Rüdiger Graf
Biographic Data
| ID | 1228466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rüdiger Graf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rüdiger |
| FAMILY NAME | Graf |
| SIGNATURE | GRAF R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Centre for Contemporary History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4497-4483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ludolf Herbst (1943–2024)
Integrität und Empörung
Heuchelei mag eine Konstante menschlicher Interaktion sein oder gerade liberale Demokratien kennzeichnen, in denen um Zustimmung geworben wird. Ihre explizite Thematisierung veränderte sich aber stark, wie anhand der Debatten im Deutschen Bundestag gezeigt werden kann. Wechselseitige Heucheleikritik nahm hier erst im Streit um die Ostpolitik und dann vor allem mit dem Einzug der Grünen in den 1980er Jahren stark zu. Wie ist das zu erklären und wa…
Vorhersagen und Kontrollieren
Das Buch untersucht den Aufstieg des Verhaltenswissens seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie dessen praktische und politische Konsequenzen Die Frage, wie menschliches Verhalten beeinflusst werden kann, ist in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte virulenter geworden. Auf der Basis verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse versprechen Expert:innen, Menschen durch subtile Interventionen glücklicher, gesünder und wohlhabender zu machen. Zugleich haben die…
Jonas Kreienbaum, Das Öl und der Kampf um eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung. Die Bedeutung der Ölkrisen der 1970er Jahre für die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. (Studien zur internationalen Geschichte, Bd. 54.) …
Article Jonas Kreienbaum, Das Öl und der Kampf um eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung. Die Bedeutung der Ölkrisen der 1970er Jahre für die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. (Studien zur internationalen Geschichte, Bd. 54.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2022 was published on April 1, 2024 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 318, issue 2)
An Unequal Alliance
Victor McFarland has written a profound and well-researched history of U.S.-Saudi relations in the second half of the twentieth century. His book illuminates a constitutive element of both the so-called American Century or the United States’ rise to global dominance and the geopolitics of oil. Based on an excellent mastery of the existing secondary literature, multi-archival research in the United States and Saudi Arabia—though with a bias toward…
Negotiating Sovereignty in German History—Historiographical Challenges
This article introduces a special issue on the politics of sovereignty in German history. Historical work provides an important corrective to understand the current discursive resurgence of sovereignty. Historians (and other scholars) should treat sovereignty not as a factual description of the world, but rather analyze it as a rhetorical claim to assert power in territorial, political, economic, legal, and cultural disputes. Much of the power of…
Transitional Injustice at Leipzig
The article analyzes Allied attempts to try German war criminals after the First World War and the ensuing Leipzig trials. Historians of international law commonly describe these as the first (failed) attempt to break principles of national sovereignty by implementing principles of international humanitarian law, which were later realized at Nuremberg and The Hague. The article brackets the question of the Leipzig trials’ alleged success or failu…
Of Alcohol, Apes, and Taxes
The article examines an early and idiosyncratic version of behavioral economics or “empirical socio-economics,” which the German economist and taxation expert Günter Schmölders developed in the postwar decades. Relying on both his published papers and his lecture notes and correspondence, it scrutinizes Schmölders’s intellectual upbringing in the tradition of the Historical School of Economics (Historische Schule der Nationalökonomie) and his rel…
Zwischen Handlungsmotivation und Ohnmachtserfahrung – Der Wandel des Krisenbegriffs im 20. Jahrhundert
Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics
Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Food Control Reforms during the Progressive Era Rüdiger Graf Rüdiger Graf Heads the research unit on the History of Economic Life at the Leibniz-Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (Zzf) and teaches history at Humboldt University Berlin Readers may contact Graf at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Ökonomisierung
F rederick L. M cKitrick . From Craftsmen to Capitalists
In From Craftsmen to Capitalists, his social history of das Handwerk (German for “handicraft,” “craftsmen,” or “artisans”), Frederick L. McKitrick asks a question that is crucial to our understanding of German history in the twentieth century: How did German craftsmen evolve from a basic source of support for National Socialism, and thus a destabilizing element under the Weimar Republic, into a stabilizing factor that contributed to the success o…
Von der Geschichte der Zukunftsvorstellungen zur Geschichte ihrer Generierung
This paper conceptualizes the history of the future in the twentieth century. The present future is always multi-faceted: produced by diverse actors, it concerns different aspects of the world, and is articulated in many ways. We suggest a divergence from the Koselleckian notion of a unified horizon of expectation. Rather than concentrating on the contents of visions of the future, we focus on the processes by which the future is generated. Disti…
