Books:        

Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming [early 2007]. ISBNs and UPCs: cloth: 0226518302 (cloth), [UPC] 9780226518299; paper: 0226518299, [UPC] 9780226518305.

Chinese version, translated by Han Zhao under the title 历史知识  ―― 历史谬误：当代实践导论 [Lishi zhishi -- lishi miuwu: dangdai shijian daolun] [Historical Knowledge – Historical Error: An Introduction to Contemporary Practice] (Beijing: Peking University Press, slated for publication in the series “Ideas of History,” with an official publication date of January 2007).

            Russian version, translated by Marina Kukartseva, V. S. Timonin, and V. E. Kashaev under the title Историческая  эпистемология  [Istoricheskaya epistemologia] [Historical Epistemology] (Moscow: Kanon+ [publisher to the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Science], December 2006). Publication grant from the Russian State Foundation for the Humanities, awarded March 2006.

Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985, pp. xxiii + 399 (paperback edition, May 1987). 9780226518305.

Turkish translation: Aşirli—in Peygamberleri: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, transl. Tuncay Birkan (Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat, 1998 [ISBN 975-7298-32-8]).

editor, Rethinking Objectivity (Durham., N.C.: Duke University Press, June 1994 [hardcover and paperback eds.]), pp. ix + 342.

co-editor, with John S. Nelson and D. N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. viii + 445 (paperback edition, January 1991).

Korean translation: Seoul: Korea University Press, 2003, x + 600 (ISBN 89-7641-495-01/89-7641-428-4).

 

Some articles, and other, shorter pieces:

“Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance,” in Stefan Berger and Linas Eriksonas, eds., Narrating the Nation: The Representation of National Narratives in Different Genres (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2007, forthcoming).

“Popper and Marx as frPres ennemis,” in Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, ed. Ian Jarvie, Karl Milford, and David Miller, vol. III, Science: Logic, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Social Science (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007, forthcoming): 227-39.

“History-Writing and Moral Judgment: A Note on Chapter Seven of Agnes Heller’s A Theory of History (1982),” in János Boros, ed., Ethics as Heritage: Essays on the Philosophy of Ágnes Heller (Pécs, Hungary: Brambauer, 2006, forthcoming).

 

“What is Distinctive about Modern Historiography?,” in History of Historiography Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Georg G. Iggers, ed. Q. Edward Wang and Franz L. Fillafer (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, March 2007, forthcoming).

 

“History with Memory, History without Memory,” in a Chinese translation by Han Zhao, Academic Research [Xueshu Yanjiu (ISSN1000-7326/CN44-1070)] no. 8 (2005): 84-95 (an edited version of chapter 1 of Historical Knowledge,Historical Error).

Russian translation by Marina Kukartseva, “История и память: за и против,” Философия и ОбЩество [Philosophy and Society] 2005, no. 2 (April), 132-65 (a full version of chapter 1 of Historical Knowledge, Historical Error).

 

“Globalization and the History of Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2005): 179-87.

Russian translation by Prof. Lorina Repina, “Глобализация и история идей, Диалог со временем: альманах интеллектуальной истории (Dialogue with Time: Intellectual History Review) 14 (2005): 11-20.

 

 “Coherence and Incoherence in Historical Studies: From the Annales School to the New Cultural History,” New Literary History 35 (2004): 207-31.

Chinese translation by Han Zhao, published in two parts in Academic Monthly [Chinese periodical], issues of November and December 2005.

 

“Some Aspects of the Ethics of History-Writing: Reflections on Edith Wyschogrod’s An Ethics of Remembering,” in The Ethics of History, ed. David Carr, Thomas R. Flynn and Rudolf A. Makkreel (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2004), 45-75.

 

“Intellectual History and History” (critical discussion of Dominick LaCapra, “Tropisms of Intellectual History”), Rethinking History 8 (2004): 549-57.

 

“Imagining the History of Ideas” (critical discussion of Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999]), Rethinking History 4, 3 (2000): 333-340.

 

“Does Narrative Have a Cognitive Value of Its Own?,” in Horst Walter Blanke, Friedrich Jaeger, and Thomas Sandkühler, eds., Dimensionen der Historik: Geschichtstheorie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Geschichtskultur heute: Jörn Rüsen zum 60. Geburtstag (Köln: Böhlau, 1998), 41-52.

 

“History, Memory, Identity,” History of the Human Sciences 11: 3 (1998): 37-62.

 

“‘Grand Narrative’ and the Discipline of History,” in Frank Ankersmit and Hans Kellner, eds., A New Philosophy of History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 151-73, 263-71.

Russian translation by Prof. Marina Kukartseva, “ «Великий нарратив» и историческая дисциплина,” in Monstera [Монстера]: (Философские проблемы социалъно-ґуманитарного знания) no. 4 (ISBN 5-94099-025-8), ed. M. Kukartseva (Moscow: МГТУ « МАМИ», 2004): 22-55.

Belarusian translation by Mikhola Ramanousky, “„Вялікі наратыў“ і гістарычная навука,” in БЕЛАРУСКІ  ГІСТАРЫЧНЫ АГЛЯ [Belarusian Historical Review], Vol. 11, Fascicle 1-2 (20-21) (December 2004): 263-303 (also on the Web at http://txt.knihi.com/bha/11/bha11idx.htm (accessed Nov. 2005).

 

 

President, Journal of the History of Ideas, Inc., 2005--

Directeur d'études invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 1997.

University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associateship, Spring Semester 1994, Spring Semester 2000, Spring Semester 2005.

University of Iowa Faculty Scholarship, 1985-88.

Research Fellow, Australian National University, 1977-79.

 

Current Research: I usually work in several different research areas at once. From the late 1990s to the end of 2001 I was intensively occupied with finishing Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason; my interest in Marx began, however, much earlier. After that project, I devoted most of my research and writing efforts to a contribution to the philosophy of history, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error, to be published by the University of Chicago Press on February 1, 2007. It is, I believe, my best book. At the present moment (August, 2006), I can’t really say which directions my research will take in the coming year. I always have several different projects in mind.

 

Prospective Graduate Students: I expect prospective graduate students to write me in advance, after having carefully read the relevant material on my personal web page. Prospective graduate students should not feel obliged to work in my specific areas of interest. I am willing to supervise a fairly wide range of 19th and 20th century topics that rely on French or German sources. I expect that my students will be able to use French or German sources in their research from the very beginning. You need to be competent in French or German before you come here.

It continues to be difficult to get a tenure-track position in the field of European history, which is not a growth area. Prospective students should not underestimate the difficulties involved. It is best to acquire foreign experience and real competence in a foreign language before starting graduate school. Intellectual history can’t be done well without a precise knowledge of language. Teaching in a secondary school in Europe, while at the same time perfecting one’s knowledge of the language through systematic and organized study, is one route to acquiring such experience and competence, although it is not the only route. Also, students who would want to work with me are likely to have some competence in thinking conceptually.

I should also note that I place quite a lot of emphasis on the student’s learning of the conventions of the historical discipline. Students working with me will also need to connect with a fair sampling of my departmental colleagues.