Warren Breckman
Biographic Data
| ID | 497663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren Breckman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren |
| FAMILY NAME | Breckman |
| SIGNATURE | BRECKMAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Eduard Gans y la crisis del hegelianismo
Existen muchos esfuerzos que resaltan la importancia del asociacionismo en el pensamiento de Eduard Gans, pero se centran exclusivamente en las ideas de Gans sobre las asociaciones de trabajadores como precursoras del sindicalismo. Por el contrario, el presente artículo persigue cuatro objetivos. Primero, explora los vínculos entre la dimensión social del concepto de asociacionismo de Gans y la orientación política más amplia de su pensamiento. E…
Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought
When Spinoza Met Marx: Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity
Two Cheers for Context
Martha Hanna. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights: Canadian War Wives during the Great War
The great World War I conscript armies of continental Europe required married men to serve. In Great Britain, conscription was introduced in 1916, and in the course of that year expanded from unmarried to married men. Canadian conscription, imposed in 1917, began with unmarried men but the war ended before married men were forced into service. Almost all the married men who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force were volunteers, and they enli…
The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Marx and Romanticism
While Marx threw off his attraction to Romanticism when he was still a teenager, scholars have detected various senses in which deep structures of Romantic thought persist in his work. These structures have frequently been taken as contributing factors to Marx's alleged millenarianism, doctrinaire rigidity, and intolerance. The mature Marx does draw on Romantic ideas at crucial moments; but rather than reinforcing an image of Marx as an intoleran…
Jürgen Herres. Marx und Engels: Porträt einer intellektuellen Freundschaft
Jürgen Herres opens his excellent book Marx und Engels: Porträt einer intellektuellen Freundschaft with an indisputable claim: the friendship and collaboration of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is perhaps without parallel in modern European history. From the time of their first meeting in Paris in 1844 until Marx’s death in 1883, the two were close friends. They authored works together. Each considered the other to be his most valued and trusted …
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, the Twentieth Century
This chapter examines how European thinkers working from within and without the Frankfurt School of critical theory have understood the public sphere as a distinctive political category. First-generation members of the school rejected institutional democracy and mass politics as ideologies that mask domination. The succeeding generation, whose most important representative is Jürgen Habermas, rejected that diagnosis. Habermas’s more optimistic as…
Persons as ‘Symbols’ and ‘Carriers’: Two Modes of Imagining the Individual and Society in the Nineteenth Century
In his mature systematic writings, Karl Marx pointedly restricted the discussion of individuals as such. Instead of discussing individual characters, motivations, or desires, Marx treats people as ‘carriers’ ( Träger) of social relations. This essay contrasts this functional or structural approach to the Romantic socialism of Pierre Leroux, who conceptualized the individual in the symbolic terms defined by Romantic aesthetics. Though Marx’s reduc…
Enzo Traverso. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
The collapse of Soviet-bloc communism at the opening of the 1990s drew a curtain on what Eric Hobsbawm famously called the short twentieth century. Even as millions celebrated the prospect of Eastern European nations joining the community of liberal-democratic, capitalist regimes, others, on the left, slipped into melancholic reflections on the defeat of the animating spirit of revolutionary struggle. The 1990s and the opening of the new millenni…
Bootstrapping, Self-binding, and Other Metaphors of Antifoundationalism
In Images of History, Richard Eldridge deploys the metaphor of "bootstrapping" to describe the possibility of a mutually constitutive interaction of historical understanding and reflection on political ideals outside of and beyond the notion of a completed theory or teleological development. Although "bootstrapping" does considerable work in the book, it remains relatively unthematized in itself. This article explores the concept of bootstrapping…
Die linken Hegelianer: Studien zum Verhältnis von Religion und Politik im Vormärz
Als Hegel 1831 stirbt, entwickelt sich in den Kreisen seiner Anhänger eine komplexe Diskussion über das Verhältnis von Religion, Philosophie und Staat. Was zunächst als Debatte um die adäquate Deutung des Hegelschen Denkens beginnt, gestaltet sich im Vorlauf der Revolution von 1848 zu einer der radikalsten und fruchtbarsten Phasen der Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Unter dem Eindruck der repressiven Züge des Preußischen Staates und der zuneh…
Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy
Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy
The Symbolic Dimension and the Politics of Young Hegelianism2. The Fate of the Symbolic from Romantic Socialism to a Marxism in extremis3. From the Symbolic Turn to the Social Imaginary: Castoriadis's Project of Autonomy4. Democracy Between Disenchantment and Political Theology: French Post-Marxism and the Return of Religion5. The Post-Marx of the Letter: Laclau and Mouffe Between Postmodern Melancholy and Post-Marxist Mourning6. Of Empty Places:…
