https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/issue/feedLychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria2024-01-10T12:12:35+01:00Erland Måralderland.marald@umu.seOpen Journal Systems<p><em>Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria </em>har sedan 1936 publicerat idéhistorisk forskning och ämnesrelevanta recensioner på de skandinaviska språken och engelska.</p>https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25819Arctic dreams2023-12-08T08:53:55+01:00Janina Priebejanina.priebe@umu.seNina Wormbsnina@kth.se<p>Introduction to special issue.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Janina Priebe, Nina Wormbshttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25085The crowded and empty Arctic2023-05-23T13:30:08+02:00Julie Klingerklinger@udel.eduMia Bennettmiabenn@uw.eduRia-Maria Adamsria.adams@univie.ac.atEleanor Armstrongeleanor.armstrong@su.se<p>We, as four foreign researchers with research commitments in Kiruna, Sweden, reflexively examine the imaginaries of Kiruna as either empty or crowded while problematizing the Arctic as a homogenous region. While our scholarly interests (mining, space, education, transport infrastructure) and disciplines are distinct, we reflect on how their convergence in the city indicates broader historical shifts in Arctic imaginaries and the political economies of research, which follow and shape climate geopolitics, development, and cultural practices. In the interstices of these currents, the Arctic – imagined as empty and remote from global metropoles – becomes crowded and connected through mobility to and from as well as within the Arctic, which shapes processes of knowledge production.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Julie Klinger, Eleanor Armstrong, Mia Bennett, Ria-Maria Adamshttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25086Unruly Reindeer2023-05-30T07:33:51+02:00Corinna Rövercorinna.rover@liu.se<p>This paper explores the imagined reindeer of the twentieth century. It examines the relationship between humans and the Arctic animal in a historical perspective and highlights five ways of imagining the reindeer. Over time, it was assigned the role of an exclusively Sámi animal and an unruly trespasser, but also turned into a modernization project before it became a vulnerable victim of toxicity, only to be reinvented as a harbinger of Sámi food sovereignty. Drawing from animal studies and using a range of archival material, I argue that each way of imagining the reindeer was followed by extensive policy and legal efforts in order to make the reindeer compliant and predictable. These efforts did not necessarily lead to the intended results, and hence the reindeer remained “unruly”. Analyzing the shifting meanings contributes to a better understanding of the history of the European Arctic from the vantage point of animal history.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2024 Corinna Röverhttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25048Arctic images in context2023-05-05T08:32:27+02:00Janicke S. Kaasaj.s.kaasa@iln.uio.no<p>The article explores how Richard Harrington’s travelogue The Face of the Arctic (1952) responds to and represents the changing Canadian Arctic at the beginning of the Cold War, with a focus on Harrington’s famous photographs of the Padlei famine that were essential in changing the public’s image of the region at the time. Whereas scholars so far have downplayed the complexity of these photographs, this study offers a rereading of the Padleimiut photographs that draws on W. J. T. Mitchell’s concept of imagetext. The analysis of these photographs in relation to the text they appear alongside, the article argues, facilitates a more dynamic understanding of the images and their meaning. As such, the present study exemplifies how Arctic images are dependent on their specific contexts and on contextualizing interpretations.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2024 Janicke S. Kaasahttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25047Illustrating the future2023-06-12T08:47:28+02:00JoAnn Conradjac5353@aol.com<p>In the early 1900s, Sweden looked to its north, to “Lappland” as its “land of the future” – an optimistic, utopian vision that tied Sweden’s emergence as a nation-state both to the north’s untapped resources as well as to its open, pristine landscape as a place of symbolic regenerative potentiality – a Nature in which Swedes could re-create themselves. At the same time, the Swedish publishing industry was emerging as a social force, and with it the proliferation of mass-produced images. Photographs, illustrations, engravings, and facsimiles, circulating with scant reference to an original, were powerful political and commercial agents in creating competing mythologies of space and place – one a “found”, natural paradise, one an invented utopia, ripe for development. This article examines the discursive formation of Lapland as it was transformed into such a landscape of desire through the mass production and circulation of visual images – in particular photographs – that were continuously recontextualized, recirculated, remediated, and consumed.