Ethan Kleinberg

Ethan Kleinberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and College of Letters and the Director of the Center for the Humanities. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in history from UCLA. He is the author of Generation Existential: Martin Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-61 (2005). He is in the process of completing his second book, The Myth of Emmanuel Levinas. His current research interests include European intellectual history, critical theory, educational structures, post-colonialism, and the philosophy of history.

Professro Kleinberg's recent articles include "Interdisciplinary Studies at a Crossroads," Liberal Education (2008); "Haunting History: Deconstruction and the Spirit of Revision," History and Theory: Theme Issue (2007); "New Gods Swelling the Future Ocean," History and Theory (2007); and "Review of Francois Cusset, "French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2008).