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.
Posts Tagged ‘Book Review’
Review of a Volume on Revolutionary Rhetoric
Posted in Publications, tagged Book Review, Eighteenth Century, France, French Revolution, Nineteenth Century, Rhetoric on January 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Book Review of Frank Engehausen’s “Werkstatt der Demokratie”
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.
Review of Achim Landwehr’s “Diesseits der Geschichte”
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.
Review of Lucian Hölscher’s “Zeitgärten”
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 