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67Introduction: Weimar social theory: The ‘crisis of classical modernity’ revisitedThesis Eleven 111 (1): 3-8. 2012.The collapse of the Weimar Republic remains central to the history of the 20th century and to contemporary debates on 'classical modernity' and its Europe-wide crisis in the wake of the First World War. The present issue of Thesis Eleven focuses on three dimensions of the Weimar crisis: the experience of fundamental societal crisis and closure and its diagnostic power in relation to the rise of fascist movements; the cognitive and normative resources that sought to work against this crisis-ridde…Read more
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8The Heirs of herodotus reach the twenty‐first century: Constancy and continuity, oblivion and fragmentation, novelty and opennessHistory and Theory 47 (1): 97-108. 2008.
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165Questioning the modern and revolutionary credentials of European fascismEuropean Journal of Political Theory 11 (4): 459-473. 2012.
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27Possibilities in “a thoroughly historical world”: Missing Hayden white's missed connectionsHistory and Theory 52 (2): 265-277. 2013.This article assesses Herman Paul's intellectual biography of Hayden White, the most important figure in the philosophy of history of the past half century. Offering a clear overview of White's career and contribution, Paul's account proceeds chronologically from the 1950s to the present, distinguishing the phases of White's career, but convincingly pinpointing an abiding core of concerns around an existentialist and liberationist humanism. In that light, White sought to show the way beyond hist…Read more
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32Narratives of Modernization: The Student Movement and Social and Cultural Change in West GermanyThesis Eleven 63 (1): 38-52. 2000.A comparison of the analyses of West German society in the 1960s in Dahrendorf's Society and Democracy in Germany and in the 1980s in Beck's Risk Society provides the historical frame for a reconsideration of the student movement of the late 1960s in terms not of its own self-understanding but of its place and role in the larger processes of social and cultural change in the Federal Republic. The idea of cultural revolution - one of the central, defining themes of the student movement - and its …Read more
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11Indebolimento e rafforzamento della storiaIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 21 (2): 347-360. 2008.
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86From the cultural contradictions of capitalism to the creative economyThesis Eleven 110 (1): 83-97. 2012.The geography of contemporary bohemia is integral to Richard Florida’s thesis of the rise of a new creative class in the USA. The strong correlation between the presence of bohemians and innovative high-tech industries in a number of American cities stands in sharp contrast to the historical image of a bohemian subculture of artists and intellectuals, defined by their antagonistic relationship to bourgeois society. Rather than a sign of social marginality, bohemian life-styles have now become a …Read more
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33Fascism, Marxism, and the Question of Modern RevolutionEuropean Journal of Political Theory 9 (2): 183-201. 2010.Bitterly anti-Marxist though it was, fascism now appears to have been in some sense revolutionary in its own right, but this raises new questions about the meaning of modern revolution. In a recent essay Roger Griffin, a major authority on fascism, challenges Marxists and non-Marxists to engage in a dialogue that would deepen our understanding of the relationship between the Marxist-communist and fascist revolutionary directions. Although he finds openings within the Marxist tradition, Griffin i…Read more
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16La filosofia della rivoluzione. Gramsci, la cultura e la guerra europea di Michele MaggiIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 22 (2): 453-464. 2009.
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2Review: Postmodernism and History: Missing the Missed Connections (review)History and Theory 44 (2): 240-252. 2005.
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Michael Mack, Anthropology as Memory. Elias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's Response to the ShoahThesis Eleven 71 131-132. 2002.
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126Overtures of reconciliation in a forgotten conflictEuropean Journal of Political Theory 11 (4): 354-361. 2012.
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16Politics and Economy: A GlossThesis Eleven 53 (1): 11-13. 1998.Fundamental changes in the world economic system have resulted in a new differentiation, that between centre and periphery, between a global financial market on the one hand and production, services and labour on the other. As modern society has now become financial society, the old distinction between capital and labour has lost its informational value for party politics. The fact that the distinction between centre and periphery cannot be copied into the national political system means that ec…Read more
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7Social, usability, and pedagogical factors influencing students' learning experiences with wikis and blogsPragmatics and Cognition 16 (2): 272-306. 2008.With a variety of technology-enabled tools and environments to choose from, it is increasingly difficult for educators to ascertain the factors that influence the quality of the students' learning experience and hence make appropriate choices for the use of technology. In this paper, we discuss the role of two technologies — wikis and blogs — in teaching and learning. We provide case studies of two courses at the Open Umiversity, UK and empirical evidence of students' experiences, perceptions, a…Read more
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3Review: Postmodern Continuities: Difference, Dominance, and the Question of Historiographical Renewal (review)History and Theory 37 (3): 388-400. 1998.
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11. History as Thought and Action: Croce's Historicism and the Contemporary ChallengeIn Massimo Verdicchio, Dain A. Trafton & Jack D'Amico (eds.), The Legacy of Benedetto Croce: Contemporary Critical Views, University of Toronto Press. pp. 196-230. 1999.
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18Social, usability, and pedagogical factors influencing students’ learning experiences with wikis and blogsPragmatics and Cognition 16 (2): 272-306. 2008.With a variety of technology-enabled tools and environments to choose from, it is increasingly difficult for educators to ascertain the factors that influence the quality of the students’ learning experience and hence make appropriate choices for the use of technology. In this paper, we discuss the role of two technologies — wikis and blogs — in teaching and learning. We provide case studies of two courses at the Open Umiversity, UK and empirical evidence of students’ experiences, perceptions, a…Read more
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19Politics and EconomyThesis Eleven 53 (1): 1-9. 1998.Fundamental changes in the world economic system have resulted in a new differentiation, that between centre and periphery, between a global financial market on the one hand and production, services and labour on the other. As modern society has now become financial society, the old distinction between capital and labour has lost its informational value for party politics. The fact that the distinction between centre and periphery cannot be copied into the national political system means that ec…Read more
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Book review: Anthropology as memory. Elias canetti's and Franz baermann Steiner's response to the shoah (review)Thesis Eleven 71 (1). 2002.
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51Social, usability, and pedagogical factors influencing students' learning experiencies with wikis and blogsPragmatics and Cognition 16 (2): 272-306. 2008.With a variety of technology-enabled tools and environments to choose from, it is increasingly difficult for educators to ascertain the factors that influence the quality of the students' learning experience and hence make appropriate choices for the use of technology. In this paper, we discuss the role of two technologies — wikis and blogs — in teaching and learning. We provide case studies of two courses at the Open Umiversity, UK and empirical evidence of students' experiences, perceptions, a…Read more
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153Politics and EconomyThesis Eleven 53 (1): 1-9. 1998.Fundamental changes in the world economic system have resulted in a new differentiation, that between centre and periphery, between a global financial market on the one hand and production, services and labour on the other. As modern society has now become financial society, the old distinction between capital and labour has lost its informational value for party politics. The fact that the distinction between centre and periphery cannot be copied into the national political system means that ec…Read more
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20Staging the Absolute: The Total Work of Art from Wagner to MallarméThesis Eleven 86 (1): 90-106. 2006.Heidegger places Wagner’s will to the total work of art at the centre of the long 19th century. Nietzsche’s and Mallarmé’s responses to Wagner reflect all the ambiguities of modernism’s myth of absolute creation: the dreams of a new mythology and a new community are shadowed by the knowledge that the gods are nothing more than our fictions. Nietzsche and Mallarmé continue and critically interrogate the two distinct lineages of the total work of art deriving from German romanticism and the French…Read more