Centre for Modern Thought

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The Centre for Modern Thought was created at Aberdeen in 2005 in order to foster dynamic and theoretically informed cross-disciplinary research. It was established as a forum for rethinking the key intellectual movements of modernity in the context of the most urgent questions of today. Its degree-granting programmes are designed to provide graduate training and supervision at the very highest levels.

The Centre has grown rapidly in the past two years, and has attracted significant attention on the global academic stage by reason of its distinguished participants and the breadth of its ambition. In its activities, it traverses the fields of literature, philosophy, theory of art, political and legal thought, and science studies. With a strong emphasis on intellectual history and philosophical foundations, members seek to give a new impetus to contemporary theoretical research. They also want to explore what is possible in the academy and to create a new interface between it and other sectors of cultural and political activity.

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Founding year

2005

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University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen

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