Ethan Kleinberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 361270 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ethan Kleinberg |
| PRENOMES | Ethan |
| SOBRENOME | Kleinberg |
| ASSINATURA | KLEINBERG E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2282-170X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Palti’s Empírico-methodological Doublet
True North
In this article, I suggest that our current relation to the sociopolitical future is one where we are blocked from changing our view of what that future is or could be. In this sense, we are trapped in a time loop wherein the challenges before us are continuously met with social and political solutions designed for futures past, old futures. These past possible futures are ones that failed to solve the problems they were offered to address. As su…
Hiding (from the Present) in the Past
This intervention takes up the recent controversy over “presentism” in the historical discipline. It argues that the focus on “presentism” conceals and thus ignores a larger problem. The discipline of history has become misaligned with the task of historical representation in the public sphere
Deconstructing Historicist Time, or Time's Scribe
This article investigates the enduring chronopolitics of Historicism. To do so, I work through two dominant understandings of Historicism: the view that "historicism" is a means to account for the historian's own standpoint or historical situation as the place from which they take up and interpret the past, which I call Historicism A, and the separate (though now more popular) understanding of "historicism" that is derived from Karl Popper's The …
A R esponse to F rançois H artog , “ C hronos , K airos , K risis
One-Dimensional Man, One-Dimensional History
In this article I revisit Herbert Marcuse’s 1964 work One-Dimensional Man with the goal of reactivating Marcuse’s critique of one-dimensional society but in regard to the current practice and discipline of history. On my reading, it is in the field of history that the dangers of one-dimensionality are felt most acutely today. Especially in the ways that historians and philosophers of history continue to render history as a mausoleum to warehouse …
Haunting History
This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida
Theses on Theory and History
Sing Clio, daughter of Zeus, Theory’s rage at the violations of your charge. You, who told Hesiod, “We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know when we will, to utter true things.”Now is the time to utter true things, for Theory has been dishonored in your house, displaced by empires of empiricism, fetishism of archives, dictates of discipline, enforcement of orthodoxy, and impotent storytelling.Without Theory, History is naught…
Los fantasmas de la historia
El texto se basa en los planteamientos del libro Haunting History, que pretende articular una noción deconstructiva del pasado que inquieta al presente, como un fantasma. Se aborda el estado actual de la teoría de la historia y la persistencia del realismo ontológico como el modo de pensamiento dominante entre los historiadores convencionales. Frente a esto, se propone un enfoque hauntológico de la historia que se desliga del trabajo de Jacques D…
Les Annales, force et fragilité d'une revue modèle
Les Annales, force et fragilité d'une revue modèleCet article interroge l'héritage, la mission et l'avenir des Annales en se concentrant sur les dix dernières années de la revue. Pour ce faire, il reprend quelques-uns des choix éditoriaux, des thèmes et des articles récents afin d'explorer la façon dont ceux-ci servent à se libérer des modèles et des méthodes associés au passé des Annales, tout en analysant la manière dont certains des aspects de…
Hayden White
In his best known work, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination of Nineteenth‐Century Europe, Hayden White introduced a new analytic lens through which to view historiography and, indeed, history i
Are historians ontological realists? An exchange
This is an exchange between Herman Paul and Ethan Kleinberg on Kleinberg’s book, Haunting History. The exchange revolves around the question: Are historians ‘ontological realists’? That is, do historians generally take the past to be a fixed and immutable object – ‘definitive, knowable, and stable’? Paul argues that historians do not necessarily hold consistent ontological beliefs. When facing the specter of Derridean deconstructivism, they may w…
Where Is Benjamin
The trouble with everything Benjamin wrote was that it always turned out to be sui generis. (Hannah Arendt, Illuminations)Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s stimulating book is a provocation and a lament. It
Just the Facts
Research Article| April 01 2016 Just the Facts: The Fantasy of a Historical Science Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg is Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University and Executive Editor of History and Theory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.6.1.0087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailT…
History and Theory in a Global Frame
Of Jews and Humanism in France
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A Perfect Past
Discussion| February 01 2012 A Perfect Past: Tony Judt and the Historian’s Burden of Responsibility Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2012) 35 (1): 151–166. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-1424965 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ethan Kleinberg; A Perfect Past: Tony Judt and the Historian’s Burden …
