Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell
Deputy Vice-rector at Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 76 18
- E-mail:
- torbjorn.gustafsson@idehist.uu.se
- Postal address:
- Box 256
751 05 UPPSALA
Professor at Department of History of Science and Ideas
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 76 77
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 76 18
- E-mail:
- Torbjorn.Gustafsson@idehist.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3P
- Postal address:
- Box 629
751 26 UPPSALA
Biography
I became professor in 2018. I was head of department between 2003-2006, 2011-16, and deputy head of department 2008-10. I am currently serving as one of the deans of the Faculty of Arts.

Publications
Selection of publications
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Social Bonds and Historical Time
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
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Two Concepts of Apocalypse and Apocalyptic History Today
Part of Rethinking history, p. 357-375, 2024
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Modes of historical attention: wonder, curiosity, fascination
Part of Rethinking history, p. 242-257, 2021
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Incomplete Secularization of History: Ethan Kleinberg and Hayden White
Part of Journal of the Philosophy of History, p. 27-46, 2020
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Studier i Hayden Whites historietänkande
Norma Bokförlag, Skellefteå, 2003
Recent publications
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The Sovereign and the Virtuoso: What Ibsen's Hedda Gabler Tells Us About Autonomy
Part of Literature in the Light of Philosophy, p. 55-68, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026
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Social Bonds and Historical Time
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
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Part of Samlaren, p. 141-163, 2024
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Two Concepts of Apocalypse and Apocalyptic History Today
Part of Rethinking history, p. 357-375, 2024
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När Walter Benjamin rökte hasch i Berlin
Part of Lychnos, p. 221-226, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Samlaren, p. 141-163, 2024
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Two Concepts of Apocalypse and Apocalyptic History Today
Part of Rethinking history, p. 357-375, 2024
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Giving up on knowing and loving oneself: Anders Nygren, Hannah Arendt, and Augustine
Part of International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, p. 146-162, 2022
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Modes of historical attention: wonder, curiosity, fascination
Part of Rethinking history, p. 242-257, 2021
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Unsecularizing history and politics: Jayne Svenungsson and Karl Löwith on meaning in history
Part of International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, p. 176-192, 2021
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Incomplete Secularization of History: Ethan Kleinberg and Hayden White
Part of Journal of the Philosophy of History, p. 27-46, 2020
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Fascination in Julio Cortàzar's "Axolotl"
Part of Partial Answers, p. 49-63, 2019
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Part of Respons, p. 12-14, 2016
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The Practical Past and Related Issues: An Interview with Hayden White
Part of Scandia, p. 107-116, 2016
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Part of Rethinking history, p. 569-582, 2015
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Fascination: En kommentar till Helge Ridderstrøm
Part of Ekfrase, p. 108-12, 2014
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A Sense of History: Piety and the Threat of Obliteration in Early Twentieth-century Historiography
Part of Storia della Storiografia, p. 19-35, 2014
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Part of Ideas in History, p. 5-24, 2014
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Sublime History, Traumatic Experience: a Discussion of Herman Paul's Hayden White
Part of Storia della Storiografia, p. 131-140, 2013
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Natur och historia i historikers självbiografier
Part of Historisk Tidskrift, p. 191-217, 2012
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Människans flykt från naturen i C.S.Sherringtons Man on his Nature
Part of Lychnos, p. 55-73, 2011
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Part of Scandia, p. 87-92, 2009
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Part of Scandia, p. 85-90, 2009
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Historical Experience and Fascination: Oscar Levertin and the City of Bruges
Part of Clio - A Journal of Literature History & the Philosophy of History, p. 131-149, 2009
Articles, review/survey
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Part of Respons, p. 62-63, 2019
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F.R. Ankersmit and the historical sublime
Part of History of the Human Sciences, p. 91-102, 2006
Books
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Social Bonds and Historical Time
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
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Konst och filosofi: De latinska skrifterna
Thales, 2021
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Uppsala universitet, 2008
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Studier i Hayden Whites historietänkande
Norma Bokförlag, Skellefteå, 2003
Chapters in book
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The Sovereign and the Virtuoso: What Ibsen's Hedda Gabler Tells Us About Autonomy
Part of Literature in the Light of Philosophy, p. 55-68, Palgrave Macmillan, 2026
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Part of Svenska begreppshistorier, p. 227-245, Fri tanke, 2022
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Part of Svenska begreppshistorier, p. 81-90, Fri tanke, 2022
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Part of Konst och filosofi, p. 7-21, Thales, 2021
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Part of Benjamin Höijer, p. 129-148, Södertörns högskola, 2021
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Part of Eros, philia, agage, p. 149-63, Ellerströms förlag, 2020
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Några identitetsfrågor i nyare historieteori
Part of Historiens hemvist, del 1, p. 307-327, Makadam Förlag, 2016
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F.R.Ankersmits upplysningskritik
Part of Upplysningskritik, p. 238-255, Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag, 2014
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Psykiatri och fenomenologi: Om Henrik Sjöbrings ofullbordade psykologi
Part of In på bara huden, p. 129-43, Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, 2010
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Neurovetenskaper: hjärna och psyke
Part of Medicinen blir till vetenskap, p. 239-267, Karolinska Institutet University Press, 2010
Collections (editor)
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In på bara huden: medicinhistoriska studier tillägnade Karin Johannisson
Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, 2010
Other
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När Walter Benjamin rökte hasch i Berlin
Part of Lychnos, p. 221-226, 2023
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Vad är kunskapshistoria och vad kan den bli?
Part of Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, p. 72-73, 2020
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Part of Lychnos, p. 308-313, 2018
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Filosofin sedd som en kamp om makt och pengar
Part of Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, p. 31-32, 2018
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En debatt som speglar våra dagars frågor
Part of Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap, p. 33-34, 2017
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History and identity in Hayden White's The Practical Past
Part of History of the Human Sciences, p. 128-135, 2016
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Är historieteologi möjlig om historien inte finns?
Part of Respons, p. 44-46, 2015
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En viktig diskussion saboteras av indignation
Part of Respons, p. 46-48, 2013
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Recension av Peter P Icke, Frank Ankersmit's Lost Historical Cause
Part of Lychnos, p. 265-266, 2012
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Historia är mer riksdag än domstol
Part of Respons, p. 61-62, 2012
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Vår tid är rädd för det avslutade
Part of Respons, p. 71-72, 2012
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Part of Lychnos, p. 285-90, 2007