Liisi Keedus’s article “‘Time in history is a fiction’: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism” has recently went online in the journal History of European Ideas. It reconstructs the decline of ‘History’ and the European crisis of historicism as a formative intellectual and experiential context for the thought of several of the prominent scholars associated with Russian formalism. Ultimately, the article argues for the need to integrate the intellectual history of Eastern and Central parts of the continent more prominently into the history of European thought.
The pre-print version of the text can be consulted at ETERA: https://www.etera.ee/zoom/204884/view

This October, The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis was released. Ksenia Shmydkaya’s contribution to the volume, “One man’s dystopia is another woman’s utopia: Humanity revolutionised, according to Stanisława Przybyszewska,” discusses the utopian potential of a little-known novel presenting an alternative history of the 1920s Europe.

The most recent issue of History and Theory journal features a review essay by Juhan Hellerma. Titled “Making the Past Speak: Acceleration, Resonance, and Presence,” it offers an extended analysis of Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (Cambridge: Polity, 2019).

Liisi Keedus gave interview to the Novaator portal where she spoke about the variety of temporal regimes, dangers of the uncritical belief in progress, and the Anthropocene. The article can be read here (in Estonian): https://novaator.err.ee/1609335198/pime-usk-progressi-muudab-inimkonna-suurte-probleemide-ees-haavatavaks

Liisi Keedus reviewed the recent Estonian translation of The Fabric of Historical Time by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm. You can read her review (in Estonian) at Sirp.

Eesti Päevaleht published Liisi Keedus’s critical considerations about the environmental, social and psychological costs of our dependency on unlimited economic growth. The article can be read here (in Estonian): https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120264843/liisi-keedus-majanduskasvu-peatumine-ei-tahenda-paratamatult-kriisi

Tommaso Giordani published an open acces research article in the journal Bergsoniana entitled “Two political itineraries of European Bergsonism: Georges Sorel and Thomas Ernest Hulme“. The article builds on Dr. Giordani’s previous publication with Dr. Henry Mead, and explores the way in which the two thinkers’ relationship with Bergsonian philosophy evolved from the late 19th century until the Great War.

The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society published Ksenia Shmydkaya’s article entitled “Georg Lukács, Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Historical Novel” in its 2023 issue. The article is available in open access.

Liisi Keedus’s contribution to the collective volume Crisis and Reorientation, edited by Christine Svinth-Værge Põder and Sigurd Baark, is now available online. The chapter title is ‘“As a Tangent Touching a Circle”: Karl Barth and Dialectical Theologians Rethinking Time After 1918.’ DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_3