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Ulrich Baer
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Приєднався 10 жов 2018
Stimulating and engaging conversations on great books and big ideas. Listen, learn, and think more deeply about the topics that move our collective minds. I engage the nation's leading scholars on free speech but also talk with students, philosophers and writers about the ways in which freedom of expression is truly the lifeblood of democracy. In the Great Books section, I speak with writers, academics, and others about books that truly did something new: add a voice that had not been acknowledged or heard in the public before; account for experiences previously silenced, outlawed or forgotten; devise a new way of telling one's story; or celebrate the human capacity for invention and creation in pathbreaking ways.
Book Talk 62: Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory" | Think About It Podcast
Book Talk 62: Stefanos Geroulanos on "The Invention of Prehistory"
Originally published on April 26, 2024
What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In this episode, I spoke with historian and NYU professor Stefanos Geroulanos to discuss his new book, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Liveright, 2024) to discover how claims about the earliest humans and humankind’s true beginnings inform political and social practices to this day.
How do the various stories we tell about human origins, including those about Neanderthals, homo sapiens, killer apes, noble savages, and missing links shape the modern world? Have you followed a keto diet, become aware of your reptile brain, idealized a pre-modern state of existence, or demonized others as behaving like Neanderthals? Geroulanos explains how accounts of prehistory arise in particular historical moments to solve contemporary problems, often linked to but as often quite apart from actual scientific knowledge. The Invention of Prehistory provides a crucial and timely examination of how the pursuit of understanding humanity's beginnings has been intertwined with agendas of war and domination.
Find the book here: wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455
Ulrich Baer is Professor of German and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from Yale University before joining the faculty of NYU in 1995. He is a widely published author, editor, and translator, and an expert on modern poetry, contemporary photography, literary theory, and philosophy.
Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and a Professor of European Intellectual History at New York University. He usually writes about concepts that weave together modern understandings of time, the human, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts, images, and sciences of human origins since 1770. He serves as a Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In the past, he has also served as Director of the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique/NYU) and, with Gisèle Sapiro, as the co-Principal Investigator of the FACE Foundation's PUF grant Crossroads in Intellectual History (2016-2021).
Further Listening on the Think About It podcast:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's “The Social Contract” with Melissa Schwartzberg: newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-melissa-schwartzberg-on-rousseaus-the-social-contract
Michel Foucault on Truth and Knowledge with Ann Stoler: newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-31-truth-and-knowledge-for-michel-foucault-with-ann-stoler
Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” with Peter Brooks: newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-peter-brooks-on-freuds-civilization-and-its-discontents
The Alarmingly Relevant Hannah Arendt with Richard Bernstein: newbooksnetwork.com/richard-j-bernstein-why-read-hannah-arendt-now-polity-2018
Originally published on April 26, 2024
What does it mean to be human? What do we know about the true history of humankind? In this episode, I spoke with historian and NYU professor Stefanos Geroulanos to discuss his new book, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins (Liveright, 2024) to discover how claims about the earliest humans and humankind’s true beginnings inform political and social practices to this day.
How do the various stories we tell about human origins, including those about Neanderthals, homo sapiens, killer apes, noble savages, and missing links shape the modern world? Have you followed a keto diet, become aware of your reptile brain, idealized a pre-modern state of existence, or demonized others as behaving like Neanderthals? Geroulanos explains how accounts of prehistory arise in particular historical moments to solve contemporary problems, often linked to but as often quite apart from actual scientific knowledge. The Invention of Prehistory provides a crucial and timely examination of how the pursuit of understanding humanity's beginnings has been intertwined with agendas of war and domination.
Find the book here: wwnorton.com/books/9781324091455
Ulrich Baer is Professor of German and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He received his BA from Harvard University and his PhD from Yale University before joining the faculty of NYU in 1995. He is a widely published author, editor, and translator, and an expert on modern poetry, contemporary photography, literary theory, and philosophy.
Stefanos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and a Professor of European Intellectual History at New York University. He usually writes about concepts that weave together modern understandings of time, the human, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts, images, and sciences of human origins since 1770. He serves as a Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In the past, he has also served as Director of the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique/NYU) and, with Gisèle Sapiro, as the co-Principal Investigator of the FACE Foundation's PUF grant Crossroads in Intellectual History (2016-2021).
Further Listening on the Think About It podcast:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's “The Social Contract” with Melissa Schwartzberg: newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-melissa-schwartzberg-on-rousseaus-the-social-contract
Michel Foucault on Truth and Knowledge with Ann Stoler: newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-31-truth-and-knowledge-for-michel-foucault-with-ann-stoler
Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” with Peter Brooks: newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-peter-brooks-on-freuds-civilization-and-its-discontents
The Alarmingly Relevant Hannah Arendt with Richard Bernstein: newbooksnetwork.com/richard-j-bernstein-why-read-hannah-arendt-now-polity-2018
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Bernstein conviently forgets Arendt writing about the people who-at risk of death for their families if found out-hid jews from the nazis!