History of Political Thought
Journal Article History of Political Thought Get access German History, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 75–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghr126 Published: 01 March 2012
Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension
Times of Theory: On Writing the History of French Theory
French Theory" is a hard case for historians. Through a discussion of recent historical work, this essay explores the challenge of identifying the contexts, institutional settings and lines of affiliation that produced figures like Barthes, Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze, and Foucault. Basic to the historicizing effort is the question of our own temporal relationship to Theory. While many treatments of theory are governed by the rhetoric of the "end"…
European Reference Index for the Humanities
European Reference Index for the Humanities Warren Breckman, Martin J. Burke, Anthony Grafton, and Ann E. Moyer, Executive Editors As historians of ideas, we agree with our colleagues in the History of Science who have recently protested against the creation of a European Reference Index for the Humanities by the European Science Foundation. The creators of the Index present it as an effort to rank journals—including historical journals—by object…
Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Politics in a Symbolic Key: Pierre Leroux, Romantic Socialism, and the Schelling Affair
Pierre Leroux founded the liberal journal Le Globe in the 1820s, moved briefly into the Saint-Simonian camp, and then emerged as one of the most important, independent and philosophically ambitious Romantic socialists of the period before 1848. This essay examines the conflict that erupted between Leroux and German Left Hegelians when Leroux chose to endorse the Berlin lectures of F. W. J. Schelling in 1841. Whereas German radicals like Marx beli…
Emancipation and the Bounds of Meaning: Reading, Representation and Politics in Young Hegelianism
This paper explores the status of symbolic representation in the work of the Left Hegelians Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach. Hegel believed, contrary to his Romantic contemporaries, that symbols were too ambiguous to serve as means of philosophical communication; and as his followers turned against religion, they radicalized Hegel's critique of Romantic symbolism in the name of an emancipatory impulse toward clarity and full possession of the ob…
Eduard Gans and the Crisis of Hegelianism
In a 1834 report on the development of economic associationism in France, Johannes Schön detected an echo in Germany, the stirrings of a debate over the "modern Associationswesen." This discussion, he believed, would be crucial to the future of the "national economy." 1 Schön was an astute observer, for the German discussion of associationism in the early 1830s was indeed but a faint echo of the French; and insofar as the idea of association was …
Marx, the young Hegelians, and the origins of radical social theory: Dethroning the Self
Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self
This is the first major study of Marx and the Young Hegelians in twenty years. The book offers a new interpretation of Marx's early development, the political dimension of Young Hegelianism, and that movement's relationship to political and intellectual currents in early nineteenth-century Germany. Warren Breckman challenges the orthodox distinction drawn between the exclusively religious concerns of Hegelians in the 1830s and the sociopolitical …
Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension
Politics in a Symbolic Key: Pierre Leroux, Romantic Socialism, and the Schelling Affair
Pierre Leroux founded the liberal journal Le Globe in the 1820s, moved briefly into the Saint-Simonian camp, and then emerged as one of the most important, independent and philosophically ambitious Romantic socialists of the period before 1848. This essay examines the conflict that erupted between Leroux and German Left Hegelians when Leroux chose to endorse the Berlin lectures of F. W. J. Schelling in 1841. Whereas German radicals like Marx beli…
Disciplining Consumption: The Debate about Luxury in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914
Journal Article Disciplining Consumption: The Debate about Luxury in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890–1914 Get access Warren G. Breckman Warren G. Breckman History Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 3, Spring 1991, Pages 485–505, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.3.485 Published: 01 March 1991
Die linken Hegelianer: Studien zum Verhältnis von Religion und Politik im Vormärz
Als Hegel 1831 stirbt, entwickelt sich in den Kreisen seiner Anhänger eine komplexe Diskussion über das Verhältnis von Religion, Philosophie und Staat. Was zunächst als Debatte um die adäquate Deutung des Hegelschen Denkens beginnt, gestaltet sich im Vorlauf der Revolution von 1848 zu einer der radikalsten und fruchtbarsten Phasen der Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Unter dem Eindruck der repressiven Züge des Preußischen Staates und der zuneh…
Marx and Romanticism
While Marx threw off his attraction to Romanticism when he was still a teenager, scholars have detected various senses in which deep structures of Romantic thought persist in his work. These structures have frequently been taken as contributing factors to Marx's alleged millenarianism, doctrinaire rigidity, and intolerance. The mature Marx does draw on Romantic ideas at crucial moments; but rather than reinforcing an image of Marx as an intoleran…
