Humberto Schwarzbeck Aguirre

Humberto Schwarzbeck received his PhD in the Department of History at Princeton University and specializes in modern European intellectual history. His dissertation, titled “Political Theories of the Instant in Germany, 1914–1940,” explores the rise of the notion of instantaneous time—the sudden temporality of “the instant” (Augenblick)—as a concept in significant currents of German thought in the first decades of the 20th century, such as Ernst Bloch’s utopian philosophy, Walter Benjamin’s theory of experience and anti-historicist vision of historiography and historical time, and Ernst Jünger’s war memoirs and social and cultural criticism.