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Anson Rabinbach

Anson Gilbert Rabinbach(born June 2, 1945) is a historian of modern Europe and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus atPrinceton University.[3][4]He is best known for his writings on labor, Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1973 he co-founded the journalNew German Critique,which he continues to co-edit.[5][6]

Anson G. Rabinbach
Born(1945-06-02)June 2, 1945(age 79)[2]
New York City, NY[2]
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)scholar,historian
TitlePhilip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus atPrinceton University[2]
Board member ofCo-editor,New German Critique
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineEuropeanIntellectual History
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Main interestsGermany,Austria,Fascism,Intellectual History,Critical Theory
Notable worksThe Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity(1990)[1]

Early life

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Rabinbach was born in theWest Bronx,New York City.His father was a Polish-Jewish communist revolutionary.[7]Rabinbach received his B.A. fromHofstra Universityin 1967. He went on to earn a Ph.D. from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madisonin 1973. His dissertation, supervised byGeorge Mosse,was published in 1983 asThe Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927–1934.[8]

Career

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Rabinbach taught atHampshire CollegeinAmherst, Massachusettsand at theCooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtinNew York City,where he was Professor of History and twice served as Acting Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. From 1996 to 2019 he taught atPrinceton University,where he is the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History Emeritus.[3]

In 2012 a special issue ofNew German Critiquewas dedicated to Rabinbach's work and legacy. In their introduction to the issue, David Bathrick andAndreas Huyssennote Rabinbach's "compelling... staging of texts and debates written by or involving public intellectuals that have arisen in moments of crisis, catastrophe, or apocalypse," including his seminal writings onTheodor W. Adorno,Hannah Arendt,Walter Benjamin,Ernst Bloch,Martin Heidegger,Max Horkheimer,Karl Jaspers,andRaphael Lemkin.[9]In his 1997 bookIn the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment,Rabinbach characterizes these authors' writings on Europe's cataclysmic twentieth century as "powerful philosophical attempts to translate that experience into a philosophical language whose legacy still exerts a powerful intellectual and sometimes even political influence today."[10]For his notable 1976 article "The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich," Rabinbach interviewed the notorious former Nazi architect and armaments ministerAlbert Speer.[11]

The historianMartin Jayhas called Rabinbach's 1990 bookThe Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity"a classic of cultural studies" that "revealed for the first time the importance of the late-19th-century European obsession with the laboring body and its vicissitudes."[12]The German historianNorbert Freihas written that Rabinbach is "widely known beyond the confines of his field" for this work, which has been also translated into German (2001) and French (2005).[13]

In 1987, for his research onRed Vienna,Rabinbach was awarded the Victor Adler State Prize of the Republic of Austria (Victor-Adler-Staatspreis für Geschichte sozialer Bewegungen[de]),[14]the highest honor for the humanities in Austria. He is also the recipient of fellowships from theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[15]theNational Endowment for the Humanities,[16]theFulbright Program(as a visiting professor atSmolny CollegeinSt. Petersburg,Russia),[17]and theAmerican Academy in Berlin.[18]

At Princeton, Rabinbach taught courses on twentieth-century Europe, European intellectual and cultural history, and European Fascism. From 1996 to 2008 he was director ofPrinceton University’s Program in European Cultural Studies. He has been a visiting professor at theUniversity of Jena,theUniversity of Bremen,Smolny CollegeofSaint Petersburg State University,and theÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.[2]

Rabinbach has been described as a "New York intellectual."[9]His popular writings and reviews have appeared inDissent,[19]The Nation,[20]Times Literary Supplement,[21]andThe New York Times.[22]

Personal life

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He was previously married to the feminist psychoanalystJessica Benjamin,with whom he has two children.[23]He lives in New York City.[2]