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 JoAnn Conradhttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/24816Dreams of Arctic flights2023-04-20T14:14:38+02:00Alexandre Simon-Ekelandalexandre.simonekeland@gmail.com<p>From the 1870s to the 1900s, several French men had the idea of flying to the North Pole in a balloon and submitted their ideas either to the Paris Geographical Society or to the very active French association of aeronauts. Some of these projects elicited enthusiasm, others indifference or ridicule. None of them were realised, although some came much closer than others to gathering enough money to launch towards the Arctic. This article analyses these expedition projects and argues that the reason for their failure was that, while both the French aeronauts and geographers had Arctic dreams, they were not compatible. They imagined the polar regions and the role of an explorer too differently for them to be able to come to an agreement as to what expeditions were worth supporting: as a result, none of these projects concretised.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Alexandre Simon-Ekelandhttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25110Touching the cold in the Little Ice Age2023-04-20T10:23:40+02:00Cecilia Rosengrencecilia.rosengren@lir.gu.se<p>Climate change urges us to reconsider the very cold. Its natural manifestations – ice and snow – are today shrinking elements, and the gravity of melting glaciers and thawing polar regions is indeed deeply worrying for the planet as a whole. In this article questions will be raised concerning how cold was understood and imagined during the Little Ice Age, when the freezing cold was a regular part of the everyday life in large parts of Europe. The very cold became an object of enquiry for natural philosophers in unprecedented ways. The article focuses on Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun (London, 1665) and Margaret Cavendish’s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (London, 1666) and explores early modern English imaginaries of the polar regions, and how they join in the scientific debate on how to understand the cold.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Cecilia Rosengrenhttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25166Hypnotismens apostel2023-05-31T13:23:56+02:00Cecilia Rivingcecilia.riving@hist.lu.se<p>In the late winter of 1887, Danish hypnotizer Carl Hansen toured southern Sweden, mesmerizing large crowds with his spectacular stage performances. In the 1880s, hypnotism peaked both as a new and promising medical treatment and as popular entertainment. This article examines stage hypnotism in Sweden, a well-known phenomenon at the time but strangely ignored in historical research. While medical hypnosis has been studied to some extent, the meaning and impact of popular hypnotism is virtually unknown. Hansen was one of the most famous European hypnotizers and his influence on medical hypnosis has been underlined in international research. By focusing on Hansen, through an analysis of Swedish press 1880–1889, the article will examine how stage hypnotism was assessed in a confluence of science and entertainment, typical of the time. The general aim is to highlight the role of stage hypnotism in the dynamic process of knowledge production in late 19<sup>th</sup> century Sweden.</p>2023-11-05T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Cecilia Rivinghttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25962Alla avhandlingsrecensioner samlade2024-01-10T12:02:11+01:00<p>Alla avhandlingsrecensioner finns att ladda ner samlade i en PDF.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 https://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25850Idéforum2023-12-18T11:09:14+01:00Sverker Sörlinsverker.sörlin@abe.kth.seMartin Hultmanmartin.hultman@chalmers.seUlla Mannsulla.manns@sh.sePatricia Lorenzonipatricia.lorenzoni@cemfor.uu.se2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Sverker Sörlin, Martin Hultman, Ulla Manns; Patricia Lorenzonihttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25322Mäster Eckharts bildningsteori2023-07-21T12:47:12+02:00Henrik Bohlinhenrik.bohlin@sh.se2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Henrik Bohlinhttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25961Hernando Colons universella bibliotek2024-01-10T11:52:04+01:00Bosse Holmqvistbosse.holmqvist@idehist.su.se2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023 Bosse Holmqvisthttps://tidskriftenlychnos.se/article/view/25963Alla bokrecensioner samlade2024-01-10T12:12:35+01:00<p>Alla bokrecensioner finns att ladda ner i en samlad PDF.</p>2024-01-10T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2023