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Gregory Jones-Katz is an American intellectual and cultural historian. He
earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, and is currently a lecturer at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Greg’s research and teaching
interests include the history of philosophy, literature, literary
criticism and theory, and higher education; the transatlantic flow of
intellectual and cultural movements; and the philosophy of history,
historiography, and the theory and practice of historical writing.
Book:
1. Deconstruction: An American Institution (The University of Chicago Press, September 2021)
Refereed Articles:
1. 2023 "Possessed by the 'New Spirit of Capitalism': The 'Subversiveness' of Theoretical Cognitive
Goods" Amerikastudien / American Studies (forthcoming)
2. 2022 "Challenging Humanism: Jews, Theory, and Yale During the Last Three Decades of the
Twentieth Century," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society (forthcoming)
3. 2022 "Theorizing and Practicing History as the Metabolization of the World: A Conversation with
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht," History and Theory, 61:1 (available Early View)
4. 2019 “(An Illustration of) Jacques Derrida at the Limits of the Historicist Chronotype,” Rethinking
History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 23:4, 474-499
5. 2019 “Kicking the Philosophy Habit: Richard Rorty’s Clarion Call and the Cultural Politics of the
Academic Left,” Special Issue: Rorty and Paradigm Change in Philosophy, Analyse & Kritik:
Zeitschrift für Sozialtheorie 41:1, 71-95
6. 2018 “’The Brides of Deconstruction and Criticism’ and the Transformation of Feminism in the
North American Academy,” Modern Intellectual History 17:2, 413-442
7. 2017 “XYZ, or, the ABCs of Deconstruction,” Raritan: A Quarterly Review 36:3, 54-70
8. 2017 “’I am two distinct beings’: Paul de Man’s Authenticating Project,” Special Issue:
Authenticity, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice 21:2, 213-234
(reprinted in Authenticity: Reading, Remembering, Performing. Edited by Patrick Finney.
Routledge, 2018)
9. 2015 “Constantly Contingent: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller,” Special Issue: Reading Hillis Miller
Reading Derrida, Derrida Today 8:1, 41-76
10. 2010 “The Riddle of Paul de Man,” Intellectual History Review 20:2, 253-27
Reviews and Essays:
1. 2022 "A Hymn to Technologized Being-in-Shenzhen/Wohlbehütet im Überwachungsstaat,"
Schweizer Monat: Die Autorenzeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur (Ausgabe 1094,
March, 10-13)
2. 2021 "Das chinesische Silicon Valley," 20 impulse für 2022, Philosophie Magazin, December
(25,000 print run)
3. 2021 "Schwindel der Gegenwart: Leben in Shenzhen,” Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für
europäisches Denken, 75:5, 41-52
4. 2021 "American Theory," Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, 75:3,
29-41
5. 2019 “Where is Deconstruction Today?; On Jacques Derrida’s Theory and Practice (The Seminars of
Jacques Derrida) and Byung-Chul Han’s Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese,” Los Angeles
Review of Books (May 8)
6. 2017 “Derrida’s Answers to Heidegger’s Question,” review of Heidegger: The Question of Being
and History (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida), by Jacques Derrida, H-France Review Vol. 17
(March), No. 59
7. 2017 Review of Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins of
American Democracy and Nationhood, by Armin Mattes, Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society 115:2, 273-276
8. 2016 “Deconstruction: An American Tale,” Boston Review, September 30
9. 2016 “Our Wasted Humanities: When Higher Education Valued Discovery,” The Chronicle Review,
B4-B5, April 18
10. 2016 “Hexed Text: How Should We Study Deconstruction?,” The Chronicle Review, B17, January
29
11. 2014 Review of Presence: Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory For the Twenty-First Century,
by Ranjan Ghosh, et al., History of European Ideas 40:7, 1006-1010
12. 2014 “The Idiosyncrasy of Intellectual History,” review of Intellectual History: 5 Questions, by
Mikkel Thorup, Morten Haugaard Jeppesen, and Frederik
Stjernfelt, Redescriptions.Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and
Feminist Theory 17:2, 240-244