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Telephone: (617) 552-3809 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 426 Email: paul.breines@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1972
Fields of Interest
Modern European intellectual and cultural history; social movements; history of Marxism; gender and identity; post-structuralism
Academic Profile
Professor Breines regularly teaches courses in modern European intellectual history. His main interests are in Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche (especially), and Freud, and in 20th century reworkings of these "master thinkers" by neo-Marxists, existentialists, post-structuralists, feminists and "queer theorists." His graduate courses have included: recent currents in intellectual history; Nietzsche and Foucault; postmoderism; and "queer theory and history." Graduate students with whom he works are engaged in doctoral studies of women in French Fascism; Italian feminism, 1945-1995; intellectual history and "the linguistic turn"; Marx's concept of progress; fashion and British imperialism in Africa; the impact of the Frankfurt School in the U.S; the political and cultural consequences of German Romanticism's images of India; and German feminism.
Representative Publications
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Without Impact: A History of Ideas Whose Time Never Came (forthcoming)
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"Herbert Marcuse," in A Companion to American Thought (1995)
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Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry (1990)
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"Gouldner, Marxism and the Intellectuals," Theory and Society (1986)
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"Germans, Journals and Jews," New German Critique (1980)
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"Young Lukacs, Old Lukacs, New Lukacs" Journal of Modern History (1979)
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The Young Lukacs and the Origins of Western Marxism (co-author with Andrew Arato) (1979)