John E. Toews Explained

John E. Toews (born 1944) 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] A scholar of Hegel and Marx, Toews edited a publication of The Communist Manifesto in 1999.

Toews was born into a Mennonite family in Coaldale, Alberta, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba and 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

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

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