Search results for "aatehistoria"
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Searching for the human factor : psychology, power and ideology in Hungary during the early Kádár period
2016
Reform, revolution, riot? : transnational Nordic Sixties in the radical press, c. 1958-1968
2021
Doctors of body, soul and society : Scottish medical missionaries of the Livingstonia mission in Nyasaland 1875-1914
2000
Demokratia tekee meistä älykkäitä
2018
Days of the Cavemen? : Adorno, Spengler, and the Anatomy of Caesarism
2021
Abstract This article addresses the controversial question of Theodor W. Adorno’s debt to right-wing Zivilisationskritik by a close reading of his essay “Spengler after the Decline” (1950). The article shows that despite Adorno’s harsh polemics against Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West (1918, 1922), he sought to make Spengler’s analysis of Weimar Germany’s undemocratic tendencies—“Caesarism”—serve progressive ends. However, Adorno’s essay was not just an effort at “coming to terms with the past” in Adenauerian West Germany. Reading the essay’s original 1941 version together with Adorno’s correspondence with Max Horkheimer sheds light on Spengler as an overlooked key (next to Max Weber, …
Freedom and its diachrony
2021
Probably everyone involved with the related disciplines in the humanities for some time knows how difficult it is to discuss about liberty and freedom beyond one’s area of expertize or the inclinat...
Integrating a Nexus: the history of political discourse and language policy research
2019
Historians of political discourse and language policy researchers should join forces to develop methods of textual analysis that help to integrate political and intellectual history. They could do so by focusing their analysis on interconnections between material realities, human physical action, practices and structures, as well as institutions and ideologies as discursive constructs. Such a version of soft constructivism underscoring the discursive nature of much of politics encourages historians to analyse past political discourses more systematically. Concepts such as nexus, historical body, mobility and discursive transfers borrowed from language research deepen our analytical understa…
Evolving Conceptualisations of Internationalism in the UK Parliament : Collocation Analyses from the League to Brexit
2020
This chapter explores a historical distant reading strategy of British Parliamentary discourse. It uses historical collocation analyses of ‘internationalism’ and the ‘international’ in the British Hansard Corpus and a selection of Commons and Lords debates concerning British membership in international organisations as it relates to the League of Nations, United Nations, Council of Europe, EEC and Brexit. The collocates that were deemed to be politically significant are grouped in 13 loose semantic fields. This macro-level analysis of long-term trends of discourse is supplemented with an analysis of the said key debates in their historical contexts, including comparisons between the two Hou…
Material, mental, and moral progress : American conceptions of civilization in late 19th century studies on "things Chinese and Japanese"
2015
Canon vs. charisma : "Maoism" as an ideological construction
2006
Mao Zedongin (1893–1976) poliittinen ja ideologinen perintö on tutkimuksellisesti jälleen ajankohtainen, kolmekymmentä vuotta ”suuren ruorimiehen” kuoleman jälkeen. Maoa on kuvattu milloin puhdasoppiseksi marxilaiseksi, milloin kiinalaiseksi patriootiksi. Maoismin tutkimuksessa on usein keskusteltu siitä, missä määrin Mao seurasi perinteisiä marxilaisia oppeja ja missä määrin hän taas sisällytti kiinalaisia elementtejä omaan ideologiseen tulkintaansa. Viime aikoina julkisuuteen tulleet historiantulkinnat sen sijaan pyrkivät osoittamaan, että Mao oli vain tunteeton ja väkivaltaan taipuvainen itsevaltias.Kauppinen esittää väitöstyössään, että Maon ideologisen maailmankatsomuksen kannalta ei o…