Chris Lorenz
Biographic Data
| ID | 319579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Lorenz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Lorenz |
| SIGNATURE | LORENZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2121-9063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Brazil is already experiencing the brutal impacts of climate change
Brazil is increasingly experiencing severe climate events, including extreme droughts, wildfires, floods, and heatwaves, driven by both excessive rainfall and prolonged dry periods. These disasters have resulted in significant environmental, economic, and social losses, deepening inequality and fuelling public health crises. Climate change is disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations and contributing to the rise of disease outbreaks suc…
ICHTH/INTH Book Prize Forum
The International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH) was established in Bucharest in 1980 with the aim of promoting international collaboration and scholarly engagement...
Unpacking the risks of zoonotic and vector-borne pathogen transmission to humans in the context of environmental change
The emergence and spread of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases (ZVBDs), exacerbated by environmental change, pose serious threats to global public health and the economy. Understanding the role of environmental factors in disease transmission is critical for improving risk assessments and implementing effective preventive strategies. However, current approaches often lack a comprehensive framework that integrates the three risk components (hazard…
Additional Featured Article: Who are we? Reflections on Collective Identities
Spatial analysis of American cutaneous leishmaniasis in the state of Amazonas
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate, using spatial analysis, the occurrence of American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ACL) and analyze its association with the municipal human development index (MHDI) and deforestation in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, from 2016 to 2020. METHODS: This ecological study, carried out from January 2016 to December 2020, included the 62 municipalities of the state of Amazonas. The incidence rate of ACL was determined in space and time.…
If You Could Read My Mind: On the History of Mind and Other Matters
In The Primacy of Method in Historical Research: Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning, Jonas Ahlskog presents a critical and lucid engagement with contemporary philosophies of history and makes a sustained case for a return to the ideas of history and social science as developed by R. G. Collingwood and Peter Winch. What philosophy needs again is, first, a recognition of the "primacy of method"-that is, the insight that what one k…
Analysing Historical Narratives
For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology. From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the s…
Analysing Historical Narratives: Concluding Remarks
Narrativity and Historical Writing: Introductory Remarks
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Analysing Historical Narratives: On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past
Analysing Historical Narratives: On Academic, Popular and Educational Framings of the Past
Can a Criminal Event in the Past Disappear in a Garbage Bin in the Present? Dutch Colonial Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Rawagede
In this chapter I will deal with a recent case of ‘memory politics’ in the Netherlands concerning a massacre on 9 December 1947. This massacre took place in a village in West Java named Rawagede — later renamed Balongsari — during the war started by the Dutch after the end of the Second World War. They started this war in an attempt to re-establish their former colony of the Dutch East Indies, which had been occupied by Japan at the beginning of …
History: Theories and Methods
History: Representation Within and Functions of
Can a Criminal Event in the Past Disappear in a Garbage Bin in the Present? Dutch Colonial Memory and Human Rights
International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography Book Prize 2016
Applications are now open for the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH) International Book Prize and the ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize for the History and Theory of Historiography. Worth $500 each, the prizes are offered alternately for the best doctoral dissertation and book on any aspect of the history and the theory of historiography
Blurred Lines - History, Memory and the Experience of Time
Blurred Lines. History, Memory and the Experience of Time
This article argues that fundamental controversial parts of the past – that since 1990 have been labeled as “catastrophic”, “post-traumatic”, “terroristic” and “haunting” – are overstretching the normal “historical” concept of “the past”. This is the case because historians normally presuppose that the past does "go away" - and therefore is distant and absent from the present. Thepresupposition that the “hot” present transforms into a “cold” past…
Who knows where the time goes
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments in Chris Lorenz' thinking about history over the last 25 years. The following topics are discussed: the necessity and function of theory in history, historical theory of Frank Ankersmit and Hayden White, relations between objectivism and relativism, between theories and facts, possibilities of truth and objectivity in history, perspectives of a scientific histori…
