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Ethan Kleinberg

@ekleinberg

Editor of History and Theory, Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University. Kleinberg works on the acrobatics of modern thought. #theoryrevolt

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Joined March 2009
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📣 OUT NOW: Our September 2026 issue! This issue has articles by Peter Yuanxi Chen and Gwenffrewi J. Morgan; forum essays by Nancy Florida, Karen Strassler, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Daniel Andrew Birchok, Tony Day, and Els Bogaerts; and reviews by Elías J. Palti and Eugen Zeleňák.
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“Like many conservative critiques of academia, the Boghossian Report is obsessed with making shit up and getting mad about it.” defector.com/humanists-have-…
Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles,...

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Given the conclusions of the “Vanderbilt Report” on the state of the humanities and a spate of other posts and columns I thought I’d put this back up…it’s from 2019 sigh. historyandtheory.org/theoryr…
Theory Revolt: Kleinberg, "Pandering to the Timid" — History and Theory

Theory Revolt: Kleinberg, "Pandering to the Timid" — History and Theory

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📣 Our June 2026 issue is out now! This issue has articles by Andréa Delestrade, Christopher Holman, Christian de Pee, Francesca Trivellato, and Edoardo Grendi; a review article by Jouni-Matti Kuukkanen; and review essays Stefan Berger and Udi Greenberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
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Michael S Roth@mroth78May 25
Read @wesleyan_u prof Andrew Curran “On one level, this is admirable: We are, after all, one species. Yet this powerful ideal has sometimes served as a shield against self-examination. The logic is simple: no race, no problem.” nytimes.com/2026/05/25/opini… via @NYTOpinion
Opinion | The Brutal History That France Prefers to Ignore Is Being Heard at Last (Gift Article)

Opinion | The Brutal History That France Prefers to Ignore Is Being Heard at Last (Gift Article)

Three centuries late and not a moment too soon.

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Spending next year in the School of Social Science at the IAS. Turning my attention to “The Politics of the Future” with some hauntology on the side. ias.edu/sss/announcement-202…

Announcement 2026-2027 Members

Announcing the 2026–27 Members in the School of Social Science

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It’s been out for a while open access but it feels good to receive the physical copies! bielefelduniversitypress.de/…
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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Serge Grigoriev's "The Content of the Narrative" is a review essay on _The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History_ by Chiel van den Akker. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith.70020
THE CONTENT OF THE NARRATIVE

THE CONTENT OF THE NARRATIVE

In The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History, Chiel van den Akker presents a compelling argument for understanding historical narrative as an instrument of historical cognition rather than as a...

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: David A. Hollinger's "From Hofstadter to Lepore: National History for the American Public" is a review essay on Nick Witham's _Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America_. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith.70001
FROM HOFSTADTER TO LEPORE: NATIONAL HISTORY FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

FROM HOFSTADTER TO LEPORE: NATIONAL HISTORY FOR THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

Nick Witham's Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America provides cogent and accurate accounts of the careers of five American academic historians of the post-Wor...

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Martin Jay's review article titled "Origami Philosophy of History" examines F. R. Ankersmit's "radically new interpretation of the way historical representations create 'historical reality'" in his book Representation (2024). doi.org/10.1111/hith.12386
ORIGAMI PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

ORIGAMI PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Drawing on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's monadological metaphysics, with its nominalist emphasis on the integrity of the individual, the eminent Dutch philosopher of history Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit...

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: F. R. Ankersmit's "Historical Reality" "invites philosophers of history to recognize that historist professional historical writing was born from Leibniz's Monadology and that Leibniz's thought is, therefore, the inside of its inside." doi.org/10.1111/hith.70028
HISTORICAL REALITY: A MANIFESTO

HISTORICAL REALITY: A MANIFESTO

From the times of Herodotus and Thucydides until deep into the eighteenth century, the eyewitness account (or “autopsy”) was the model for historical knowledge. The eighteenth-century Historical...

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: João Ohara's "On Historical (Anti-)Realism" "clarifies the conceptual space" surrounding historical realism by distinguishing "a metaphysical problem" (historical realism proper) and "an epistemological problem" (historical skepticism) doi.org/10.1111/hith.70023

ON HISTORICAL (ANTI‐)REALISM

The problem of historical realism has gained some new momentum recently, with a fresh challenge to what is taken to be an anti-realist hegemony in the theory and philosophy of history. Unfortunatel...

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Our March 2026 issue is out now! 🎉 It contains articles by Antoon De Baets, Alf Lüdtke & Alexandra Oeser, João Ohara, and F. R. Ankersmit; a review article by Martin Jay; and review essays by Serge Grigoriev and David A. Hollinger. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
History and Theory: Vol 65, No 1

History and Theory: Vol 65, No 1

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Antoon De Baets's "Preambular History" examines how, why, and to what ends "the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past." Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith.70000
PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedd...

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CFP: Synchronizing History The upcoming Synchronizing History conference will take place in Milan from 9 to 11 September 2026. See here for the full CFP and more: synchronizinghistory2026.alt… Questions should be directed to the conference’s organizers.
Programme - SYNCHRONIZING HISTORY

Programme - SYNCHRONIZING HISTORY

Milan, 9th – 11th September 2026The Times of Global Modernity (c. 1450-1850):Methods and Case Studies on Interactions, Ideas, and Imaginaries Download the documents in pdf format: Introduction As an...

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#ArticleSnapshot📸: Nancy Partner's "History and Theory and Philology Now: Together in Theory" attempts "to bring philology, with all its complications, back together with history . . . and inquire where and how theory emerges." doi.org/10.1111/hith.70010
HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY

HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY

In English-speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are...

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Our December 2025 "Philology Now" theme issue, edited by Valeria López Fadul and Courtney Weiss Smith, is out! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/…
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What happens when the very foundations of historical knowledge start to shake? In this Micro Monograph, historian Ethan Kleinberg argues that the old compass of history no longer works in an age of post-truth, conspiracy, and epistemic crisis. 👉 bielefelduniversitypress.de/…
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