Long Night of the Tankers
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil, by David Bercuson and Holger El. Herwig. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2014. xix, 344 pp. $39.95 US (paper). David Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig, both historians at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, have written a highly readable and at times suspenseful history of the so-called operation Neuland (newland), the German submarine campaig…
Provincializing America
Together the two volumes under review contain over forty essays on the intellectual history of Weimar Germany and its legacy today. The wide interdisciplinary field of authors, historians, philosophers, theologians, and literary, legal, and religious scholars, as well as social and political scientists, testifies to the continuing fascination of this era of thought in Anglo-American academia. With the exceptions of Mitchell G. Ash, Michael Krois,…
Making Use of the “Oil Weapon”
Journal Article Making Use of the “Oil Weapon”: Western Industrialized Countries and Arab Petropolitics in 1973–1974 Get access Rüdiger Graf Rüdiger Graf Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 185–208, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01014.x Published: 19 January 2012
The culture of 'crisis' in the Weimar Republic
Both in scholarship on the Weimar Republic and in historical research in general, many conceptions of 'crisis' tend to remain vague and difficult to operationalize. These operational defects of the concept of crisis arise inevitably, we argue, from the concept's constitutive link to human perception on the one hand and from its subsumption of complex interconnections of historical processes within different subsystems on the other. Frequently tod…
Europäische Zeitgeschichte Seit 1945
Zeitgeschichte in der Welt der Sozialwissenschaften. Legitimität und Originalität einer Disziplin
Vorspann Seit die Zeitgeschichte die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als Forschungsfeld erschlossen hat, steht sie mehr denn je vor der Herausforderung, wie sie mit den Deutungsangeboten der Sozialwissenschaften umgehen soll. Bloße Adaption oder selbstbewusste Behauptung und damit Beharrung auf den spezifischen Regeln, die der Zeitgeschichte eigen sind? Rüdiger Graf und Kim Priemel, Protagonisten einer gegenwartsnahen Zeitgeschichte, stellen s…
Either-Or
The notion of “crisis” plays an important role in both the history of the Weimar Republic and the historiography on this period of German history. Modifying Max Horkheimer's famous dictum on the intrinsic connection between capitalism and fascism, one might even say that anyone who does not want to talk about “crisis” should remain silent about Weimar Germany. In the brief period between 1918 and 1933 Germany not only had to cope with the consequ…
Anticipating the Future in the Present
Why another article about the “new woman” in Weimar Germany, which for at least twenty-five years has been a favorite topic of historical scholarship in various disciplines? Earlier studies in history, art history, and German and Gender Studies unmasked the “new woman” as a media construction unrelated to the life-world of women after World War I, and newer studies emphasize the liberating tendencies, especially for younger women in Weimar German…
Die Mentalisierung des Nirgendwo und die Transformation der Gesellschaft Der theoretische Utopiediskurs in Deutschland 1900–1933
Interpretation, truth, and past reality Donald Davidson meets history
This article shows that some postmodernist sceptical doubts concerning the attainability of knowledge of the past are based on an inconsistent conception of truth and objectivity. After a brief summary of the postmodernist challenge for history concentrating on four basic arguments, I will depict Donald Davidson’s conception of truth and interpretation. According to his theory of radical interpretation, the meaning of our most basic words is tied…
Either-Or
The notion of “crisis” plays an important role in both the history of the Weimar Republic and the historiography on this period of German history. Modifying Max Horkheimer's famous dictum on the intrinsic connection between capitalism and fascism, one might even say that anyone who does not want to talk about “crisis” should remain silent about Weimar Germany. In the brief period between 1918 and 1933 Germany not only had to cope with the consequ…
Anticipating the Future in the Present
Why another article about the “new woman” in Weimar Germany, which for at least twenty-five years has been a favorite topic of historical scholarship in various disciplines? Earlier studies in history, art history, and German and Gender Studies unmasked the “new woman” as a media construction unrelated to the life-world of women after World War I, and newer studies emphasize the liberating tendencies, especially for younger women in Weimar German…
Von der Geschichte der Zukunftsvorstellungen zur Geschichte ihrer Generierung
This paper conceptualizes the history of the future in the twentieth century. The present future is always multi-faceted: produced by diverse actors, it concerns different aspects of the world, and is articulated in many ways. We suggest a divergence from the Koselleckian notion of a unified horizon of expectation. Rather than concentrating on the contents of visions of the future, we focus on the processes by which the future is generated. Disti…
