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Lecture on Cultural Critique in Bayreuth

Posted in Kulturkritik, Presentation, tagged , , on September 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »

The Sociology Section of the University of Bayreuth has invited me to give a lecture within the framework of a series it organizes in the coming academic year on the subject of Populism and Cultural Pessimism.

In my presentation on November 21 (at the Glashaus, 6 to 8 PM), titled

Five to Twelve Forever? Cycles of Cultural Critique

(Schon immer fünf vor zwölf? Konjunkturen der Kulturkritik)

I will address the temporal structure of cultural critique with a focus on the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

The program for the first semester is as follows

Bayreuth

 

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Call for Papers: Times of the Event

Posted in Conference, tagged , , , , , , , on September 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Within the framework of a series of workshops on different aspects of historical temporalities planned by the Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie, Anna Karla, Jörn Eiben and I are organizing a workshop in November 2018 on the event in history.

Focusing on its specific temporality, we seek to develop a new theoretical understanding of this central historical category.

Title:

Times of the Event: A New Survey of a Historical Category

(Die Zeiten des Ereignisses: Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie)

A call for papers has jus been published on H-Soz-Kult. Abstracts from scholars working on related subjects are very welcome.

To learn more, click here.

Die Zeiten des Ereignisses. Neuvermessung einer historischen Kategorie, 09.11.2018 – 10.11.2018 Köln, in: H-Soz-Kult, 20.09.2017, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-35036>.

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La forza del destino

Posted in Publications, tagged , , , , , on September 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

The journal Neue Politische Literatur just published my review of Franziska Rehlinghaus‘ study on the German concept of destiny from early modern times through to the First World War. It comes recommended as a detailed analysis of a concept that had crucial significance for intellectual, social and political processes during the period, but also as an exemplary use of the methods of Historical Semantics.

9783525367247

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