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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Intellectual Biography"”.
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John Charles Ryle: An Intellectual Biography
This dissertation is an intellectual biography of John Charles Ryle, the first Bishop of Liverpool. Chapter 1 focuses on Ryle’s intellectual, theological, and spiritual formation. Special attention is given to his home, education at Eton and Oxford, conversion, religious opinions, and unexpected …
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Roland Freisler (1893-1945): An Intellectual Biography
Roland Freisler was a leading Nazi lawyer, civil servant, and judge. The main focus of the thesis is on Freisler’s hitherto neglected experiences during the Weimar Republic and his role in facilitating the transition of the German legal system from the democratic Rechtsstaat to the Nazi …
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The Life of the Mind: An Intellectual Biography of Richard Hofstadter
… of Hofstadter as the archetypal New York intellectual who rejected his youthful radicalism for political conservatism which, in turn, shaped his consensus vision of the past. These assessments reflect the biographical tendency to read a life and career backwards. From such a vantage point, …
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Captain of Education: An Intellectual Biography of Andrew S. Draper, 1848-1913
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Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
… writings, as a new way of thinking about his intellectual contributions to nationalist thought. Chapter one of this thesis will raise questions about the legacy and memory of ZK in the postapartheid moment. I analyze both the popular and the scholarly representations of ZK as have been …
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The Concept of Overcoming the Political: An Intellectual Biography of SS-Standartenfuehrer and Professor Dr. Reinhard Hoehn, 1904-1944
… developing as a radical right-wing Weimar intellectual, Hoehn joined a succession of Revolutionary Conservative Kampfbuende. His political writings and affiliations showed a commitment to the destruction of liberal conceptions in politics, sociology, and legal theory. His ultimate objective …
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John Clark Ridpath--United States Popular Historian: A Social and Intellectual Biography and an Examination of A Genre of Literature
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Lorenz Stein and German Socialism 1835-1872
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 …
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Jonathan Boucher: Moderate Loyalist and Public Man
… in halting the progress of rebellion. The intellectual biography of Boucher is the account of a thoroughly Americanized cleric, planter, and would-be patriot caught up in a bewildering collapse of civil and religious authority in Maryland. Torn by loyalty to Church and State of England and …
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
… Huntington has not yet received an attempt at intellectual biography, a project necessary to understand this cohort best understood as “a trio” of grand strategists. Relying on newly available archival materials, this dissertation situates Huntington’s major academic writings within a life of …
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John Piper: The Making of a Christian Hedonist
… ) constitutes an early effort in the field of intellectual biography, tracing four key influences--in roughly chronological order--upon Piper's life and theology. Those with primary influence in Piper's formative years were his parents, William S. H. Piper (1919-2007) and Ruth Mohn Piper …
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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?
… be called a "standard narrative" as regards his intellectual development. This narrative treats Schmitt as, on the whole, a "Catholic" intellectual and "political theologian" until the mid-1920s when he turns decidedly towards a secular decisionism. Commentators frequently point to Schmitt's …
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Loyalist or Patriot: The Precarious Position of Edmund Randolph, 1774-1786
… Benjamin and William Franklin illustrated that biography is a fruitful research avenue for understanding not only revolutionary politics, but also the dynamic involved in revolutionary loyalism among elite families in the era. Based on a rich trove of primary sources such as government …
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Political theologies in late colonial Buganda
This thesis is an intellectual history of political debate in colonial Buganda. It is a history of how competing actors engaged differently in polemical space informed by conflicting histories, varying religious allegiances and dissimilar texts. Methodologically, biography is used to explore three …
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Psychoanalytic Transference: Julia Kristeva’s Struggle for Maternal Identification
By examining Alice Jardine’s intellectual biography of Julia Kristeva’s life and work, this dissertation engages in intertextual, interpretative, and textually based research, bringing together Jardine’s biography with Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories and later autobiographical reflections. …
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A Modern Advaita-Vedāntin: Locating Swami Chinmayananda and His Understanding of Consciousness in the Context of Scripture and the Contemporary World
… which we can study them, we begin by providing a biography and analysis of the life of Swami Chinmayananda, the lens we have chosen for this dissertation, in the first two chapters. The circumstances in which he was raised, particularly the struggle for India’s independence, would influence his …
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Anti-Imperialism and the Critique of Managerialism in Post- War American Thought, 1939–1995
This thesis is a collective intellectual biography that reconsiders the relationship between anti- statism and social thought in post-war America. I look at a cluster of intellectuals who were critics of the Cold War, empire, and the managerial state, charting debates around these controversial …
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A Symbol for the Masses: Sergei Chakhotin and the Modern Crisis of Propaganda
<p>This dissertation is an intellectual biography of Sergei Chakhotin, a Russian biologist whose most famous work, <em>The Rape of the Masses </em>(1939), represented an insightful, pioneering analysis of modern propaganda as it arose during Europe’s “Age of Catastrophe” (1914-1945). In this work …
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Essays in the Theory and Practice of the Suzuki Method
… previously undiscussed elements in Suzuki's intellectual and cultural biography, and it illuminates the fact that Suzuki had extensive exposure to American and European Progressive educational traditions, which were prevalent in Japan during Suzuki's formative years. With new evidence about …
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The scholar advocate: Rudolf Schlesinger's writings on Marxism and Soviet historiography
… This investigation is not intended to be a biography of Schlesinger, but rather an ‘intellectual biography’, an examination of his monographs, papers, drafts and memoir reflections. This allows for an appreciation of his academic contribution and an understanding of his unique personal …
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