Till van Rahden is holding the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies. He aims to develop a new research program to contribute to the writing of a cultural history of the political with an emphasis on the history of civil society, diversity, and democracy in Europe since the French Revolution. To speak of the “political” as opposed to “politics,” is to direct attention to power and law, boundaries and nation, equality and justice, identity and difference, citizenship and civility. To explore key episodes in the cultural history of the political in modern Europe, Dr. van Rahden proposes three distinct areas of inquiry, the relationship of democracy and violence in the “Age of Extremes,” the fragile and contested renaissance of democracy in postwar Western Europe, and the tension between equality and difference since the Enlightenment.
Research Interests: European History since the Enlightenment, Modern Jewish History, Postwar European History, and Gender History
| Institution: | Université de Montréal |
| Fields of Expertise: | Cultural Memory and Policy Gender Politics and Policy Historical Injustice and Trauma Public History |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,Memory Politics,Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | till.van.rahden@umontreal.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, German |
| Publications: | Demokratie: Eine gefährdete Lebensform (Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2019). https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/geschichte/demokratie-15613.html Jews and other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860 to 1925, George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008) https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2941.htm with John Hall eds., Special Issue: “Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism,” The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 62 (2017) [https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybx016] with Anthony Steinhoff and Richard Wetzell eds., Special Issue: “Diversity of German History,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Washington, no. 61 (2017), pp. 25-134. with Oliver Kohns and Martin Roussel eds., Autorität: Krise, Konstruktion und Konjunktur, Texte zur politischen Ästhetik vol. 5 (Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2016) with Daniel Fulda, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Dagmar Herzog eds., Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg (Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2010) with Andreas Gotzmann and Rainer Liedtke eds., Juden, Bürger, Deutsche: Zur Geschichte von Vielfalt und Differenz 1800–1933, Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts Vol. 63 (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2001) “Lumpen sammeln: Mit Siegfried Kracauer im Dickicht des 19. Jahrhunderts,” Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 307 (2018), no. 2: 319-340. “Eine Welt ohne Familie: Über Kinderläden und andere demokratische Heilsversprechen,” WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 14 (2017), no. 2: 3-26. “Clumsy Democrats: Moral Passions in the Federal Republic,” German History 29 (2011), no. 3: 485–504 “Paternity, Rechristianization, and the Quest for Democracy in Postwar West Germany,” Forschungsberichte des Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam 4 (2008): 55–74 “Jews and the Ambivalences of Civil Society in Germany, 1800 to 1933 – Assessment and Reassessment,” Journal of Modern History 77 (2005): 1024–1047 “Paternità, recristianizzazione e ricerca della democrazia: La Germania federale negli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta (Fatherhood, Rechristianisation and the Search for Democracy in Postwar West Germany),” Contemporanea: Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 10 (2007), No. 4: 607–631 |
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