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Warren Breckman

Associate Professor of History

Warren BreckmanWarren Breckman is associate professor of modern European intellectual and cultural history. During the academic year 2004-2005, he is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin. He has been a member of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2002), a visiting scholar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1998), and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He came to Penn in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Karl Marx, the Young Hegelians and the Origins of Radical Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2001), and he has published articles on the history of philosophy, political philosophy, consumer culture, modernism, historical theory, contemporary theory, and nationalism.

Professor Breckman has recently been appointed modern European intellectual history editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas, in a new editorial team that includes Ann Moyer (Penn), Anthony Grafton (Princeton), and Martin Burke (CUNY). The Journal of the History of Ideas will move its editorial office to the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

Professor Breckman is currently writing Adventures of the Symbolic: French Post-Marxism and Democratic Theory, a study of political philosophy in France from 1968 to the present. In addition, he is completing a book called European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents. He is also editing a six-volume collection documenting French and German theological debates in the nineteenth century to be published by Thoemmes/Continuum Press. Professor Breckman offers lecture courses on the intellectual history of Europe from the Enlightenment to the present, and he has taught seminars on themes such as the history of political thought, psychoanalysis, intellectuals and politics, and theories of the self. In 1997, Professor Breckman was the first recipient of the Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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Courses Taught (As Schedule Allows)

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European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) Karl Marx, the Young Hegelians and the Origins of Radical Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2001)