The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453 had an overwhelming geopolitical impact on Western Europe which included a discursive shift that depended greatly on the ideological construction of this event by its contemporaries for its consequences. In other words, the nature o…
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Man and his conflicts, examined through the prism of the Italian Renaissance, make up the subject of this dissertation. By exploring the multifarious forms of enmity, I aim to investigate the nature and the boundaries of power. The persuasion that political authority and hostili…
This dissertation documents and analyzes the work of Alfred Neumann in Israel between 1949 and 1968. Neumann’s approach to architecture reflected a paradigm shift from the notion of ‘building as object’ to ‘building as pattern,’ and served as a critique of Israel's overarching a…
This dissertation explores the many allusions to and retellings of the Oedipus myth in twentieth-century writing and examines their relationship to what many have seen as the crisis in humanism as it has unfolded in the past hundred years. For modernists and many of their succes…
Through an analysis of works by Francophone and Anglophone sub-Saharan female writers (Mariama Bâ, Ken Bugul, Ntyugwetondo Angèle Rawiri and Ama Ata Aidoo), I examine the various narrative strategies elaborated by African women authors to resist binary oppositions, and to advoca…
Sabato Morais (1823–1897), an Italian-born Jewish minister who came to Philadelphia from London in 185 1, became the preeminent exponent in America of enlightened orthodox Judaism. To counter threats posed to Jewish group survival, Morais advanced a voluntaristic model of Jewish…
When Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, a group of Venetian humanists, who were both classical scholars and professional politicians, advocated a strong response. Most Venetian politicians, however, preferred to attempt to construct a Christian alliance that could collect…
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…
This study shows how Leone de' Sommi (1527-1592), impresario at the court of Mantua, confronts Hebrew tradition with Latin and Italian traditions, both in his literary works and in his theory on theatre, in order to express his understanding of relations between the court and th…
Since universal education was adopted in Saudi Arabia in 1932, the Ministry of Education has been challenged to build new facilities while replacing rented and deteriorated ones for its rapidly expanding population. The sudden increase in oil revenues in the early 1970s enabled …
The life of Caritas Pirckheimer spanned revolutionary times in the history of the Church. She is best-known for her response to Lutheranism, a compendium of writings known as the Denkwürdigkeiten. In it, she forcefully repudiated efforts to convert her to Protestantism and to cl…
This dissertation unravels how discussions of sympathy gained momentum in intellectual, aesthetic, and political discourse in modern China from the 1910s to the 1950s. Through textual analysis of newspapers, journals, political documents, and unofficial communist publications as…
During the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN/Zapatista) campaign, images of insurgent leader La Comandanta Ramona circulated across Mexico and the globe, encouraging popular support for the Indigenous resistance movement, which was launched from Chiapas' Lacandón j…
Bu çalışmada Charles Hartshorne’un neo-klasik teizm anlayışını irdelemeye çalıştık. “Klasik” kelimesi mevcut olanın çoğunu muhafaza etmeyi çağrıştırır. “Neo” (yeni) kelimesi ise olana bir şey ekler ve yeniliğe vurgu yapar. Hartshorne’un gayesi de klasik Hristiyan teizmine yeni b…
After a baptism by fire experienced by some during the novel coronavirus pandemic, a perfect opportunity was presented to study the behaviors, competencies, and characteristics that have best equipped health care executives to be prepared for future crises. The threat of future …
Bu metin sosyal bilimlerde yer alan müzik'in neliğine ilişkin bir ihtilaftan doğar. Dolayısıyla bu tez öncelikle müzik hakkında, ve daha sonra müziğin modern toplumdaki konumu hakkında bir tezdir. Bunun için öncelikle bu müzik anlayışını doğuran düşünceyi ele alır. Düşüncenin dö…