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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"Intellectual History"”.
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Progressive Education in Transition: An Intellectual History
Using a critical, intellectual perspective that is supported as a conceptual framework and provides a solid basis for historical study, this theoretical research focused on the historical evidence of sustained progressive forms of education. The developments within the field of curriculum studies …
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An Intellectual History of Roger Scruton's Thought
This is an attempt both to systematise and to contextualise the thought of Roger Scruton. In the former endeavour, it is a sympathetic work. I have looked to see order between his texts, and I have argued for its substantial reality. One of the major theses which this work puts forward is that …
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The Intellectual History Of Inter-war British Fascists
… culture and sought to counter it on every front. History, according to the British fascists, was rife with conspiracies which threatened the established "order of things." Unfortunately, their fears of conspiracy were so fantastic that their rationale was at times clouded and to their detriment. …
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The Unbreakable Circle: An Intellectual History of Michel Foucault
… following is a chronologically ordered internal intellectual history of Michel Foucault. The objective of this analysis is to determine whether or not Foucault provides a viable critical social theory of bourgeois society. In order to examine this topic, I trace the development of Foucault’s …
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
… for Designing a Society. It focuses on the history of a group of intellectuals, and their ideas, during the latter half of the twentieth century. The composer Herbert Brün (1918-2000) formulated many of the original ideas used by the school in concert with his students and colleagues at the …
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The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew
… tracing their evolution to identify points of intellectual contact between Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew linguists before the twelfth century.
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Between Communist Internationalism and a ‘New Humanism’: Episodes in the Intellectual History of Twentieth Century Anticolonialism
… Drawing on the methodological tools of intellectual history, I argue that humanism is an extremely mutable concept that should be approached with a sensitivity to its use in specific contexts. In the first three chapters of this dissertation, I point to significant differences in how …
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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
… selfhood. This dissertation constructs an intellectual history of writing as a technology of the self in the ancient Greek and Latin imaginary, considering the works of Plato, Augustine, Ausonius, and Dhuoda. This history and these textual case studies then serve as a point-of-departure for …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
This thesis examines the intellectual history of male friendship through its articulation in non-Shakespearean early modern drama; and considers how dramatic texts engage with the classical ideals of male friendship. Cicero’s \(De amicitia\) provided the theoretical model for perfect friendship for …
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The Soviet Empire of Signs: A Social and Intellectual History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
… post-Soviet culture and politics of science and intellectual elites. By adopting a ""symmetrical"" perspective on science and society, this study develops a theoretical and practical critique of reductionist approaches, especially strong in the field of Soviet and Russian studies. Finally, by …
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"Rocky Top, Rocky Road, Solid Rock: Thirty Years of Intellectual History at the Federal Executive Institute"
… role within that Constitutional system. The intellectual history of FEI, including its creation, curriculum, and leadership and how they have developed and changed over time, suggests this key question: how does FEI decide to teach what (and how) it teaches? This answer has varied; at times, …
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American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory
<p>This paper is a study of American women's intellectual history in the period 1770-1815. My aim is to develop a coherent conception of women's moral point of view as it is presented in prescriptive literature, political tracts, and women's own writing. Because of the nature of my goal, I will …
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The Collision Of Romanticism And Modernism In Post-World War II American Cinema: A Theoretical Defense Of Intellectual History In The Undergraduate Classroom
… numerous well-known philosophers and public intellectuals, Ayn Rand became one of the most widely-read and controversial thinkers of the post-war era. Despite being most well-known for her philosophical novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Rand wrote numerous works of non-fiction …
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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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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… narratives constructed by scholars of American intellectual history in recent decades. This dissertation unsettles this selective interpretation of American thought rooted in the optimistic spirit of Emerson in order to reveal a darker side of American philosophy better equipped to deal with the …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
Intersections between gay liberation’s intellectual, communications, and transnational history reside at the core this thesis. Methodologically indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops …
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