Eric Oberle

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-2010)

CURRENT POSITION

Dr. Eric Oberle is an Assistant Professor of History in the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communications, Arizona State University

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Political, philosophical and cultural modernity; history of academic disciplines; politics and culture in Central and Western Europe; cultural and political reconstruction in post-World War II Europe; liberalism and its discontents; the Frankfurt School; Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment as trope and tradition; phenomenology and the birth of religious criticism; technology and society.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Jazz, the Wound: Negative Identity, Culture, and the Problem of Weak Subjectivity in Theodor Adorno’s Twentieth Century,” Modern Intellectual History, 2015.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Stanford University

M.A., Stanford University

B.A. Washington University in St. Louis