The culture of 'crisis' in the Weimar Republic
Both in scholarship on the Weimar Republic and in historical research in general, many conceptions of 'crisis' tend to remain vague and difficult to operationalize. These operational defects of the concept of crisis arise inevitably, we argue, from the concept's constitutive link to human perception on the one hand and from its subsumption of complex interconnections of historical processes within different subsystems on the other. Frequently tod…
Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics
Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Food Control Reforms during the Progressive Era Rüdiger Graf Rüdiger Graf Heads the research unit on the History of Economic Life at the Leibniz-Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (Zzf) and teaches history at Humboldt University Berlin Readers may contact Graf at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Interpretation, truth, and past reality Donald Davidson meets history
This article shows that some postmodernist sceptical doubts concerning the attainability of knowledge of the past are based on an inconsistent conception of truth and objectivity. After a brief summary of the postmodernist challenge for history concentrating on four basic arguments, I will depict Donald Davidson’s conception of truth and interpretation. According to his theory of radical interpretation, the meaning of our most basic words is tied…
Die Mentalisierung des Nirgendwo und die Transformation der Gesellschaft Der theoretische Utopiediskurs in Deutschland 1900–1933
Interpretation, truth, and past reality Donald Davidson meets history
This article shows that some postmodernist sceptical doubts concerning the attainability of knowledge of the past are based on an inconsistent conception of truth and objectivity. After a brief summary of the postmodernist challenge for history concentrating on four basic arguments, I will depict Donald Davidson’s conception of truth and interpretation. According to his theory of radical interpretation, the meaning of our most basic words is tied…
Anticipating the Future in the Present
Why another article about the “new woman” in Weimar Germany, which for at least twenty-five years has been a favorite topic of historical scholarship in various disciplines? Earlier studies in history, art history, and German and Gender Studies unmasked the “new woman” as a media construction unrelated to the life-world of women after World War I, and newer studies emphasize the liberating tendencies, especially for younger women in Weimar German…
Either-Or
The notion of “crisis” plays an important role in both the history of the Weimar Republic and the historiography on this period of German history. Modifying Max Horkheimer's famous dictum on the intrinsic connection between capitalism and fascism, one might even say that anyone who does not want to talk about “crisis” should remain silent about Weimar Germany. In the brief period between 1918 and 1933 Germany not only had to cope with the consequ…
Europäische Zeitgeschichte Seit 1945
Zeitgeschichte in der Welt der Sozialwissenschaften. Legitimität und Originalität einer Disziplin
Vorspann Seit die Zeitgeschichte die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als Forschungsfeld erschlossen hat, steht sie mehr denn je vor der Herausforderung, wie sie mit den Deutungsangeboten der Sozialwissenschaften umgehen soll. Bloße Adaption oder selbstbewusste Behauptung und damit Beharrung auf den spezifischen Regeln, die der Zeitgeschichte eigen sind? Rüdiger Graf und Kim Priemel, Protagonisten einer gegenwartsnahen Zeitgeschichte, stellen s…
Making Use of the “Oil Weapon”
Journal Article Making Use of the “Oil Weapon”: Western Industrialized Countries and Arab Petropolitics in 1973–1974 Get access Rüdiger Graf Rüdiger Graf Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 36, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 185–208, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01014.x Published: 19 January 2012
The culture of 'crisis' in the Weimar Republic
Both in scholarship on the Weimar Republic and in historical research in general, many conceptions of 'crisis' tend to remain vague and difficult to operationalize. These operational defects of the concept of crisis arise inevitably, we argue, from the concept's constitutive link to human perception on the one hand and from its subsumption of complex interconnections of historical processes within different subsystems on the other. Frequently tod…
Provincializing America
Together the two volumes under review contain over forty essays on the intellectual history of Weimar Germany and its legacy today. The wide interdisciplinary field of authors, historians, philosophers, theologians, and literary, legal, and religious scholars, as well as social and political scientists, testifies to the continuing fascination of this era of thought in Anglo-American academia. With the exceptions of Mitchell G. Ash, Michael Krois,…
Long Night of the Tankers
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil, by David Bercuson and Holger El. Herwig. Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2014. xix, 344 pp. $39.95 US (paper). David Bercuson and Holger H. Herwig, both historians at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, have written a highly readable and at times suspenseful history of the so-called operation Neuland (newland), the German submarine campaig…
