Daniel Steinmetz‐Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5910754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Steinmetz‐Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinmetz‐Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: Transsecular Textualities
Introduction: Whose Present? Which History
There can be little doubt that the history profession is experiencing a turn to the present. The post-2016 “crisis of democracy” has only dramatized it. Long-standing anxieties over presentism have crumbled under the weight of recent events. They have proven little match for Brexit, Trump, the rise of strongmen in the world writ large, racial injustice, and the pandemic. The turn to the present, however, is at times marked by undeniable provincia…
Les ambiguïtés du cosmopolitisme: Entretien avec Martha Nussbaum
Dans cet entretien, initialement publié dans The Nation, Martha Nussbaum revient sur les limites de la tradition cosmopolite. Le cosmopolitisme – l’idée selon laquelle nous sommes avant tout des citoyens du monde–est fondé sur les concepts de dignité humaine et de justice, mais la philosophe défend que nous ne pouvons parvenir à cet idéal sans une aide matérielle. Son approche des capabilités se présente comme une réponse politique aux dissonance…
Three Rival Versions of Theological Genealogy: Catholicism, Left Hegelianism and Post-Secularism
In this paper I would like to discuss three rival versions of theological genealogy that are popular today. In doing so I seek to offer a few examples of how the most recent scholarly turn to theology is ultimately being driven by disparate political ideologies. The first one I describe as new Catholic modernity critiques, which often emphasize the breakdown of moral consensus brought on by Protestantism, theological nominalism, etc. The second a…
What Are the Politics of Ahmed's What Is Islam
This review looks at how Shahab Ahmed engages with history, political elitism, secularism, and anthropology in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
May 1968 and its Legacy: Introduction
Scholars, politicians and intellectuals continue to debate the meaning and legacy of 68 for today, as evidenced by the numerous conferences that took place in 2018 in light of the fiftieth anniversary of the May events. This special discussion in The Tocqueville Review emerged from such a conference, which took place on June 9, 2018 through the Center for Critical Democratic Studies at the American University of Paris. Four contributions by Wim W…
The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron, the United States, and the 1970s
This article tries to place the liberal thought of Raymond Aron during the 1970s in a transatlantic context. Doing so, it argues, allows for a better understanding of Aron's liberalism during the so-called French liberal revival that occurred during this decade. Aron, it shows, was critical of much of the turn to liberalism during this time in France, and in particular the appeal that international human rights had for former French Marxists turn…
Secularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann’s Monotheism
Secularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann’s Monotheism
Liberalism's Religion, Cécile Laborde, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017
Why did neoconservatives join forces with neoliberals? Irving Kristol from critic to ally of free-market economics
This paper demonstrates how the neoconservative programme, as articulated primarily by Irving Kristol, offered a conservative viewpoint distinct from and theoretically opposed to neoliberalism. It does so by explaining the founding vision of Kristol and Daniel Bell’s influential neoconservative journal The Public Interest, and the former’s subsequent response to the social and political contestations of the late 1960s. The also paper provides an …
Introduction: Special Forum on Christianity and Human Rights
Introduction: Special Forum on Christianity and Human Rights Udi Greenberg and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins KEY WORDS Christianity, human rights, Catholicism, Protestantism, intellectual history The intellectual roots of human rights have been a source of much debate, but Christianity’s role in shaping the language of universal equality has been especially controversial. Historians agree that prominent Catholic philosophers, such as Jacques Maritain,…
The Many Liberalisms of Serge Audier
The French philosopher Serge Audier has perhaps become the leading authority on the history of liberalism in France. However, he is largely unknown in the United States. This article attempts to provide the first critical overview of Audier's work in English. It does so by suggesting that the major aim of Audier's work is to revive a forgotten strand of social liberalism in France. The article illustrates this by looking at Audier's writings on t…
Stanley Hoffmann's Critique of Hans Morgenthau's Political Realism
This article begins by arguing that Raymond Aron's interest in the burgeoning field of international relations theory was fundamentally motivated by the attempt to provide an alternative to Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations. Throughout his book Paix et guerre Aron expressed a consistent worry that Morgenthau's political realism was too influenced by a dangerous strain of German power politics which he identified with the thought of Carl Sc…
