Posted in Publications, tagged Book Review, Silence on December 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
On Rotsinn, a website on the history of ideas, political scientist Burkhard Conrad published the first review of my book “Die Politik des Schweigens und die Herrschaft der Debatte im Europa des langen 19. Jahrhunderts“. The full review is available here: https://rotsinn.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/uber-die-politik-des-schweigens-eine-buchbesprechung/
Many thanks to the author for his thoughtful analysis and his constructive criticism!
Posted in Publications, tagged Book Review, Heinrich August Winkler, History, Nineteenth Century, Revolution, Twentieth Century on October 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »
For the platform sehepunkte, I wrote a short review of Heinrich August Winkler’s “Die Deutschen und die Revolution. Eine Geschichte von 1848 bis 1989”.
The book takes a fresh look at the highly controversial, but still quite common notion that the Germans are a “people without a revolution”, a view which has been at the centre of debates about the specific nature of German history ever since the controversies over the so-called “Sonderweg thesis”.
The book comes highly recommended to all who want to delve into this topic under the able guidance of one of the most respected experts on German history there is.
The full review is available here.
Posted in Publications, tagged Book Review, Eighteenth Century, France, French Revolution, Nineteenth Century, Rhetoric on January 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
For the journal French Studies, I reviewed the volume “Éloquences révolutionnaires et traditions rhétoriques (XVIIIe et XIXe siècles)” edited by Patrick Brasart, Hélène Parent and Stéphane Pujol.
The review can be found online here.
Posted in Publications, tagged 1848, Book Review, Germany, History, Nineteenth Century, Parliament on September 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
For the German historical platform H-Soz-u-Kult, I wrote a book review of “Werkstatt der Demokratie: Die Frankfurter Nationalversammlung 1848/49”. Written by Heidelberg historian Frank Engehausen, the book presents a monograph-length analysis of the first German national parliament. Besides going into the book’s many strengths, I also try to link it to wider tendencies in the historical engagement with the revolutions of 1848/49 as we are ‘celebrating’ their 175-year anniversary.
The review can be found here.
Posted in Publications, tagged Achim Landwehr, Book Review, History, Theory of History on September 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The new issue of Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung contains a book review I wrote on “Diesseits der Geschichte: Für eine andere Historiographie” (Beyond History: For a Different Historiography), written by Achim Landwehr, the most important and prolific current German theorist of history. In my review, I consider the strenghts and challenges of some of the concepts Landwehr has introduced during the last decade-or-so, like “pluritemporality”, “temporal whirl” (Zeitwirbel), and especially “chronoference”. The book comes highly recommended to all interested in the history of temporality or in the temporal dimension of historiography in a general sense.
The review can be found here.
Posted in Publications, tagged Book Review, History, Lucian Hölscher, Theory of History, Time on October 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft includes a review I wrote about Lucian Hölscher’s book
Zeitgärten. Zeitfiguren in der Geschichte der Neuzeit (Göttingen 2020)
Its broad ranging insights into the theory of history builds on a close re-reading of 25 classics of historical writing from the 18th to the 21st century, from Ranke and Droysen up to Eric Hobsbawm, Mark Mazower, Ulrich Herbert and even my own PhD supervisor, Willibald Steinmetz. The book comes highly recommended to all interested in the theory of historiographical writing and its conteptualizations of historical temporality.
Theo Jung 