Eduard Gans and the Crisis of Hegelianism
In a 1834 report on the development of economic associationism in France, Johannes Schön detected an echo in Germany, the stirrings of a debate over the "modern Associationswesen." This discussion, he believed, would be crucial to the future of the "national economy." 1 Schön was an astute observer, for the German discussion of associationism in the early 1830s was indeed but a faint echo of the French; and insofar as the idea of association was …
Nationalism, individualism, and capitalism: Reply to Greenfeld
Reversing the arguments of Anderson, Gellner, and Hobs‐bawm, Liah Greenfeld contends that it is nationalism that produces economic development. Specifically, she claims that nationalism inspired three seminal economic thinkers: Marx, List, and Smith. However, Greenfeld's ideological preferences lead her to a problematic conception of individualism as nationalism, as well as to flawed treatments of Smith, List, and Marx. Nationalism is better unde…
Disciplining Consumption: The Debate about Luxury in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914
Journal Article Disciplining Consumption: The Debate about Luxury in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890–1914 Get access Warren G. Breckman Warren G. Breckman History Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 3, Spring 1991, Pages 485–505, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.3.485 Published: 01 March 1991
Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture. By Gary Cross (New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall Inc. 1993. x plus 294pp.)
Journal Article Time and Money: The Making of Consumer Culture. By Gary Cross (New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall Inc. 1993. x plus 294pp.) Get access Warren Breckman Warren Breckman University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 3, Spring 1995, Pages 659–660, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.3.659 Published: 01 March 1995
Nationalism, individualism, and capitalism: Reply to Greenfeld
Reversing the arguments of Anderson, Gellner, and Hobs‐bawm, Liah Greenfeld contends that it is nationalism that produces economic development. Specifically, she claims that nationalism inspired three seminal economic thinkers: Marx, List, and Smith. However, Greenfeld's ideological preferences lead her to a problematic conception of individualism as nationalism, as well as to flawed treatments of Smith, List, and Marx. Nationalism is better unde…
Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self
This is the first major study of Marx and the Young Hegelians in twenty years. The book offers a new interpretation of Marx's early development, the political dimension of Young Hegelianism, and that movement's relationship to political and intellectual currents in early nineteenth-century Germany. Warren Breckman challenges the orthodox distinction drawn between the exclusively religious concerns of Hegelians in the 1830s and the sociopolitical …
Marx, the young Hegelians, and the origins of radical social theory: Dethroning the Self
Eduard Gans and the Crisis of Hegelianism
In a 1834 report on the development of economic associationism in France, Johannes Schön detected an echo in Germany, the stirrings of a debate over the "modern Associationswesen." This discussion, he believed, would be crucial to the future of the "national economy." 1 Schön was an astute observer, for the German discussion of associationism in the early 1830s was indeed but a faint echo of the French; and insofar as the idea of association was …
Emancipation and the Bounds of Meaning: Reading, Representation and Politics in Young Hegelianism
This paper explores the status of symbolic representation in the work of the Left Hegelians Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach. Hegel believed, contrary to his Romantic contemporaries, that symbols were too ambiguous to serve as means of philosophical communication; and as his followers turned against religion, they radicalized Hegel's critique of Romantic symbolism in the name of an emancipatory impulse toward clarity and full possession of the ob…
Politics in a Symbolic Key: Pierre Leroux, Romantic Socialism, and the Schelling Affair
Pierre Leroux founded the liberal journal Le Globe in the 1820s, moved briefly into the Saint-Simonian camp, and then emerged as one of the most important, independent and philosophically ambitious Romantic socialists of the period before 1848. This essay examines the conflict that erupted between Leroux and German Left Hegelians when Leroux chose to endorse the Berlin lectures of F. W. J. Schelling in 1841. Whereas German radicals like Marx beli…
Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory
European Reference Index for the Humanities
European Reference Index for the Humanities Warren Breckman, Martin J. Burke, Anthony Grafton, and Ann E. Moyer, Executive Editors As historians of ideas, we agree with our colleagues in the History of Science who have recently protested against the creation of a European Reference Index for the Humanities by the European Science Foundation. The creators of the Index present it as an effort to rank journals—including historical journals—by object…
Times of Theory: On Writing the History of French Theory
