The creation of new symbols and rituals to evoke belief in a higher cause are central to the concept, ‘political religion’, prevalent in fascism studies for at least two decades.
published in open Democracy by Paul Jackson on 29.07.2019
Author Archives: Jorge Varela
Tommaso Giordani on Sorel and Anarchism
On the 8 July 2019, Tommaso Giordani presented a paper entitled “Was Georges Sorel an anarchist? Anti-statism, Marxism, and modes of proletarian violence” at the Communicating Community: Anarchism and its Boundaries conference held at the European University Institute in Florence. For a conference report, see here
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.
Dora Marsden and Anarchist Modernisms
Henry Mead recently published a chapter entitled ‘Dora Marsden and Anarchist Modernisms’ in Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1890s-1920s: The Modernist Period, ed. Faith Binckes and Carey Snyder (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 226-241. The chapter contains a discussion of Max Stirner’s radical individualist theory of history plus details on Emma Goldman’s and Benjamin Tucker’s anarchisms. It identifies Marsden’s quarrel with Tucker as signalling a divergence, continuing through the interwar period, between an anarchist ‘early modernism’ and a conservative ‘high modernism’.
Teaching resources on Futurism
Roberta Albertini just published some didactic resources on Futurism as part of her contribution to the Between the Times project. They can be found in the following addresses:
Special issue on temporalities
The journal Past & Present recently published a set of articles on temporalities.
The Spirit of History
Terry Pinkard on the relevance of history and Hegel.
Published in Aeon on the 13th of June 2019.
‘Is there a European Intellectual History?’: workshop abstracts
The ‘Between the Times’ project workshop ‘Is there a European Intellectual History?’ took place on the 6th and 7th of July. During the two days we had 4 wonderful keynote talks by Balász Trencsényi, Giuseppe Bianco, Tim B. Müller, and Martin van Gelderen. In addition we also had the chance to listen to 10 wonderful talks by several younfer researchers, you can read their abstracts here.
Liisi Keedus on Estonian and European ideas of progress
Liisi Keedus contributed to the Estonian Public Broadcasting weekly research programme (27.04.2019), speaking about ideas of progress in Estonian and European intellectual history
Is there a European interwar intellectual history? Conference Programme
The programme for the upcoming conference is now available online at the link below!
The event will take place in Tallinn Teachers’ House in the Town Hall Square on the 7 and 8 of June.