Michael S Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2304-3199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving for…
Redesigning Liberal Education: Innovative Design for a Twenty-First-Century Undergraduate Education
Hiroshima Mon Amour: You Must Remember This
Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher education
Psychoanalysis and history
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
Dominick LaCapra. History, Literature, Critical Theory
Dominick LaCapra has been writing about the relationship between history and literature for more than four decades. During much of that time, he has tried to clarify that relationship through critical theory—though he has also attempted to make theory more meaningful by informing it with history and literature. In his latest collection of essays, he continues his project in ways that are now familiar to his many readers: he puts texts in dialogue…
On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
Pragmatic Liberal Education
Liberal education is under siege today. While some scramble to hold on to liberal arts traditions in the face of online instruction, others contend these traditions do little to prepare students for the high-tech jobs of the twenty-first century. Throughout American history debates have raged about what it means for an education to be useful. This article argues for a pragmatic liberal education but against a narrowly instrumental one. Pragmatic …
Energizing the Elemental: Notes on a Conversation with Carl E. Schorske
Energizing the Elemental: Notes on a Conversation with Carl E. Schorske Michael S. Roth (bio) In the late summer of 2011 I made my way down to southern New Jersey to spend some time with Carl and Elizabeth Schorske. I hadn’t seen the Schorskes in some time, though we speak every so often by telephone. Given the occasion of this issue of American Imago in his honor, we were to talk about his early encounters with the work of Freud and psychoanalys…
Why Photography Matters to the Theory of History
Georges Didi-Huberman's study is concerned with epistemological and ethical questions that arise from visual representations of the Shoah, while Michael Fried's is concerned with the ontological possibilities explored by contemporary art photography. The books have two things in common: an argument against postmodern skepticism, and an insistence that photography has become a field in which questions of history, truth, and authenticity are being …
Photographic Ambivalence and Historical Consciousness
This essay focuses on three topics that arose at the Photography and Historical Interpretation conference: photography's incapacity to conceive duration; photography and the "rim of ontological uncertainty;" photography's "anthropological revolution." In the late nineteenth century, blindness to duration was conceptualized as the cost of photographic precision. Since the late twentieth century, blindness to our own desires, or inauthenticity, has…
Inquiry as Hope
Ebb Tide
Opposition from Within
A response to Dominick LaCapra's 'Tropisms of Intellectual History', this essay examines LaCapra's project in relation to the recent evolution of the discipline of history. Although he has been a persistent critic of the historical profession, LaCapra has contributed to its internal diversity of thought, and to its capacity to influence other disciplines
Classic Postmodernism
Refiguring History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline. By Keith Jenkins
Freud: Conflict and Culture
Journal Article “Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture.” Library of Congress, First St. and Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20540 Get access Elen DuBois Elen DuBois University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 969–973, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675285 Published: 01 December 2000
On Donald Davidson’s Philosophy: An Outline
The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History
Books in Review
Cours II: Leçons d'esthéthique à Clermont-Ferrand, leçons de morale, psychologique et métaphysique au lycée Henri-VI
(1994). Cours II: Lecons d'esthethique a Clermont-Ferrand, lecons de morale, psychologique et metaphysique au lycee Henri-VI. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 320-322
Cours I: Leçons de psychologie et de métaphysique, Clermont-Ferrand, 1887–1888
(1994). Cours I: Lecons de psychologie et de metaphysique, Clermont-Ferrand, 1887–1888. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 320-320
The End of History and the Last Man
The Time of Nostalgia: Medicine, History and Normality in 19th-Century France
The essay examines medical theories of nostalgia in 19th-century France. Nostalgia was thought to be a fatal illness during this period, and medical writings from the time examine the temporal and spatial components of the disease. Through their conceptualization of pathology, the medical writings allow us to see what doctors considered to be a normal memory, and a normal relation to the past. The historical writings of Jules Michelet, writings w…
The Ironist's Cage
The Time of Nostalgia: Medicine, History and Normality in 19th-Century France
The essay examines medical theories of nostalgia in 19th-century France. Nostalgia was thought to be a fatal illness during this period, and medical writings from the time examine the temporal and spatial components of the disease. Through their conceptualization of pathology, the medical writings allow us to see what doctors considered to be a normal memory, and a normal relation to the past. The historical writings of Jules Michelet, writings w…
"Foucault's "History of the Present
A pastime of growing popularity in recent years has been that of observing often furious activity of French intellectual scene. Fascinated by apparently revolutionary implications of approaching unconscious, text, primitives, superstructure/base, and in latest way, American scholars from Baltimore to Santa Cruz have been avidly following (often just a few steps behind) many twists and turns of their colleagues across sea. This following often tak…
Remembering Forgetting: Maladies de la Memoire in Nineteenth-Century France
Research Article| April 01 1989 Remembering Forgetting: Maladies de la Mémoire in Nineteenth-Century France Michael S. Roth Michael S. Roth Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 26: 49–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928523 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
Cultural Criticism and Political Theory: Hayden White's Rhetorics of History
Photographic Ambivalence and Historical Consciousness
This essay focuses on three topics that arose at the Photography and Historical Interpretation conference: photography's incapacity to conceive duration; photography and the "rim of ontological uncertainty;" photography's "anthropological revolution." In the late nineteenth century, blindness to duration was conceptualized as the cost of photographic precision. Since the late twentieth century, blindness to our own desires, or inauthenticity, has…
A Note on Kojève's Phenomenology of Right
