Idéhistoria

Uber Jahrzehnte beanspruchten die komplementaren Diskurse des ostlichen partei-, spater staatsoffiziellen Marxismus sowie des westlichen Antikommunismus die nahezu uneingeschrankte …

This is the story of Noah Kaplan, the last surviving earthling, who miraculously escaped the explosion of our planet. We find him flying in an alien ship into the unknown. To keep …

Juri Lotman (1922–1993), the Russian-Estonian literary scholar, cultural historian and semiotician, was one of the most original and important cultural theorists of the 20th …

Mysticism and esotericism are two intimately related strands of the Western tradition. Despite their close connections, however, scholars tend to treat them separately. Whereas the …

'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One …

Ludwig Wittgenstein was one of the greatest philosophers of the modern era, while his pupil and friend Elizabeth Anscombe is increasingly recognized as being an important …

I "Myten om staten" spårar den tysk-judiske filosofen Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) det totalitära tänkandets rötter. Den skrevs mot slutet av andra världskriget i amerikansk exil och …

Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) anses vara en av västvärldens mest uppskattade filosofer och religionshistoriker och har gett ut flera böcker som fått internationell klassikerstatus. Det …

Var helst ni stöter på något av denna skarpsynta idéhistoriker ska ni stanna till och läsa eftersom man alltid får veta något nytt om allas våra psyken och kroppar. Så skrev Åsa …

The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe's last 'pagan' peoples. But the reality was different. At the …