John E. Toews

John E. Toews is a Canadian historian in the U.S., and Director of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington from 1981 to 2010.

He graduated from Harvard University, with a Ph.D. in 1973.

Awards

 * 1984 MacArthur Fellows Program
 * 2004-2005 Hans Rosenberg Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in German and Central European History

Works

 * Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
 * "Refashioning the Masculine Subject in Early Modernism", in Mark Micale, ed. The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America 1880-1940, Stanford University Press, 2003.
 * "The Linguistic Turn and Discourse Analysis in History," International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Elsevier Press, 2001, XIII, 8916-1932.
 * The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, edited, Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
 * "Having and Being: The Evolution of Freud's Oedipus Theory as a Moral Fable", in Michael Roth ed., Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture, Alfred Knopf, 1998. ISBN 9780679451167
 * Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805-1841, Cambridge University Press, 1981. ISBN 9780521230483
 * "A New Philosophy of History? Reflections on Postmodern Historicizing".(JSTOR) History and Theory, 1997. 36 (2):235–248