John E. Toews Explained

John E. Toews is a Canadian historian in the U.S., and Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington from 1981 to 2010.^{[1] [2]}

He graduated from Harvard University, with a Ph.D. in 1973.^[3]

Awards

• 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2004-2005 Hans Rosenberg Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in German and Central European History

Works

• Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• "Refashioning the Masculine Subject in Early Modernism", in Mark Micale, ed. The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America 1880-1940, Stanford University Press, 2003.
• "The Linguistic Turn and Discourse Analysis in History," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Elsevier Press, 2001, XIII, 8916-1932.
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, edited, Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
• "Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable", in Michael Roth ed., Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture, Alfred Knopf, 1998.
• Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805-1841, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
• "A New Philosophy of History? Reflections on Postmodern Historicizing".(JSTOR) History and Theory, 1997. 36 (2):235–248

See also

• History of ideas
• Intellectual history

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Toews | Comparative History of Ideas Program . Depts.washington.edu . 2012-10-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020165059/https://depts.washington.edu/chid/john-toews . 2012-10-20 .
2. http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1980a.html Historian John Toews and the Comparative History of Ideas Program
3. Web site: Department of History . Depts.washington.edu . 2012-10-19.