Ethan Kleinberg

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/announceme…

It’s been out for a while open access but it feels good to receive the physical copies! bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikationen/…

#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.7…

#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.7…

#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.1…

#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.7…

#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.7…

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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/14682303/2…

#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.7…

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: …nchronizinghistory2026.altervista.org Questions should be directed to the conference’s organizers.

#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.7…

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/14682303/2…

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/publikationen/…

I’m really excited for this one — Peter Gordon’s forthcoming biography of Walter Benjamin, subtitled "The Pearl Diver," out next February with @yalepress.

Final touches with Stéphanie Hubert, for her grand opening tomorrow at the @MFOxford ! Also join us for a conversation on #AI and #photography with @hmorriscafiero, Michael Christopher Brown and Stéphanie, from 15h30-1830. Register here: ticketsource.co.uk/maison-francai…

Kicking off the newest season of OHP with my friend @richardcalis to discuss his fabulous book about the curious figure of Martin Crusius.

📢 Our September 2025 issue is out now! Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682303/2…

It started with a @MFOxford & @DH_Oxford Channels of Digital Scholarship Workshop on #archives with @ekleinberg & @andrewcusworth , continued @EUI_MWProgramme and finalized @ihrim_umr A paper on digital archives and the politics of history👇 doi.org/10.1080/136425…

A good review by Ulrich Plass of the Princeton edition of Capital I cambridge.org/core/journals/…