Von der Geschichte der Zukunftsvorstellungen zur Geschichte ihrer Generierung
This paper conceptualizes the history of the future in the twentieth century. The present future is always multi-faceted: produced by diverse actors, it concerns different aspects of the world, and is articulated in many ways. We suggest a divergence from the Koselleckian notion of a unified horizon of expectation. Rather than concentrating on the contents of visions of the future, we focus on the processes by which the future is generated. Disti…
F rederick L. M cKitrick . From Craftsmen to Capitalists
In From Craftsmen to Capitalists, his social history of das Handwerk (German for “handicraft,” “craftsmen,” or “artisans”), Frederick L. McKitrick asks a question that is crucial to our understanding of German history in the twentieth century: How did German craftsmen evolve from a basic source of support for National Socialism, and thus a destabilizing element under the Weimar Republic, into a stabilizing factor that contributed to the success o…
Ökonomisierung
Zwischen Handlungsmotivation und Ohnmachtserfahrung – Der Wandel des Krisenbegriffs im 20. Jahrhundert
Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics
Truth in the Jungle of Literature, Science, and Politics: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Food Control Reforms during the Progressive Era Rüdiger Graf Rüdiger Graf Heads the research unit on the History of Economic Life at the Leibniz-Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (Zzf) and teaches history at Humboldt University Berlin Readers may contact Graf at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Of Alcohol, Apes, and Taxes
The article examines an early and idiosyncratic version of behavioral economics or “empirical socio-economics,” which the German economist and taxation expert Günter Schmölders developed in the postwar decades. Relying on both his published papers and his lecture notes and correspondence, it scrutinizes Schmölders’s intellectual upbringing in the tradition of the Historical School of Economics (Historische Schule der Nationalökonomie) and his rel…
An Unequal Alliance
Victor McFarland has written a profound and well-researched history of U.S.-Saudi relations in the second half of the twentieth century. His book illuminates a constitutive element of both the so-called American Century or the United States’ rise to global dominance and the geopolitics of oil. Based on an excellent mastery of the existing secondary literature, multi-archival research in the United States and Saudi Arabia—though with a bias toward…
Negotiating Sovereignty in German History—Historiographical Challenges
This article introduces a special issue on the politics of sovereignty in German history. Historical work provides an important corrective to understand the current discursive resurgence of sovereignty. Historians (and other scholars) should treat sovereignty not as a factual description of the world, but rather analyze it as a rhetorical claim to assert power in territorial, political, economic, legal, and cultural disputes. Much of the power of…
Transitional Injustice at Leipzig
The article analyzes Allied attempts to try German war criminals after the First World War and the ensuing Leipzig trials. Historians of international law commonly describe these as the first (failed) attempt to break principles of national sovereignty by implementing principles of international humanitarian law, which were later realized at Nuremberg and The Hague. The article brackets the question of the Leipzig trials’ alleged success or failu…
Vorhersagen und Kontrollieren
Das Buch untersucht den Aufstieg des Verhaltenswissens seit der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie dessen praktische und politische Konsequenzen Die Frage, wie menschliches Verhalten beeinflusst werden kann, ist in der jüngsten Zeitgeschichte virulenter geworden. Auf der Basis verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse versprechen Expert:innen, Menschen durch subtile Interventionen glücklicher, gesünder und wohlhabender zu machen. Zugleich haben die…
Jonas Kreienbaum, Das Öl und der Kampf um eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung. Die Bedeutung der Ölkrisen der 1970er Jahre für die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. (Studien zur internationalen Geschichte, Bd. 54.) …
Article Jonas Kreienbaum, Das Öl und der Kampf um eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung. Die Bedeutung der Ölkrisen der 1970er Jahre für die Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. (Studien zur internationalen Geschichte, Bd. 54.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2022 was published on April 1, 2024 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 318, issue 2)
Ludolf Herbst (1943–2024)
Integrität und Empörung
Heuchelei mag eine Konstante menschlicher Interaktion sein oder gerade liberale Demokratien kennzeichnen, in denen um Zustimmung geworben wird. Ihre explizite Thematisierung veränderte sich aber stark, wie anhand der Debatten im Deutschen Bundestag gezeigt werden kann. Wechselseitige Heucheleikritik nahm hier erst im Streit um die Ostpolitik und dann vor allem mit dem Einzug der Grünen in den 1980er Jahren stark zu. Wie ist das zu erklären und wa…
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