 |
Biography
Education
J.D. – Harvard University, 2001
Ph.D. – University of California – Berkeley, 2000
M.A. – University of California – Berkeley, 1995
B.A. – Washington University, 1994
Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE 2008-2009
Interests and Research
Samuel Moyn, professor, works primarily on modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies. Currently, he is working on a study provisionally entitled A New Theory of Politics: Claude Lefort and Company in Contemporary France and also on the recent history of human rights. He is the co-director of the New York area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.
Affiliations
Co-Director, Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
Editorial Board, Modern Intellectual History
Teaching
Courses
Fall 2008
ON LEAVE
Other Courses
Modern European Intellectual History, 1880-1940
Legal Theory in Modern History
Tocqueville
Historical Origins of Human Rights
Philosophy and Politics
Intellectual History: Theory and Method
Animals from Aristotle to Agamben
History of the Law of War (at Columbia Law School)
Secularization and Modern Intellectual History
Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, American Council of Learned
Societies
Membership, Institute for Advanced Study
Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, German Studies Association, for best book over
two years on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in its broadest context
Student Council Teaching Award (2nd Annual), Columbia School of General Studies
Mark van Doren Teaching Award (46th Annual), Columbia College
Columbia University Distinguished Faculty Award
Morris D. Forkosch Prize, from the Journal of the History of Ideas, for best first book of the year
in intellectual history
Koret Foundation Jewish Studies Publication Prize
Selected Publications
Books
Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics
A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France
(ed.) Pierre Rosanvallon, Democracy Past and Future
(co-ed.) The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory
Recent Articles
“The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self,” Modern Intellectual History (forthcoming)
“In the Aftermath of Camps,” in Frank Biess and Robert Moeller, eds., Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of World War II in Comparative European Perspective (New York, forthcoming)
“On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet’s Masterpiece,” La Revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review 29, 2 (Fall 2008)
“Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality,” in Warren Breckman et al., eds., The Modernist Imagination: Essays in Intellectual History and Critical Theory (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008)
“Spectacular Wrongs,” The Nation, October 13, 2008
“Hannah Arendt on the Secular,” New German Critique 105 (Fall 2008): 71-96
“Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism,” in David Biale and Robert Westman, eds., Thinking Impossibilities: The Legacy of Amos Funkenstein (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008)
“From Experience to Law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar Crisis of the Philosophy of Religion,” History of European Ideas 33, 2 (June 2007): 174-94
“On the Genealogy of Morals,” The Nation, April 16, 2007
“Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity,” History & Theory 54, 3 (October 2006): 397-415
| |
