Liisi Keedus
Biographic Data
| ID | 1445358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liisi Keedus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liisi |
| FAMILY NAME | Keedus |
| SIGNATURE | KEEDUS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The West from its Edge: Reading Georgios Varouxakis, The West: The History of an Idea
I am reading Georgios Varouxakis’ The West: The History of an Idea, and writing this commentary surrounded by a white, winter forest in the sparsely inhabited countryside near Haapsalu, a small coa...
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
Time in history is a fiction: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism
Inventing a herbal tradition: The complex roots of the current popularity of Epilobium angustifolium in Eastern Europe
Historical ethnobotanical investigations could help to avoid creating repeating waves of popularity of plants that have already been tried for certain diseases and later abandoned as not fully effective. There is, of course, a chance that E. angustifolium could also finally be proven to be clinically safe and cost-effective for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, but this has not yet happened despite recent intensive research. Documented tradi…
"The New World" of Karl Barth: Rethinking the Philosophical and Political Legacies of a Theologian
It is only recently that a few histories of interwar European political thought have come to acknowledge that its discursive framing of ethical and social crises was closely interwoven with upheavals in the ways Europeans rethought and debated God. The first aim of the present article is to restore to Karl Barth (1886-1968) a central place in promulgating a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to twentieth-century European ethical and political …
The Poesis of a Disciplinary Metamorphosis: Rhetoric and Ambition in American Political Science After World War Ii; Pp. 3–23
The emergence of contemporary political science as a rigorously analytical and empirically based discipline is most commonly dated back to its remaking in the United States after World War II. This article highlights and explores the role of various components of rhetorical strategies deployed in the articulation and presentation of this new political science. In addition reshaping the terminological apparatus with which the â revolutionariesâ p…
Weimar thought. A contested legacy
The Crisis of German Historicism The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss - two major political thinkers of the twentieth century, both of German-Jewish background and forced into exile in America - were never friends or intellectual interlocutors. Yet they shared a radical critique of contemporary idioms of politically oriented discourses and a lifelong effort to modify reflective approaches to political experience. Liisi Keedus reveals how Arendt's and Strauss's thinking about political …
Thinking Beyond Philosophy: Hannah Arendt and the Weimar Hermeneutic Connections; Pp. 307–325
While there is increasing interest among Hannah Arendtâ s readers in the ways in which her political ideas can be traced back thematically to Weimar influences, there are only fleeting reflections on the junctions between her famously unorthodox approach to political philosophy and the hermeneutic revolts of her youth. The present paper will explore some of these connections, arguing that the theoretical-methodological background of Arendtâ s you…
Civic Sectors in Transformation and Beyond: Preliminaries for a Comparison of Six Central and Eastern European Societies
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the recent developments in the civil societies in six Central and East European (CEE) countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Focusing on the level of civil society organizations (CSO), it first discusses the changes in their role as social actors and co-operation within the civic sector itself. Second, it examines the process of civic–public sector partnership co…
"Liberalism and the Question of "The Proud: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss as Readers of Hobbes
It has often remained unclear when and where Arendt and Strauss's comprehensive accounts of modern thought entailed a critique of liberalism in the more specific sense. This paper argues that even if neither of them wrote a systematic assessment of liberalism, they focused on the change that it had brought about in the understanding of politics. Here both turned to Thomas Hobbes as the paradigmatic liberal. Arendt and Strauss's readings display s…
Modernism and Eugenics
Marius Turda, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xiv +189 pp., ISBN 987-0-230-23083-8 (hardback), ISBN 987 0 230 23083 8 5 (paperback) The author of Modernism and Eugenics has embarked on a task tha
Human and nothing but human’: How Schmittian is Hannah Arendt's critique of human rights and international law
Recently legal theorists have pointed out that whereas members of their profession often assume that post-war scholarship had broken with the past completely, political theorists have paid far more attention to questions of influences and continuities in their discipline. This also holds regarding the legacy of Carl Schmitt whose case both as a jurist and political writer is particularly pressing not only for intellectual historians, but also for…
Civic Sectors in Transformation and Beyond: Preliminaries for a Comparison of Six Central and Eastern European Societies
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the recent developments in the civil societies in six Central and East European (CEE) countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Focusing on the level of civil society organizations (CSO), it first discusses the changes in their role as social actors and co-operation within the civic sector itself. Second, it examines the process of civic–public sector partnership co…
Human and nothing but human’: How Schmittian is Hannah Arendt's critique of human rights and international law
