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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"historicity"”.
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The historicity of Barbour's 'Bruce'
This dissertation systematically evaluates the historicity of the epic poem The Bruce, written towards the end of the fourteenth century and attributed to Archdeacon John Barbour of Aberdeen. For the purposes of analysis, the poem has been divided into 119 discrete episodes, which cover 95 percent …
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Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter
<p>The basic question of "Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter" is whether or not it is possible to think a concept of political cinema while affirming the autonomous capacities of both cinema as an art and politics as the thought of collective self-determination. Is it, in other …
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Carl Schmitt's Historicity between Theology and Technology
… second chapter excavates Schmitt’s concept of ‘historicity’ and his turn to the founder of the Historical School of Law, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, in lectures given in 1943 and 1944. I then argue this historical turn is the key to understanding Schmitt’s postwar work, connecting four major …
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The historicity of the chroniclers on the conquest of Mexico.
The general purpose of this thesis in to explore the writings of the chroniclers, both old and new, searching for consistencies, inconsistencies, and personal reflections of those chroniclers pertaining to the Conquest of Mexico. Few of us forget that Cortés was the conqueror of Mexico City, but …
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… Literature and Historical Time: Genre and Historicity after Walter Scott,"" examines how Victorian writers experimented with literary form to create narrative temporalities capable of negotiating these changes. Georg Lukács famously associated literature's historicity with the realist …
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Davidic references in the Book of Mormon as evidence against its historicity
… Saint scholarly efforts to validate the historicity of the Book of Mormon through textual criticism by presupposing its historic authenticity, then combing the text for evidence of literary elements that may suggest ancient Hebrew authorship. Chapter 2 surveys current Latter-day Saint …
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The historicity of things: a study in the philosophy of Samuel Alexander
There is no part of Alexander's system which he anywhere explicitly characterises as a "philosophy of history".
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Future nostalgia in the twenty-first century: Hauntology, hermeneutics, and historicity in contemporary popular music
… it unequipped for understanding popular music’s historicity as the form develops into the 2020s. Drawing on UK artist Dua Lipa’s 2020 album Future Nostalgia as a case study, the argument suggests that recent developments in music production and consumption challenge the hauntological …
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Portraits Through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies Home Journal 1950-1959
… of the family: "Portraits through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies Home Journal 1950-1959. The magazine's series "How America Lives" appeared in Ladies' Home Journal from 1940-1960; this thesis looks at all of the articles from 1950-1959.</p><p> The …
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Towards a pedagogical framework for construction of historicity: a case of using Wikis among pre-service teachers at Makerere University
… by three research questions: firstly, how is historicity constructed on the Wiki platform among pre-service teachers at Makerere University? Secondly, how is authenticity of history meanings constructed among pre-service teachers? Thirdly, what design principles guide a pedagogical framework …
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Secrecy Motifs and Messianic Consciousness In the First Gospel: Pre-Easter Tradition and Historicity Vis-A-Vis the Theological Agenda of Mark and the Early Church
<p>The following study is an exploration of the possible traditions utilized by the author of the Gospel of Mark as they relate to an acknowledged theme of secret messiahship. A survey of the socio-historical evidence as well as the textual evidence for and against an authentic messianic …
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The Scholarship and Praxis of Communication Ethics: Rhetorical Interruptions in Historical Narratives
… life-long learners who are willing to understand historicity and one's place within traditions. This study relies on Alasdair MacIntyre's seminal work, A Short History of Ethics, as it provides an historical lineage of Western philosophers who wrote about ethics within the time span from ancient …
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Tragedies, Tourism, and the Making of Commemorative Places
… as a means through which identities, memory, and historicity are constructed over time and in space, I focus ethnographically on individuals' use of such culture rather than limit my analysis solely to the objects and images. This approach contributes to our understanding of identity, memory, …
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EFFECTIVE HISTORY: ON THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN RATIONALITY
… discourse: the nature and meaning of the historicity of rationality. It elaborates this issue in dialogue with the critical theory of Adorno and Horkheimer and the poststructuralist genealogy of Michel Foucault. For the Adomo and Horkheimer of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, the …
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An Imaginative Theory of Doctrinal Development: An Attempt to Open Western Traditions to Contextual Faith
… of Christianity can be maintained but in which historicity and pluralism can be given fuller appreciation. Using Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of the hermeneutical imagination to explain the reception of revelation and the development of doctrine allows that development to be understood in a more …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… a Zen-influenced conception of temporality and historicity. I then argue for the necessity of this conceptual background for coming to grips with his conception of the ‘transhistorical’ grounds of historicity in emptiness (śūnyatā), as outlined in the later chapters of Religion and Nothingness.
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On Zeitgeist
… writing, analyzed in reference to the notion of historicity, and the narrative gaze that it perpetuates. The mechanism of canonization, and a discourse's capacity to be viral are examined.
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Historicidade da identidade afrodescendente na educação escolar da Comunidade Quilombola de Paratibe: um estudo de caso sobre o autorreconhecimento e o racismo.
This work proposes an analysis of the historicity of African descent as an important instrument of the self-identity in child in Paratibe‟s Quilombola community in the scholar‟s purview. For a reflection for the importance of the stimulus to self-identity of African descent in the scholar‟s scope, …
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History, Hollywood, and the Crusades
… rigid methodology be adopted for evaluating the historicity of films and encourages historians to view films not only as historians but also as film scholars.
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The manipulation of time and the legitimacy of power during the American and French Revolutions, 1774-1815
… thesis, and other’s, regarding temporality and historicity. Although Koselleck’s viewpoint is largely dependent upon anecdote and abstraction to support theoretical observations, this thesis explores the application of time conceptions to five sites of political contestation: (1) the peculiar …
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