HISS2031 Intellectual History II (5 cr)

Study of the intellectual history from different perspectives. The focus of the course is particularly on deepening the knowledge of history of economic and political thought in a long-term perspective. 

After completing the course, the student

• can identify the different approaches, theories, methods and source choices in the intellectual history behind the research results
• is well versed in the history of different ideologies, such as republicanism, nationalism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism and feminism, as well as alternative ideologies
• is familiar with the interaction between economic, political and scientific thinking in the long term.

The focus of the course may vary based on the implementation of the course.

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Original sources and literature agreed with the teacher.

When taken as a book exam, books are selected from the following list so that the number of credits is 5 credits:

Terence Ball & Richard Bellamy (toim.): The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press 2008). (3 credits)

Lucy Delap: Feminisms - A Global History (Chicago University Press 2020). (2 credits)

Istvan Hont, Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and Nation-State in Historical Perspective (Harvard University Press 2005). (3 credits)

Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Marten Seppel & Keith Tribe, Political Reason and the Language of Change: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe (Routledge 2023). (2 credits)

Lars Magnusson, Från Landskapslagar till statsliberalism. Det ekonomiska tänkandet i Sverige (Dialogos 2022). (2 credits)

Samuel Moyn & Andrew Sartori (toim.): Global Intellectual History (Columbia University Press 2013). (2 credits)

Quentin Skinner: Liberty as Independence. The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal (Cambridge University Press 2025). (2 credits)