Hacohen, Malachi Haim 1957-

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HACOHEN, Malachi Haim 1957-

PERSONAL:

Born 1957, in Israel. Education: Bar-Ilan University, Israel, B.A., 1979; Columbia University, M.A., 1982, M.Phil. (with distinction), 1983, Ph.D., 1993.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Durham, NC. Office—Department of History, Duke University, 222 Carr Bldg., Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

New York University, New York, NY, adjunct lecturer, 1984-86; Columbia University, New York, NY, preceptor, contemporary civilization, 1984-86; Cooper Union College, New York, NY, adjunct lecturer in history, 1986-88; Reed College, Portland, OR, visiting assistant professor of history and humanities and cochair of the history-literature program, 1989; Duke University, Durham, NC, assistant professor of history, 1993-2000, Fred W. Shaffer associate professor of history, 2000-03, Fred W. Shaffer associate professor of history and political science, 2003—. Member, Committee for the Integration of Gender into Contemporary Civilization, 1985-88; member, International Summer University, 1999—; member, Karl Popper 2002 Centenary Congress, 2000-02; member, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 2002—; member, International Committee for the Victor Adler State Prize, 2004—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, 2000-01, for outstanding interdisciplinary work; senior fellow, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 2001; Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association, 2002, for for Karl Popper, the Formative years, 1902-1945; Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2003-04; Victor Adler Staatspreis (Austria), 2003, for Karl Popper, the Formative years, 1902-1945; residential fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, 2006-07.

WRITINGS:

Karl Popper in Esilio, Rubbettino Editore (Calabria, Italy), 1999.

Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor to journals, including the Journal of Modern History, Journal of the History of Ideas, and History and Theory.

SIDELIGHTS:

Malachi Haim Hacohen is a professor of history, political science, and religion who is particularly expert on European intellectual history and Jewish history. Hacohen's areas of interest include research on the social theory, political philosophies, and philosophy of science, primarily in Central Europe, with particular attention to Jewish-Christian relations and the effects of the growth of cities and the melding of cultures on Jewish identity. Hacohen's Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna is a biography of the Jewish philosopher, who was born in Vienna in 1902 and, despite his family's attempts to assimilate, was subject to anti-Semitism during the rise of the Nazi party. A contributor for Publishers Weekly remarked that although the volume is "accessible to analysts of language and philosophers of science, its rich evocation of the turbulent yet vital interwar Vienna should win this formidable book a wider readership." D. Wade Hands, writing in the Review of Social Economy, praised much of the volume, but the critic would have preferred Hacohen not to have included the epilogue, remarking: "The care, caution, and scholarship of the previous five hundred plus pages seems to go out the window in the author's thirty-page attempt to summarize what is important about the last half of Popper's life." Review of Metaphysics contributor Keith Culver, however, stated that "Hacohen integrates careful historical work with a comprehensive grasp of what is philosophically significant in the life of one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophers. This book achieves a measure of clarity which most of us desire without achieving."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Austrian History Yearbook, 2002, Gunther Sandner, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna, p. 299.

Contemporary Review, April, 2001, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 252.

Isis, June, 2002, Philip Mirowski, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 324.

Journal of Modern History, December, 2002, Robert D'Amico, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 897.

Library Journal, August, 2000, Leslie Armour, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 109.

New York Times Book Review, November 12, 2000, David Papineau, "The Proof Is in the Disproof."

Publishers Weekly, August 14, 2000, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 342.

Review of Metaphysics, March, 2002, Keith Culver, review of Karl Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 634.

Review of Social Economy, September, 2002, D. Wade Hands, review of Karp Popper, the Formative Years, 1902-1945, p. 483.