Reply to my critics
Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In this reply to my critics (Monika Bobako, Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Ewa Domańska, Juliusz Iwanicki, Aviezer Tucker, Hayden White). I am answering several critical arguments that have been formulated concerning my ‘Bordercrossings’. First, I dismantle the critique that I am subscribing to some version of ‘covering law explanation’. Second, I clarify in what – limited - sense I find Lakatos ide…
Explorations between philosophy and history
This introduction summarizes the basic ideas behind the articles collected in Przekraczanie granic: eseje z filozofii historii i teorii historiografii [Bordercrossings: essays on the philosophy of history and theory of historiography]. The first basic idea is the idea that the writing of history has a “border crossing” character, meaning that history writing involves border crossings, first, between history and philosophy and, second, between his…
Popularizing National Pasts: 1800 To the Present
Introduction. Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, and Billie Melman Part I: Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 1. Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History. Simon Goldhill 2. History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France. Stephen Bann 3. 'That which we learn with the eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, a…
If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management
Nationalizing the Past
Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in
If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management
"Can Histories Be True? Narrativism, Positivism, and the "MetaphoricalTurn
Narrativism, as represented by Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit, can fruitfully be analyzed as an inversion of two brands of positivism. First, narrativist epistemology can be regarded as an inversion of empiricism. Its thesis that narratives function as metaphors which do not possess a cognitive content is built on an empiricist, "picture view" of knowledge. Moreover, all the non-cognitive aspects attributed as such are dependent on this picture…
Comparative Historiography: Problems and Perspectives
Just like history, historiography is usually written and analyzed within one spatio-temporal setting, traditionally that of a particular nation-state. As a consequence, historiography tends to localize explanations for historiographical developments within national contexts and to neglect international dimensions. As long as that is the case, it is impossible to assess the general and specific aspects of historiographical case studies. This forum…
Beyond Good and Evil? The German Empire of 1871 and Modern German Historiography
Whenever contemporary historians go at each other's throats over differences of opinion on current history, their more serene colleagues often offer the following consoling reflection. To their minds, contemporary history is history in which many parties still have a stake because individuals and groups are generally attached to the image presented of them. And where different interests are involved, conflicts of interest are never far removed. C…
Who knows where the time goes
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments in Chris Lorenz' thinking about history over the last 25 years. The following topics are discussed: the necessity and function of theory in history, historical theory of Frank Ankersmit and Hayden White, relations between objectivism and relativism, between theories and facts, possibilities of truth and objectivity in history, perspectives of a scientific histori…
Won't you tell me, where have all the good times gone’? On the advantages and disadvantages of modernization theory for history
The German brand of 'history of society'—Gesellschaftsgeschichte—has been known from its beginning in the 1970s for its application of sociological and politological modernization theories to (German) history. Modernization theory was presented by Hans-Ulrich Wehler in particular as the way to transform 'traditional' German history, that is: national political history, centred on a few 'great men', into an integrated and comparative history of Ge…
Revisiting the university front
The article argues that the most important trends in the recent metamorphosis of higher education, especially of university teaching and research, cannot be understood without placing them in the context of general developments in political life. Both processes reveal alarming features and there is a link between them. In recent decades a religion has established its dominance in the public policy field. Its dogmas are called “liberalization”, “e…
Historical Knowledge and Historical Reality: "A Plea for "Internal Realism
L'A. vise a montrer que la tâche de la philosophie de l'histoire consiste a elucider la pratique de l'histoire. Il preconise ainsi une methode de «realisme interne» qui puisse rendre compte des debats entre historiens et depasse les points de vue traditionnels (objectivisme et relativisme). Il soutient que la theorie des actes de parole et la notion d'horizon d'esperances peuvent etre liees au realisme interne pour mieux faire comprendre les aspe…
Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry
I argue here that the articles in this forum contain basic agreements. All three reject naturalism, reductionism, and monism while retaining causality as an explanatory category, and all three emphasize the role of time and argue for a view in which culture is regarded as both structured and contingent.The differences among the explanatory proposals of Hall, Biernacki, and Kane are as important as the similarities: while Hall favors a Weberian ap…
If You Could Read My Mind: On the History of Mind and Other Matters
In The Primacy of Method in Historical Research: Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning, Jonas Ahlskog presents a critical and lucid engagement with contemporary philosophies of history and makes a sustained case for a return to the ideas of history and social science as developed by R. G. Collingwood and Peter Winch. What philosophy needs again is, first, a recognition of the "primacy of method"-that is, the insight that what one k…
Model Murderers: Afterthoughts on the Goldhagen method and history
This article analyses the theoretical and methodological structure of Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners. It argues that the paradoxical success of HWE can better be understood when its paradoxical implicit theory and method are understood. Although Goldhagen claims that HWE embodies an application of rigorous social science methods to the domain of 'narrative' Holocaust-history, it is shown that HWE is, in effect, an example of 'mode…
Historical Knowledge and Historical Reality: "A Plea for "Internal Realism
L'A. vise a montrer que la tâche de la philosophie de l'histoire consiste a elucider la pratique de l'histoire. Il preconise ainsi une methode de «realisme interne» qui puisse rendre compte des debats entre historiens et depasse les points de vue traditionnels (objectivisme et relativisme). Il soutient que la theorie des actes de parole et la notion d'horizon d'esperances peuvent etre liees au realisme interne pour mieux faire comprendre les aspe…
Beyond Good and Evil? The German Empire of 1871 and Modern German Historiography
Whenever contemporary historians go at each other's throats over differences of opinion on current history, their more serene colleagues often offer the following consoling reflection. To their minds, contemporary history is history in which many parties still have a stake because individuals and groups are generally attached to the image presented of them. And where different interests are involved, conflicts of interest are never far removed. C…
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: History Writing and the Second World War 1945-1990
"Can Histories Be True? Narrativism, Positivism, and the "MetaphoricalTurn
Narrativism, as represented by Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit, can fruitfully be analyzed as an inversion of two brands of positivism. First, narrativist epistemology can be regarded as an inversion of empiricism. Its thesis that narratives function as metaphors which do not possess a cognitive content is built on an empiricist, "picture view" of knowledge. Moreover, all the non-cognitive aspects attributed as such are dependent on this picture…
Comparative Historiography: Problems and Perspectives
Just like history, historiography is usually written and analyzed within one spatio-temporal setting, traditionally that of a particular nation-state. As a consequence, historiography tends to localize explanations for historiographical developments within national contexts and to neglect international dimensions. As long as that is the case, it is impossible to assess the general and specific aspects of historiographical case studies. This forum…
Some Afterthoughts on Culture and Explanation in Historical Inquiry
I argue here that the articles in this forum contain basic agreements. All three reject naturalism, reductionism, and monism while retaining causality as an explanatory category, and all three emphasize the role of time and argue for a view in which culture is regarded as both structured and contingent.The differences among the explanatory proposals of Hall, Biernacki, and Kane are as important as the similarities: while Hall favors a Weberian ap…
Model Murderers: Afterthoughts on the Goldhagen method and history
This article analyses the theoretical and methodological structure of Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners. It argues that the paradoxical success of HWE can better be understood when its paradoxical implicit theory and method are understood. Although Goldhagen claims that HWE embodies an application of rigorous social science methods to the domain of 'narrative' Holocaust-history, it is shown that HWE is, in effect, an example of 'mode…
Theorizing Historical Consciousness
Peter Seixas: Introduction. I. Historiographies and Historical Consciousness. * Chris Lorenz, Professor of Philosophy and Medothology of History, Leiden University and Free University of Amsterdam. 'Towards A Theoretical Framework For Comparing Historiographies: Some Preliminary Considerations'* James Wertsch, Department of Education, Washington University, St. Louis. 'Specific Narratives and Schematic Narrative Templates'* Jorn Riisen, Institute…
Won't you tell me, where have all the good times gone’? On the advantages and disadvantages of modernization theory for history
