This study examines the works of and public memory surrounding two prominent Native Hawaiian intellectuals of the mid-twentieth century, John Dominis Holt IV and Charles William Kenn. Despite the relative anonymity of the latter among non-academic circles, both men proved crucia…
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This dissertation challenges the way scholars have defined modernity in terms of inaccurate dichotomies by comparing Max Weber (1864–1920), often considered the most important sociologist of the twentieth century, and Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), founder of Waldorfpädagogik and t…
The history of emotion has given a bit of attention to the role that fear plays as a historical motive. Yet, what fear is or how it may be used when examining primary sources which possess fictitious tales has sorely been neglected. In order to address this, this thesis argues t…
My dissertation argues that the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was an influential presence in Early America and deserves more historical attention. In their response to this theology, early advocates of Swedenborg’s doctrines demonstrated a desire for reconciliation …
This dissertation is an analysis of the development of dialectic and argumentation theory in post-classical Islamic intellectual history. The central concerns of the thesis are; treatises on the theoretical understanding of the concept of dialectic and argumentation theory, and …
This work seeks to provide a systematic comparative and critical analysis of the oeuvre of Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus, within a specific political context, i.e. intellectual resistance to totalitarianism. Such an account is both lacking, despite the abundance of literatur…
Liberalism originated and developed during the progressive expansion of European overseas empires. Through its early history, the ideology was utilized both to reinforce and attack imperial endeavors. Even where liberal ideas bolstered imperial projects, the ideology often coexi…
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and social movement that had a profound impact on the development of Western society, yet its complexity and impact on literature are not often fully understood. The values of freedom, equality, and brotherhood as well as the rise of the rol…
During the second half of the nineteenth century, peasant smallholders in the Bengal delta—an alluvial tract formed out of the silt deposits of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna river-systems—expanded their cultivation of jute, a fibrous plant that was the world's primary pack…
Empire has traditionally been viewed as a masculine endeavor. Only in the past few decades, along with the rise of gender history, have scholars to a meaningful extent taken up the study of women and gender in the context of empire. This thesis examines the complexity of French …
This dissertation tracks the epistemological precursors, what I call the “pragmatic attitudes”, of William James’s pragmatism as they appear in liberal evangelical culture from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the postbellum Social Gospel movement. I examine what I take to be thr…
This dissertation confronts misconceptions regarding Jean-Paul Sartre's relation to communism in order to clear the way for a thorough appreciation of his analysis of colonialism and his stand against torture during the Algerian War. I emphasize how the tumultuous collapse of bo…
This study presents an examination of what has been commonly referred to as Cheikh Anta Diop's Two Cradle Theory. After a review of Cheikh Anta Diop's English-translated works which elucidate the Two Cradle Theory and a discussion of the Afrikan worldview methodological framewor…
A particular--Persian--trajectory for the configurations of a certain German orientation and identity-formation from the late Baroque Rococo, past Classicist Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang , and German Romantics is disserted using Goethe's theory of poetic translation as derived…
This dissertation reexamines the process of secularization that went on in the European Enlightenment, specifically as it relates to political theory. The philosophers of the Enlightenment united the secularizing trends occurring in all areas of knowledge--science, sociology, hi…
This dissertation concerns the stylized carto -ideographs--specifically representations of the world--that illustrate medieval Islamic geographical manuscripts. There are hundreds of cartographic images scattered throughout the medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turk…
This study reconstructs the intellectual history of the concept of mas[dotbelow]lah[dotbelow]a in Sunni legal philosophy from the fourth/tenth to the eighth/fourteenth centuries. Early works on legal theory treated mas[dotbelow]lah[dotbelow]a as a rather vague concept. By the mi…
This dissertation examines the late 16th century northern Indian philosopher Vijñanabhiks[dotbelow]u and his significance for the wider history and historiography of philosophy in India. After introducing the basic historical problematic in chapter one, chapters two and three de…
The number of cartographical depictions and narratives of different geographical regions increased in the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This dissertation seeks to understand these new visual and textual narratives within the broader context of the political and intellectual …