The Question of Influence
American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts/Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
It is difficult to know when the recent ‘academic turn to religion’ commenced but it at least dates back to September 11. It is by no accident that the meaning of the term is inseparable from schol
Why Did Raymond Aron Write That Carl Schmitt Was Not a Nazi? An Alternative Genealogy of French Liberalism
In his Mémoires , published in the year of his death in 1983, Raymond Aron—the French sociologist and Cold War champion of liberalism—astonishingly remarked that as a man of high culture Carl Schmitt could have never been a Nazi. Aron's defenders have typically downplayed his mature views on Schmitt: for how else could the main defender of the liberal faith in France devote himself to salvaging the reputation of the greatest antiliberal of the ag…
Raymond Aron et l'Europe
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDaniel Steinmetz-JenkinsDaniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (MPhil, Columbia University) is currently a Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellow in the History Department at Columbia University and a visiting instructor at Sciences Po. He serves as an assistant editor for the Social Science Research Council's religion forum, The Immanent Frame. He focuses primarily on modern European intellectual history and in particular…
Between two rights: Julien Freund and the origins of political realism in France
Julien Freund (1921–93) was a French sociologist and political theorist who taught at the University of Strasbourg in the 1960s and 1970s. Although he is the author of over two dozen books, Freund remained throughout his lifetime something of a marginal figure in his own country. Yet, strangely, Freund is now receiving more scholarly attention in France than ever before. The question is why? This paper attempts to provide an answer by looking at …
Michael Oakeshott's Theological Genealogy of Political Modernity
This essay attempts to provide a historical account of Michael Oakeshott’s famous distinction between civil and enterprise association. As such, it demonstrates that Oakeshott’s political skepticism and his concomitant view of civil association can in part be explained by his reliance on Augustinian theology. In a similar vein, Oakeshott’s linkage of enterprise association with the rationalism of Bacon must be considered in terms of Oakeshott’s u…
French Laïcité and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France
In France, the thematic of 'the modern secularization of Christianity' is certainly less known and less well received than in Germany where its appearance is commonplace. Yet beginning in the 1980s some leading French intellectuals turned their attention towards the German debate over secularization that Carl Schmitt initiated with his work Political Theology in the early 1920s. In fact, all the major works on the German secularization debate, as…
Jan Assmann and the Theologization of the Political
This paper focuses in part on Jan Assmann's interpretation and refutation of Carl Schmitt's very well-known secularization theory that all significant modern concepts of the state are secularized theological notions. It will be demonstrated that Assmann attempts to counter Schmitt's conception of modern secularization by suggesting that Mosaic monotheism inaugurated a revolution by theologizing the political. By briefly exploring Assmann's interp…
Why Did Raymond Aron Write That Carl Schmitt Was Not a Nazi? An Alternative Genealogy of French Liberalism
In his Mémoires , published in the year of his death in 1983, Raymond Aron—the French sociologist and Cold War champion of liberalism—astonishingly remarked that as a man of high culture Carl Schmitt could have never been a Nazi. Aron's defenders have typically downplayed his mature views on Schmitt: for how else could the main defender of the liberal faith in France devote himself to salvaging the reputation of the greatest antiliberal of the ag…
French Laïcité and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France
In France, the thematic of 'the modern secularization of Christianity' is certainly less known and less well received than in Germany where its appearance is commonplace. Yet beginning in the 1980s some leading French intellectuals turned their attention towards the German debate over secularization that Carl Schmitt initiated with his work Political Theology in the early 1920s. In fact, all the major works on the German secularization debate, as…
Introduction: Whose Present? Which History
There can be little doubt that the history profession is experiencing a turn to the present. The post-2016 “crisis of democracy” has only dramatized it. Long-standing anxieties over presentism have crumbled under the weight of recent events. They have proven little match for Brexit, Trump, the rise of strongmen in the world writ large, racial injustice, and the pandemic. The turn to the present, however, is at times marked by undeniable provincia…
The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron, the United States, and the 1970s
