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Ethan Kleinberg
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Ethan Kleinberg works on the acrobatics of modern thought. He is Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor of History and Letters at Wesleyan University, Editor-in-Chief of History and Theory and was Director of Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. Kleinberg's research interests include European intellectual history with special interest in France and Germany, critical theory, educational structures, and the philosophy of history. Kleinberg's wide-ranging scholarly work spans across the fields of history, philosophy, comparative literature and religion. Together with Joan Wallach Scott and Gary Wilder he is a member of the Wild On Collective who co-authored the "Theses on Theory and History" and started the #TheoryRevolt movement.
He is the author of Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought (SUP); Haunting History: for a deconstructive approach to the past (SUP); Generation Existential: Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy in France, 1927-61 (CUP) which was awarded the 2006 Morris D. Forkosch prize for the best book in intellectual history by the Journal of the History of Ideas and co-editor of the volume Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century (CUP). He is completing a book length project titled The Surge: a new compass of history for the end-time of truth.
Kleinberg did his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley where he further developed his interest in philosophy and history. He took philosophy courses on Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault with Hubert Dreyfus and wrote his BA thesis on Soren Kierkegaard under the direction of Martin Jay. He graduated from Berkeley as an interdisciplinary humanities major.
Kleinberg entered the PhD program in the Department of History at UCLA where he worked with Robert Wohl, Samuel Weber, Saul Friedländer, and David N. Myers. At UCLA he developed his interest in theory and philosophy of history. Kleinberg trained as a European intellectual historian with a focus on continental philosophy arriving soon after the conference on the Holocaust at UCLA that led to the volume edited by Saul Friedländer, Probing the Limits of Representation.
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