LEXANDRE KOJEVE is best known as one of the great-and probably the most outrageous-interpreters of Hegel in our century. His Introduction ai la Lecture de Hegel is a work of striking philosophic originality, barely disguised as a commentary on the Phenomenology of Spirit. The recent publication of his Esquisse d'une phenome'nologie du droit is the fifth volume of his works to appear since the Hegel book, and the only one not to be a study in the …
The End of History and the Last Man
A Problem of Recognition: Alexandre Kojeve and the End of History
The big secret of French philosophy, behind Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Aron, and also Lacan, behind the thinking which dominates France between '45 and '70, is the presence of Kojeve, who formulates the leftist intellectual theory of engagement.... thanks to Kojeve, an incalculable number of intellectuals and militants have seen the World Spirit pass by. In the parades from Republique to Bastille, in various struggles of the Third World, or in the mi…
Pragmatic Liberal Education
Liberal education is under siege today. While some scramble to hold on to liberal arts traditions in the face of online instruction, others contend these traditions do little to prepare students for the high-tech jobs of the twenty-first century. Throughout American history debates have raged about what it means for an education to be useful. This article argues for a pragmatic liberal education but against a narrowly instrumental one. Pragmatic …
Classic Postmodernism
Refiguring History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline. By Keith Jenkins
The Ironist's Cage
"Foucault's "History of the Present
A pastime of growing popularity in recent years has been that of observing often furious activity of French intellectual scene. Fascinated by apparently revolutionary implications of approaching unconscious, text, primitives, superstructure/base, and in latest way, American scholars from Baltimore to Santa Cruz have been avidly following (often just a few steps behind) many twists and turns of their colleagues across sea. This following often tak…
A Note on Kojève's Phenomenology of Right
LEXANDRE KOJEVE is best known as one of the great-and probably the most outrageous-interpreters of Hegel in our century. His Introduction ai la Lecture de Hegel is a work of striking philosophic originality, barely disguised as a commentary on the Phenomenology of Spirit. The recent publication of his Esquisse d'une phenome'nologie du droit is the fifth volume of his works to appear since the Hegel book, and the only one not to be a study in the …
Books in Review
A Problem of Recognition: Alexandre Kojeve and the End of History
The big secret of French philosophy, behind Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Aron, and also Lacan, behind the thinking which dominates France between '45 and '70, is the presence of Kojeve, who formulates the leftist intellectual theory of engagement.... thanks to Kojeve, an incalculable number of intellectuals and militants have seen the World Spirit pass by. In the parades from Republique to Bastille, in various struggles of the Third World, or in the mi…
Michel Foucault. The Freedom of Philosophy
Cultural Criticism and Political Theory: Hayden White's Rhetorics of History
Remembering Forgetting: Maladies de la Memoire in Nineteenth-Century France
Research Article| April 01 1989 Remembering Forgetting: Maladies de la Mémoire in Nineteenth-Century France Michael S. Roth Michael S. Roth Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 26: 49–68. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928523 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
Narrative as Enclosure: The Contextual Histories of H. Stuart Hughes
In 1987 Wesleyan University Press reissued two important works by one of the most influential writers and teachers of Modem European Intellectual History. As sequels to H. Stuart Hughes's Consciousness and Society (1958), The Obstructed Path (1968) and The Sea Change (1975) have now been combined in a volume entitled Between Commitment and Disillusion. In 1988 Harvard University Press published Hughes's latest study of contemporary intellectual l…
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Knowing and History. Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth-Century France
The Ironist's Cage
The Time of Nostalgia: Medicine, History and Normality in 19th-Century France
The essay examines medical theories of nostalgia in 19th-century France. Nostalgia was thought to be a fatal illness during this period, and medical writings from the time examine the temporal and spatial components of the disease. Through their conceptualization of pathology, the medical writings allow us to see what doctors considered to be a normal memory, and a normal relation to the past. The historical writings of Jules Michelet, writings w…
The End of History and the Last Man
Cours II: Leçons d'esthéthique à Clermont-Ferrand, leçons de morale, psychologique et métaphysique au lycée Henri-VI
(1994). Cours II: Lecons d'esthethique a Clermont-Ferrand, lecons de morale, psychologique et metaphysique au lycee Henri-VI. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 320-322
Cours I: Leçons de psychologie et de métaphysique, Clermont-Ferrand, 1887–1888
(1994). Cours I: Lecons de psychologie et de metaphysique, Clermont-Ferrand, 1887–1888. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 320-320
Books in Review
On Donald Davidson’s Philosophy: An Outline
The Ironist's Cage: Memory, Trauma, and the Construction of History
Freud: Conflict and Culture
Journal Article “Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture.” Library of Congress, First St. and Independence Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20540 Get access Elen DuBois Elen DuBois University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 969–973, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675285 Published: 01 December 2000
Opposition from Within
A response to Dominick LaCapra's 'Tropisms of Intellectual History', this essay examines LaCapra's project in relation to the recent evolution of the discipline of history. Although he has been a persistent critic of the historical profession, LaCapra has contributed to its internal diversity of thought, and to its capacity to influence other disciplines
Classic Postmodernism
Refiguring History: New Thoughts on an Old Discipline. By Keith Jenkins
Ebb Tide
Inquiry as Hope
Photographic Ambivalence and Historical Consciousness
This essay focuses on three topics that arose at the Photography and Historical Interpretation conference: photography's incapacity to conceive duration; photography and the "rim of ontological uncertainty;" photography's "anthropological revolution." In the late nineteenth century, blindness to duration was conceptualized as the cost of photographic precision. Since the late twentieth century, blindness to our own desires, or inauthenticity, has…
Why Photography Matters to the Theory of History
Georges Didi-Huberman's study is concerned with epistemological and ethical questions that arise from visual representations of the Shoah, while Michael Fried's is concerned with the ontological possibilities explored by contemporary art photography. The books have two things in common: an argument against postmodern skepticism, and an insistence that photography has become a field in which questions of history, truth, and authenticity are being …
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