Chapbooks, containing prose versions of medieval romances, folk songs, and rederijkers ("rhetoricians") verse; Reformation propaganda; marching songs of the Calvinist revolt against Spain; these and the first sonnets, the first dissertations in the vernacular, and the first grammars of the Dutch language displayed the restlessness of an age of change.
Describes his second dissertation, which dealt with Bonaventure's theology of revelation.
Having taken his doctorate in 1919, he enrolled at the University of Frankfurt to write his Habilitationsschrift, the second dissertation required for teaching in a German university.
Coming up for tenure is the added pressure – in some sense this second book feels like a second dissertation being written for my senior colleagues.
The third dissertation, by William Thomas Brande, professor of chemistry in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, was "Exhibiting a General View of the progress of Chemical philosophy from the early ages to the end of the eighteenth century".
The influence of Hegel is apparent in Žižek's first major work, Le Plus Sublime des Hystériques: Hegel Passe (1988; "The Most Sublime of Hysterics: Hegel Passes"), a revision of his second dissertation.
Two new dissertations were added: Stewart's and Mackintosh's were followed by one titled "Exhibiting a General View of the Rise, Progress, and Corruptions of Christianity" by Archbishop Richard Whately, and those by Playfair and Leslie were supplemented by a sixth dissertation by James David Forbes covering the mathematical and physical sciences up to 1850.
This became the second dissertation, Playfair's took third place, and the fourth was newly written by Sir John Leslie, professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, titled "Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science Chiefly During the Eighteenth century".
