Tyson Retz
@tysonretz.bsky.social
Historian of historical and political thought, FRHistS. Australian living in Norway, currently working on Catholic liberals in Restoration France. Here to furnish historical practice with sound philosophical argument.
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Tyson Retz
@tysonretz.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit. Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past.
Historians should have no more trustworthy a philosophical companion than Frank Ankersmit. For the past five decades, he has been the historicist’s philo
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I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
All men [sic] are intellectuals... but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals...Thus there are historically formed specialised categories for the exercise of the intellectual function.
—Antonio Gramsci
—Antonio Gramsci
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
All men [sic] are intellectuals... but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals...Thus there are historically formed specialised categories for the exercise of the intellectual function.
—Antonio Gramsci
—Antonio Gramsci
Yes historians are researchers but I like to think of them as writers first and foremost. Wish we'd talk more about style and good writing in history.
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Yes historians are researchers but I like to think of them as writers first and foremost. Wish we'd talk more about style and good writing in history.
I like a lot about teaching but maybe most of all the opportunity to stand and walk. Somewhat too sedantry the rest of the job.
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I like a lot about teaching but maybe most of all the opportunity to stand and walk. Somewhat too sedantry the rest of the job.
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New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" that @hhenriikka.bsky.social gave two weeks ago in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP....
Happy watching!
Happy watching!
Henriikka Hannula "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework"
YouTube video by Centre for Philosophical Studies of History
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November 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Existential Historicism: The Rise and Fall of a Sense-Making Framework" that @hhenriikka.bsky.social gave two weeks ago in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZP....
Happy watching!
Happy watching!
Ultras looked to Rome only because they accepted that the state had been successfully secularised. They are not simple reactionaries but integral agents in the history of European liberalism.
November 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Ultras looked to Rome only because they accepted that the state had been successfully secularised. They are not simple reactionaries but integral agents in the history of European liberalism.
"Performative busyness". What a nice term to sum up what goes on in universities these days.
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Performative busyness". What a nice term to sum up what goes on in universities these days.
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#fernandbraudel C'est dans moins d'un mois !
Découvrez le programme du colloque international "Les mondes de Fernand Braudel"
📅 Du 27 au 28 Novembre 2025
📌 la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
+Infos www.fmsh.fr/agenda/les-m...
Découvrez le programme du colloque international "Les mondes de Fernand Braudel"
📅 Du 27 au 28 Novembre 2025
📌 la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
+Infos www.fmsh.fr/agenda/les-m...
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#fernandbraudel C'est dans moins d'un mois !
Découvrez le programme du colloque international "Les mondes de Fernand Braudel"
📅 Du 27 au 28 Novembre 2025
📌 la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
+Infos www.fmsh.fr/agenda/les-m...
Découvrez le programme du colloque international "Les mondes de Fernand Braudel"
📅 Du 27 au 28 Novembre 2025
📌 la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
+Infos www.fmsh.fr/agenda/les-m...
“There is no greater educational calamity than the bored teacher” —John Passmore, 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪-𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“There is no greater educational calamity than the bored teacher” —John Passmore, 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘪-𝘋𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯
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Stilling som stipendiat i museumspedagogikk er nå utlyst ved Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap, UiS.
www.finn.no/job/ad/43601...
Les meir om det spannande prosjektet FJORDS som stillinga er ein del av her: www.uis.no/nb/forskning...
www.finn.no/job/ad/43601...
Les meir om det spannande prosjektet FJORDS som stillinga er ein del av her: www.uis.no/nb/forskning...
Stipendiat i museumspedagogikk | FINN.no
Om stillingenUniversitetet i Stavanger har ledig stilling som stipendiat i museumspedagogikk ved Fakultet for utdanningsvitenskap og humaniora, Institutt for
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November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Stilling som stipendiat i museumspedagogikk er nå utlyst ved Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap, UiS.
www.finn.no/job/ad/43601...
Les meir om det spannande prosjektet FJORDS som stillinga er ein del av her: www.uis.no/nb/forskning...
www.finn.no/job/ad/43601...
Les meir om det spannande prosjektet FJORDS som stillinga er ein del av her: www.uis.no/nb/forskning...
