Stefanos Geroulanos

Ph.D 2008 Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center 

A.B. 2001 Princeton University, History, European Cultural Studies, Hellenic Studies

Conceptual History (19th- to 21st-Century Western Europe), History of Science & Medicine, Historical Epistemology, French and German History

Stefanos Geroulanos is Professor of European Intellectual History at New York University. He usually writes about concepts that weave together modern understandings of the human, time, and the body. He is now working on a project on the figure of the New Man in modern thought, science, and aesthetics, a project on the modern inventions of human "prehistory," and a shorter book on Napoleon and the institution of the Civil Code in France. He is a Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas. He has served as Director of the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique/NYU) and Associate Director of the Remarque Institute.

“Eurasianism versusIndoGermanism: Linguistics and Mythology in the 1930s Controversies overEuropean Prehistory” with Jamie Phillips, in History of Science, 56, no. 3: 343-378

“Editorial: Writing Prehistory,” with Maria Stavrinaki, in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 69-70 (Spring-Autumn 2018): special issue "Writing Prehistory," 1-4.

“Polyschematic Prehistory at the Dusk of Colonialism: Internationalism, Racism and Science in Henri Breuil and Jan Smuts,” in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 69-70 (Spring-Fall 2018), 136-157.

“Transparency, Humanism, and thePolitics of the Future Before and After May ‘68,” in Emmanuel Alloa and Dieter Thomä,Transparency, Subjectivity, Society: Critical Perspectives. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 155-176.

“’Les Ar-z et les sciences’: Aesthetic Theory and Aesthetic Politics in Comte’s Late Work” in Andrew Wernick, ed, The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte (London: Anthem Press, 2017), 143-158.

“The Sovereignty of the New Man after Wagner: Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging ofOrigins” in Ben-Dor, Geroulanos, and Jerr, eds, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty, 440-468.

“Editors’ Introduction,” with Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Nicole Jerr; in Ben-Dor, Geroulanos, and Jerr, eds, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty, 1-49. 

“An Army of Shadows: Black Markets, Adaptation, and Social Transparency in Postwar France,” in Journal of Modern History 88 (March 2016), 60-95.

“Violence and Mechanism:Georges Canguilhem’s Overturning of the Cartesian Legacy,” at Qui Parle 24:1 (Fall/Winter 2015), 125-146.

“Integrations, Vigilance, Catastrophe: The Neuropsychiatry of Aphasia in Henry Head and Kurt Goldstein,” with Todd Meyers, in Nima Bassiri and David Bates, eds. Plasticity and Pathology (Fordham University Press, 2015), 112-158.

"The Plastic Self and the Prescription of Psychology: Ethnopsychology, Crowd Psychology, and Psychotechnics, 1890-1920," in Republics of Letters, forum on "Conflicts of the Faculties: Interdisciplinarity."

"Postwar Facial Reconstruction:Georges Franju's Eyes without a Face," in French Politics, Culture, and Society 31:2 (Spring 2013), 15-33. [PR]

"L'Ascension et la marionette: L'homme d'après Jean Hyppolite," in Giuseppe Bianco and Frédéric Worms, eds. Jean Hyppolite (Paris: Rue d’Ulm/PUF, 2013), 83-106.

"Kurt Goldenstein's Conception of Individuality" in H. Schmidgen, P. Schöttler, J.F. Braunstein (eds.), History and Epistemology: From Bachelard and Canguilhem to Today’s History of Science (Berlin: MPIWG Preprints, 2012), 101-110.

“Александр Кожев: Происхождение «Антигуманизма», Или «Конец Истории»,” in Новое Литературное Обозрение (New Literary Observer [Moscow]), 116:4 (April 2012), 76-90. 
"Stories of Lynx: Husserlian Concepts in Transformation (France, 1945-1960)," New German Critique 117 (39:3), special issue in honor of Anson Rabinbach (Fall 2012), 33-45.

"Georges Canguilhem's Critique of Medical Reason." Translators’ Introduction (with Todd Meyers) to Georges Canguilhem, Writings on Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012), 1-24.

“The Brain in Abeyance: Freud and the Claim of Neuropsychoanalysis” forthcoming in History of the Present 1:2 (Fall 2011), 219-243

“Heterogeneities, Slave-Princes, Marshall Plans: Carl Schmitt in Hegel’s France,” Modern Intellectual History 8:3 (2011), 531-60.

“An Introduction to Complexity” (with Todd Meyers) to Geroulanos and Meyers, eds. Henri Atlan: Selected Writings on Self-Organization, Philosophy, Bioethics and Judaism, (Fordham Univ. Press, 2011), 1-31. 

“Russian Exiles, New Scientific Movements, and Phenomenology: History of a Philosophical Immigration in 1930s France,” New German Critique 113 (Spring 2011), 89-128. 

“Secularism, Atheism, Antihumanism,” and “Atheism and Antihumanism as Intellectual-Historical Objects,” on The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere(SSRC). 

“The 1987 French Heidegger Affair in Intellectual-Historical Perspective,” in The Journal of French Philosophy 18.1 (Fall 2008), 26-67.

“Transparency Thinking Freedom: Maurice Blanchot’s The Most High,” in MLN (Modern Language Notes), 122:5 (Dec. 2007), 1050-78.

“Theoscopy: Transparency, Omnipotence, Modernity,” in Hent de Vries and Lawrence Sullivan, eds. Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (New York: Fordham, 2006). 

“An Anthropology of Exit: Bataille on Heidegger and Fascism,” October 117 (Summer 2006), 3-24.