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‘A psychological riddle demanding a solution’. : Crowd psychology and the Finnish Civil War of 1918 [PDF]

, 2021
Right after the Finnish Civil War of 1918, the first treatises discussing the insurgents (the Reds) in crowd psychological terms were published. Between 1918 and the early 1920s, several Finnish authors used Gustave Le Bon’s and other crowd psychologists’
Pietikäinen, Petteri, Petteri Pietikainen   +1 more
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A Global History in the Language of Law [PDF]

, 2021
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas are articulated in the language ...
Schuppert, Gunnar Folke, Gunnar Folke Schuppert   +1 more
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David Hume and the Myth of the ‘Warburtonian School’ [PDF]

, 2020
“This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in History of European Ideas on 11 Sep 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2020 ...
MILLS, R, R. J. W. Mills
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What's the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée [PDF]

, 2012
Historians of all kinds are beginning to return to temporally expansive studies after decades of aversion and neglect. There are even signs that intellectual historians are returning to the longue durée.
Armitage, David
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Pseudo-quantities, New Public Management and Human Judgement

Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics, 2012
In this article I will introduce a new concept: pseudoquantities. A pseudo-quantity is a spurious quantity that purports to indicate the dimensions of something but is actually arbitrary and, if taken at face value, misleading. A real quantity informs us
Sven-Eric Liedman
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Prefigurative Poetics: Language Writing’s New Sentence and the Politics of the New Left

Orbit, 2023
This article argues that prefiguration is an essential concept for understanding the postwar avant-garde’s affiliation with social movements. Against the backdrop of important recent arguments that link Language writing to the failings and inner ...
Mathies G. Aarhus
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Sin Embodied : Priest-Psychiatrist Asser Stenbäck and the Psychosomatic Approach to Human Problems [PDF]

, 2022
Combining theological and medical perspectives is indispensable for the historical study of the interconnections between mind, body, and soul. This article explores these relations through the history of Finnish psychosomatic medicine, and uses published
Hyrkäs, Eve-Riina, Eve-Riina Hyrkäs
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Pythagoras and the (Were)Wolf [PDF]

Athens Journal of History, 2016
This article examines some complex connections between Pythagorean symbolism and related aspects of ancient Greek mythology concerning wolves, lycanthropy, the colour white, music, Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia, the gods Zeus, Apollo, Artemis and Pan as well as
Kenneth R. Moore
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History of economic ideas [PDF]

, 2017
El presente trabajo se propone como reflexión metodológica crítica respecto de la historia económica -en general- y de la historia del pensamiento económico -en particular-.
Dvoskin, Nicolás
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Topic Timelines for Enabling Close and Distant Reading of Discursive Shifts. A Pilot Case Using Periodicals of European Diabetes Organizations

Journal of Open Humanities Data
In a project about the development of 20th-century patient organizations and their ideas about disease, we are investigating discursive shifts in the organizations’ periodicals—mostly magazines and newsletters—using topic modelling.
Ylva Söderfeldt, Andrew Burchell, Julia Reed, Maria Skeppstedt   +3 more
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