July 14, 2018 by Theo Jung
In the Handbuch Sound edited by Daniel Morat and Hansjakob Ziemer, which is now available both as eBook and hardcover, my article on
Silence / Schweigen
provides a survey of the wide and sprawling interdisciplinary landscape of ‘silence research’ with a special focus on the subject’s political dimensions. After an overview over various approaches and empirical fields, the contribution argues for the need for a stronger analytical integration of two aspects that have hitherto mostly been considered separately: the spectrum of cultural meanings of silence on the one hand and the pragmatics of its use as a particular mode of language on the other.
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June 24, 2018 by Theo Jung
The ‘digital research guide’ to the field of nineteenth century history my colleagues and I of the Chair of Modern Western European History at Freiburg University published in 2016 has been updated to include some new material and links.
In this text, we present a broad overview over the digital resources presently available to historians of the ‘long’ nineteenth century, ranging from search catalogues and source databases to institutional frameworks and communication platforms. It aims to ‘guide’ the student and scholar through this new field of expertise as well as provide a critical evaluation of the possibilities and pitfalls opened up by the availability of these new gateways to information and source materials.
The updated edition is available here.
In addition to this guide, a link database on digital resources for historians I curate using the platform Pearltrees is available here.
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May 14, 2018 by Theo Jung
Together with Daniel L. Lee (Sheffield), I’ve been invited to organize a historical panel at the first UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium to be held in May 2019.
This new symposium format is co-funded by the British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as part of the Frontiers of Research program of interdisciplinary, bi-national symposia. Alongside the history panel, there will be contributions from the fields of geography, anthropology and literature.
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The Florilegium Historicum section, in which I intermittently publish short quotations from the source materials I work with, has been transfered to a separate blog.
It may now be found at:
https://florilegiumhistoricum.wordpress.com/
All old posts have been transfered there also.
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April 30, 2018 by Theo Jung
I received notice that my article
- Le silence du peuple: The Rhetoric of Silence during the French Revolution, in: French History 31, Nr. 4 (2017), 440–469, DOI: 10.1093/fh/crx062.
published last year in the journal French History, has been awarded the French History Article Prize 2017 by the Society for the Study of French History.
I am very grateful to the editorial board panel that selected my contribution and hope that the fact that the article is being made available online free of charge (here) will help it find a larger readership.
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March 17, 2018 by Theo Jung
The new volume in the series Parlamente in Europa, edited by Marie-Luise Recker and Andreas Schulz, both of the German Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties, includes a chapter I wrote:
Der Feind im eigenen Hause.
Antiparlamentarismus im Reichstag 1867-1918
(The Enemy Within: Antiparliamentarism in the Reichstag 1867-1918)
Abstract
Taking the German imperial Reichstag as a case study, the chapter studies the behavior of parliamentarians critical of the institution in which they were themselves members. Combining some famous individual cases (Wilhelm Liebknecht, Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau) with a statistical analysis of the debates’ minutes, it argues that in most cases, even the most ardent anti-parliamentarians were much more integrated into the House’s common practices and culture than their aggressive utterances would suggest.
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January 8, 2018 by Theo Jung
The latest issue of French History includes an article I wrote on the role of silence during the French Revolution, titled
Le silence du peuple: The Rhetoric of Silence during the French Revolution
French History, 31, Issue 4 (2017), p. 440–469.
https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crx062
Abstract
In July 1789, a phrase was introduced into French political discourse that would quickly become a standing expression: le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois. Taking this political bon mot as a starting point, the article traces the uses of and responses to collective silences during the French Revolution. It is argued that silence cannot be reduced to just the lack of ‘voice’ indicating suppression or political impotence. Rather, it must be understood as a mode of political action with a rhetoric of its own. Sketching this rhetoric not only highlights the nature and functions of a mode of political communication too often disregarded. It also shows how the controversies surrounding these silences reflected some of the major political questions of the day, playing a key role in the renegotiations of the communicative spaces of politics set off by the Revolution.
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December 12, 2017 by Theo Jung
The review I wrote of
Ernst Müller and Falko Schmieder: Begriffsgeschichte und historische Semantik: ein kritisches Kompendium (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2016), 1,027 pp.
has been published in the latest issue of Contributions to the History of Concepts.
The volume comes recommended, both as an introduction into Historical Semantics and as a way for scholars in the field to make themselves familiar with other areas of this wide ranging research landscape. In addition, Müller and Schmieder offer a number of valuable new insights into the history and theory of their subject.
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November 23, 2017 by Theo Jung
The journal Francia Recensio has published a thorough and critical review by the Augsburg early modernist Kirill Abrosimov of the volume Denis Diderot und die Macht, favourably mentioning my contribution
Stimmen der Natur: Diderot, Tahiti und der homme naturel.
The text is available for download here.
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September 26, 2017 by Theo Jung
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
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