Jörn Rüsen

Dr. Jörn Rüsen

Professor of General History and Historical Culture, Witten/Herdecke University.

Senior Fellow del Kulturwissenschaftliches-Institut, Essen.

e-mail: joern.ruesen@uni-wh.de

Some recent publications

Historik: Theorie der Geschichtswissenschaft. Böhlau Verlag.

Humanism in Intercultural Perspective: Experiences and Expectations. Transcript-Verlag.

Time and History: The Variety of Cultures. Berghahn Books.

Texts to download

“¿Qué es la cultura histórica?: Reflexiones sobre una nueva manera de abordar la historia”. [Unpublished Spanish version of the German original text in K. Füssmann, H.T. Grütter and J. Rüsen, eds. (1994). Historische Faszination. Geschichtskultur heute. Böhlau, pp. 3-26].

“How to make use of the past: salient issues of Metahistory”. The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 169-221.