The German brand of 'history of society'—Gesellschaftsgeschichte—has been known from its beginning in the 1970s for its application of sociological and politological modernization theories to (German) history. Modernization theory was presented by Hans-Ulrich Wehler in particular as the way to transform 'traditional' German history, that is: national political history, centred on a few 'great men', into an integrated and comparative history of Ge…
Revisiting the university front
The article argues that the most important trends in the recent metamorphosis of higher education, especially of university teaching and research, cannot be understood without placing them in the context of general developments in political life. Both processes reveal alarming features and there is a link between them. In recent decades a religion has established its dominance in the public policy field. Its dogmas are called “liberalization”, “e…
Nationalizing the Past
Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in
Popularizing National Pasts: 1800 To the Present
Introduction. Stefan Berger, Chris Lorenz, and Billie Melman Part I: Popular National Histories in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 1. Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Aesthetics: Opera, Classics, and Popular National History. Simon Goldhill 2. History as Romance and History as Atonement: Nineteenth-Century Images from Britain and France. Stephen Bann 3. 'That which we learn with the eye': Popular Histories, Modernity, a…
If You're So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management
Explorations between philosophy and history
This introduction summarizes the basic ideas behind the articles collected in Przekraczanie granic: eseje z filozofii historii i teorii historiografii [Bordercrossings: essays on the philosophy of history and theory of historiography]. The first basic idea is the idea that the writing of history has a “border crossing” character, meaning that history writing involves border crossings, first, between history and philosophy and, second, between his…
Blurred Lines - History, Memory and the Experience of Time
Blurred Lines. History, Memory and the Experience of Time
This article argues that fundamental controversial parts of the past – that since 1990 have been labeled as “catastrophic”, “post-traumatic”, “terroristic” and “haunting” – are overstretching the normal “historical” concept of “the past”. This is the case because historians normally presuppose that the past does "go away" - and therefore is distant and absent from the present. Thepresupposition that the “hot” present transforms into a “cold” past…
Who knows where the time goes
In this interview Marek Tamm asks questions concerning some of the main developments in Chris Lorenz' thinking about history over the last 25 years. The following topics are discussed: the necessity and function of theory in history, historical theory of Frank Ankersmit and Hayden White, relations between objectivism and relativism, between theories and facts, possibilities of truth and objectivity in history, perspectives of a scientific histori…
Reply to my critics
Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In this reply to my critics (Monika Bobako, Krzysztof Brzechczyn, Ewa Domańska, Juliusz Iwanicki, Aviezer Tucker, Hayden White). I am answering several critical arguments that have been formulated concerning my ‘Bordercrossings’. First, I dismantle the critique that I am subscribing to some version of ‘covering law explanation’. Second, I clarify in what – limited - sense I find Lakatos ide…
Can a Criminal Event in the Past Disappear in a Garbage Bin in the Present? Dutch Colonial Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Rawagede
In this chapter I will deal with a recent case of ‘memory politics’ in the Netherlands concerning a massacre on 9 December 1947. This massacre took place in a village in West Java named Rawagede — later renamed Balongsari — during the war started by the Dutch after the end of the Second World War. They started this war in an attempt to re-establish their former colony of the Dutch East Indies, which had been occupied by Japan at the beginning of …
History: Theories and Methods
History: Representation Within and Functions of
Can a Criminal Event in the Past Disappear in a Garbage Bin in the Present? Dutch Colonial Memory and Human Rights
International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography Book Prize 2016
Applications are now open for the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH) International Book Prize and the ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize for the History and Theory of Historiography. Worth $500 each, the prizes are offered alternately for the best doctoral dissertation and book on any aspect of the history and the theory of historiography
Analysing Historical Narratives
For all of the recent debates over the methods and theoretical underpinnings of the historical profession, scholars and laypeople alike still frequently think of history in terms of storytelling. Accordingly, historians and theorists have devoted much attention to how historical narratives work, illuminating the ways they can bind together events, shape an argument and lend support to ideology. From ancient Greece to modern-day bestsellers, the s…
Analysing Historical Narratives: Concluding Remarks
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