Henning Trüper
Biographic Data
| ID | 416033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henning Trüper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henning |
| FAMILY NAME | Trüper |
| SIGNATURE | TRÜPER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0660-7957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
This forum explores how maritime rescue has historically been bound up with questions of sovereignty. The contributions approach both concepts as constituted by concrete practice, normative order and cultural symbolism, tracing how efforts to save lives at sea became intertwined with law, morality and political authority. It is argued that maritime spaces have long served as laboratories for the articulation of sovereign power, while lifesaving p…
Humanitarian and legal rupture in maritime lifesaving since 1800
This article explores the relationship between moral and legal language as convergent and divergent types of normative order in the long history of saving lives from shipwreck since the late eighteenth century. The author presents an argument about humanitarianism as based on a symbolic rupture within an established moral culture and the law as imposing a second rupture on the resulting humanitarian culture, but a complicated and incomplete one, …
Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800
Uncontrollable Noise
HMS Nimble , a Royal Navy schooner having recently captured a Spanish slaver and taken aboard 272 slaves, ran ashore at nighttime in bad weather on the Cuban coast in November 1834. While all crew were saved, several dozen of the African recaptives aboard lost their lives in the accident, which according to the Nimble ’s master had occurred because the “uncontrollable noise of these savages” had made it impossible to hear the breaking of the wave…
Imaginaires sociaux des situations d’urgence en mer depuis 1800
The Riddle of the Rosetta
Seuchenjahr
"Theorie" spricht gerne im Präsens. Allein, es handelt sich um ein unechtes Präsens, das über der Zeit zu stehen beansprucht. Die Ausnahmesituation der Pandemie lädt dazu ein, dieses Präsens zu überdenken und die unvermeidlichen Bindungen der Theorie an gegenwärtiges Geschehen sichtbar zu machen. Durch die klaustrophobische Situation des Lockdown ist eine unheimliche Korrelation von Theorie und Phobie kenntlich geworden. Beide suchen nachträglich…
Depth and Death
This article proposes a re-reading of what inclusion into the sphere of the historical actually means in modern European historical discourse. It argues that this re-reading permits challenging a powerful but problematic norm of ontological homogeneity as something to be achieved in and by historical discourse. At least some of the more conceptually profound challenges that accounts of “deep history”—of very distant pasts—pose to historical disco…
Species and Salvation
In this article I will discuss various thoughts of a few recent representatives of the tradition of the philosophy of history—Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner, Ulrich Beck, and finally Karl Rahner—and bring them into a conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty's work on the problems of human species history and the Anthropocene. The aim of this undertaking is to gain greater clarity on the question of the work that theology continues to do for historical thou…
Beyond Secularized Eschatology Introductory Remarks
History as a body of knowledge, a loose bundle of working routines and writing practices, of genres, memories, imaginaries, and institutions, has struggled with its relationship to “religion” for a long time. In the European tradition, but also elsewhere, historical writing often served to fill the gaps in the knowledge about the past that had been, in the main, supplied by scriptural tradition. At the same time, historical writing also became a …
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity. This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history of knowledge as entangled between European and non-European cultures. …
Aphrodite Stillborn
Research Article| April 01 2019 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead of Shipwreck Henning Trüper Henning Trüper Henning Trüper is currently Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Topography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor with D. Chakrabarty and S. Subrah…
Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age
Debates about the legitimacy and ‘essence’ of political rule and the search for ‘ideal’ forms of government have been at the very heart of political thought ever since antiquity. Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age explores the complex relationship between democracy and dictatorship from the 18th century onwards. More concretely, it assesses how democracy emerged as something compatible with dictatorship, both at the level of political though…
The Flatness of Historicity
This article pursues an explication of the meaning of "historicity." This explication is in part theoretical and in part historical, passing by the German conceptual history of the term, a Romantic-era fairy tale with bearings on the matter, and structuralist theories of history, especially Claude Lévi-Strauss's and Louis Althusser's. The "flatness" of historicity, the article argues, emerges from the absence of layers of explanatory and semantic…
Julius Wellhausen
Historical Teleologies in The Modern World
Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history – the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process – in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious philanthropism…
Topography of a Method
What does the practical work of writing contribute to historical writing? What does it mean for historical knowledge that it is, inescapably, written? Henning Trüper explores quotidian practices of writing as constituting the working life of a historian, the Belgian mediaevalist François Louis Ganshof (1895-1980). The argument draws on a large variety of texts and writing situations, so as to discuss, across the fault lines of twentieth-century h…
Löwith, Löwith's Heidegger, and the Unity of History