Back to Where We've Never Been
This paper will address the topic of "tradition" by exploring the ways that Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida each looked to return to traditional texts in order to overcome a perceived crisis or delimiting fault in the contemporary thought of their respective presents. For Heidegger, this meant a return to the pre-Socratics of "early Greek thinking." For Levinas, it entailed a return to the sacred Jewish texts of the Talmud…
Introduction
Haunting History
This essay explores the ways that the specter of deconstruction has been haunting history over the past thirty years, in particular this specter's effects on the revision of intellectual and cultural history. The essay uses the terms "specter" and "haunting" to express the fact that while deconstruction is repeatedly targeted in attacks against the dangers of postmodernism, poststructuralism, or the linguistic turn, very few historians actively u…
New Gods Swelling the Future Ocean1
Are historians ontological realists? An exchange
This is an exchange between Herman Paul and Ethan Kleinberg on Kleinberg’s book, Haunting History. The exchange revolves around the question: Are historians ‘ontological realists’? That is, do historians generally take the past to be a fixed and immutable object – ‘definitive, knowable, and stable’? Paul argues that historians do not necessarily hold consistent ontological beliefs. When facing the specter of Derridean deconstructivism, they may w…
Introduction
Haunting History
This essay explores the ways that the specter of deconstruction has been haunting history over the past thirty years, in particular this specter's effects on the revision of intellectual and cultural history. The essay uses the terms "specter" and "haunting" to express the fact that while deconstruction is repeatedly targeted in attacks against the dangers of postmodernism, poststructuralism, or the linguistic turn, very few historians actively u…
True North
In this article, I suggest that our current relation to the sociopolitical future is one where we are blocked from changing our view of what that future is or could be. In this sense, we are trapped in a time loop wherein the challenges before us are continuously met with social and political solutions designed for futures past, old futures. These past possible futures are ones that failed to solve the problems they were offered to address. As su…
Hiding (from the Present) in the Past
This intervention takes up the recent controversy over “presentism” in the historical discipline. It argues that the focus on “presentism” conceals and thus ignores a larger problem. The discipline of history has become misaligned with the task of historical representation in the public sphere
One-Dimensional Man, One-Dimensional History
In this article I revisit Herbert Marcuse’s 1964 work One-Dimensional Man with the goal of reactivating Marcuse’s critique of one-dimensional society but in regard to the current practice and discipline of history. On my reading, it is in the field of history that the dangers of one-dimensionality are felt most acutely today. Especially in the ways that historians and philosophers of history continue to render history as a mausoleum to warehouse …
Theses on Theory and History
Sing Clio, daughter of Zeus, Theory’s rage at the violations of your charge. You, who told Hesiod, “We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know when we will, to utter true things.”Now is the time to utter true things, for Theory has been dishonored in your house, displaced by empires of empiricism, fetishism of archives, dictates of discipline, enforcement of orthodoxy, and impotent storytelling.Without Theory, History is naught…
Los fantasmas de la historia
El texto se basa en los planteamientos del libro Haunting History, que pretende articular una noción deconstructiva del pasado que inquieta al presente, como un fantasma. Se aborda el estado actual de la teoría de la historia y la persistencia del realismo ontológico como el modo de pensamiento dominante entre los historiadores convencionales. Frente a esto, se propone un enfoque hauntológico de la historia que se desliga del trabajo de Jacques D…
Haunting History
This essay explores the ways that the specter of deconstruction has been haunting history over the past thirty years, in particular this specter's effects on the revision of intellectual and cultural history. The essay uses the terms "specter" and "haunting" to express the fact that while deconstruction is repeatedly targeted in attacks against the dangers of postmodernism, poststructuralism, or the linguistic turn, very few historians actively u…
New Gods Swelling the Future Ocean1
Of Jews and Humanism in France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Perfect Past
Discussion| February 01 2012 A Perfect Past: Tony Judt and the Historian’s Burden of Responsibility Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2012) 35 (1): 151–166. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-1424965 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ethan Kleinberg; A Perfect Past: Tony Judt and the Historian’s Burden …
Back to Where We've Never Been
