Essays about: "Edmund"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word Edmund.

  1. 1. Tantalizing Terrors and Transcendent Thrills : Unveiling the Sublime Aspects in Three Works by Edgar Allan Poe

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Elin Åhlén; [2023]
    Keywords : Edgar Allan Poe; horror; irony; the sublime; aesthetic theory; the uncanny;

    Abstract : This essay explores the sublime aspects in Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional horror, namely "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) and "The Raven" (1839). The aim is to show that the sublime – an aesthetic experience articulated by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant amongst many – can make the reader oscillate between horror and safety. READ MORE

  3. 2. Akrasia and Addiction in the age of Social Media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Benjamin Engström; [2023]
    Keywords : Akrasia; Weakness of will; Freedom of the Will; Addiction; Social Media Addiction; Dopamine; Dual system theory;

    Abstract : The concept of weakness of will, or Akrasia, relates to questions regarding the rationality of our choices. Philosophers such as Richard Holton and Alfred Mele have spearheaded the debate since the turn of the century, but quite recently arguments put forth by Nick Heather and Edmund Henden have catapulted the question into a subgenre between the medical, psychological, and philosophical fields. READ MORE

  4. 3. Implementation of 3 stage Lobatto IIIC into the Assimulo package

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematik (naturvetenskapliga fakulteten); Lunds universitet/Matematikcentrum

    Author : Edmund Aristid Lehsten; [2021]
    Keywords : 3 Stage Lobatto IIIC; Lobatto IIIC; Assimulo; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Abstract : In recent years, the popularity of discontinuous Galerkin methods has increased. As shown in [19], a result exists that states that the Discontinuous Galerkin space approximations (DG) are equivalent to the Lobatto IIIC Runge-Kutta method. READ MORE

  5. 4. WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Patrik Elgström; [2020-12-17]
    Keywords : Genius Loci; analogue photography; visualization; imaginary space; phenomenology; The Spirit of Place; ; darkroom; film; architecture; Virginia Woolf; John Gossage; Edmund Husserl;

    Abstract : I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own history to find reasons why I was standing there. READ MORE

  6. 5. Exploring paganism : druidic experiences of nature

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Robin Cronberg; [2020]
    Keywords : Human Ecology; Phenomenology; Druidry; Alienation; Paganism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Humanity could be considered to be alienated from nature due to us having adapted an intellectual relationship to it that is problematic. To become a society that is sustainable at its core we would thus need to change that relationship. READ MORE