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Decentering European Intellectual Space challenges the conventional view of intellectual history as a debate over the interpretation of a limited number of texts produced by a small group of prominent scholars, writers, and intellectuals from the cultural centers of Europe. Addressing the question “What is European intellectual space?”, this collection of essays seeks to demonstrate how this space is shaped, ordered, and communicated between Europe’s fluctuating cores and peripheries. Focusing on the asymmetrical relations between large and small, centers and peripheries, cores and margins, in scholarly and other forms of interaction – and within Europe as well as globally – the volume brings forth a variety of trajectories and strategies developed by intellectuals outside the culturally dominant centers. Contributors are: David Cottington, Narve Fulsås, Tommaso Giordani, Marja Jalava, Zsófia Lórand, Łukasz Mikołajewski, Diana Mishkova, Stefan Nygård, Emilia Palonen, Manolis Patiniotis, Johanna Rainio-Niemi, Tore Rem, José María Rosales, and Johan Strang.

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Marja Jalava (PhD) is Professor in Cultural History at the University of Turku. Her research interests lie in intellectual history, history of historiography, and modern history of the Nordic countries. She is the co-editor of Making Nordic Historiography (Berghahn, 2017). Stefan Nygård (PhD) is Senior Researcher specializing in the history of intellectuals, culture and society in Finland, Scandinavia and Europe. He has worked and taught on these topics at the University of Helsinki and the European University Institute in Florence. Johan Strang (PhD) is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki. His research interests orbit around 20th century Scandinavian intellectual and political history, including the history of Nordic intellectuals, welfare state and Scandinavian Legal Realism.

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