Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History
Research Interests:
Modern European intellectual and cultural history. Books include Karl Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self (Cambridge, 1999; paperback 2001), European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford, 2007), and Adventures of the Symbolic: Postmarxism and Radical Democracy(Columbia University Press, 2012).