R. JOSEPH HOLT

C. Phil., UCLA, 2009; A.M., History, Stanford University, 2001; MALS (Liberal Studies), Reed College, 1996; A.B., History, University of California, Davis, 1993

Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: rjholt@ucla.edu

Field

Modern and Early Modern Europe; Intellectual and Cultural; Comparative Literature

Research Interests

Enlightenment & Romanticism; political thought; history of philosophy; and, theories of the self. Dissertation topic: empire, global cultural contact, and conceptions of sociability in the late Enlightenment.

Publications

"The Absent Ground of Meaning in Wirrungen, Irrungen," in Cultural Codes in Flux: New Approaches to Theodor Fontane, ed. Marion Doebeling (Camden House, 2000).

Advisors

Peter Reill
David Sabean
Anthony Pagden
Patrick Coleman

Conference Presentations

"Savages Among Philosophers: The Politics of Progress in the Scottish Enlightenment's Science of Man," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, Virginia 2009

"Childhood Memory and/as the Uncanny in German Romanticism," Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, The Netherlands 1996

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