Niklas Olsen

Johan Östling

David Larsson Heidenblad

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across postwar Scandinavia, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. This book focuses on a period when the term "knowledge society" was coined and rapidly found traction. In Scandinavia, society’s relationship to rational forms of knowledge became vital to the self-understanding and political ambitions of the era. Taking advantage of contemporary discussions about the circulation, arenas, forms, applications and actors of knowledge, contributors examine various forms of knowledge – economic, environmental, humanistic, religious, political, and sexual – that provide insight into the making and functioning of postwar Scandinavian societies and offer innovative studies that contribute to the development of the history of knowledge at large. The concentration on knowledge rather than the welfare state, the Cold War or the new social and political movements, which to date have attracted the lion’s share of scholarly attention, ensures the book makes a historiographical intervention in postwar Scandinavian historiography. Offering a stimulating point of departure for those interested in the history of knowledge and the circulation of knowledge, this is a vital resource for students and scholars of postwar Scandinavia that provides fresh perspectives and new methodologies for exploration.

Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia

an introduction to the work of Reinhart Koselleck

History in the plural

Morten Bendix Andersen

dengang og nu

1968

Palle Roslyng-Jensen

Karl Christian Lammers

Den tyske nazisme og udviklingerne i Tyskland efter 1933 vakte ikke blot bekymring, men også fascination og beundring i og uden for Tyskland. Det gjaldt både i den brede befolkning, hvor mange lod sig imponere af det nazistiske regimes ydre præsentation og selvfremstilling, og blandt intellektuelle og videnskabsfolk, der anede muligheder i de projekter, som nazisterne satte i gang. Formålet med denne bog er at undersøge, hvordan forskellige videnskabsfag og videnskabsfolk ved de danske universiteter reagerede på udfordringerne fra nazismen i perioden fra 1933 til 1945. Det drejer sig bl.a. om fag som medicin, jura, historie, germanistik og teologi, om forskere som germanisten Carl Roos, historikeren Aage Friis og fysikeren Niels Bohr, og om hvordan de universitetsstuderende, universitetet som institution og organisation og sider af kulturlivet forholdt sig til nazismen. Ambitionen er at give nye perspektiver på og et bredt overblik over de mangeartede udfordringer fra og reaktioner på nazismen og samtidig belyse institutionernes og de enkelte aktørers manøvrerum og interesser i perioden mellem 1933 og 1945 mere generelt. Bogen indeholder bidrag af Christoph Cornelissen, Jens Holger Schjørring, Finn Aaserud, Henrik Kragh Sørensen, Lene Koch, Henrik Tjørnelund, Lars Schreiber Pedersen, Lasse Olufson, Palle Roslyng-Jensen, Niklas Olsen og Karl Christian Lammers.

Nazismen, universiteterne og videnskaben i Danmark

Hagen Schulz-Forberg

The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who understood themselves as liberals (and at times as neoliberals) and who sought to create societies based on individual freedom and a free market economy. It also shows that neoliberalism emerged as a transnational and multilingual phenomenon and that it cannot be reduced to one doctrine or practice. The book will enrich the reader’s knowledge of the political-ideological landscapes and developments in various European regions and countries, in addition to transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.

Transnational Reconstructions of Liberalism in Europe in the Twentieth Century

Re-Inventing Western Civilisation

Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work of philosophers and political thinkers like Hans Georg Gadamer and Carl Schmitt and that of internationally renowned scholars such as Hayden White, Michel Foucault, and Quentin Skinner. An advocate of "grand theory," Koselleck was an inspiration to many scholars and helped move the discipline into new directions (such as conceptual history, theories of historical times and memory) and across disciplinary and national boundaries. He thus achieved a degree of international fame that was unusual for a German historian after 1945. This book not only presents the life and work of a "great thinker" and European intellectual, it also contributes to our understanding of complex theoretical and methodological issues in the cultural sciences and to our knowledge of the history of political, historical, and cultural thought in Germany from the 1950s to the present.

An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck

History in the Plural

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and politics. Analysis of the sovereign consumer across time and space demonstrates how neoliberals have linked the figure both to the idea of democracy as a method of choice, and also to a re-invention of the market as the democratic forum par excellence. Moreover, Olsen contemplates how the sovereign consumer has served to marketize politics and functioned as a major driver in a wide-ranging transformation in political thinking, subjecting traditional political values to the narrow pursuit of economic growth. A politically timely project, The Sovereign Consumer will have a wide appeal in academic circles, especially for those interested in consumer and welfare studies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.

A New Intellectual History of Neoliberalism

The Sovereign Consumer

Niklas Olsen

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