This issue of Ideas in History marks our continuing attempt to internationalize
the journal at the same time that we publish scholarship of pressing
international interest from scholars based in Scandinavia. Ideas in History 6,
no. 1 is an open issue—though its pieces lay emphasis on the late nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. The articles in this issue emphasize intersections
between culture, morality and politics. Mikkel Thorup investigates genealogies
of radical terrorist philosophy and practice. Ben Dorfman looks into
plays of historical thought in human rights, and the problem of alienation
in both human rights and philosophy of history. Benjamin C. Sax regrounds
Nietzschean concepts of the Will to Power and Will to Truth via new understandings
of Nietzschean genealogy, and Elisabeth Stubb takes on problems
of nation-building in Finland, and the role of intellectuals in the creation of
world opinion. We hope our readers find Ideas in History 6, no. 1 enriching.
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