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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"disenchantment"”.
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Patterns of Disenchantment. The Position of the Liberal and Labour Party: 1910-1914
<p>The first chapter deals with the underlying trends of the period. At first the material conditions of the first decade of the twentieth century will be assessed. What was the economic condition of the people? How was this position colored by the levels of relative deprivation, education, and …
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The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru
… in 1975; Part II analyses themes of mohabhang (‘disenchantment’, with connotations of ‘broken love’) in Hindi literature and Indian New Wave cinema, primarily focusing on the 1970s and 80s. Individual chapters traces parallel but distinct paths through the decades of disillusionment that followed …
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The Rhetoric and Reality of Transition from Primary to Post-primary Schooling
… work stem from the researcher’s observations of disenchantment among some of the student cohort who transfer from primary school to post-primary school. The research project set out to determine the nature of the disenchantment among the first year post-primary students in the post-primary …
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Max Weber and postmodern theory
… resistance to the further rationalisation and disenchantment of the world. This research, first, addresses Weber's analysis and critique of the rationalisation process, focusing in particular on his account both of the rise of instrumental rationalism in the West and of the differentiation of …
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"The Revealing Building" A New Cinema for Old Town
… base desire for refined attraction. Out of this disenchantment, an idea for a new cinema emerges- the momentous Cinema. Moments which unfold frame by frame- nurturing anticipation, choreographing the perspectives that the Cineplex has abandoned. A place free of solicitation, free of congestion. …
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The performance of accommodation cooperatives in Australia
… cooperatives in principle, but substantial disenchantment with the manner in which most of the groups had performed in practice.
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George Eliot's Early Fiction: The Movement From Alienation to Integration
… and their relationships. Through the crisis of disenchantment they come to varying degrees of moral awareness. This study shows that in her early fiction moral progress depends upon harmonious integration of self with family and community. Males who fail in the process of integration manage to …
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The psychologisation of natal astrology in the twentieth century
… from Wouter Hanegraaff that magic survived the disenchantment of the world due to a process of psychologisation, which broadly means that magic has adapted along psychological lines to become a different sort of magic to that previously found before the period characterised by disenchantment. …
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The Kenotic Structure of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Secularization
… detailed examinations of the narrative of disenchantment, Weber’s engagement with Calvinist theology, with particular a focus on the semiology that underpins Calvin’s concept of the fides efficax, and a number of unorthodox theories of secularization that emphasize the sacredness of the …
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Modernitet och myt : avförtrollning och återförtrollning i Knut Hamsuns Sult, Mysterier och Pan
… to modernity, I make use of the concepts of “disenchantment” (Entzauberung in the vocabulary of Max Weber) and “re-enchantment”. These concepts are especially suitable in discussions concerning the relationship of the early works to their time, and their specific prerequisites. The use of the …
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Discontinuance of Innovations: Social Network Characteristics, Product Attributes, and Adopter Traits Related to Post -Adoption Behavior
… retraction discontinuance (the combination of disenchantment and replacement discontinuance), and a new theoretic construct, completion discontinuance, a phenomenon that occurs when adopters terminate their use of an innovation after its purpose has been fulfilled. Data were collected via …
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"""This, This Is England, but We Only Passed By."" Reclamations and Subversions of English National Identity in Works by Woolf, Waugh, Rhys and Naipaul"
… in its depiction of Anna Morgan's alienation and disenchantment in England. Nevertheless, despite Naipaul and Rhys's poignant portrayals of the alienation experienced by colonial subjects in England, their texts demonstrate the power of postcolonial texts in articulating an English national …
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Acoustical characterization of glacierized fjords
… an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean; and Disenchantment Bay at the termini of Hubbard and Turner Glaciers near Yakutat, Alaska. Acoustic data were collected between October 2016 and May 2017 from an underwater hydrophone array moored 500 m from LeConte Glacier. Ambient noise levels (ANL) …
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Autoethnographical Inquiry into Joyful Teaching: Explorations with National Teachers of the Year
… some teachers experience burnout and succumb to disenchantment with the profession (Palmer, 1998). Others find their commitments to education so diminished that they abuse their position and fail terribly in their charge to educate our youth. There are some, however, who find ways to continually …
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Identity, Culture, and the Discontents of Hybridity: A Critical Study of the Post -Colonial (Moroccan) Novel
… individualized ""petits recits"" of protest and disenchantment subsequent to the failure project of independence. In Chapter Four, I suggest that the journey North, contrary to Edward Said argues, re-inscribes the West as a point of reference and ultimately as a fixed reality against which …
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Healthy Communities: Designing, Planning and Implementing
… what development will or should look like. Disenchantment with conventional zoning methods combined with innovative new approaches that address current and emerging issues are now readily available to learn from and adapt. A number of these approaches focus on design and form rather than use …
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O desencanto da história em A insustentável leveza do ser (1984) - sobre literatura e sociedade
… towards the world. The narrative draws from the disenchantment of the history its own form of configuration, so that the characters in this novel are enclosed within the narrator-author's own disenchanted perspective, where, and this is a fundamental fact, the history is no longer able to provide …
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“If it’s in the game, it’s in the game” : Sondra Perry and technological likeness
… performance, and has frequently described her disenchantment with a politics prioritizing representation and visibility in interviews and talks. Building on a long tradition of artists taking up the politics of figurative representation—specifically, as related to Black identities—Perry looks …
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