French Theory" is a hard case for historians. Through a discussion of recent historical work, this essay explores the challenge of identifying the contexts, institutional settings and lines of affiliation that produced figures like Barthes, Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze, and Foucault. Basic to the historicizing effort is the question of our own temporal relationship to Theory. While many treatments of theory are governed by the rhetoric of the "end"…
History of Political Thought
Journal Article History of Political Thought Get access German History, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 75–99, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghr126 Published: 01 March 2012
Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension
Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy
Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy
The Symbolic Dimension and the Politics of Young Hegelianism2. The Fate of the Symbolic from Romantic Socialism to a Marxism in extremis3. From the Symbolic Turn to the Social Imaginary: Castoriadis's Project of Autonomy4. Democracy Between Disenchantment and Political Theology: French Post-Marxism and the Return of Religion5. The Post-Marx of the Letter: Laclau and Mouffe Between Postmodern Melancholy and Post-Marxist Mourning6. Of Empty Places:…
Die linken Hegelianer: Studien zum Verhältnis von Religion und Politik im Vormärz
Als Hegel 1831 stirbt, entwickelt sich in den Kreisen seiner Anhänger eine komplexe Diskussion über das Verhältnis von Religion, Philosophie und Staat. Was zunächst als Debatte um die adäquate Deutung des Hegelschen Denkens beginnt, gestaltet sich im Vorlauf der Revolution von 1848 zu einer der radikalsten und fruchtbarsten Phasen der Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Unter dem Eindruck der repressiven Züge des Preußischen Staates und der zuneh…
Enzo Traverso. Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
The collapse of Soviet-bloc communism at the opening of the 1990s drew a curtain on what Eric Hobsbawm famously called the short twentieth century. Even as millions celebrated the prospect of Eastern European nations joining the community of liberal-democratic, capitalist regimes, others, on the left, slipped into melancholic reflections on the defeat of the animating spirit of revolutionary struggle. The 1990s and the opening of the new millenni…
Bootstrapping, Self-binding, and Other Metaphors of Antifoundationalism
In Images of History, Richard Eldridge deploys the metaphor of "bootstrapping" to describe the possibility of a mutually constitutive interaction of historical understanding and reflection on political ideals outside of and beyond the notion of a completed theory or teleological development. Although "bootstrapping" does considerable work in the book, it remains relatively unthematized in itself. This article explores the concept of bootstrapping…
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, the Twentieth Century
This chapter examines how European thinkers working from within and without the Frankfurt School of critical theory have understood the public sphere as a distinctive political category. First-generation members of the school rejected institutional democracy and mass politics as ideologies that mask domination. The succeeding generation, whose most important representative is Jürgen Habermas, rejected that diagnosis. Habermas’s more optimistic as…
Persons as ‘Symbols’ and ‘Carriers’: Two Modes of Imagining the Individual and Society in the Nineteenth Century
In his mature systematic writings, Karl Marx pointedly restricted the discussion of individuals as such. Instead of discussing individual characters, motivations, or desires, Marx treats people as ‘carriers’ ( Träger) of social relations. This essay contrasts this functional or structural approach to the Romantic socialism of Pierre Leroux, who conceptualized the individual in the symbolic terms defined by Romantic aesthetics. Though Marx’s reduc…
Jürgen Herres. Marx und Engels: Porträt einer intellektuellen Freundschaft
Jürgen Herres opens his excellent book Marx und Engels: Porträt einer intellektuellen Freundschaft with an indisputable claim: the friendship and collaboration of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is perhaps without parallel in modern European history. From the time of their first meeting in Paris in 1844 until Marx’s death in 1883, the two were close friends. They authored works together. Each considered the other to be his most valued and trusted …
The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Marx and Romanticism
While Marx threw off his attraction to Romanticism when he was still a teenager, scholars have detected various senses in which deep structures of Romantic thought persist in his work. These structures have frequently been taken as contributing factors to Marx's alleged millenarianism, doctrinaire rigidity, and intolerance. The mature Marx does draw on Romantic ideas at crucial moments; but rather than reinforcing an image of Marx as an intoleran…
Two Cheers for Context
Martha Hanna. Anxious Days and Tearful Nights: Canadian War Wives during the Great War
The great World War I conscript armies of continental Europe required married men to serve. In Great Britain, conscription was introduced in 1916, and in the course of that year expanded from unmarried to married men. Canadian conscription, imposed in 1917, began with unmarried men but the war ended before married men were forced into service. Almost all the married men who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force were volunteers, and they enli…
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