling and distancing that occurs in regards to what cannot be empirically proven or trusted, such as religion and spirituality. Thus, Wordsworth’s poetic strategy for reoccupying religion’s functions asks that …
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Practices of science and political economy between the State of Milan and the Italian Republic (1760s-1805)
… and pushes forward the debate on the Italian Enlightenment, by opposing those narratives which have represented it as a marginal and peripheral case in the broader and more "international" European Enlightenment.
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Shakespeare studies in Colonial Bengal : The early phase.
… interests, it also inducted ideas of the European Enlightenment that contributed towards the general awakening in colonial Bengal. In the era of postcolonial theory's dominance in English studies, this thesis offers an original contribution to knowledge by putting forth evidence in support …
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Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren's Rationalist Writings and the Chinese Enlightenment
… especially its ""initial phase,"" the Chinese Enlightenment (1910s-1920s). It examines the thought of the highly controversial thinker and writer Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967), whose work had been profoundly influential during the Enlightenment, but was later marginalized due to political reasons. It …
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The Politics of Belief in Hume and Enlightenment Scepticism
… and political belief that emerged in the European Enlightenment. Specifically, I explore how thinkers in the period c. 1660–c.1790 understood the relationship between faith, science and philosophy. Their various approaches to this issue generated further debate about the limits of freedom …