Disertacijoje rekonstruojama modernios politinės minties raida Lietuvoje. Pagrindiniu analizės objektu siekiant šio tikslo tampa valstybės sąvoka, kuri sintezuoja ir iš politinės teorijos perspektyvos leidžia interpretuoti ją vartojančių intelektualų prielaidas apie asmens, visuomenės ir pačios politijos (bendriausia sąvoka nusakanti politinę tvarką) prigimtį. Analizė atliekama pasitelkiant ir derinant tris intelektualinės istorijos mokyklas: idėjų istoriją, sąvokų istoriją ir politiškumo istoriją. Disertacijoje parodoma, kad valstybės sąvokos atsiradimas XIX a. pr. ir įsitvirtinimas lietuvių kalboje bei politinėje mintyje yra neatsiejamos nuo modernių politinių paradigmų sklaidos. XIX a. pab. vykęs tautinis atgimimas taip pat skatino lietuviškų politinių sąvokų kūrimą, kurios leistų naujai apibūdinti politiją kaip abstraktų ir suverenų socialinį darinį. Per visą XX a. vykusi sąvokos ideologizacija – skirtingas vartojimas konkuruojantiems ideologiniams projektams pagrįsti – leidžia išskirti keletą Lietuvos visuomenei būdingų santykio su valstybe modelių. Tarpukariu labiausiai išryškėjo organiškas, tautininkiškas, demokratinis-legalistinis ir marksistinis-ekonomistinis valstybės konceptualizavimo būdai. Po II-ojo pasaulinio karo Lietuvoje buvo įtvirtintas marksistinis ir legalistinis valstybės apibrėžimo modelis, kai tuo tarpu išeivijoje buvo plėtojama organiškoji ir įdiegta liberalioji valstybės koncepcija. / This dissertation seeks to reconstruct the development of the modern Lithuanian political thought. The main object of the analysis for achieving this goal is the concept of the state (Lith. valstybė). It serves as a synthetic concept and helps to interpret the utterances of the important Lithuanian intellectuals about the person, society and polity as such from the standpoint of political theory. Analysis is done by combining three schools of intellectual history: history of ideas, conceptual history and history of the political. The dissertation shows that the genesis of the concept of the state since the beginning of the 19th century and its embedding in the modern political language and thought cannnot be separated from the development of a modern political paradigm. The national awakening at the end of the 19th century also led to the creation of new political concepts, which helped to define the polity as an abstract and sovereign entity. The ideologization of the concept (different usage of it in order to provide the basis for competing ideological projects) enables to distinguish several different attitudes towards the state specific for the Lithuanian political culture. During the Interbellum period it is possible to indicate four main modes to conceptualize the state: organic, nationalistic, democratic-legalistic and Marxist-economistic. After the Second World War Marxist and legalistic conceptualization of the state became the dominant ones in Lithuania, and the... [to full text]

This dissertation seeks to reconstruct the development of the modern Lithuanian political thought. The main object of the analysis for achieving this goal is the concept of the state (Lith. valstybė). It serves as a synthetic concept and helps to interpret the utterances of the important Lithuanian intellectuals about the person, society and polity as such from the standpoint of political theory. Analysis is done by combining three schools of intellectual history: history of ideas, conceptual history and history of the political. The dissertation shows that the genesis of the concept of the state since the beginning of the 19th century and its embedding in the modern political language and thought cannnot be separated from the development of a modern political paradigm. The national awakening at the end of the 19th century also led to the creation of new political concepts, which helped to define the polity as an abstract and sovereign entity. The ideologization of the concept (different usage of it in order to provide the basis for competing ideological projects) enables to distinguish several different attitudes towards the state specific for the Lithuanian political culture. During the Interbellum period it is possible to indicate four main modes to conceptualize the state: organic, nationalistic, democratic-legalistic and Marxist-economistic. After the Second World War Marxist and legalistic conceptualization of the state became the dominant ones in Lithuania, and the... [to full text] / Disertacijoje rekonstruojama modernios politinės minties raida Lietuvoje. Pagrindiniu analizės objektu siekiant šio tikslo tampa valstybės sąvoka, kuri sintezuoja ir iš politinės teorijos perspektyvos leidžia interpretuoti ją vartojančių intelektualų prielaidas apie asmens, visuomenės ir pačios politijos (bendriausia sąvoka nusakanti politinę tvarką) prigimtį. Analizė atliekama pasitelkiant ir derinant tris intelektualinės istorijos mokyklas: idėjų istoriją, sąvokų istoriją ir politiškumo istoriją. Disertacijoje parodoma, kad valstybės sąvokos atsiradimas XIX a. pr. ir įsitvirtinimas lietuvių kalboje bei politinėje mintyje yra neatsiejamos nuo modernių politinių paradigmų sklaidos. XIX a. pab. vykęs tautinis atgimimas taip pat skatino lietuviškų politinių sąvokų kūrimą, kurios leistų naujai apibūdinti politiją kaip abstraktų ir suverenų socialinį darinį. Per visą XX a. vykusi sąvokos ideologizacija – skirtingas vartojimas konkuruojantiems ideologiniams projektams pagrįsti – leidžia išskirti keletą Lietuvos visuomenei būdingų santykio su valstybe modelių. Tarpukariu labiausiai išryškėjo organiškas, tautininkiškas, demokratinis-legalistinis ir marksistinis-ekonomistinis valstybės konceptualizavimo būdai. Po II-ojo pasaulinio karo Lietuvoje buvo įtvirtintas marksistinis ir legalistinis valstybės apibrėžimo modelis, kai tuo tarpu išeivijoje buvo plėtojama organiškoji ir įdiegta liberalioji valstybės koncepcija.