This article is about the problem of the unity of history as seen through the writings of Karl Löwith. By "unity of history" I understand the notion that all history constitutes one and only one range of kinds of objects and/or one field of knowledge. The article argues that the problem of the unity of history-though often neglected as a matter of mere argumentative infrastructure-is central to a number of wider problems, most prominently the pos…
Wild archives
The article examines the scholarly travels of Enno Littmann (1875–1958) in Syria and Ethiopia as providing an alternative model for understanding ‘the archive’ as a theoretical topos in connection with the production of historical knowledge in the 19th century. The argument seeks to dismantle the nexus between classification and modern European statehood – here discussed with the help of Derrida’s Mal d’archive – that has come to dominate debates…
What Condition Our Condition Is In
In Humanism in Intercultural Perspective, editors Jörn Rüsen and Henner Laass outline their project of renewing the foundations of the notion of "humanism." They collect a large variety of contributions they hope will be conducive to this aim. Yet the architecture of the project leaves open a long list of conceptual problems, concerning in particular: the integration of cultural diversity into humanism; the relationship between humanism and the p…
Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science. Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900
Suzanne L. Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
Learning experiences, emulating affects and crafting historicity
Contributing to the history of the craft of historicisation, the present study explores connections between historical writing and historical experience. These connections are analysed through two youthful documents of historical writing by the Belgian medievalist François Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), dating from his schoolboy days. The brief texts in question yield a unique perspective on the processes of learning and emulation that constituted yo…
Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age
Debates about the legitimacy and ‘essence’ of political rule and the search for ‘ideal’ forms of government have been at the very heart of political thought ever since antiquity. Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age explores the complex relationship between democracy and dictatorship from the 18th century onwards. More concretely, it assesses how democracy emerged as something compatible with dictatorship, both at the level of political though…
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity. This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history of knowledge as entangled between European and non-European cultures. …
Aphrodite Stillborn
Research Article| April 01 2019 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead of Shipwreck Henning Trüper Henning Trüper Henning Trüper is currently Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Topography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor with D. Chakrabarty and S. Subrah…
The Flatness of Historicity
This article pursues an explication of the meaning of "historicity." This explication is in part theoretical and in part historical, passing by the German conceptual history of the term, a Romantic-era fairy tale with bearings on the matter, and structuralist theories of history, especially Claude Lévi-Strauss's and Louis Althusser's. The "flatness" of historicity, the article argues, emerges from the absence of layers of explanatory and semantic…
Wild archives
The article examines the scholarly travels of Enno Littmann (1875–1958) in Syria and Ethiopia as providing an alternative model for understanding ‘the archive’ as a theoretical topos in connection with the production of historical knowledge in the 19th century. The argument seeks to dismantle the nexus between classification and modern European statehood – here discussed with the help of Derrida’s Mal d’archive – that has come to dominate debates…
Learning experiences, emulating affects and crafting historicity
Contributing to the history of the craft of historicisation, the present study explores connections between historical writing and historical experience. These connections are analysed through two youthful documents of historical writing by the Belgian medievalist François Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), dating from his schoolboy days. The brief texts in question yield a unique perspective on the processes of learning and emulation that constituted yo…
Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science. Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650–1900
Suzanne L. Marchand, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
What Condition Our Condition Is In
In Humanism in Intercultural Perspective, editors Jörn Rüsen and Henner Laass outline their project of renewing the foundations of the notion of "humanism." They collect a large variety of contributions they hope will be conducive to this aim. Yet the architecture of the project leaves open a long list of conceptual problems, concerning in particular: the integration of cultural diversity into humanism; the relationship between humanism and the p…
Wild archives
The article examines the scholarly travels of Enno Littmann (1875–1958) in Syria and Ethiopia as providing an alternative model for understanding ‘the archive’ as a theoretical topos in connection with the production of historical knowledge in the 19th century. The argument seeks to dismantle the nexus between classification and modern European statehood – here discussed with the help of Derrida’s Mal d’archive – that has come to dominate debates…
Topography of a Method
What does the practical work of writing contribute to historical writing? What does it mean for historical knowledge that it is, inescapably, written? Henning Trüper explores quotidian practices of writing as constituting the working life of a historian, the Belgian mediaevalist François Louis Ganshof (1895-1980). The argument draws on a large variety of texts and writing situations, so as to discuss, across the fault lines of twentieth-century h…
