Henry Mead has published an article, ‘The typewriter mind: modernism, populism and antihumanism’, in Textual Practice, 34.9 (Sep 2020), 1549-1573, DOI 10.1080/0950236X.2020.1808293 (open access here).
Category Archives: Publications
Tommaso Giordani on presentism
Tommaso Giordani has published an extended book review of Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier’s book “Rethinking Historical Time” in the European Review of History. The review is available here.
Revolution in the 20th century podcast
Between the Times researchers Tommaso Giordani and Ksenia Shmydkaya spoke to Enriko Mäsak for the podcast Filotsoon. The topic of conversation was revolution and violence in the 20th century, and the discussion focussed on Georges Sorel, Stanislawa Przybyszewska, and their relation to the memory and heritage of 1789.
The podcast is available here:
“A Home in Aardla Street” by Piret Peiker
Piret Peiker’s “A Home in Aardla Street“ („Kodu Aardla tänavas“), is a contribution to the
collection of essayistic memoirs My Childhood Home Was In the Estonian SSR (Minu
lapsepõlvekodu oli Eesti NSV-s, 2019, eds. Epp Annus, Brita Melts) by a group of Estonian humanities scholars.
The contributors of varying age and background describe the material and mental lifeworlds of their early years, highlighting the syncretism and change of the home topoi during the period. Primarily a personal reminiscence, Piret Peiker’s piece contemplates the ruptures and continuities in Estonian history and perception more generally.
The book is of interest both to an academic and to a general audience.
Georges Sorel and Giambattista Vico
Together with Eric Brandom, Tommaso Giordani has just published the first English translation of Georges Sorel’s Étude sur Vico, originally published in 1896 in the pages of the Devenir Social.
Published in full open access by Brill, the book is available here:
https://brill.com/view/title/32626
‘The New World of Karl Barth: Rethinking the Philosophical and Political Legacies of a Theologian
Liisi Keedus has published an article on Karl Barth in The European Legacy. The full publication in Open Access is here. Here is the abstract:
It is only recently that a few histories of interwar European political thought have come to acknowledge that its discursive framing of ethical and social crises was closely interwoven with upheavals in the ways Europeans rethought and debated God. The first aim of the present article is to restore to Karl Barth (1886–1968) a central place in promulgating a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to twentieth-century European ethical and political thought. Secondly, it seeks to correct the commonplace association of Barth’s theological revolution with radical and authoritarian political ideologies by exploring his early political thought and activities, whilst focusing on several of his most politically and intellectually influential ideas. The article concludes with a discussion of the wider implications of rethinking Barth’s role in intellectual history.
Book launch roundtable – “Rethinking Historical Time”
On 6 November at 2-5.30pm a book symposium will take place at TLU School of Humanities (room M-328), marking the publication of a new collective volume, “Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism”.
The symposium features the presentations by the two editors (Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier) and by one of the contributors (Liisi Keedus), but also two papers by the readers of the volume (Tommaso Giordani and Tõnu Viik).
The symposium is organized with the support of TLU Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies and ERC grant BETWEEN THE TIMES led by Liisi Keedus. All are welcome!
Full programme here.
‘The Death of Liberalism Has Been Proclaimed Before’
Henry Mead published an article entitled ‘The Death of Liberalism Has Been Proclaimed Before’ in the American on-line journal, Fair Observer (15 July 2019). The current wave of populism calls to mind the mood of the early 20th century when liberal values in England saw a “strange death.” The impulse that generated new proposals for power distribution as a replacement for both classic and statist liberalism is at work again in forms of post-liberalism on the left as much as the right.
The Anti-Democratic Faces of Modernism
Henry Mead published two posts at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right’s blog. You can read Part I and Part II, or you can read both in Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally: CARR Yearbook 2018/2019 (Columbia University Press/ibidem Press, 2019).
Time Outside History: Politics and Ontology in Franz Rosenzweig’s and Mircea Eliade’s Reimagined Temporalities
Professor Liisi Keedus’ chapter comparing Franz Rosenzweig’s and Mircea Eliade’s post-World War I approach to history has recently been published. The chapter is part of a collective volume edited by Marek Tamm and Laurent Olivier entitle Rethinking Historical Time: New approaches to Presentism.