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This dissertation begins with the hypothesis that sacred places and their stories are connected in complex ways. This refers to place-based sacred places; that is, places which gain their sacred qualities from their natural environment. The two main examples used are both located in the U.K.: Puzzlewood and the Forest of Dean, and Stonehenge. It is further theorized that the stories within these places are repositories of an ancient wisdom; a memory of what it means to live with a sense of the divine in nature. Paying attention to those stories, and to the presences found in these places, may engender a greater appreciation of the interconnectedness of the human world to the natural world and the sacred in nature. Thus an ethic of care for that storied place may develop, and a more harmonious relationship between people and the larger environment may come about. Such an ethic of care may be central in finding solutions to current environmental problems, and preventing future ones. Thus a new story about our relationship with the Earth, based on ancient wisdom, may become the conduit for a kinder, gentler future, where peace, social justice, and environmental care inform both cultural paradigms and individual worldviews. This fusion of stories, the sacred, and the sacred in nature as a way towards self-realization, the development of an ethic of care, and the vision a more harmonious future, is the unique contribution of this dissertation. Bringing together these diverse strands required a multidisciplinary approach with multiple methodologies, particularly phenomenology to account for experiences in or of sacred places, and hermeneutics to address the stories. In addition, there was a need to include some of the basics of system theory to explore both natural and social systems, and for philosophical inquiry to discuss spirituality and cosmology. Other elements of this dissertation include a background of the ways in which history is presented, how this contributes to the paradigms and worldviews found in the modern Western world, and how those paradigms affect thinking about sacredness in nature, as well as a discussion of why stories are central to all of our lives, and how places come to be imbued with stories. All of this is then set within a framework of the principles of the deep ecology movement. To bring all this together with a cohesive collection of methods, the concentric circles model was created and is explained. Additionally, this dissertation presents five criteria that could prove useful in assessing sacredness in place when such sacred sites are contested, as happens quite often. This too may help to protect (care for) these places. / Graduate / 0422 / 0322 / michelleabeauchamp@gmail.com

