Philosophy of History

Collective Memory, the Public Sphere, and the Remote Historical Past

by guest contributor Jeffrey A. Barash

2017/05/12 2

Time to Remember—Is There a Future to Collective Memory?

by guest contributor Nitzan Lebovic

2017/05/05 3

Working Through Collective Memory

by guest contributor Asaf Angermann

2017/04/28 7

Symbols, Collective Memory, and Political Principles 

by guest contributor Andrew Dunstall 

2017/04/21 1

A Practical Past Beyond the Historical Past?

by guest contributor Sophie Marcotte Chénard

2017/04/14 4

Revolutions Are Never On Time

by contributing editor Disha Karnad Jani In Enzo Traverso’s Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory, timing is everything. The author moves seamlessly between such subjects as Goodbye Lenin, Gustave Courbet’s The Trout, Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire, and the apparently missed connection… Continue Reading →

2017/04/12 1

History as Critique

by guest contributor Michael Meng

2017/04/07 6

“Towards a Great Pluralism”: Quentin Skinner at Ertegun House

by contributing editor Spencer J. Weinreich Quentin Skinner is a name to conjure with. A founder of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. Former Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. The author of seminal… Continue Reading →

2017/04/03 2

Global/Universal History: A Warning

by contributing editor Disha Karnad Jani Last week, in an essay on the state of global history, historian Jeremy Adelman asked, “In our fevered present of Nation-X First, of resurgent ethno-nationalism, what’s the point of recovering global pasts?” In the… Continue Reading →

2017/03/08 2

The Promise of a Technological Enlightenment: On Transhumanism and History

by guest contributor Zoltán Boldizsár Simon In the first decades of the new century, transhumanism aims at delivering the old Enlightenment promise. There can be little doubt that the aspiration to enhance (and even transcend) the capacities of the human… Continue Reading →

2017/02/08 0

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