John E. Toews (born 1944) is a Canadian historian in the U.S., and Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington from 1981 to 2010. A scholar of Hegel and Marx, Toews edited a publication of The Communist Manifesto in 1999.
Toews was born into a Mennonite family in Coaldale, Alberta, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba and graduated from Harvard University, with a Ph.D. in 1973.
Awards
- 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 2004-2005 Hans Rosenberg Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in German and Central European History
Works
- Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- "Refashioning the Masculine Subject in Early Modernism", in Mark Micale, ed. The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America 1880-1940, Stanford University Press, 2003.
- "The Linguistic Turn and Discourse Analysis in History," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Elsevier Press, 2001, XIII, 8916-1932.
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, edited, Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
- "Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable", in Michael Roth ed., Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture, Alfred Knopf, 1998. ISBN 9780679451167
- Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805-1841, Cambridge University Press, 1981. ISBN 9780521230483
- "A New Philosophy of History? Reflections on Postmodern Historicizing".(JSTOR) History and Theory, 1997. 36 (2):235–248 OCLC 477460681
See also
References
- "John Toews | Comparative History of Ideas Program". Depts.washington.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- Historian John Toews and the Comparative History of Ideas Program Archived 2012-05-02 at the Wayback Machine, washington.edu
- "Department of History". Depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
- Living people
- University of Washington faculty
- Harvard University alumni
- MacArthur Fellows
- 21st-century Canadian historians
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- University of Manitoba alumni
- Writers from Winnipeg
- Canadian Mennonites
- Mennonite writers
- Philosophers of history
- 1944 births
- American male non-fiction writers