Submitted by Abraão Pustrelo Damião null (dirceudamiao@hotmail.com) on 2018-01-04T14:33:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 A CONSTRUÇÃO HISTÓRICO-SOCIAL DA MODERNIDADE E DA(S) PÓS-MODERNIDADE(S)-RUPTURAS E RESISTÊNCIAS DO DISCURSO MODERNO.pdf: 1971212 bytes, checksum: 0e79d3b60635ddb5f8e8c468469d4292 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Telma Jaqueline Dias Silveira null (telmasbl@marilia.unesp.br) on 2018-01-05T13:46:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 damiao_ap_dr_mar.pdf: 1840456 bytes, checksum: f8d0fd919949e1b47d8ce64141576321 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-05T13:46:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 damiao_ap_dr_mar.pdf: 1840456 bytes, checksum: f8d0fd919949e1b47d8ce64141576321 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-13 / Este trabalho busca demonstrar as rupturas e resistências encontradas pelas novas correntes epistemológicas, nomeadamente a pós-moderna e seus correlativos neologismos, no que se refere ao questionamento das correntes epistemológicas modernas. Neste sentido, o objetivo geral do trabalho é apresentar as ideias que criaram o panorama histórico-social e epistemológico responsável por um determinado tipo de pensamento social, utilizado para compreender a sociedade moderna e seus valores, para, em seguida, apontar as novas ideias que transformaram o panorama da modernidade “clássica” e exigem, atualmente, novos discursos explicativos. Para tanto, e metodologicamente, faz-se um levantamento bibliográfico acerca da história e das práticas epistemológicas que usualmente creditamos à construção social da modernidade e, desde o último século, a sua provável superação, a pós-modernidade. Com isso, este trabalho visa contribuir para a distinção e esclarecimento das mudanças socioculturais e epistemológicas responsáveis pelo juízo que o indivíduo moderno criou de si mesmo e da sociedade, comparativamente, com a perspectiva que o sujeito contemporâneo atribui a sua identidade e relações sociais. O valor desta pesquisa, portanto, reside na possibilidade de confrontação, através de uma minuciosa análise bibliográfica e comparação histórica, de quais ideias e práticas sociais se tornaram mais numerosas, quais perderam força e quais emergiram na contemporaneidade, desafiando os preceitos vigentes dentro das ciências sociais. Sobretudo para defender que o projeto moderno de emancipação e regulamentação da vida social ainda é valido e que o motivo de seu questionamento está na sobreposição do desenvolvimento capitalista e da razão instrumental e técnica sobre os paradigmas da ação política democrática e da cultura emancipatória propostas pelos primeiros modernos. / This work aims to demonstrate the ruptures and resistances encountered by the new epistemological currents, namely postmodernity and its correlative neologisms concerning the investigation of the modern epistemological currents. In this sense, the general objective of this thesis is to present the ideas that created the historical, social and epistemological theories responsible for a certain type of social thought used to understand modern society and its values. This thesis will then highlight the new ideas that have transformed the outlook of “classical” modernity which now demands original and explanatory discourses. For this reason, and methodologically, a bibliographical survey of the historic and epistemological practices, that we usually credit to the social construction of modernity and its probable overcoming, postmodernity, is conducted. Thus, this work also seeks to contribute to the explanation of the socio-cultural and epistemological distinctions and changes responsible for the judgement that the modern individual has of himself and society, compared with the perspective that the contemporary subject attributes to his identity and social relationships. Thus, through a systematic bibliographical analyze and historical comparison, the value of this research lies in the possibility of confrontation between social ideas and practices which have become more common, which have lost their influence or which have emerged in contemporaneity, defying the precepts prevailing within the social science´s policies. Above all, to defend that the modern project of emancipation and regulation of social life is still valid and that the reason for its questioning lies in the overlap of capitalist development and instrumental and technical reason over the paradigms of democratic political action and emancipatory culture proposed by the first moderns.

Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka hur uppfattningen av det svenska vattenkraftsystemet förändrades under 1960-talet, samt att tillämpa teorin Social Construction of Technology, SCOT, på vattenkraften genom att studera debatten om Vindelälven. Frågan om Vattenfall skulle tillåtas bygga ut Vindelälven var central i 1960-talets vattenkraftsdebatt. I uppsatsen undersöks hur de tre grupperna Vattenfall, Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen och lokalbefolkningen längs älven förhöll sig till frågan om Vindelälvens framtid och vilka argument de använde sig av i debatten om älven. Uppsatsen undersöker om Vattenfall, Naturskyddsföreningen och lokalbefolkningen kan förstås som tre relevanta grupper enligt SCOTs definition, samt huruvida det svenska vattenkraftsystemet nådde closure 1970. Det material som har studerats utgörs av tidnings- och tidskriftsartiklar från de tre grupperna, publicerade under perioden 1960—1970. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att Vattenfall och Naturskyddsföreningen uppfyller kriterierna för att betraktas som två relevanta grupper enligt SCOT. Vad gäller lokalbefolkningen är det mer komplicerat. Invånarna längs älven delar inte en gemensam uppfattning om utbyggnaden av Vindelälven och kan således inte betraktas som en relevant grupp, däremot finns det undergrupper som eventuellt uppfyller kriterierna. 1970 års beslut att bevara älven var avgörande för den fortsatta utbyggnaden av svenska älvar och kan ses som ett första steg på det svenska vattenkraftsystemets väg mot closure, vilket förmodligen nåddes 1993 i och med riksdagens beslut att klassa fyra älvar som nationalälvar.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka de amerikanska kommunisternas samtida diskussion kring och kritik av Roosevelts National Industrial Recovery Act , samt att analysera deras interna dragkamp om hur denna skulle tolkas och förstås i relation till fascism. Detta genomförs genom att studera kommunistiska tidningar från stalinister och trotskister. Tidigare forskning om ämnet har negligerat kommunisternas syn på lagen, alternativt avfärdat den som simpel dogma. Denna studie visar tvärtemot att både NIRA och fascism var föremål för en omfattande maktkamp mellan de kommunistiska lägren, och att kommunisternas förståelser och tolkningar byggde på komplexa teorier och utförliga analyser som anknöt till många olika koncept som bl.a. krig, terror, juridik, rättigheter, statens makt och begränsningar, symboler, statsvetenskaplig teori, och ideologier. Därmed kan studien också bidra till att problematisera och nyansera den rådande bilden av the New Deal, som i såväl forskning som populär mening har förståtts och förstås och används fortfarande som ett enhetligt, socialistiskt och progressivt fenomen.

