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History of Ideas Research Group

Description

The History of Ideas group explores the intellectual lives of past figures and societies - and their legacies in the present.

This includes:

  • the cultural, social and critical impacts of past ideas
  • the thinkers who developed and shaped them
  • the political, social, cultural, and intellectual contexts in which these ideas took shape

The Group’s research is cross- and inter-disciplinary, embracing a variety of methodologies and approaches, reflecting the group’s diverse theoretical and conceptual base. Among the thinkers the Group focuses on are:

  • Iris Murdoch
  • Jean-François Lyotard
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Antonio Gramsci
  • Henri Bergson
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Simone Weil
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Hong Xiuquan

The Group explores key ideas and movements, including:

  • the English reformation
  • early modern eschatology
  • and cross-cultural Sino-Western encounters

As well as diverse themes in the history of:

  • early modern and modern philosophy
  • and twentieth-century political and philosophical thought

Research includes translations of key texts and critical appraisals of how prominent works emerged and their ongoing impact today.

The Group works with a range of organisations, including the National Trust and the People’s History Museum, as well as a partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists on policy-oriented philosophy.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Contact details

Manchester
M15 6LL
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/research/research-centres/history/groups/history-ideas

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  • University-based infrastructure
  • Group

Project Tags

  • Art tag
  • Cultural studies tag
  • History tag
  • Museum studies tag
  • Philosophy tag

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2023-09-20 13:56:05

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