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Angus Nicholls on Blumenberg and Political Myth

by contributing editor Andrew Hines

Tory Marxism

by guest contributor Charles Troup

September 2019 Reading Recommendations, Part II

More reading recommendations from our editorial team to kick off the academic year Jonathon In 1986, the conservative German historian Ernst Nolte fired the first shots of the Historikerstreit (historians’ debate) with his article, “The Past That Will Not Pass:… Continue Reading →

Hans Blumenberg on Political Myth and the Apocalypse

by guest contributor Willem Styfhal

Lu Xun (1881–1936) and Uchiyama Kanzō (1885–1959)

By guest contributor Joshua Fogel Several years ago, I was invited to give a paper at a workshop organized by graduate students at University of California, Berkeley. The topic was friendship in East Asia—with no specified time period or country… Continue Reading →

September 2019 Reading Recommendations, Part I

Our editorial team shares what they’ve been reading as the new academic year begins Pranav  Many historians today read widely and work hard to incorporate the insights of their colleagues in anthropology, sociology, literary studies and other disciplines. Almost every… Continue Reading →

“How History is Made”: Excavating Political Myth in Blumenberg and Kantorowicz after 1945

by guest contributor Alex Langstaff

Acqua Panna: When History Makes Bottled Waters

By contributing editor Luna Sarti

Political Myth in Blumenberg and Plato

by guest contributor Marina Marren

Hans Blumenberg and the Concept of Myth in Germany

by guest contributor Tae-Yeoun Keum

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