Bernstein showed himself to be an academician all the way. And from what I remember reading, Arendt was deeply concerned not simply with lying in politics-but CRIMINALITY entering politics (particularly in america).
Poor bernstein! The criticism of some-if not most(?) of the Jewish councils-must be softened to not "offend" the feelings of the remaining survivors! What about all the time the German jews had to see the likely direction hitler and German society was heading and at least try to get out--but refused to believe that there were plans for their annhilation. Do we not today see the warning signs with america and the likely direction america-and with it the World-and all life on Earth is heading????
If Harari really says that "you are going to be creating 'New Gods'" (14:22min) let me point out that it was actually Nietzsche who said this first!
Science and Physics create all the grand wonders in this world. Religion is the lie that darkens and creates chaos and exerts oppressive control.
This is a brilliant discussion. Thanks to both of you! And Stefan, I think a lot like you on these matters. Folks who are at the peripheries of a lot of these varied discourses of Humanisms -- the postcolonial cultures -- who may go in very different directions when encountered with the ideas of "prehistory."
Someone really needed to write this
Harris will clobber Trump 💙💙💙
The only "Threat" to "Democracy" U S A version is the call fot SOVEREIGNTY, AUTONMY and the right of countries to do business with whomever for their "Best interests" and the real benefits of "One man One vote" without any "ELECTORAL COLLEGE" or bully tactics.
It was so interesting listening to this interview from a month ago. I do think what Harris/Waltz is doing right now is emotional re-education. Hopefully it will start reaching the base. It is already reaching the independents and moderate Republicans. I have hope again.
She sounds like she is in a can.
I got a crush on her!
Hey, A lively video🙌! I'm not really sure if it is the best time to ask but, I was wondering if I could help you create a better distribution by working on post-production like better storytelling through Edits, Keywords, think catchy intros and outros, or even some engaging short clips! Would love to chat if you're interested and keep creating good content:)
Remember Elagabilus
3 weeks later, we now have a candidate who is a star with a positive message ❤
We will still have to work hard to make sure she wins
In short, TM said: All I have to do is my Black job 😊
Try as he might, Donald Trump can't blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. Who ever thought an American bleeding out from a disastrous pregnancy would have to be flown to safety in her own country? Politicians have no place in our reproductive health care decisions. None.
Ruth has helped many of us in regard to dictator’s and how they got there. Thank you Ruth!
Democracy? Other forms of government are worse. Trump will implement Project 2025, the Fascist authoritarian agenda of the super rich and ultra-right wing Catholics. They want to eliminate the Department of Education, cut Social Security and Medicare; they intend to establish a Paternalistic white Christian nation. This means racism and Fascism are the order of the day. Trump personally will mine the nation for all the money he can loot, like Putin in Russia. Most of his promises will mot ne kept, except to cut the taxes of the rich. The middle class will languish. The poor will starve.
Nothing to do with Fascism whatsoever.
My siblings who are Trumpist Fundamentalist Christians may recognize Trump’s imperfections but their ultimate goal is to install a theocracy which is the aim of Project 2025. They fail to realize how extreme a theocratic state may become because it will be framed by the quality and aims of the leaders. Those in power often change and become endeared to all of that power which then changes them.
Absolutely.
Trump and the word Christian should NEVER be used in the same sentence. Evangelical ISIS and the Christian TALIBAN....but I'm scared of the Muslims....hilarious.
"Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't." Bill Moyers
She is right🗽🇺🇲💙🛡
52:01 R B-G: "one of the saddest things that authoritarianism does, it puts u in situations where u feel u hav to betray yorself & yor loved ones. Democracy will nvr ask u to do that."
great interview Ulrich. I liked how u engaged w/ yor guest the wonderful Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The most existential threat to democracy besides Donald Trump Is The Heritage Foundation Project 2025. The threat of these two dastardly entities will place the entire world at risk. Donald Trump touts a divisive campus of ignorance and hate. Donald Trump cannot be trusted again as president. We're still living those residuals... This is a dangerously-lethal combination: Donald Trump + The Heritage Foundation Project 2025 + MAGA-morons = an authoritarian hell which will touch the entire world! VOTE BLUE AND CONTINUE TO VOTE BLUE💙 until we have successfully voted MAGA extremism and Donald Trump out and into the cesspool where they belong - 💙💙💙💙💙
We're not a Democracy and we don't want a Democracy.
