History of Ideas Research Group

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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.

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