Löwith, Löwith's Heidegger, and the Unity of History
This article is about the problem of the unity of history as seen through the writings of Karl Löwith. By "unity of history" I understand the notion that all history constitutes one and only one range of kinds of objects and/or one field of knowledge. The article argues that the problem of the unity of history-though often neglected as a matter of mere argumentative infrastructure-is central to a number of wider problems, most prominently the pos…
Historical Teleologies in The Modern World
Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history – the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process – in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious philanthropism…
Julius Wellhausen
Aphrodite Stillborn
Research Article| April 01 2019 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead of Shipwreck Henning Trüper Henning Trüper Henning Trüper is currently Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies and Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Zurich. He is the author of Topography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (2014) and co-editor with D. Chakrabarty and S. Subrah…
Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age
Debates about the legitimacy and ‘essence’ of political rule and the search for ‘ideal’ forms of government have been at the very heart of political thought ever since antiquity. Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age explores the complex relationship between democracy and dictatorship from the 18th century onwards. More concretely, it assesses how democracy emerged as something compatible with dictatorship, both at the level of political though…
The Flatness of Historicity
This article pursues an explication of the meaning of "historicity." This explication is in part theoretical and in part historical, passing by the German conceptual history of the term, a Romantic-era fairy tale with bearings on the matter, and structuralist theories of history, especially Claude Lévi-Strauss's and Louis Althusser's. The "flatness" of historicity, the article argues, emerges from the absence of layers of explanatory and semantic…
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World
Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity. This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history of knowledge as entangled between European and non-European cultures. …
Seuchenjahr
"Theorie" spricht gerne im Präsens. Allein, es handelt sich um ein unechtes Präsens, das über der Zeit zu stehen beansprucht. Die Ausnahmesituation der Pandemie lädt dazu ein, dieses Präsens zu überdenken und die unvermeidlichen Bindungen der Theorie an gegenwärtiges Geschehen sichtbar zu machen. Durch die klaustrophobische Situation des Lockdown ist eine unheimliche Korrelation von Theorie und Phobie kenntlich geworden. Beide suchen nachträglich…
Depth and Death
This article proposes a re-reading of what inclusion into the sphere of the historical actually means in modern European historical discourse. It argues that this re-reading permits challenging a powerful but problematic norm of ontological homogeneity as something to be achieved in and by historical discourse. At least some of the more conceptually profound challenges that accounts of “deep history”—of very distant pasts—pose to historical disco…
Species and Salvation
In this article I will discuss various thoughts of a few recent representatives of the tradition of the philosophy of history—Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner, Ulrich Beck, and finally Karl Rahner—and bring them into a conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty's work on the problems of human species history and the Anthropocene. The aim of this undertaking is to gain greater clarity on the question of the work that theology continues to do for historical thou…
Beyond Secularized Eschatology Introductory Remarks
History as a body of knowledge, a loose bundle of working routines and writing practices, of genres, memories, imaginaries, and institutions, has struggled with its relationship to “religion” for a long time. In the European tradition, but also elsewhere, historical writing often served to fill the gaps in the knowledge about the past that had been, in the main, supplied by scriptural tradition. At the same time, historical writing also became a …
The Riddle of the Rosetta
Social Imaginaries of Emergency Situations at Sea since 1800
Uncontrollable Noise
HMS Nimble , a Royal Navy schooner having recently captured a Spanish slaver and taken aboard 272 slaves, ran ashore at nighttime in bad weather on the Cuban coast in November 1834. While all crew were saved, several dozen of the African recaptives aboard lost their lives in the accident, which according to the Nimble ’s master had occurred because the “uncontrollable noise of these savages” had made it impossible to hear the breaking of the wave…
Imaginaires sociaux des situations d’urgence en mer depuis 1800
Introduction
This forum explores how maritime rescue has historically been bound up with questions of sovereignty. The contributions approach both concepts as constituted by concrete practice, normative order and cultural symbolism, tracing how efforts to save lives at sea became intertwined with law, morality and political authority. It is argued that maritime spaces have long served as laboratories for the articulation of sovereign power, while lifesaving p…
Humanitarian and legal rupture in maritime lifesaving since 1800
This article explores the relationship between moral and legal language as convergent and divergent types of normative order in the long history of saving lives from shipwreck since the late eighteenth century. The author presents an argument about humanitarianism as based on a symbolic rupture within an established moral culture and the law as imposing a second rupture on the resulting humanitarian culture, but a complicated and incomplete one, …
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