Bibliography

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Books
  • Rabinbach, Anson (1983).The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934.Chicago: University of Chicago Press.ISBN9780226701219.
  • Rabinbach, Anson (1990).The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity.New York: Basic Books.ISBN9780465031306.
  • Rabinbach, Anson (1997).In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals Between Apocalypse and Enlightenment.Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN9780520226906.
  • Rabinbach, Anson (2009).Begriffe aus dem Kalten Krieg: Totalitarismus, Antifaschismus, Genozid.Göttingen: Jena Center. Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Vorträge und Kolloquien; Bd. 5, Wallstein Verlag.ISBN9783835304123.
  • Rabinbach, Anson (2018).The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor.New York: Fordham University Press, Forms of Living Series.ISBN9780823278572.
  • Rabinbach, Anson (2020).Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History.London: Routledge, edited by Stefanos Geroulanos and Dagmar Herzog.ISBN9781000077490.
Edited books
  • Rabinbach, Anson (1985).The Austrian Socialist Experiment: Social Democracy and Austromarxism, 1918-1934.Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.ISBN9780813301860.
  • Rabinbach, Anson;Zipes, Jack(1986).Germans and Jews Since the Holocaust: The Changing Situation in West Germany.New York: Holmes and Maier.ISBN9780841909250.
  • Rabinbach, Anson;Bialas, Wolfgang(2007).Nazi Germany and the Humanities.Oxford: One World Press.ISBN9781780744346.
  • Rabinbach, Anson;Gilman, Sander(2013).The Third Reich Sourcebook.Berkeley: The University of California Press.ISBN9780520276833.
Notable articles

References

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  1. ^Howard, Robert (16 December 1990)."How We Got That Run-Down Feeling".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2019-05-01– via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^abcde"Anson Rabinbach's CV"(PDF).Department of History,Princeton University.RetrievedFeb 1,2019.
  3. ^ab"Anson Rabinbach's Princeton Faculty Website".Department of History,Princeton University.RetrievedFeb 1,2019.
  4. ^Rabinbach, Anson, and George Prochnik."In the Shadow of Catastrophe: An Interview with Anson Rabinbach".cabinetmagazine.org.Retrieved2019-05-01.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ^"New German Critique".New German Critique.Duke University Press.RetrievedFeb 1,2019.
  6. ^Robert Zwarg (2017)."Die Kritische Theorie in Amerika".RetrievedFeb 1,2019.
  7. ^Anson Rabinbach (2009)."'Wir können anfangen, darüber nachzudenken'. Ein Gespräch über die Begriffs- und Ideengeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts ".Begriffe aus dem Kalten Krieg: Totalitarismus, Antifaschismus, Genozid.Wallstein Verlag.
  8. ^Anson Rabinbach (1983).The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934.OCLC8590090.
  9. ^abDavid Bathrick and Andreas Huyssen (2012). "Introduction".New German Critique(117): 1–4.JSTOR23357058.
  10. ^Anson Rabinbach (1997).In the Shadow of Catastrophe.University of California Press.
  11. ^Anson Rabinbach (1976). "The Aesthetics of Production in the Third Reich".Journal of Contemporary History.11(117): 43–74.doi:10.1177/002200947601100405.JSTOR260191.S2CID141309841.
  12. ^Martin Jay."Review blurb for Rabinbach's book, The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor".Fordham University Press.Retrieved27 April2019.
  13. ^Anson Rabinbach (2009)."Nachwort by Norbert Frei".Begriffe aus dem Kalten Krieg: Totalitarismus, Antifaschismus, Genozid.Wallstein Verlag.
  14. ^"Victor Adler Staatspreis. Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger".Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiter Innenbewegung.
  15. ^"John Simon Guggenheim Foundation".Retrieved2019-05-01.
  16. ^"National Endowment for the Humanities"(PDF).Retrieved2019-05-01.
  17. ^"Fulbright Russia"(PDF).Retrieved2019-05-01.
  18. ^"The American Academy in Berlin".Retrieved2019-05-01.
  19. ^"Dissent Author Page for Anson Rabinbach".Retrieved2019-05-01.
  20. ^"The Nation Author Page for Anson Rabinbach".2 April 2010.Retrieved2019-05-01.
  21. ^"Times Literary Supplement".Retrieved2019-05-01.
  22. ^Rabinbach, Anson (19 May 2002)."The New York Times".The New York Times.Retrieved2019-05-01.
  23. ^Jessica Benjamin (2012). "Andy Rabinbach as an Inspiration for a Work of Feminist Theory".New German Critique(117): 5–8.JSTOR23357059.
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