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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

A Forum on Hans Blumenberg and Political Myth

by contributing editors Andrew Hines and Jonathon Catlin

Catalogue Now!: Professional Anthropology and Making the Northeast United States

By guest contributor Morgan L. Green Mid-twentieth-century anthropology was in crisis. Already influenced by World War II, anthropologists in the 1960s encountered a variety of dramatic changes. The scientific method and the pressure to be “objective” dominated as institutions like the National… Continue Reading →

Toni Morrison, Historian

By Editor Spencer Weinreich I read the news today, oh boy. As Shakespeare’s Richard II almost said, For God’s sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of queens. The world mourns the loss of… Continue Reading →

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