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John McCole

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5906
  • Office: 303 McKenzie Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2023 W 2-4 in McKenzie 303, or email me for a Zoom link
  • Affiliated Departments: European Studies, German & Scandinavian
  • Website: Website

Biographical Information

  • Associate Professor, specializing in modern European intellectual history and twentieth-century Europe
  • A.B. Brown University, 1975
  • Ph.D. Boston University, 1988
  • Assistant and Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1987-1994
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University, 1998-99
  • At the U of O since 1994

Publications

  • Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1993)
  • On Max Horkheimer:  New Perspectives, ed. with Seyla Benhabib and Wolfgang Bonss (MIT Press, 1993)
  • "Georg Simmel and the Philosophy of Religion," New German Critique 94 (Winter 2005)
  • “Memorial: Fritz Ringer, 1934-2006,” Central European History 39 (2006)

Research

  • Berlin Crossings:  Georg Simmel and Modern Identity