In this thesis I study how geneticist and racebiologist Gunnar Dahlberg, through his own writings and participation in the UNESCO statements on ”race”, came to define the concepts of ”race” and ”science”. Dahlberg was a stark opponent of the ”Nazi race doctrine”. He was also in a unique position as head of the State Institute for Human Genetics and Race Biology, during the period here examined. Questions have recently been raised as to how to understand scientists like Dahlberg when he, as well as many other antiracists of his time, did not deny the existence of visible and scientifically provable ”races”. One conlusion I draw is that Dahlberg, nevertheless, in many ways sought to replace the ”race” concepts in his time, for the biological concept of ”isolates”. I also state, in accordance with what other historians of scientific racism has shown, especially when dealing with the UNESCO statements, that the furthering of biological notions was upheld by other scientific areas, such as anthropology. The case was also vice versa, making ”race” at its core biological, but to its exterior a question of social environment. Relying on Thomas F. Gieryns theories of Boundary-work, I want to further our knowledge of how this was made possible. The aim is to show how Dahlberg, rethorically, drew boundaries for the ”scientific truth” about ”race”. I also intend to shed some light on how these contests for authority where percieved and related to by others. In this respect, one conclusion is that concepts of ”modernity”, and different uses of history where employed as demarcations. I will also show how, in dealing with the criticism of the statements, UNESCO produced a pluralist concept of science. Withall, this is a history that raises important questions about science, politics, and the work – consensuses and contests – that foregoes the categories later used to describe and, or, divide human beings.

I denna uppsats ges en analys av läkaren Johan Almkvists skrift Sexuallivet i våra samhällen och möjligheten av dess förbättrande. Skriften publicerades 1942, under en tid av stora förändringar inom sexualpolitiken i Sverige. Då läkarna under denna tid fått en större vetenskaplig auktoritet även inom sexuallivet kan denna skrift ses som en representation för sin tid. Genom en analys av texten i jämförelse med samtidens samhälle påvisas en läkares tankar om förändringen gällande sexualiteten och varför en publikation av detta slag ansågs behövas. Uppsatsen undersöker vad denna läkare ansåg behövde förbättras i samhället och varför, samt hur detta skulle uppnås. Analysen är upplagd utefter de stora teman boken berör, rashygien, samhällsnytta samt könssjukdomar och sexualupplysning, teman som också var stora i samhället under denna tid. I uppsatsen framhålls hur Almkvist ansåg att sexuallivet skulle bli mindre samhällsskadligt genom att hålla sig till de skyldigheter han ställer upp. Skyldigheter som alla berör just områdena kring rashygien, samhällsnytta samt könssjukdomar och sexualupplysning.

The aim of this thesis is to examine and analyse if it is possible to distinguish a new perception of time and temporality in the Swedish fashion magazine Magasin för konst, nyheter och moder, and in that case how it is expressed. To discover this, I have used the theories of the philosophers and historians Reinhart Koselleck and Marshall Berman. In their works they have pointed out and described how the early decades of the nineteenth century was a crucial time for our perception of the modern world, in the sense that we ever since then have experienced a gap between the past and the future where we cannot derive our expectations from our past experiences anymore. I have studied if this notion is communicated in the articles, and came to the conclusion that there is a new awareness of time articulated in the magazine. Mainly  there are three different understandings of time and temporality expressed within the magazine – first are those articles that shows a general new awareness of time in a constructive way, neither through a positive or negative perspective. Furthermore, there are also expressions for connections between the materialistic content in the magazine and the view on temporality, where the acknowledgment of a new temporality in fashion seems to also have an impact on a more ideological perception of time. Finally there are articles which portrays the discrepancy between expectation and experience as something with a negative significance for the future, but similarly puts this in a way that illuminates that the future is now something adaptable and possible to influence in a certain direction. This shows a new way of understanding how, in a Swedish nineteenth century context, material culture could affect people’s awareness of time and temporality and hence also their thoughts and outlook of the future even in more abstract issues. The upcoming becomes possible to interpret as something materialistic, and therefore also something more concrete and arguable.