Moishe Postone

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Moishe Postone is a professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in 1983. His research interests include modern European intellectual history; social theory, especially critical theories of modernity; twentieth-century Germany; Anti-Semitism; contemporary global transformations. He is author of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives and Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory. He is also co-editor with Eric Santner of Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century, a collection of essays that consider the meaning of the holocaust in twentieth-century history and its influence on historical practice.

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• Post-Marxism