What is capitalism, and what is the state? In the advanced stage that appears in the USA today, the distinction seems unclear. However, is it an advanced stage? Isn’t what looks like the future, where Europe and the world will follow, a déjà-vu reiteration of an old phenomenon referred to as imperialism? Isn’t what looks like post-democracy reminiscent of pre-democracy? In four conversations extended over half a year from January 2024, Bo Stråth and Henning Trüper went deeper into these questions and came up with thoughts that surprised them.
Conversations with Henning Trüper. Photo Angela Schenk Berlin April 2025.
Henning Trüper is associate professor of the history of ideas at the University of Oslo. After his PhD at EUI, Florence, he held postdoctoral and research positions in Zurich, Paris, Princeton, Berlin, and Helsinki. From 2020-2025 he led the ERC CoG project “Archipelagic Imperatives: Shipwreck and Lifesaving in European Societies since 1800” at Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin. Publications: Topography of a Method: François Louis Ganshof and the Writing of History (Tübingen, 2014); Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World (London, 2020); Seuchenjahr (Berlin, 2021); Unsterbliche Werte: Über Historizität und Historisierung (Göttingen, 2024).
Find the four Conversations with Henning Trüper here:
