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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"historical critique"”.
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The idea of punishment in international human rights discourse: A conceptual and historical critique
… study suggests, have been shaped by a number of historical circumstances. These include the experience of the Holocaust, the assault on the rehabilitative ideal and the emergence of identity politics in the 1970s, and the global spread of neoliberalism and the revival of the ‘Nuremburg spirit’ in …
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Historical Critique of the Development of the Federal Income Tax From 1939-1954 and Its Influence Upon Accounting Theory and Practice
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An Afrocentric Critique of Race Dialogues: An Application of Theory and Praxis in Africology
An Afrocentric Critique of Race Dialogues: The Application of Theory and Practice in Africology is a critical examination of race dialogues based on the Afrocentric paradigm’s constructs of African agency, Afrocentric consciousness-raising and liberatory action. This dissertation critiques race …
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Curiosity and the Ideal: Anatomical Investigation and the Gendered Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Florentine Art
… within scientific communities. The terms of this historical critique that I am especially concerned with cover the questions of what it meant to be a member of a scientific community, to be an artist, to express curiosity and to produce knowledge in the sixteenth century.</p>
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Trolling Aesthetics: The Lulz as Creative Practice
… approaches, this dissertation is both a historical analysis of the emergence of the LULZ as well as a socio-historical critique of an online world willing to foster, participate, and partake in such an ethos.
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A Reconsideration of the Interpretation and Analysis Typically Applied to Edward Hopper’s Art During the 1940s
… circumstances of post-depression America, Art Historical critique of Hopper’s work and life, and the philosophical theories which influenced Modernism at the time. These theories, in particular Existentialism and Feminist writing, are here applied to Hopper’s own work. The research provided …
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Romanticizing Leadership: A Historical and Cultural Critique
… of the late 18th and early 19th century, left a historical legacy of ecstasy and disaster upon subsequent generations. Manifestations of neo-romanticism are evident in many areas of contemporary culture. These modern manifestations, which include an infusion of the spiritual into everyday life, …