Marek Tamm
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 370636 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marek Tamm |
| PRENOMES | Marek |
| SOBRENOME | Tamm |
| ASSINATURA | TAMM M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0347-504X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 118 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
ICHTH/INTH Book Prize Forum
The International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH) was established in Bucharest in 1980 with the aim of promoting international collaboration and scholarly engagement...
Das mittelalterliche Livland und sein historisches Erbe / Medieval Livonia and Its Historical Legacy
The Opening of Historical Futures
With a touch of irony, the project-closing piece of the "Historical Futures" collective research endeavor pulls together the threads of its four years of explorative work by showcasing an opening of historical futures. Against the persisting myth of the closure of the future in contemporary societies, it claims that, as long as the future remains contested by virtue of the multiplicity of historical futures that societal practices and discourses …
Kuidas jääda ellu? Jaan Kaplinskiga antropotseenis / How Are We to Survive? With Jaan Kaplinski in the Anthropocene
Jaan Kaplinski kireva loomingu kese on ökoloogiline mõtlemine. Nii tema luule, proosa, esseistika kui ka laiemalt eluhoiak põhineb dünaamilise tasakaalu otsimisel inimese ja looduse vahel. Põhiküsimus, millega ta oma loometöös tegeleb, on küsimus elu järele – kuidas elu mõista, kuidas tagada elu mitmekesisus ja jätkumine ning kuidas saavutada mõtestatud elu. Artikkel esitab visandi Kaplinski ökoloogilisest mõtlemisest, tuginedes peamiselt tema es…
Cultural Science Meets Cultural Data Analytics
For developing Cultural Science as a research field and practice it is worthwhile reconsidering the ways to approach the study of large corpora of digital content and data. In this context, Digital Humanities (DH) has been a success story in the academic world. However, we argue that it is better to consider DH as a transitory phenomenon that needs to be developed into more specific research fields, while at the same time it could benefit from be…
The Transformation of Historical Time
The author takes on two interrelated tasks. The first is to justify the philosophy of history as an intellectual enterprise for the modern era and one which is dedicated to finding a positive meaning in the changes that occur within humanity as it moves from the past toward the future. The viability of that enterprise has been called into question by the catastrophes of the twentieth century. The second task is to propose a new concept of histori…
Digihumanitaariast kultuuriandmete analüüsini
Digihumanitaaria tõus ja langus Digihumanitaaria (ingl digital humanities) on üks humanitaarteaduste kõige edukamaid lendsõnu viimasel viieteistkümnel aastal. Selle kiiluvees on tehtud ja tehakse mitmekesist ja sisukat uurimistööd ning võib julgelt tõdeda, et digihumanitaaria on kujundanud humanitaarteaduste praegust palet enam kui ükski teine uus lähenemine. Selle eduloo taustal ei saa jätta siiski tähelepanuta, et digihumanitaaria on [...]
Anthropocenic historical knowledge
In the form of a conversational exchange of ideas, Ewa Domańska, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm reflect on the condition and role of historical knowledge in the Anthropocene. In the conversation on the potential of ‘anthropocenic historical knowledge’ – including the limitations and use of the term – each author offers and elaborates on one main theme for discussion, on which the other two co-authors reflect: Tamm begins by posing the ques…
A lexandra S terling -H ellenbrand . Medieval Literature on Display
To believe the author, this book has been long in the making. It started almost thirty years ago, in 1992, when the author participated as a student at the University of Cologne in a seminar on the reception of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, which also involved a weekend excursion to the small Franconian town of Wolframs-Eschenbach—one of the main protagonists of the book. It seems, however, that a more serious work began about two decades la…
Historical Futures
This article outlines the agenda of a collective research project that aims to explore modalities of historical futures that constitute our current historical condition. To present the collective work adequately, we have teamed up with History and Theory and initiated a long-term serial publishing experiment. In the coming years, each issue of the journal will feature contributions to this research endeavor. In our project-opening piece, we brief…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Global Cultural History’ proposes a historiographic and conceptual framework for a ‘global turn’ in cultural history and for the articles gathered in the special issue. It discusses first the ‘archaeology of global cultural history’, i.e. the previous attempts to expand the scope of cultural history and to focus on connections and comparisons. Next, it proposes a conceptual mapping of global cultural his…
How to Reinvent the Future
This review essay discusses the historical Zeitdiagnosen in recent scholarly literature, focusing in particular on Jérôme Baschet's Défaire la tyrannie du présent: Temporalités émergentes et futurs inédits (2018). Baschet's book constitutes an original contribution to ongoing debates about our temporal condition in at least three aspects. First, although relying partly on earlier theoretical literature (principally the works of François Hartog), …
A Cultural History of Memory in Antiquity
The ancient world is a paradigm for the memory scholar. Without an awareness that collective memories are not only different from individual memories (or even the sum thereof) but also highly constructed, ancient research will be fundamentally flawed. Many networks of memories are beautifully represented in the written and material remains of antiquity, and it is precisely the ways in which they are fashioned, distorted, preserved or erased throu…
Making Livonia
Historical Thinking and the Human
In recent years the age-old question "what is the human?" has acquired a new acuteness and novel dimensions. In introducing the special issue on "Historical Thinking and the Human", this article argues that there are two main trends behind the contemporary "crisis of human": ecological transformations (related to human-induced climate change and planetary environmental challenges), and technological ones (including advancements in human enhanceme…
Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History
Debating New Approaches to History
With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline’s theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field a…
The past is not a foreign country
In this interview, Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Eelco Runia’s thinking about history. The following topics are discussed: the relations between history, psychology and fiction; the critique of representationalism in the contemporary philosophy of history; the presence of the past; the question of continuity, discontinuity and mutation in history; the importance of metonymy as the quintessenti…
Rethinking Historical Time
Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and based on the linear, progressive and homogeneous concept of time. Over the last few decades, there has been a shift towards a new, present-oriented regime or 'presentism', made up of multiple and percolating temporalities. Rethinking Historical Time engages with this change of paradigm, providing a timely overview of cutting-edge interd…
Rahvuste tegemine
Arutelu rahvusest ja humanitaarteadustest eeldab kõige muu kõrval sissevaadet rahvuse mõistesse, selle kriitilis-ajaloolist eritlust. Kusjuures just rahvuse ja rahvusluse määratlemisel ilmneb kõige selgemalt uurija ilmavaateline asend. Me võime endamisi loota, et rahvusi on võimalik analüüsida õpetlaslikult positsioonilt, olümposlikult kõrguselt, ent tegelikult tehakse esimesed otsustavad valikud juba mõistete defineerimisel. Rahvus ei ole mõist…
In a Parallel World
This article proposes to identify the conceptual structure guiding Frank Ankersmit’s philosophy of history. We argue that philosophical analysis of history consists in Ankersmit’s approach of three different levels: 1) the level of the past itself which is the subject of ontology, 2) the level of description of the past that is studied by epistemology, and 3) the level of representation of the past which should be analysed primarily by means of a…
Ross Wilson. The Language of the Past
From a semiotic perspective, we can recognize in all cultural phenomena the same mechanisms that operate in language. This applies also to history, and therefore “the historical process may be conceived of as a process of communication in which a constant influx of new information determines one or another response reaction on the part of the social addressee.” In this communication process, the past is constantly being reinterpreted, and new mea…
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Introduction
The introductory article proposes to offer a general frame for the special issue, discussing the emergence of semiotics of history as a new discipline or approach in the humanities. It presents an overview on the attempts of joining the history and semiotics in the Western world since the early 1980s, with a special focus on the United States, and examines the contribution of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics to the semiotic study of history, …
Meike Wulf, Shadowlands
Historical Futures
This article outlines the agenda of a collective research project that aims to explore modalities of historical futures that constitute our current historical condition. To present the collective work adequately, we have teamed up with History and Theory and initiated a long-term serial publishing experiment. In the coming years, each issue of the journal will feature contributions to this research endeavor. In our project-opening piece, we brief…
Beyond History and Memory
This article outlines some recent achievements and new perspectives in contemporary memory studies. It first gives an overview of the recent handbooks and anthologies of memory studies, which testify to the institutionalisation of the young discipline. Then, it discusses the emergence of cultural memory studies, one of the most fruitful and promising trends in the memory studies of the last decade. And finally, it addresses the old debate over th…
History as Cultural Memory
Truth, Objectivity and Evidence in History Writing
This article aims to suggest one possible - pragmatist in a very broad sense of the term - approach to making sense of the way truth and objectivity function within the discipline of history. It argues that history doesn't need a new theory of truth; rather, it is necessary to analyse in theoretical terms how truth is understood and used in historical inquiry. This article considers truth as an epistemic term in a certain given - historiographica…
Afterlife of Events
Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and
In search of lost time
This article analyzes memory politics during the first 20 years (1991-2011) of the newly independent Estonia. Memory politics is understood as a politics endeavoring to shape the society's collective memory and establish notions of what is and is not to be remembered of the past, employing to this end both legislative means and practical measures. The paper presents one possible scheme for analyzing Estonian memory politics and limits its treatme…
Anthropocenic historical knowledge
In the form of a conversational exchange of ideas, Ewa Domańska, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm reflect on the condition and role of historical knowledge in the Anthropocene. In the conversation on the potential of ‘anthropocenic historical knowledge’ – including the limitations and use of the term – each author offers and elaborates on one main theme for discussion, on which the other two co-authors reflect: Tamm begins by posing the ques…
Historical Thinking and the Human
In recent years the age-old question "what is the human?" has acquired a new acuteness and novel dimensions. In introducing the special issue on "Historical Thinking and the Human", this article argues that there are two main trends behind the contemporary "crisis of human": ecological transformations (related to human-induced climate change and planetary environmental challenges), and technological ones (including advancements in human enhanceme…
Who knows where the time goes
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments in Chris Lorenz' thinking about history over the last 25 years. The following topics are discussed: the necessity and function of theory in history, historical theory of Frank Ankersmit and Hayden White, relations between objectivism and relativism, between theories and facts, possibilities of truth and objectivity in history, perspectives of a scientific histori…