This article tries to place the liberal thought of Raymond Aron during the 1970s in a transatlantic context. Doing so, it argues, allows for a better understanding of Aron's liberalism during the so-called French liberal revival that occurred during this decade. Aron, it shows, was critical of much of the turn to liberalism during this time in France, and in particular the appeal that international human rights had for former French Marxists turn…
Why did neoconservatives join forces with neoliberals? Irving Kristol from critic to ally of free-market economics
This paper demonstrates how the neoconservative programme, as articulated primarily by Irving Kristol, offered a conservative viewpoint distinct from and theoretically opposed to neoliberalism. It does so by explaining the founding vision of Kristol and Daniel Bell’s influential neoconservative journal The Public Interest, and the former’s subsequent response to the social and political contestations of the late 1960s. The also paper provides an …
Stanley Hoffmann's Critique of Hans Morgenthau's Political Realism
This article begins by arguing that Raymond Aron's interest in the burgeoning field of international relations theory was fundamentally motivated by the attempt to provide an alternative to Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations. Throughout his book Paix et guerre Aron expressed a consistent worry that Morgenthau's political realism was too influenced by a dangerous strain of German power politics which he identified with the thought of Carl Sc…
Between two rights: Julien Freund and the origins of political realism in France
Julien Freund (1921–93) was a French sociologist and political theorist who taught at the University of Strasbourg in the 1960s and 1970s. Although he is the author of over two dozen books, Freund remained throughout his lifetime something of a marginal figure in his own country. Yet, strangely, Freund is now receiving more scholarly attention in France than ever before. The question is why? This paper attempts to provide an answer by looking at …
French Laïcité and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France
In France, the thematic of 'the modern secularization of Christianity' is certainly less known and less well received than in Germany where its appearance is commonplace. Yet beginning in the 1980s some leading French intellectuals turned their attention towards the German debate over secularization that Carl Schmitt initiated with his work Political Theology in the early 1920s. In fact, all the major works on the German secularization debate, as…
Jan Assmann and the Theologization of the Political
This paper focuses in part on Jan Assmann's interpretation and refutation of Carl Schmitt's very well-known secularization theory that all significant modern concepts of the state are secularized theological notions. It will be demonstrated that Assmann attempts to counter Schmitt's conception of modern secularization by suggesting that Mosaic monotheism inaugurated a revolution by theologizing the political. By briefly exploring Assmann's interp…
Why Did Raymond Aron Write That Carl Schmitt Was Not a Nazi? An Alternative Genealogy of French Liberalism
In his Mémoires , published in the year of his death in 1983, Raymond Aron—the French sociologist and Cold War champion of liberalism—astonishingly remarked that as a man of high culture Carl Schmitt could have never been a Nazi. Aron's defenders have typically downplayed his mature views on Schmitt: for how else could the main defender of the liberal faith in France devote himself to salvaging the reputation of the greatest antiliberal of the ag…
Raymond Aron et l'Europe
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDaniel Steinmetz-JenkinsDaniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (MPhil, Columbia University) is currently a Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellow in the History Department at Columbia University and a visiting instructor at Sciences Po. He serves as an assistant editor for the Social Science Research Council's religion forum, The Immanent Frame. He focuses primarily on modern European intellectual history and in particular…
Between two rights: Julien Freund and the origins of political realism in France
Julien Freund (1921–93) was a French sociologist and political theorist who taught at the University of Strasbourg in the 1960s and 1970s. Although he is the author of over two dozen books, Freund remained throughout his lifetime something of a marginal figure in his own country. Yet, strangely, Freund is now receiving more scholarly attention in France than ever before. The question is why? This paper attempts to provide an answer by looking at …
Michael Oakeshott's Theological Genealogy of Political Modernity
This essay attempts to provide a historical account of Michael Oakeshott’s famous distinction between civil and enterprise association. As such, it demonstrates that Oakeshott’s political skepticism and his concomitant view of civil association can in part be explained by his reliance on Augustinian theology. In a similar vein, Oakeshott’s linkage of enterprise association with the rationalism of Bacon must be considered in terms of Oakeshott’s u…
American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts/Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
It is difficult to know when the recent ‘academic turn to religion’ commenced but it at least dates back to September 11. It is by no accident that the meaning of the term is inseparable from schol
