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John McCole

Associate Professor
History
mccole@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5906
Office: 303 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Fall 2025 Tuesdays 1-3 in McKenzie 303, or email me for a Zoom link, and by appointment
Website: http://uoregon.edu/~mccole/homepage/index.html

Research

  • Berlin Crossings:  Georg Simmel on  Identity

Publications

  • Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1993)
  • On Max Horkheimer:  New Perspectives, ed. with Seyla Benhabib and Wolfgang Bonss (MIT Press, 1993)
  • "Georg Simmel and the Philosophy of Religion," New German Critique 94 (Winter 2005)
  • “Memorial: Fritz Ringer, 1934-2006,” Central European History 39 (2006)
  • "Geheimnis und schriftlicher Verkehr: Georg Simmel, Sprache, und Deutsch--Jüdische Selbstinszenierung," in Meine Sprache ist Deutsch: Deutsche Sprachkultur von Juden und die Geisteswissenschaften, 1870-1970 (2015)
  • "Georg Simmel: Decentering the Self and Recovering Authentic Individuality," Germanic Review 94 (2019)