The republic of historians
The restoration of the Estonian Republic in late 1980s and early 1990s can be described as the construction of ‘the Republic of Historians’. A great many founders and leaders of the newly independent republic had received their education from the Department of History at the University of Tartu, and first gained their public renown as leaders of the national heritage movement and publicists on historical issues. The whole of the period, often cal…
Leibnizian philosophy of history
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Frank Ankersmit’s thinking about history, focusing on the Leibnizian dimension of his work. The following topics are discussed: the role of the philosophy of history within the academic philosophy and history writing, the relevance of historicism for contemporary philosophy of history, the distinction between descriptive sentences and representat…
Introduction
The introductory article proposes to offer a general frame for the special issue, discussing the emergence of semiotics of history as a new discipline or approach in the humanities. It presents an overview on the attempts of joining the history and semiotics in the Western world since the early 1980s, with a special focus on the United States, and examines the contribution of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics to the semiotic study of history, …
How to justify a crusade? The conquest of Livonia and new crusade rhetoric in the early thirteenth century
This article addresses the issue of how it was possible to justify a crusade to a region, such as the eastern shore of the Baltic, where there were no sacred shrines to protect or Christian lands to reconquer. Adopting a pluralist perspective of crusades, it argues that the Livonian crusade of the early thirteenth century offers some interesting clues to the new developments of crusading ideology. Conceiving of the conquest and conversion of Livo…
Toward a reterritorialization of cultural theory
This article argues that from a territorial perspective a certain coherence and continuity can be identified in the Estonian cultural-theoretical tradition – a discursive body based on common sources of influence and similar fundamental attitudes. We understand Estonian theory as a local episteme – a territorialized web of epistemological associations and rules for making sense of the world, which favours some premises while discouraging others. …
Humanities
Humanities: State and prospects
Saints and the Demoniacs
In medieval society one of the main functions of a saint was healing people. Similarly to Christ, whose contemporaries were awed by his ability to cure the sick, the medieval saint was expected to have an ability to perform miraculous healings. Hagiographic literature clearly indicates that health was the most called for miracle: people turned to saints not as much for the blessing of soul but because of physical ailments (Vauchez 1998: 46–47; Si…
Humanities
Humanities: State and prospects
History as Cultural Memory
Beyond History and Memory
This article outlines some recent achievements and new perspectives in contemporary memory studies. It first gives an overview of the recent handbooks and anthologies of memory studies, which testify to the institutionalisation of the young discipline. Then, it discusses the emergence of cultural memory studies, one of the most fruitful and promising trends in the memory studies of the last decade. And finally, it addresses the old debate over th…
How to justify a crusade? The conquest of Livonia and new crusade rhetoric in the early thirteenth century
This article addresses the issue of how it was possible to justify a crusade to a region, such as the eastern shore of the Baltic, where there were no sacred shrines to protect or Christian lands to reconquer. Adopting a pluralist perspective of crusades, it argues that the Livonian crusade of the early thirteenth century offers some interesting clues to the new developments of crusading ideology. Conceiving of the conquest and conversion of Livo…
In search of lost time
This article analyzes memory politics during the first 20 years (1991-2011) of the newly independent Estonia. Memory politics is understood as a politics endeavoring to shape the society's collective memory and establish notions of what is and is not to be remembered of the past, employing to this end both legislative means and practical measures. The paper presents one possible scheme for analyzing Estonian memory politics and limits its treatme…
Who knows where the time goes
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments in Chris Lorenz' thinking about history over the last 25 years. The following topics are discussed: the necessity and function of theory in history, historical theory of Frank Ankersmit and Hayden White, relations between objectivism and relativism, between theories and facts, possibilities of truth and objectivity in history, perspectives of a scientific histori…
Truth, Objectivity and Evidence in History Writing
This article aims to suggest one possible - pragmatist in a very broad sense of the term - approach to making sense of the way truth and objectivity function within the discipline of history. It argues that history doesn't need a new theory of truth; rather, it is necessary to analyse in theoretical terms how truth is understood and used in historical inquiry. This article considers truth as an epistemic term in a certain given - historiographica…
Introduction
In the last few decades, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the categories of past, present and future in Western societies. The English novelist J. G. Ballard anticipated and captured it well in his introduction to the French edition of his cult novel Crash : ‘Increasingly, our concepts of past, present and future are being forced to revise themselves. Just as the past, in social and psychological terms, b…
Afterlife of Events
Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and
Tagasipöördumine filoloogia juurde
Terminil filoloogia on eri keeltes ja teaduskultuurides erinev tähendus ja maine. Mõnel pool, nagu näiteks Prantsusmaal, on see mõistena vähe kasutusel ega moodusta omaette teadusvaldkonda, samas kui teisal, näiteks Venemaal või Saksamaal, on tegemist sügavalt juurdunud akadeemilise traditsiooniga. Ingliskeelsetes maades on filoloogia olnud ajalooliselt kõrges hinnas, ent minetanud XX sajandil suure osa oma akadeemilistest positsioonidest. [...]
