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Hjalmar Falk

Senior Lecturer

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion
Mail
hjalmar.falk@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Hjalmar Falk

I consider myself an intellectual historian specializing in modern social, legal, and political thought, as well as the history of the philosophy of history. Since 2025 I am the deputy director of The Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg (CERGU) .

In my doctoral thesis, Det politisk-teologiska komplexet. Fyra kapitel om Carl Schmitts sekularitet (The Politico-Theological Complex. Four Chapters on the Secularity of Carl Schmitt, defended 2014), I investigated the secularization thesis in the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), as well as his conception of "political theology".

Currently, I am engaged in a research project on the work and ideological coordinates of the Swedish far-right intellectual and politician Rudolf Kjellén (1864–1922), funded by The Swedish Research Council. I have recently concluded a research project concerning the Western Marxist reception of the work of Carl Schmitt.

My teaching has mostly concerned the history of political thought and methodologies of the human sciences, mainly methods of textual interpretation. I have supervised students on both first and second cycle levels and taught in several cross-disciplinary environments, for instance the master's program in Human Rights Studies at The School of Global Studies and with the bachelor and master's programs in European Studies.

I am also a member of the steering committee for the Swedish network for the history of political thought and a member of the coordinating team for the doctoral school in the history of political thought.