Universitetslektor i idéhistoria Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier tillhör Umeå universitets humanistiska fakultet och har ca 110 anställda. Vid institutionen samlas forskare, lärare och studenter inom ämnesområdena

@umeauniversitet.bsky.social söker en universitetslektor i idéhistoria! Det är en halvtid tillsvidareanställning och sista ansökningsdag är 27 april 2026.

#AcademicSky #jobs #skystorians #HistoryOfIdeas @humanioraumu.bsky.social

Did you know that Giambattista Vico was the first to realize that myths aren’t just fables, but a structured “mental language” with its own specific time order and history?

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#GBVico #Myth #Language #Philosophy #HistoryOfIdeas

What if the Gospel of John echoes older Goddess symbolism?

Light, rebirth, and wisdom may have deeper roots - rebranded, not erased.

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#HistoryOfIdeas #ReligiousStudies #Mythology #Symbolism #BookSky

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#Descartes #Philosophy #HistoryOfIdeas

#CivilizationalTheory #IslamicScholarship #FiqhAlTahawwulat
#JurisprudenceOfTransitions #CivilizationalTransition #MoralLegitimacy #EliteDetachment #EschatologicalNarratives #IbnKhaldun #HabibAbuBakr #IslamicPhilosophy #HistoryOfIdeas #GlobalOrder

#civilization #geopolitics #politicalphilosophy #historyofideas
#powerandjustice #systemsthinking #intellectualhistory #worldhistory #philosophyofhistory #religionandpolitics #sacrednarratives #legitimacy #complexsystems #civilizationaltheory #globalaffairs #politicaltheory
#socialsystems

Lepain Introduction, section 1, paragraph 1 | Alison Elizabeth Marshall Get more from Alison Elizabeth Marshall on Patreon

Western thought split between Plato’s world of meanings and Aristotle’s world of forms. Baha’u’lláh’s philosophy reconciles them, showing that spiritual intuition and scientific inquiry complete one another.

#philosophy #metaphysics #historyofideas #bahai

I Told You So by Matt Kaplan 📚💙 #booksky #bookreviews #sciencebooks #historyofideas #historyofscience #history #ideas #bookrecs #tbr

I think of posting short digests of my past and present research here and there in the future. So mostly about #HistoryOfIdeas, #PoliticalHistory and #GameStudies. Maybe also some #PirateStudies and #HorrorStudies.

How was the international order shaped in the 1930s' economic discourse?

Read Sabine Selchow's 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecointeui.bsky.social working paper on a suggestive League of Nations memo layering different technocratic approaches 👉 loom.ly/-m-bGoM

📚 #FridayReads #EconomicHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

⚡⚡⚡ Freue mich riesig, mit einem Beitrag in diesem neuen Band zur Zwischenkriegssoziologie vertreten zu sein. Mein Text beleuchtet Reaktionen der Fachdisziplin auf den Umbruch von 1918/19.

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#Sociology #HistoryOfIdeas #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfSocialScience

Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.

New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.

From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).

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#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

The history of political thought traces how political ideas evolve 🗳️📚 It examines thinkers, texts, and contexts to understand how concepts such as sovereignty, liberty, and authority emerged and evolved. #PoliticalThought #HistoryOfIdeas

Controversial Opinion: Machiavelli's Prince and Thucydides' Melian Dialogue are Misunderstood! youtu.be/VmdhtVaBgzU?si
#Machiavelli #ThePrince #Thucydides #MelianDialogue #PoliticalRealism #HistoryOfIdeas #ClassicalPoliticalThought #MisreadingTheClassics #PowerAndMorality

We’ve all seen the viral lists of the most influential people in history.

An ironic counterfactual: If religious discovery converged inevitably the way scientific discovery does, religious founders would actually rank 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 on such lists, not higher.

#Philosophy #HistoryOfIdeas #Epistemology

“So novelty is imperious: it demands the remaking of the world according to its own standards.”
— Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet, 366 #Change #Innovation #FutureOfSociety #CultureAndSociety
#ClimateConversation #TechAndSociety #HumanValues
#SocialImagination
#HistoryOfIdeas #CriticalThinking

The Blank Page Revolution How paper changed the way we think.

I’ve been deep into writing about learning and the art of taking notes. That’s why I love it that Steven Johnson keeps returning to the same theme: The Blank Page Revolution. How paper changed the way we think.

#zettelkasten #note-taking #PKM #WritingLife #ThinkingOnPaper #HistoryOfIdeas

Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken Eine historisch-systematische Analyse

1/10
The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
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One of my favorite corners of my library.
Each book here is not just ink & paper but a voice from the past, speaking, debating, and opening new horizons.

#IslamicStudies #Kalam #Maturidi #IslamicTheology #ResearchLife #HistoryOfIdeas #AcademicTwitter #IslamicThought

3/10: The essay constructs a genealogy, examining resonance-less evil from antiquity to the postmodern era, highlighting how its forms evolve with societal structures and historical contexts. #HistoryOfIdeas #Ethics

Ernst Cassirer -- 1874 - 1945

I've just finished this German philosopher's 1944 "An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture". This reading was prompted in part by my thinking about the work of the American philosopher Susanne Langer , on whom […]

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Intellectual history explores how ideas shape worlds 🧠📚. It’s not just what people thought, but why they thought it. Trace revolutions, religions, and reason from Plato to post-structuralism. Minds shape history. 💭📖 #HistoryOfIdeas #IntellectualLegacy

Alasdair Macintyre 1929-2025
RIP

#alasdairmacintyre #aftervirtue #philosophy #philosophybooks #historyofphilosophy #historyofideas #seriousnonfiction #seriousphilosophy #moralphilosophy #ethics #morals #virtueethics #moraltheory #metaethics #ethicaltheory #aristotle #booksofinstagram #bookstagram

In a month's time there will be a one-day IHRIM/NOTCOM workshop in Lyon on #Cartesianism and the #historyofideas. I will be discussing #Descartes on #fencing and also, as the background of the poster suggests, Descartes' opinion of #GirardThibault d'Anvers (spoiler: he doesn't like it)

Explore the "conceptual earthquakes"—from Agriculture & Writing to Quantum Physics—that reshaped humanity, & the future leaps (AI, Consciousness, Energy) that could define life ahead.

Read: 10billion.substack.com/p/the-ideas-...

#HistoryOfIdeas #Futurism #ParadigmShift #10Billion

The Slow Grind & the Delight of Philosophical Digressions Part 1: The Pre-Socratics

🔥 Slow progress this week—but found unexpected inspiration in Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy. Turns out, philosophy isn’t all dry logic puzzles.

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#Philosophy #CreativeStruggle #HistoryOfIdeas

2️⃣0️⃣ Libertarianism started as a metaphysical claim before becoming a political movement. Now, it’s time for the next evolution—one that recognizes free will as emergent and law as a tool to enhance it.
#Nomodynamy #FreeWill #HistoryOfIdeas #20postchallenge

7️⃣ But in the 19th century, Joseph Déjacque repurposed libertarian for collectivist anarchism, redefining it in ways that contradicted its original meaning.
#Anarchism #PoliticalTheory #HistoryOfIdeas #20postchallenge