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1	Romarna och den paradoxala papegojan : En kartläggning och diskussion av papegojans olika syften i dess relation med det romerska samhället / Romans and the paradox riddled parrot : A study and discussion of the different uses for parrots in ancient Rome von Rüdiger, Julia January 2020 (has links) This work intends to rectify the gap in knowledge surrounding the parrot’s status in the context of the Roman empire. The focus is mainly on the different uses for parrots during this time and this paper intends to create a discussion over how these uses could have affected the bird’s standings in the Roman society. This discussion is based in the theory of “Conspicuous consumption”. Historical texts where chosen as the material for this study because of the descriptive ways that the Roman authors described parrots. The thought and reasoning’s of the Romans are prevalent to this study. Previous studies regarding birds in the ancient times where used to find some of the material seen in this study. As a subject parrots have not been thoroughly explored in the context of ancient Rome, something that was the main reason for this paper being written. Subjects that are mentioned in this study is: trade and treatment of parrots in ancient Rome, the importance of parrot’s ability to speak. The physical consumption of parrots, the use of parrots in writing and the categorization of parrots in modern studies. These subjects are discussed in relations to each other as well as their ability to reflect onto their contemporary society. The conclusion show in this paper is that the relationship between the parrots and Romans can be seen as a paradox to the modern mind. Depending on the intended use of the parrot, its status could rise or fall to reflect its purpose and how well it performed. This fluctuating status could be directly connected to the parrot’s ability, or inability, to speak clearly. This was because speech was a large part of what could have endeared its owner to the parrot. A parrot not beloved by its master might as well have been dead. Romerska husdjur status parakit papegoja lyxkonsumtion romerska samhället Antikvetenskap
2	Kant och papegojan : Om exemplen i Kritik av omdömeskraften Enström, Anna January 2011 (has links) This essay is an examination of the examples in Kant’s Critique of Judgement. The examples which I have focused on all converge in an idea of wildness. These examples of the beautiful are illuminated by a culture-historical perspective, where the literary and scientific travelogue genre is of great importance. Apart from being exegetic and culture historical, my method is also analytic. The general ambition is to answer the question; what is the parrot doing in the third Critique and what makes it a better example of a free beauty than a jackdaw? Taking as point of departure Jacques Derrida’s notion of parergonality, the example is primarily understood as formative for the thesis, not only as illustrative. By analysing Kant’s use of the wild, exotic and colourful objects as examples the essay intends to show how imagination and understanding operates in the beautiful. The parrot thus corresponds with the role of imagination in its relation to understanding in aesthetic judgement. The examples manifest the strength of the imagination and how it dominates understanding through its wildness. The aim is to present a way to approach the restful contemplation that Kant ascribes to the mind in the experience of the beautiful as bearer of a movement with considerable importance. Rodolphe Gasché’s emphasis on the wild examples as a precognitive minimum for understanding and Hannah Arendt’s view on imagination as an ability of intuition without the presence of the object, have also been essential for my argument. Physische Geographie Immanuel Kant Hannah Arendt J. M Bernstein Rodolphe Gasché Jean-François Lyotard Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze Robert Bernasconi Eva Schaper David Lloyd Howard Caygill Thomas Bernhard Kritik av omdömeskraften Kritik av det rena förnuftet estetik exempel parergonalitet det sköna inbillningskraft sensus communis exotisk djungel papegoja kolibri paradisfågel häst vildhet färg reseberättelser Königsberg Sumatra Claude-Étienne Savary William Marsden Georg Forster Aesthetics Estetik

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Romarna och den paradoxala papegojan : En kartläggning och diskussion av papegojans olika syften i dess relation med det romerska samhället / Romans and the paradox riddled parrot : A study and discussion of the different uses for parrots in ancient Rome

Kant och papegojan : Om exemplen i Kritik av omdömeskraften