Doctoral school in the history of political thought

AbstractThe doctoral school History of Political Thought seeks to organize historical competence in the history of political thought and train a new generation of doctoral students in the historical analysis of present day crisis of the political.

We live in times of manifold and overlapping crises, which almost all have a political expression: crisis in the relationship between the different timescales of political systems and nature, crisis in democratic commitments, representation, and legitimation, crisis of material wealth, economic order and ideas of progress and affluence, crisis in the production of historical knowledge and its exploitation.

The objective of the doctoral school in the history of political thought is 1, to organize and ensure future historical competence in the history of political thought in Sweden, 2, To take stock of the important historiographic and methodological landwinnings in the history of political thought and bring new perspectives in this field into doctoral training and recruitment. 3.

To internationalize the study and teaching of the history of political thought by inscribing doctoral training in an established global field.