Malachi H. Hacohen
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Location: | 222 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 6819 |
| Email Address: | mhacohen@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/mhacohen |
Education
- PhD Columbia University, 1993
Research Interests
MALACHI HAIM HACOHEN (Ph.D., Columbia), Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, teaches European intellectual history and Jewish history. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Reed College. His research focuses on Central Europe and includes social theory, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. He is presently interested especially in Jewish- Christian relations and in the relationship of cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and Jewish identity. His Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) has won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the AHA and the Victor Adler- Staatspreis (Austrian state-prize). He has published essays in The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of the History of Ideas, History and Theory, and numerous collections. He is presently working on two projects: "Jacob and Esau, Jewish Emancipation and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism and Ethnonationalism" and "Dilemmas of Liberalism: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Cultural Cold War." He has been a recipient of the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS, as well as of Fulbright, Mellon, and Whiting fellowships and a number of teaching awards. He was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in 2002-03 and, in 2001, a senior fellow at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna. He plans to be at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto in 2006-07. He is a coordinator of the Triangle Intellectual History Program (Duke, NCSU at Raleigh, UNC at Chapel Hill) and the Judaic Studies Seminar, and he serves on the program board of the Vienna International Summer University, the IFK, and the VGA (Verein fuer Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung), Vienna.
Miscellaneous
Current Research: Jacob and Esau, Jewish Emancipation and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism and Ethnonationalism. Austria, FORUM and the Congress for Cultural Freedom: Cosmopolitanism, National Identity and the Limits of CIA Power. The Rise, the Fall, and the After-life of the Central European Jewish Intelligentsia
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Residential Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), 2006-07
- Victor Adler Staatspreis (Austrian State Prize), History of Social Movements for Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945, 2003
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, ACLS, tenable at the National Humanities Center, 2003-04
- Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for the best book in European history, AHA (American Historical Association), 2002
- Senior Fellow, IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften), Vienna, Austria, Spring 2001
- HISTORY 103.06, Lectures special topics
Synopsis
- Trent 040, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- RELIGION 185.06, Special topics
- Trent 040, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- JEWISHST 197.06, Special topics
- Trent 040, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- HISTORY 197S.01, Senior thesis seminar
Synopsis
- Carr 229, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- POLSCI 199C.06, Political theory (top)
Synopsis
- Trent 040, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
Representative Publications
Books- Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Chinese, French, German, and Italian editions in preparation or under consideration
- M.H. Hacohen. "The Rise, the Fall and the Afterlife of the Central European Jewish Intelligentsia." Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook V (2006).
- "Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism: Karl Popper, Jewish Identity, and 'Central European Culture'." Journal of Modern History 71 (March, 1999): 105-149.
- "Leonard Krieger: Historicalization and Political Engagement in Intellectual History." History and Theory 35 (1996): 80-130.
- "The Limits of the National Paradigm in the Study of Political Thought." Political Thought and its History in National Context (2001): 247-279.
- "Karl Popper and the Liberal Imagination in Science and Politics (in Hungarian)." Buksz – Budapest Review of Books. (Budapesti Könyvszemle – BUKSZ) (Winter, 2003).
- "Karl Popper in Exile: The Viennese Progressive Imagination and the Making of The Open Society." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 26 (1996): 452-492.
- "Historicizing Deduction." Induction and Deduction in the Sciences (2003).