Dr Ben Lewis – German History, Language, Politics and Translation

Report: Conference on the International Socialist Women’s Movement (1907-1917); Manchester, October 17-18 2024

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The People’s History Museum in Manchester was host to a truly historic event on Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October 2024, namely the first international …

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The Prophet of Decline. Interview with Louise Perry for the ‘Maiden, Mother Matriarch’ Podcast

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From the blurb: ‘My guest today is Dr Ben Lewis, a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Leeds University who specialises in German intellectual history. On the …

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Review of ‘Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism’ on the RS21 Website

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Link here.

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Call for Papers: The International Socialist Women’s Movement (1907-1917)

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The International Socialist Women’s Movement (1907-1917) Location: People’s History Museum, Manchester Date: October 17-18 2024 Organised with the generous support of the Leverhulme Foundation The …

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New Publication: The Women’s and Women Workers’ Question of our Time. Translated and Introduced by Ben Lewis

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In 1889, the communist politician Clara Zetkin began her meteoric rise to prominence within the international workers’ movement and published her first pamphlet, which is …

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Interview with Varn Vlog on the (forgotten) theoretical output of the Second International

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From C. Derick Varn: I talk to Ben Lewis on the Second International materials that remain untranslated and why they are important. You can find …

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Introduction to ‘Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline’

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The Introduction to my forthcoming book, ‘Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline’, is now freely available on the Berghahn Books website. Happy reading! BL

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Interview with Green Left (Australia) on Kautsky, Democracy and Republicanism

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A rewarding discussion of my book with Barry Healy, which also discussed how the history of German Social Democracy and war might shed light on …

New Publication: ‘Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline’

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Oswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic. In Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, Ben Lewis completely transforms our understanding of Spengler by showing how well-connected this philosopher was and how, at every stage of his career, he attempted to intervene politically in the very real-life events unfolding around him. The volume explains Spengler’s politics as the outcome of a dynamic interplay between his meta-historical considerations on world history on the one hand, and the practical demands and considerations of Realpolitik on the other hand.

The book will be published in July 2022 and can be pre-ordered from Amazon or via Berghahn Books.

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New Book: Out Now!

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Repressed, Remitted, Rejected: German Reparations Debts to Poland and Greece

Karl Heinz Roth in association with Hartmut Rübner

Translated by Ben Lewis

442 pages, 15 tables, online appendix, bibliog.

ISBN 978-1-80073-257-5 (Published December 2021)

eISBN 978-1-80073-258-2 eBook

Description

Since unification, the Federal Republic of Germany has made vaunted efforts to make amends for the crimes of the Third Reich. Yet it remains the case that the demands for restitution by many countries that were occupied during the Second World War are unresolved, and recent demands from Greece and Poland have only reignited old debates. This book reconstructs the German occupation of Poland and Greece and gives a thorough accounting of these debates. Working from the perspective of international law, it deepens the scholarly discourse around the issue, clarifying the ‘never-ending story’ of German reparations policy and making a principled call for further action.

A compilation of primary sources comprising 125 annotated key texts (512 pages) on the complexity of reparations discussions covering the period between 1941 and the end of 2017 is available for free on the Berghahn Books website, doi: 10.3167/9781800732575.dd.

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