Recently legal theorists have pointed out that whereas members of their profession often assume that post-war scholarship had broken with the past completely, political theorists have paid far more attention to questions of influences and continuities in their discipline. This also holds regarding the legacy of Carl Schmitt whose case both as a jurist and political writer is particularly pressing not only for intellectual historians, but also for…
"Liberalism and the Question of "The Proud: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss as Readers of Hobbes
It has often remained unclear when and where Arendt and Strauss's comprehensive accounts of modern thought entailed a critique of liberalism in the more specific sense. This paper argues that even if neither of them wrote a systematic assessment of liberalism, they focused on the change that it had brought about in the understanding of politics. Here both turned to Thomas Hobbes as the paradigmatic liberal. Arendt and Strauss's readings display s…
Modernism and Eugenics
Marius Turda, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, xiv +189 pp., ISBN 987-0-230-23083-8 (hardback), ISBN 987 0 230 23083 8 5 (paperback) The author of Modernism and Eugenics has embarked on a task tha
Human and nothing but human’: How Schmittian is Hannah Arendt's critique of human rights and international law
Recently legal theorists have pointed out that whereas members of their profession often assume that post-war scholarship had broken with the past completely, political theorists have paid far more attention to questions of influences and continuities in their discipline. This also holds regarding the legacy of Carl Schmitt whose case both as a jurist and political writer is particularly pressing not only for intellectual historians, but also for…
Civic Sectors in Transformation and Beyond: Preliminaries for a Comparison of Six Central and Eastern European Societies
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the recent developments in the civil societies in six Central and East European (CEE) countries: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Focusing on the level of civil society organizations (CSO), it first discusses the changes in their role as social actors and co-operation within the civic sector itself. Second, it examines the process of civic–public sector partnership co…
"Liberalism and the Question of "The Proud: Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss as Readers of Hobbes
It has often remained unclear when and where Arendt and Strauss's comprehensive accounts of modern thought entailed a critique of liberalism in the more specific sense. This paper argues that even if neither of them wrote a systematic assessment of liberalism, they focused on the change that it had brought about in the understanding of politics. Here both turned to Thomas Hobbes as the paradigmatic liberal. Arendt and Strauss's readings display s…
Thinking Beyond Philosophy: Hannah Arendt and the Weimar Hermeneutic Connections; Pp. 307–325
While there is increasing interest among Hannah Arendtâ s readers in the ways in which her political ideas can be traced back thematically to Weimar influences, there are only fleeting reflections on the junctions between her famously unorthodox approach to political philosophy and the hermeneutic revolts of her youth. The present paper will explore some of these connections, arguing that the theoretical-methodological background of Arendtâ s you…
The Crisis of German Historicism The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss
Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss - two major political thinkers of the twentieth century, both of German-Jewish background and forced into exile in America - were never friends or intellectual interlocutors. Yet they shared a radical critique of contemporary idioms of politically oriented discourses and a lifelong effort to modify reflective approaches to political experience. Liisi Keedus reveals how Arendt's and Strauss's thinking about political …
Weimar thought. A contested legacy
The Poesis of a Disciplinary Metamorphosis: Rhetoric and Ambition in American Political Science After World War Ii; Pp. 3–23
The emergence of contemporary political science as a rigorously analytical and empirically based discipline is most commonly dated back to its remaking in the United States after World War II. This article highlights and explores the role of various components of rhetorical strategies deployed in the articulation and presentation of this new political science. In addition reshaping the terminological apparatus with which the â revolutionariesâ p…
Inventing a herbal tradition: The complex roots of the current popularity of Epilobium angustifolium in Eastern Europe
Historical ethnobotanical investigations could help to avoid creating repeating waves of popularity of plants that have already been tried for certain diseases and later abandoned as not fully effective. There is, of course, a chance that E. angustifolium could also finally be proven to be clinically safe and cost-effective for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia, but this has not yet happened despite recent intensive research. Documented tradi…
"The New World" of Karl Barth: Rethinking the Philosophical and Political Legacies of a Theologian
It is only recently that a few histories of interwar European political thought have come to acknowledge that its discursive framing of ethical and social crises was closely interwoven with upheavals in the ways Europeans rethought and debated God. The first aim of the present article is to restore to Karl Barth (1886-1968) a central place in promulgating a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to twentieth-century European ethical and political …
Time in history is a fiction: Russian formalism and the crisis of historicism
The West from its Edge: Reading Georgios Varouxakis, The West: The History of an Idea
I am reading Georgios Varouxakis’ The West: The History of an Idea, and writing this commentary surrounded by a white, winter forest in the sparsely inhabited countryside near Haapsalu, a small coa...
Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism
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