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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Totalitarianism"”.
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Activist Modernisms: Human Rights and Anti-Totalitarianism in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature
… Koestler – respond to the rise of fascism and totalitarianism and the mass displacements and genocide that occur as a consequence. These writers create narratives to understand and contend with the historical ruptures of their time. These narratives theorize human rights by providing differing …
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Isaiah Berlin and the problem of counter-enlightenment liberalism.
… Reason as partially responsible for the rise of totalitarianism. As a liberal thinker, therefore, Berlin seems Janus-faced. He appears to charge the Age of Reason with complicity in the rise of totalitarianism, yet continues to defend the most legitimate child of Enlightenment thought: liberalism …
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A Polanyian tack: political implications
… eliminates intellectual freedom by nihilism or totalitarianism; in (1) by nihilism; and (2) by totalitarianism. Nihilism starts in a wrong understanding of truth or how it is pursued while totalitarianism stems from over-emphasis on CAT. Tacit knowledge is a way to analyse (1) the early Polanyi …
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The Cold War, the New World Order, and the War on Terror : U.S. presidents' use of Orwell's big brother myth
… consciousness that warns citizens about the fear totalitarianism. Born out of George Orwell's novel 1984, the Big Brother myth is articulated by presenting a totalitarian foe, creating an us vs. them scenario, and depicting a dystopian world into the near distant future. This study examined U.S. …
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Blogio anatomija Ričardo Gavelio romane „Vilniaus pokeris“ /
… of evil, based on the concept of evil caused by totalitarianism. The aim of this thesis is to group and analyse the themes related to evil with concrete examples of its appearances, and to reveal the forms in which evil appears. This thesis will answer the following questions by examining the …
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A Study of Centralization in the Thai Police Department.
… religion, or education under the realm of totalitarianism.
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
… and Čapek also wrote against technocratic totalitarianism, centring their fiction upon mechanical engineering and the machine (rather than information theory) to create versions of industrial/mechanical man. Thus, this thesis demonstrates that Haraway’s ‘cyborg’ is an echo of these earlier …
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Being political and the reconstruction of public discourse: Hannah Arendt on experience, history and the spectator
… history alone. Her later work, The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human<br/>Condition, for instance, reveal that Arendt’s political conversion amounted to the<br/>realisation that ontology and history are as necessary to each other as Kant’s concepts<br/>and intuitions. Her defence of …
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Castro's Cuba and Stroessner's Paraguay: A comparison of the totalitarian/authoritarian taxonomy.
… totalitarian and authoritarian, respectively. Totalitarianism emerged as an analytic concept as social scientists attempted to understand characteristics of the Hitler and Stalin regimes distinctive from other forms of dictatorship. While authoritarian regimes are generally based on history and …
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"The dramaturgical integration of text and music in Brecht's ""Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg"""
… for the ""little man"" to counter the threat of totalitarianism, the versatile score uses ironical, incongruous, and unexpected musical effects to reinforce the political implications of the words, often adding Eisler's own critical perspective to the action on stage."
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Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love
… effects common understandings of fascism and totalitarianism exercise vis-a-vis collective attachments (patriotism, nationalism), and specifically how this discourse shapes notions of citizenship. Working within this political-psychoanalytic model, I analyze the substance behind Barack Obama's …
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Evolution of Tech-Assisted Repression in Putin's Russia
… study of non-democratic politics: The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt and Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes by Juan Jose Linz. The following chapters look at the techniques, effects, and arcs of television-based repression, social media-based repression, and finally artificial …
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Dialectical structures in the work of Norman Mailer
… the rigidities and fixities of the principle of totalitarianism, which is, in turn, the expression of the value structures and systems of "the Establishment" ( the maintenance of the status quo ). The individual faces these alternatives balanced "on the edge of the divide", a situational metaphor …
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"The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell"
… socialism, scientific management, and totalitarianism positively and negatively impacts not only individuals, but also the world at large. Therefore, rather than focusing on ideology alone, I dissect their respective cityscapes, illustrating how the systems they analyze extend to impact …
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The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953
… to identify all forms of realism with totalitarianism. It is not surprising therefore, that it was commonly believed that to paint in an abstract modern style was to strike a blow against fascism. In the same way that realism was identified with the regimentation of Soviet society, the …
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Exposing the Fallacy: The Jihadist's Illegitimate Quest for Power
… three simultaneous struggles: Islamic civil war; totalitarianism; and a lesser recognized struggle to distort western values within western society using "Democracy against itself”. The objective of this thesis is to identify areas in which a wide legitimacy gap exists between the jihadist …
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Building socialist broadcasting with Chinese characteristics : the substance and contradictions of China's broadcasting policy in the Reform Era (1978-1994)
… between economic liberalization and political totalitarianism, and how it caused increasing contradictions in China's broadcasting system. 'Building socialist broadcasting with Chinese characteristics' was created as a creed of faith to stifle broadcasting reform. The content, the ideological …
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“A Christian World Order:” Protestants, Democracy and Christian Aid to Germany, 1945-1961
… By rhetorically depicting Nazi and Communist "totalitarianism" as anti-Christian, a construction I refer to as the Christian-Totalitarian Dichotomy, these Protestants drove German conservatives away from Nazism and toward Western liberal democracy through association with Christianity. They …
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Hannah Arendt and the political : the contemporary challenges posed by sovereignty, nationalism and imperialism
… her first major published work, The Origins of Totalitarianism, and, more specifically, in the concept of the political she outlines therein. The thesis begins by examining how Arendt interprets the political sui generis. It shows how this concept, which influences much of her scholarship from …
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The Public Polemics of Baldur von Schirach: A Study of National Socialist Rhetoric and Aesthetics, 1922-1945
… by which he chose to transmit his beliefs in totalitarianism, racism, and militarism. Schirach's activities serve as a case study of the Third Reich's artistic and cultural programs and the means by which these programs served as conduits for propaganda and public education. Throughout his …
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