Liisi Keedus
Professor of Political Philosophy
School of Humanities
S-510
liisi.keedus@tlu.ee
640 9343
Introduction
Liisi Keedus is a historian of modern political thought, with a particular interest in the political ideas in inter-war Europe. She has worked on twentieth century German-Jewish political thinkers, Weimar social, legal and humanist thought, historicism, as well as on the making of the 鈥渘ew political science鈥 in post-World War II America. She authored The Crisis of German Historicism: The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss (2015, Cambridge University Press).
She is leading an ERC Starting Grant, "Between the Times: Embattled Temporalities and Political Imagination in Interwar Europe."