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Showing 1 to 20 of 244 for “"Humanist"”.
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Albert Camus : Existentialist and Humanist
During the two decades since World War II there has evolved a literary-philosophic movement which has been termed existentialism. Although the "ism" itself is new, its roots lie, admittedly, in the nineteenth century philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, but even deeper origins …
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Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment
… from early Bulgarian socialists to socialist humanist Bulgarians."
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Marking Time: a Figurative Humanist Approach to Drawing.
… of my drawings and claim my role as a figurative humanist. Through drawing, I explore the emotive qualities of my own form. Rather than depicting actual spaces, I place myself in psychological spaces that reflect specific moods. Chiaroscuro creates an altered reality where visual tension is …
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… <em>De laude Spanie</em> of Isidore through the humanist <em>laudes urbium</em> of ca. 1455 to 1506. Preliminary context for the Spanish tradition is provided in a survey of classical and medieval theoretical writings for the praise of place. The major European city encomia from those periods are …
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Karl Löwith's View of History: A Humanist Alternative to Historicism
<p>The survival and increasing academic importance of the supra-historical position, particularly as an alternative to existential ontology and English analytical philosophy, indicate that a careful study of this particular trend is in order. The following analysis of the intellectual development …
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Humanist Reconceptualization Of The Dogmatic Marxist Concept Of Religion By Esad Ćimić
<p>This study analyzes and evaluates the humanist reconceptualization of the dogmatic-Marxist concept of religion by the Yuqoslav philosopher Esad CimiC . The questions we address are:How did Cimic reshape the dogmatic Marxist criticism of religion? and What is the significance of this reshaping …
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Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt: the influence of the humanist discourse
… discourse remains dominant in Egypt, the humanist discourse has helped shape interfaith relations building since the 2011 revolution and has grown since the chaotic period around 2013 under the Muslim Brotherhood-friendly regime. The weakening of Islamist discourse gave more room for the …
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… fiction dystopias in which the vestiges of humanist philosophy taint the construction of posthuman subjects. With a grounding in the tenets of both humanist and posthumanist philosophy, I analyze eight works of science fiction that depict artificial intelligence, cyborgs, and body swapping …
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An interpretive study of student-centred learning through constructivist, humanist and socio-cultural lenses
… framework, others more aligned with humanist or socio-cultural perspectives. The term student-centred learning was also used in association with contemporary ideas such as employability, widening participation and social justice. A constructivist grounded approach was used to collect …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… the effects of technology. In Oryx and Crake, humanist and posthumanist understandings of the world cannot provide individuals with meaning in their radically altered environment. In The Year of the Flood, the second of Atwood’s trilogy, we are introduced to the God’s Gardeners, who demonstrate …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… the effects of technology. In Oryx and Crake, humanist and posthumanist understandings of the world cannot provide individuals with meaning in their radically altered environment. In The Year of the Flood, the second of Atwood’s trilogy, we are introduced to the God’s Gardeners, who demonstrate …
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A Humanist Perspective on Economic Policy: Ecuador's Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy, 2007-2017
… of development and, on the other hand, the humanist development tradition, which asserts the centrality of human wellbeing as the ultimate objective of policy interventions. Combining the normative gaze of the human development approach with classical development theory's insights about the …
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Bach as humanist: the influences of the classics and court aesthetics on the design of the six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
This dissertation explores J. S. Bach's Six Brandenburg Concertos in the light of a Bildprogrammatik, governed by the same principles that defined arrangements of Baroque art and sculpture, and with the royal hunt as its central motive, carrying the themes of victory, glory, and immortality.
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
This dissertation uses contemporary posthumanist and media theory, early modern educational and literary humanist texts, and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in …
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Bodies at their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence Through Women’s Hunger Strikes
… of political violence centred around the liberal humanist subject. First, in response to approaches that frame hunger strikes as a form of political speech, this thesis argues that gender and race shape how the pained body speaks. Second, it insists that an analysis of what the hunger-striking …
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Spenser's "Inward Ey": Poetics, Lexicography, and the Motivations for Edmund Spenser's Linguistic Idealism
… this late pattern sprang from a resistance to humanist lexicography evident in his early <italic>Shepheardes Calender</italic>. Spenser wanted poets to shape the language anew and felt pressure from scholars who were re-conceiving languages in the sixteenth century. His characterization of …
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Orationes Regum Ac Potentia: Monarchical Oratory and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad
… the surrounding culture without making the anti-humanist assumption that a work can only be orthodox or subversive. This allows for the humanist assertion that gifted authors could imbue their works with a deeper philosophical outlook. This essay develops a theory of “rhetorical formalism” and …
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The postcolonial lesbian text: readings of four novels by Renée
… novels by Renée. It begins with an overview of humanist and poststructuralist reading and writing strategies which are contested within a contemporary Western lesbian literary field. At an intersection of poststructuralist and postcolonial debates I identify the potential for a queer reading …
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