I am the director of the Remarque Institute and a professor of history at New York University. In my work, I research and write histories of the concepts that weave together our understanding of the human, of time, and of the body. I’m particularly interested in the ways that the concept of the human has been transformed in the last hundred years.
Sometimes I work more in conceptual history, sometimes more in history of science or in historical epistemology. I like to think that these fields cross over with others in fun and generative ways.
Books in order of publication:
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought – 2010
Transparency in Postwar France – 2017
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe – 2018
The Invention of Prehistory – 2024
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