The republic of historians
The restoration of the Estonian Republic in late 1980s and early 1990s can be described as the construction of ‘the Republic of Historians’. A great many founders and leaders of the newly independent republic had received their education from the Department of History at the University of Tartu, and first gained their public renown as leaders of the national heritage movement and publicists on historical issues. The whole of the period, often cal…
Leibnizian philosophy of history
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Frank Ankersmit’s thinking about history, focusing on the Leibnizian dimension of his work. The following topics are discussed: the role of the philosophy of history within the academic philosophy and history writing, the relevance of historicism for contemporary philosophy of history, the distinction between descriptive sentences and representat…
Toward a reterritorialization of cultural theory
This article argues that from a territorial perspective a certain coherence and continuity can be identified in the Estonian cultural-theoretical tradition – a discursive body based on common sources of influence and similar fundamental attitudes. We understand Estonian theory as a local episteme – a territorialized web of epistemological associations and rules for making sense of the world, which favours some premises while discouraging others. …
Introduction
The introductory article proposes to offer a general frame for the special issue, discussing the emergence of semiotics of history as a new discipline or approach in the humanities. It presents an overview on the attempts of joining the history and semiotics in the Western world since the early 1980s, with a special focus on the United States, and examines the contribution of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics to the semiotic study of history, …
Meike Wulf, Shadowlands
Rahvuste tegemine
Arutelu rahvusest ja humanitaarteadustest eeldab kõige muu kõrval sissevaadet rahvuse mõistesse, selle kriitilis-ajaloolist eritlust. Kusjuures just rahvuse ja rahvusluse määratlemisel ilmneb kõige selgemalt uurija ilmavaateline asend. Me võime endamisi loota, et rahvusi on võimalik analüüsida õpetlaslikult positsioonilt, olümposlikult kõrguselt, ent tegelikult tehakse esimesed otsustavad valikud juba mõistete defineerimisel. Rahvus ei ole mõist…
In a Parallel World
This article proposes to identify the conceptual structure guiding Frank Ankersmit’s philosophy of history. We argue that philosophical analysis of history consists in Ankersmit’s approach of three different levels: 1) the level of the past itself which is the subject of ontology, 2) the level of description of the past that is studied by epistemology, and 3) the level of representation of the past which should be analysed primarily by means of a…
Ross Wilson. The Language of the Past
From a semiotic perspective, we can recognize in all cultural phenomena the same mechanisms that operate in language. This applies also to history, and therefore “the historical process may be conceived of as a process of communication in which a constant influx of new information determines one or another response reaction on the part of the social addressee.” In this communication process, the past is constantly being reinterpreted, and new mea…
Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena.A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices
Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History
Debating New Approaches to History
With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline’s theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of both older and younger generations from across the Western world and beyond discuss and debate the main problems and challenges that historians are facing today. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another key scholar in the field a…
The past is not a foreign country
In this interview, Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments and arguments in Eelco Runia’s thinking about history. The following topics are discussed: the relations between history, psychology and fiction; the critique of representationalism in the contemporary philosophy of history; the presence of the past; the question of continuity, discontinuity and mutation in history; the importance of metonymy as the quintessenti…
Rethinking Historical Time
Is time out of joint? For the past two centuries, the dominant Western time regime has been future-oriented and based on the linear, progressive and homogeneous concept of time. Over the last few decades, there has been a shift towards a new, present-oriented regime or 'presentism', made up of multiple and percolating temporalities. Rethinking Historical Time engages with this change of paradigm, providing a timely overview of cutting-edge interd…
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Global Cultural History’ proposes a historiographic and conceptual framework for a ‘global turn’ in cultural history and for the articles gathered in the special issue. It discusses first the ‘archaeology of global cultural history’, i.e. the previous attempts to expand the scope of cultural history and to focus on connections and comparisons. Next, it proposes a conceptual mapping of global cultural his…
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