Sökning: "historical materialism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 uppsatser innehållade orden historical materialism.
1. Jez Butterworth'z Jerusalem and the Spirit of Liberty
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay is an attempt to conduct a reading of Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth through the lens of cultural materialism with John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty as intertext. The essay conducts a brief survey of previous scholarly treatment of the play, explains the theoretical background of cultural materialism that the essay operates on, and briefly introduces the intertext. LÄS MER
2. Navigating the Paradox : Moral Intuitions, Evolutionary Critiques & Philosophical Implications
Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierSammanfattning : In this thesis, I explore moral intuition as an epistemological tool for constructing moral systems, focusing specifically on the challenges arising from evolutionary and cultural biases. This thesis will consider and discuss Michael Huemer's Ethical Intuitionism, Peter Singer's critique of moral intuitions, and Sharon Street's Darwinian Dilemma, I consider some possible defenses and counterarguments concerning the reliability of moral intuitions. LÄS MER
3. Wild cimarrones: Cuban maroon ecology in the first half of the 19th century and the corporeal rift
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiSammanfattning : Analyses of enslaved labor and marronage in the Caribbean and beyond abound. As insightful and important as many of these works have been, they have often overlooked the ecological dimension of the maroons’ struggle for their liberation, the relationship between nature and the political struggle for emancipation. LÄS MER
4. Dissonance in Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : This essay identifies a type of narrative dissonance in the depictions of working-class conditions within Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. In this thesis, the dissonance is argued in part to be the effect created when an author belonging to one social class attempts to portray a class separate from their own. LÄS MER
5. Global Cultures – Critical Zone Observatories of Everyday Objects : (A Global Environmental History of Yogurt)
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : This study turns to what is for many an everyday item – yogurt – as a critical zone observatory, a synergistic, place-based laboratory which aims to integrate heterogenous representations of planetary phenomena as they are registered at a common surface. Yogurt has an impressive cultural endurance largely derived from its prominence in various paradigms of health. LÄS MER
