Contact:
dostlund@umich.edu
david.ostlund@sh.se
david.ostlund@idehist.su.se
David Östlund has taught intellectual history since 1990, mainly at Stockholm University. Since 2009 he has been teaching at Södertörn University, Stockholm. In 2004 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has now returned there as a visiting assistant professor, and will stay December 2010 through June 2011. His research has mainly dealt with the interplay between ideas of social reform on the one hand, and on the other hand ideas of working life and business efficiency. His doctoral dissertation (2003) will be followed by a study called "Radicals of Compromise" (also in Swedish). He has discussed theoretical problems within intellectual history in several texts, and the core of his position is presented in a "manifesto" comprising 100 theses in Lychnos, 1998. Since the end of September 2008 David is also freelancing in the business of knowledge, under the name of Firma Mente, www.firmamente.se (david@firmamente.se), which mainly gives independent courses at university level in intellectual history.
A short presentation of David in English (University of Michigan)
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Current publications (see the link to a complete list below):
* Forthcoming: "Ebba och Eli Heckscher: Växelverkan, bildning, sak och person" (in a volume concerning "couples in politics and knowledge").
* “Från patriarkal välvilja till intressejämkning som effektivitetsstrategi", i 125 år med Corporate Social Responsibility (Näringslivshistoria 1), Centrum för Näringslivshistoria, Stockholm 2009.
* “Maskinmodernitet och dystopisk lycka: den sociala ingenjörskonstens Sverige, upplaga Huntford 1971” , Polhem: Teknikhistorisk årsbok 2006-2007. (Kom från trycket i augusti 2009)
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* “Our Preeminently Social Activity: Ludwik Fleck and Thought in History”, Ideas in History 2007:3.
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* “A knower and friend of human beings, not machines: The business career of the terminology of social engineering, 1894-1910”, Ideas in History, 2007:2.
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* “’Cosmic patriotism’: Jane Addams and the Chicago immigrants’ cosmopolitan experience and ethic”, in Rebecka Lettewall & My Klockar-Linder, Eds., The Idea of Kosmopolis: History, philosophy, and politics of world citizenship. (Södertörn Academic Studies 37) Huddinge 2008.
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* “Socialingenjör - en titel med affärskarriär 1894-1910”, Företagsminnen 2008:1.
* "Det villkorade tillståndet" (fakultetsopponentens avhandlingsrecension) Lychnos 2007. 
*“CSA – en överbryggningscentral och dess idéer” i Hans Swärd & Marie-Anne Egerö (red), Ligga till last: Fattigdom och utsatthet – socialpolitik och socialt arbete under 100 år, Malmö 2006.
Abstract in Swedish
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Avhandling/Doctoral dissertation (in Swedish):
Det sociala kriget och kapitalets ansvar: Social ingenjörskonst mellan affärsintresse och samhällsreform i USA och Sverige 1899-1914 [Social War and the Responsibility of Capital: Social engineering between business interests and progressive reform in the USA and Sweden, 1899-1914], Stockholm 2003
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