The Question of Influence
Why did neoconservatives join forces with neoliberals? Irving Kristol from critic to ally of free-market economics
This paper demonstrates how the neoconservative programme, as articulated primarily by Irving Kristol, offered a conservative viewpoint distinct from and theoretically opposed to neoliberalism. It does so by explaining the founding vision of Kristol and Daniel Bell’s influential neoconservative journal The Public Interest, and the former’s subsequent response to the social and political contestations of the late 1960s. The also paper provides an …
Introduction: Special Forum on Christianity and Human Rights
Introduction: Special Forum on Christianity and Human Rights Udi Greenberg and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins KEY WORDS Christianity, human rights, Catholicism, Protestantism, intellectual history The intellectual roots of human rights have been a source of much debate, but Christianity’s role in shaping the language of universal equality has been especially controversial. Historians agree that prominent Catholic philosophers, such as Jacques Maritain,…
The Many Liberalisms of Serge Audier
The French philosopher Serge Audier has perhaps become the leading authority on the history of liberalism in France. However, he is largely unknown in the United States. This article attempts to provide the first critical overview of Audier's work in English. It does so by suggesting that the major aim of Audier's work is to revive a forgotten strand of social liberalism in France. The article illustrates this by looking at Audier's writings on t…
Stanley Hoffmann's Critique of Hans Morgenthau's Political Realism
This article begins by arguing that Raymond Aron's interest in the burgeoning field of international relations theory was fundamentally motivated by the attempt to provide an alternative to Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations. Throughout his book Paix et guerre Aron expressed a consistent worry that Morgenthau's political realism was too influenced by a dangerous strain of German power politics which he identified with the thought of Carl Sc…
Secularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann’s Monotheism
Secularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann’s Monotheism
Liberalism's Religion, Cécile Laborde, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017
Three Rival Versions of Theological Genealogy: Catholicism, Left Hegelianism and Post-Secularism
In this paper I would like to discuss three rival versions of theological genealogy that are popular today. In doing so I seek to offer a few examples of how the most recent scholarly turn to theology is ultimately being driven by disparate political ideologies. The first one I describe as new Catholic modernity critiques, which often emphasize the breakdown of moral consensus brought on by Protestantism, theological nominalism, etc. The second a…
What Are the Politics of Ahmed's What Is Islam
This review looks at how Shahab Ahmed engages with history, political elitism, secularism, and anthropology in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
May 1968 and its Legacy: Introduction
Scholars, politicians and intellectuals continue to debate the meaning and legacy of 68 for today, as evidenced by the numerous conferences that took place in 2018 in light of the fiftieth anniversary of the May events. This special discussion in The Tocqueville Review emerged from such a conference, which took place on June 9, 2018 through the Center for Critical Democratic Studies at the American University of Paris. Four contributions by Wim W…
The Neoconservative Moment in France: Raymond Aron, the United States, and the 1970s
This article tries to place the liberal thought of Raymond Aron during the 1970s in a transatlantic context. Doing so, it argues, allows for a better understanding of Aron's liberalism during the so-called French liberal revival that occurred during this decade. Aron, it shows, was critical of much of the turn to liberalism during this time in France, and in particular the appeal that international human rights had for former French Marxists turn…
Les ambiguïtés du cosmopolitisme: Entretien avec Martha Nussbaum
Dans cet entretien, initialement publié dans The Nation, Martha Nussbaum revient sur les limites de la tradition cosmopolite. Le cosmopolitisme – l’idée selon laquelle nous sommes avant tout des citoyens du monde–est fondé sur les concepts de dignité humaine et de justice, mais la philosophe défend que nous ne pouvons parvenir à cet idéal sans une aide matérielle. Son approche des capabilités se présente comme une réponse politique aux dissonance…
Introduction: Whose Present? Which History
There can be little doubt that the history profession is experiencing a turn to the present. The post-2016 “crisis of democracy” has only dramatized it. Long-standing anxieties over presentism have crumbled under the weight of recent events. They have proven little match for Brexit, Trump, the rise of strongmen in the world writ large, racial injustice, and the pandemic. The turn to the present, however, is at times marked by undeniable provincia…
Introduction: Transsecular Textualities
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