Ben-Ghiat’s analysis is so clear and insightfully, free of bias. I can’t say enough, “thank you!”
I thank Ruth Ben-Ghiat for her hopeful and authentic approach to a very important issue threat to democracy today, not just in America, but globally. Keep up the excellent work!
She's socialist transmental democratic party shill.
Hannah Aren't in her books on the rise of totalitarianism seems to have a much better grasp on that subject than you. You seem to conveniently look away from the inherent totalitarianism baked in to the DNA of leftist political organs. The democrat party owned and operated the plantation system of the old south. They created the chattel caste which has become a multi-Generational curse for many. The managerial caste is prolific with psychotic manipulation exhibitionism also prevalent in the democrat left. They have become the home of that managerial class and modern plantation mentalities elites.
You’re making the mistake lots of far-right conspiracy theorists today make in assuming US political parties have always had distinctive, consistent politics over their history. Both main parties have switched back and forth across both side of the political spectrum repeatedly. You can tell who is the more racist, Conservative party at any given time by looking at who black voters predominantly vote for. Right now they vote Dem because they’re far less racist. Another thing you lot do is to play the ‘both sides have extremists’ card. The Democratic Party is currently a pro-democracy coalition ranging from the left to centre-right. The Republican Party is an explicitly authoritarian, far right party that, on policy and rhetoric, lines up not with conservative parties in other free, democratic nations, but with Neo Fascist parties in places like Russia, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, etc. Moderate conservatives like Ben-Ghiat, Anne Applebaum and others focus primarily on the threat from the right because that’s where the threat of violence and authoritarianism today primarily comes from. Arendt would’ve seen you as the fascism enabler you are. She pointed out how much the far right use projection, calling their enemies what they themselves are, as you have done.
Bernstein, Epstein, Weinstein. They all are going to save the world...
speak on enya again.
Muchas gracias desde Chile democrático
Hello, I am from Spain learning about Chinese American literature.
Gracias mil
Gracias, gracias ,,, un gusto verlos compartir
Thank you so much. From Chile
I love Maira and washing dishes. And watching clouds.
Right out of the gate, White Supremacy is mentioned. Sorry, Im out. Bye!
I would have liked to hear more from Peter Brooks.
She stifled and hoarded her mother's great accomplishments that should have been shared with the world. Diane was a crown jewel in the world of artisan accomplishments. Thanks for posting.
Where are we now..? 🤕
I am reading Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. He mentions Jane Johnson Schoolcraft creating the term Native Inland Sea, that was then used by James Fenimore Cooper in his book title, The Pathfinder: The Inland Sea. I'm exploring both writers and am happy to discover this podcast as a first step in learning more about Ms. Schoolcraft and her poetry
BRAVO!!!
Really? why? He says much the same about hierarchies’ proclivity to corrupt and decline into tyranny. Have you actually read any of his books, watched any of hundreds of hours of lectures, debates and interview-conversations? Or are you ‘relying’ on second, third … hand caricatures?
Very interesting listening to this in January 2023. It's only had 336 views in 4 years..... if only more people had heard it! Ms. Ben-Ghiat deserves a large audience.
Ulrich Baer - I find it interesting that you named this large series, "Free Speech." I read in your bio, this: "deepens his widely debated defense of the university’s right and obligation to arbitrate discourse (rather than surrender to an absolutist, anything-goes approach to speech) he first made in 2017 in The New York Times." - this sounds a bit not-so-free speech like Ulrich. Is this a case of another leftist using deceptive language, to disguise the true nature of their radical ideology? Whatever the case, the contradiction between the titles of your videos, and the contradictory viewpoint as revealed in your bio, is confusing and suspect.
White leftists from Yale & Harvard, or both, are unashamed and occupy the forefront of greed & imagined virtue. They'll argue that your opportunities should be spared for those more diverse. Nobody took the spots that they worked for, so they couldn't give a damn about yours.
This is a wonderful examination of Levi Strauss……. Thank you for yet another gift to contemplate. Your Primo Levian allusion led me to find my old copy of The Periodic Table which I’ll re-read differently …………much gratitude for these offerings. Miss Jenny.
A fine interview conducted by an extraordinarily erudite and inciteful interviewer…… a rarity indeed. Thank you sir. Prescient for me as I’m re-reading Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism and intend to study Richard Bernstein’s study thereafter. An aside: Interview took place in what I assume is Bernstein’s apartment? What a wonderfully ecclectic collection ….. the Nakashima pieces in partcicular caught my attention. With much appreciation, Miss Jenny (music teacher, Manhattan).