Person
Researcher
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
- History
- Department of History
Teaching Staff
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail bruno.hamnellkultur.luse
Room LUX:A412
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
My research interests lie in the intersection between modern intellectual history, philosophy of history, and cultural criticism. My current project, “All is One: Holistic Knowledge Ideals and Controversies from Fin de siècle to the Anthropocene,” investigates the relationship between knowledge, ideology, and spirituality.
My thesis, Two Quests for Unity (2021), is a study of John Dewey's and R. G. Collingwood's thought in relation to philosophical idealism and political liberalism. Previously, I have studied various cultural sciences and have written bachelor's dissertations in philosophy and comparative literature covering issues on identity, narration, trauma, memory, and the relationship between historiography and fiction.
My teaching experience includes supervising, the history of liberalism, Dewey and the history of pedagogy, Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, Foucault and French anti-humanism, dystopianism, and the transnational history of the Haitian Revolution.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (1)
Articles (1)
Book chapters (2)
- Hamnell, B. (2022). Demonisering som kulturkrigsstrategi : Om högerradikalt historiebruk och den kulturmarxistiska konspirationen. In Eklöf, F. & Hansson, J. (Eds.) Polarisering : Idéhistoriska perspektiv på ett samtida fenomen (pp. 213-239). Nordic Academic Press.
- Hamnell, B. (2019). Humanistisk praxis och kritiken av den teoretiska filosofins kunskapssyn. In Luthersson, P. & Hessérus, M. (Eds.) Kunskap och information : 15 försök. Axess Publishing AB.
Reviews (3)
- Hamnell, B. (accepted/in press). Recension av The Climate of History in a Planetary Age av Dipesh Chakrabarty. Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2022. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Hamnell, B. (2021). The Primacy of Method in Historical Research : Jonas Ahlskog: The primacy of method in historical research. Philosophy of history and the perspective of meaning. Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2021, 375-377. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
- Hamnell, B. (2019). Understanding Others. Lychnos: årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2019, 338-340. Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
2019–2021: Secretary for The Swedish Society for the History of Science and Ideas and webmaster for the journal Lychnos. I created Lychnos current website.
Researcher
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
- History
- Department of History
Teaching Staff
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail bruno.hamnellkultur.luse
Room LUX:A412
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30