This paper will address the topic of "tradition" by exploring the ways that Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida each looked to return to traditional texts in order to overcome a perceived crisis or delimiting fault in the contemporary thought of their respective presents. For Heidegger, this meant a return to the pre-Socratics of "early Greek thinking." For Levinas, it entailed a return to the sacred Jewish texts of the Talmud…
Introduction
History and Theory in a Global Frame
Just the Facts
Research Article| April 01 2016 Just the Facts: The Fantasy of a Historical Science Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg Ethan Kleinberg is Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University and Executive Editor of History and Theory. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 87–103. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.6.1.0087 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailT…
Where Is Benjamin
The trouble with everything Benjamin wrote was that it always turned out to be sui generis. (Hannah Arendt, Illuminations)Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s stimulating book is a provocation and a lament. It
Hayden White
In his best known work, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination of Nineteenth‐Century Europe, Hayden White introduced a new analytic lens through which to view historiography and, indeed, history i
Are historians ontological realists? An exchange
This is an exchange between Herman Paul and Ethan Kleinberg on Kleinberg’s book, Haunting History. The exchange revolves around the question: Are historians ‘ontological realists’? That is, do historians generally take the past to be a fixed and immutable object – ‘definitive, knowable, and stable’? Paul argues that historians do not necessarily hold consistent ontological beliefs. When facing the specter of Derridean deconstructivism, they may w…
Haunting History
This book argues for a deconstructive approach to the past by looking at deconstruction's impact on American historians and then presenting an alternative hauntological theory and method of history influenced by, but not beholden to, the work of Jacques Derrida
Theses on Theory and History
Sing Clio, daughter of Zeus, Theory’s rage at the violations of your charge. You, who told Hesiod, “We know how to speak false things that seem true, but we know when we will, to utter true things.”Now is the time to utter true things, for Theory has been dishonored in your house, displaced by empires of empiricism, fetishism of archives, dictates of discipline, enforcement of orthodoxy, and impotent storytelling.Without Theory, History is naught…
Los fantasmas de la historia
El texto se basa en los planteamientos del libro Haunting History, que pretende articular una noción deconstructiva del pasado que inquieta al presente, como un fantasma. Se aborda el estado actual de la teoría de la historia y la persistencia del realismo ontológico como el modo de pensamiento dominante entre los historiadores convencionales. Frente a esto, se propone un enfoque hauntológico de la historia que se desliga del trabajo de Jacques D…
Les Annales, force et fragilité d'une revue modèle
Les Annales, force et fragilité d'une revue modèleCet article interroge l'héritage, la mission et l'avenir des Annales en se concentrant sur les dix dernières années de la revue. Pour ce faire, il reprend quelques-uns des choix éditoriaux, des thèmes et des articles récents afin d'explorer la façon dont ceux-ci servent à se libérer des modèles et des méthodes associés au passé des Annales, tout en analysant la manière dont certains des aspects de…
A R esponse to F rançois H artog , “ C hronos , K airos , K risis
One-Dimensional Man, One-Dimensional History
In this article I revisit Herbert Marcuse’s 1964 work One-Dimensional Man with the goal of reactivating Marcuse’s critique of one-dimensional society but in regard to the current practice and discipline of history. On my reading, it is in the field of history that the dangers of one-dimensionality are felt most acutely today. Especially in the ways that historians and philosophers of history continue to render history as a mausoleum to warehouse …
Hiding (from the Present) in the Past
This intervention takes up the recent controversy over “presentism” in the historical discipline. It argues that the focus on “presentism” conceals and thus ignores a larger problem. The discipline of history has become misaligned with the task of historical representation in the public sphere
Deconstructing Historicist Time, or Time's Scribe
This article investigates the enduring chronopolitics of Historicism. To do so, I work through two dominant understandings of Historicism: the view that "historicism" is a means to account for the historian's own standpoint or historical situation as the place from which they take up and interpret the past, which I call Historicism A, and the separate (though now more popular) understanding of "historicism" that is derived from Karl Popper's The …
True North
In this article, I suggest that our current relation to the sociopolitical future is one where we are blocked from changing our view of what that future is or could be. In this sense, we are trapped in a time loop wherein the challenges before us are continuously met with social and political solutions designed for futures past, old futures. These past possible futures are ones that failed to solve the problems they were offered to address. As su…
Palti’s Empírico-methodological Doublet
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