Die erste fachübergreifende Ideengeschichte Rumäniens vermittelt anhand von Denkströmungen, Persönlichkeiten und Kulturpublizistik ein besseres Verständnis auch aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Madalina Diaconu behandelt für den Zeitraum seit dem Beginn der Moderne bi…
Die erste fachübergreifende Ideengeschichte Rumäniens vermittelt anhand von Denkströmungen, Persönlichkeiten und Kulturpublizistik ein besseres Verständnis auch aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Madalina Diaconu behandelt für den Zeitraum seit dem Beginn der Moderne bi…
Die erste fachübergreifende Ideengeschichte Rumäniens vermittelt anhand von Denkströmungen, Persönlichkeiten und Kulturpublizistik ein besseres Verständnis auch aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Madalina Diaconu behandelt für den Zeitraum seit dem Beginn der Moderne bi…
Die erste fachübergreifende Ideengeschichte Rumäniens vermittelt anhand von Denkströmungen, Persönlichkeiten und Kulturpublizistik ein besseres Verständnis auch aktueller gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen. Madalina Diaconu behandelt für den Zeitraum seit dem Beginn der Moderne bi…
Al-Azmeh traces how political Islam breaks with core elements of the Muslim tradition and, at the same time, roots many of its concepts in European reactionary and romantic thought. Surveying both its social origins end its intellectual genealogy, he rethinks the relationship be…
Thinking of the children -- History, childhood and modernity -- Cinema for children -- Television for children -- Digital games for children -- Conclusion. Throughout the modern era, the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, cons…
This dissertation examines modernist music and literature in Central Europe during the 20th century. My critical aims for this work are twofold. Firstly, I consider ideas about cultural identity, political solidarity, and nationalism as refracted through Central European musical…
This dissertation seeks to introduce a new approach to the analysis of men’s violence and masculinities in the context of the United States. I focus on the concept of control—understood here as a spectrum of interrelated modes of violence that assert mastery over the self and ot…
The nineteenth century witnessed the decline of traditional structures and the birth of new forms of Judaism. During this time, Jews reevaluated the extent to which they were bound by traditional norms. Central to this reevaluation was the authority of traditional Jewish texts, …
This thesis examines the intersection of Japonisme and modernity in Henri Rivière’s lithographic album, Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1902). While paying homage to Hokusai’s Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Rivière represents thirty-six lithographs of modernized Paris. Ri…
Modernity is central to postcolonial discourse. This paper examines how the state of Cambodia constructs modernity in the public imagination. Reflecting upon Homi Bhabha’s discussion on mimicry “almost the same, but not quite”, this paper looks at different aspects of modernity …
This study presents an interpretive approach to Cormac McCarthy’s early works—The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God—which seeks to account for the deterioration of traditional community values and the accompanying degradation of the individual that occurs over the cou…