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The Aggrieved Personality of Rights: US Refugees and Rights in the Age of Paine and Burke
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 193–221.
Published: 01 October 2024
... of settler rights characterized by individualized narratives of patriotic service and political injury. The first section of the essay distinguishes the contemporary, post–World War association of “refugee” with statelessness from an earlier, protection-based understanding of the term that is rooted in its...
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The Symptomatic Self in the Age of Tolerance: The Problem of Anne Frank’s Not Being Herself
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... on the life of Anne Frank, directed toward schoolchildren and produced by the Swedish agency Forum for Living History, the author identifies the agency’s directives as problematic, since it assumes the Holocaust can be used as an example of intolerance, caused by individuals’ inability to let everyone...
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The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... In other words, it is through abstraction that individuals become the same-that is equal-but only for the limited purpose ofpolitical member ship and legal standing. The universality of national sovereignty depends on its distinction from social particularities. Equality before the law works...
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The Misfortune of Silence
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 212–219.
Published: 01 October 2013
... itself-in modem jurisprudence with the landmark case of Griswold v. Con necticut and within the now famous (or infamous, depending upon perspec tive) "penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees" in the Bill ofRights.4 Griswold did not emancipate the individual from the law ofsexual...
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A “Special” Difference: For a Foucauldian/Feminist Genealogy of Freud
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 April 2019
... through which religion's centrality to individual and collective decision making radically diminishes and as a result of which secularity and religion come to be understood as opposed (but also co-constitutive). While not disputing this familiar un derstanding, I want to return us to another, more...
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Making Time (For) Duration: Thinking at the Contemporary University
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 187–199.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of Gilles Deleuze's Spinoza:PracticalPhilosophy (19 70) , specifically the unfolding ofthought and thought's non-individual nature (that a thought is not a bounded "thing" produced by a "mind-in-a-vat") .2 I focus on these texts because they fore ground the important question: how is one trained to think...
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Rereading a Classic Text
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 198–204.
Published: 01 October 2013
... in political philosophy, representing the mainstream of those days, at least in the English- speaking world. Second, the social contract tradition, in all its varieties, built its ar gument on the assumption of free and equal individuals as the inhabitants of a hypothetical state of nature. That assumption...
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Liberalism’s Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
... one's natal family in the quest for democratic individualism.3 Private Incest The increasing presence ofincest in discourses of the family suggests that indeterminacy and vice were not easily expelled from the private sphere.The radically private, or solitary family, operated at the edge, neither inside...
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1793: The Neglected Legacy of Insurgent Universality
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (2): 109–136.
Published: 01 October 2015
... of a political praxis by individuals who act together. Indeed, as Ernst Bloch noticed, it is "not tenable to hold that man is free and equal from birth. There are no innate rights; they are all either acquired or must be acquired in battle. The upright path is inclined to be something that must be won; even...
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1525: The Insurgent Theology of the German Peasants
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 14–38.
Published: 01 April 2025
... and polemical nature, which modern political philosophy has in various ways tried to sweeten. Hegel’s philosophy bears traces of this when he celebrates the Reformation for making the principle of individual freedom the banner of the new world. On the opposite front were the defeated: “Customs and traditions...
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On the Meanings of Crisis
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 52–56.
Published: 01 April 2023
... change, and have often led to collective expressions and demands for just solutions instead of individual conflicts over scarce resources. It is such historical moments of contestation and new imaginings that we should work to recover. First, much of the suffering, death, and suspension during...
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The Iberian Slave Trade and the Racialization of Freedom
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 117–139.
Published: 01 October 2018
... of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. One reason for this tendency is the ambiguous place of the Iberian empires with regard to various expres sions of modernity such as capitalism, possessive individualism, and the state, which are conventionally associated with northern Europe and its imperial...
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Identity: Words and Sequences
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., a readily identifiable sociological category, a set of shared traits and/or experiences.” It also accepted the categories of conservative individualism, “the language of the conservatives’ critique of multiculturalism, of the liberal universities’ accommodation to its newly diverse populations...
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Jazz, Stuart Hall’s Critique, and the Challenge of the Aesthetic
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 152–156.
Published: 01 April 2020
... aesthetics, by which I mean music as a source of individual pleasure and experience—history, and cultural studies. As a bit of background I should say that Stuart Hall features prominently in the cultural studies of popular music—particularly, if not surprisingly, of black popular musics from North...
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History at the Roundabout: The Pasts and Presents of the Gilets Jaunes
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of parking fines in the center of Paris caused little stir among the well-off, for whom not needing a car revealed an individual’s high social position ( Vermeren 96 ). However, things were different outside big cities. On November 17, 2018, close to three hundred thousand men and women wearing gilets...
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Electric Love Therapy
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
... such regimes of moral treatment, the nervous organization of an individual patient became an object to sculpt and refine by way of the culture that contained it. Because mental illness was born, in part, as a response to the environment, the best treatment was to manage the environment so as to allow...
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Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 78–85.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., there is, with rare exceptions, a marked silence about working and living conditions on board ship; instead, these narratives highlight individual routes to seafar ing and impressions offoreign ports, experiences in times ofwar, or as ship jumpersandillegalimmigrants. Official recordsgive away equally little...
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“Much-Abused Luke”: Slavery, Sexual Terror, and Protest
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of aberrant practices of sex and gender as well as an eclectic genealogy of individuals who by their records of social deviance might be recuperated into a queer history of the present ( Katz, Gay American History , Gay/Lesbian Almanac , Love Stories ; Faderman ; Benemann ; Rupp ; Bronski ). 3...
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The Living Wage, “That Reproductive Ferment”
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 96–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
...-individualexistences, distinct organisms, differentiated forms oflife-were produced through labor. Matter, the basic stuff ofnature, was undifferentiated. An active intervention, labor, was necessary to produce differencefromthis mass ofchemical elements. Whileorganismsassembled matter into individual parts and organs...
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Neoliberalized Knowledge
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 113–129.
Published: 01 April 2011
..., and relate the collective and individual subjects, identities, and places studied by political science. Too, the humanities feature techniques ofreading and interpreting meanings that may be conscious, unconscious, intentional, inadvertent or disavowed, a range for which the social sciences rarely train...
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