Posted in Publications, tagged Als het verleden trekt, Herman Paul, History, Publication, Review, Theory of History on September 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A short review I wrote about Herman Paul’s new introduction to the philosophy of history has been published on the website of the International Network for Theory of History. The book, which offers an overview over the theoretical foundations of the historical discipline to Dutch students, comes highly recommended. The review (in English) can be found here.
Posted in Publications, tagged Counter-Enlightenment, Eighteenth Century, Enlightenment, Historical Semantics, Nineteenth Century, Publication, Reinhart Koselleck, Temporalization, Time, Zeitgeist on February 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Some of my writing has been made available online through the Freidoks server at Freiburg University.
Posted in Publications, tagged Article, Eighteenth Century, Lorenz Hübner, Luxury, Publication on July 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A short article I wrote about luxury debates at the end of the eighteenth century has been published in the Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie.
In essence, the article provides a commentary on and contextualization of a text published in 1776 by Lorenz Hübner (1751-1807) titled Abhandlung von dem Luxus, oder schädlichem Prachte, which is also reprinted in the Zeitschrift. Hübners text – originally a speech in honor of the bavarian elector Maximilian III. Joseph – provides an interesting insight into the history and development of eighteenth century luxury debates. 
Posted in Publications, tagged Contributions to the History of Concepts, Journal, metaphor, Publication, Review on April 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A review I wrote on the volume
was published in the journal Contributions to the History of Concepts. In sum, this volume contains some very interesting and well-researched articles on the theory of the history of metaphor as well as on its practice: an important contribution to a field of research in which a lot of progress is yet to be made.
Posted in Publications, tagged Article, Concept, Conceptual History, Eighteenth Century, Linkedin, Publication, Spirit of the Age, Temporalization, Zeitgeist on September 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
An article I wrote about the concept of the ‘spirit of the age’ in the long Eighteenth Century has been published in the volume Frühe Neue Zeiten, edited by Prof. Dr. Achim Landwehr.
Zeitgeist im langen 18. Jahrhundert. Dimensionen eines umstrittenen Begriffs, in: Achim Landwehr (Hg.): Frühe Neue Zeiten. Zeitwissen zwischen Reformation und Revolution (= Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften 11), Bielefeld: transcript 2012, S. 319–355.
In my article, I trace the meanings and usages of the concept of zeitgeist in its various forms (esprit du siècle, Geist der Zeit, spirit of the age, etc.) across a number of contexts in France, England and the German lands. The concept is shown to be at the center of the temporalization of discourses about contemporary culture and its historical development during the Eighteenth Century. A special focus of the article lies on the complicated relation between the unstressed usages of the concept on the one hand and the explicit, metalinguistic discussion about it on the other. Because of its controversial and elusive nature, the concept of the spirit of the age was at the center of heated debates about its cognitive and metaphysical legitimacy and its pragmatic usefulness. How did such debates influence its use in other contexts?
To read the Achim Landwehr’s introduction to the volume, click here.
Posted in Publications, tagged Cultural Criticism, Eighteenth Century, Enlightenment, History, Linkedin, Nineteenth Century, PhD, Publication on August 15, 2012| 1 Comment »
My dissertation has been published as volume 18 of the series ‘Historische Semantik‘ by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
For more information, click here. For ordering from within Germany, click here.
Posted in Publications, tagged Article, Modernity, Modernization, Publication, Reinhart Koselleck, Temporalization, Verzeitlichung on July 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »
After a long publishing process, an article I wrote in 2010 has now been published in Moderne: Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch. In it, I survey the analytical strengths and weaknesses of Reinhart Koselleck’s theorem of temporalization for empirical research in the humanities. Considering it’s origins in modernization theory and giving it’s various critics due attention, I argue that the concept – in an updated, more pluralized form – may still be fruitfully applied in historiographical research.
The volume may be purchased here.
Posted in Honors, Publications, tagged Cultural Criticism, Linkedin, PhD, Publication on May 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I’m honoured to announce that after the Fazit-Stiftung, now the Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung für Geisteswissenschaften has also generously awarded me a grant towards the printing costs of my dissertation, to be published this year under the title “Zeichen des Verfalls. Semantische Studien zur Entstehung der Kulturkritik im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert”.
Posted in Honors, Publications, tagged FAZIT-Stiftung, Linkedin, PhD, Publication on April 21, 2012| 1 Comment »
I’m happy and grateful to announce that the FAZIT-Stiftung has awarded me a generous grant towards the printing costs of my dissertation (to be published this fall).
Posted in Publications, tagged Concept, Conference, Counter-Enlightenment, Enlightenment, Isaiah Berlin, Linkedin, Publication on December 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
An article I wrote on the concept of Counter-Enlightenment has been published in the proceedings of a conference I attended last year in Bern, Switzerland.
My contribution takes its starting point from the observation that a large part of the debate about the meaning(s) of Enlightenment in the present is structured around a pair of mutually exclusive counter-concepts: Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment. Tracing this opposition back to its most influential proponent, Isaiah Berlin, and ultimately to its emergence in the Eighteenth Century itself, I argue for a less schematic approach taking into account recent historical research especially in the field of historical semantics. Thus, a better understanding of the different meanings and uses of the concepts of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in the past may also shed light on our current debates about the relevance of the Enlightenment tradition to our own culture today.
The volume also includes interesting contributions by (among others) Claudia Honegger, Urs Stäheli, Hartmut Rosa and Andreas Langenohl. For more information, please click here and here.
Theo Jung, Gegenaufklärung. Ein Begriff zwischen Aufklärung und Gegenwart, in: Dietmar J. Wetzel (Hg.), Perspektiven der Aufklärung. Zwischen Mythos und Realität (= Laboratorium Aufklärung, Bd. 12), München 2012, S. 87–100.
Theo Jung 