A lot of universities are suffering from a 'space crisis' but look at mine (15.00 main building)
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A lot of universities are suffering from a 'space crisis' but look at mine (15.00 main building)
𝘈𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮 is usually a sign that your interlocutor is out of ideas. Granted, people did not always practise what they preached. This might matter to the biographer, but not to the historian concerned with the influence of their ideas.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
𝘈𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮 is usually a sign that your interlocutor is out of ideas. Granted, people did not always practise what they preached. This might matter to the biographer, but not to the historian concerned with the influence of their ideas.
Of course anybody is 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 to speak about the past. But like most things, it takes a certain kind of specialist training to speak 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 about a subject. Historians are no different. Not gatekeeping – simply practising professional standards of historical method.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Of course anybody is 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 to speak about the past. But like most things, it takes a certain kind of specialist training to speak 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 about a subject. Historians are no different. Not gatekeeping – simply practising professional standards of historical method.
“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”—yet what of criticising the state when academics are state employees/civil servants? Perhaps the biggest difference coming to Norway from Australia, where universities are publicly funded but academics are autonomous professionals at independent institutions.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”—yet what of criticising the state when academics are state employees/civil servants? Perhaps the biggest difference coming to Norway from Australia, where universities are publicly funded but academics are autonomous professionals at independent institutions.
Blimey
Social justice and also, for sure, democratic socialism, are just new names for communism www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Anti-Communism Week, 2025
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the
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November 9, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Blimey
Multiculturalism implies a pluralism that makes possible talk of integration, but talk of integration in states that believe their values to be universal is conceptually confused. Best be honest and frame the discussion in terms of the most appropriate means to assimilate.
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Multiculturalism implies a pluralism that makes possible talk of integration, but talk of integration in states that believe their values to be universal is conceptually confused. Best be honest and frame the discussion in terms of the most appropriate means to assimilate.
Scandinavia with Simon Reeve illustrates well that multiculturalism is not the aim here. Assimilation is. The show’s talk of ‘integration’ is thus off the mark because integration belongs to a multiculturalist policy of integrating a heterogenous whole, not assimilating a homogeneous one.
BBC Two - Scandinavia with Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve journeys across a land of Arctic tundra, vast forests and stunning fjords.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Scandinavia with Simon Reeve illustrates well that multiculturalism is not the aim here. Assimilation is. The show’s talk of ‘integration’ is thus off the mark because integration belongs to a multiculturalist policy of integrating a heterogenous whole, not assimilating a homogeneous one.
In search of 'relevance' in your history degree program? Recall that nothing is more 'relevant' than bringing historical knowledge to bear on the problems of the present.
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In search of 'relevance' in your history degree program? Recall that nothing is more 'relevant' than bringing historical knowledge to bear on the problems of the present.
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I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Is the experience of beauty slipping away in an age of frictionlessness, speed and AI slop? - ABC listen
The availability of increasingly powerful generative AI tools has radically altered the creative process. Anything that we can imagine can be turned into an image, a video, a text, a song — the proces...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I had a wonderful conversation with Scott Stephens and Walled Aly on Radio Nationa's "The Minefield." Episode -
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
on Beauty in the age of speed, frictionlessness and AI slop
- now online:
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
My talk ‘From Liberalism to Illiberalism' will highlight four turning points. Moral phil translated into politics (1810s), 'socialism in disguise' (late-C19), primacy of economics (1940s), perversion of founding emphasis on indiv. protections (recent) @historicalculture.bsky.social 12.30-13.30EOJ376
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My talk ‘From Liberalism to Illiberalism' will highlight four turning points. Moral phil translated into politics (1810s), 'socialism in disguise' (late-C19), primacy of economics (1940s), perversion of founding emphasis on indiv. protections (recent) @historicalculture.bsky.social 12.30-13.30EOJ376
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Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry.
#historyeducation
#historyeducation
Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry.
#historyeducation
#historyeducation
Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
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Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
November 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway.
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!
Immensely excited that we will soon be offering this venerable programme. Huge thanks to the excellent @jonasgjerso.bsky.social for initiating PPE!
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Immensely excited that we will soon be offering this venerable programme. Huge thanks to the excellent @jonasgjerso.bsky.social for initiating PPE!
The appeal of the knowledgeable orator is timeless. And thus the academic lecture will live on.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The appeal of the knowledgeable orator is timeless. And thus the academic lecture will live on.
Today 2026 booking opened for over 600 DNT cabins (hytte) dotted all over Norway. Looking forward to staying in the three that we have booked #lifeinnorway
November 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Today 2026 booking opened for over 600 DNT cabins (hytte) dotted all over Norway. Looking forward to staying in the three that we have booked #lifeinnorway