A. Grišinas |  D. Brandišauskas |  D. Daukšas  |  I. Šidiškienė  |  R. Paukštytė-Šaknienė  |  V. Savoniakaitė  |  V. Tumėnas  |  Ž. Šaknys |  N. Klumbytė  |  Z.B. Simon  |  A. Kitovas

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sZoltan Boldiszar Simon, PhD Humanities

  Senior researcher

 

 

 

 

Research interests and specialisations: History theory, intellectual history, history of science and technology, and Anthropocene studies.

 

Key publications

Books and monographs

Simon, Z. B. (2019) History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century (London: Bloomsbury)

Simon, Z.B. (2020) The Epochal Event: Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds (Cham: Palgrave).

Simon, Z. B. and Tamm, M. (2023) The Fabric of Historical Time (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Book chapters

Simon, Z. B. (2010), Vizsgálóbíró-e a történész? In Papp, G., Szijártó I. M. (eds.), Mikrotörténelem másodfokon (Budapest: L’Harmattan), 82–91.

Simon, Z. B. (2010) Mi nem a mikrotörténelem? In Papp, G., Szijártó I. M. (eds.), Mikrotörténelem másodfokon (Budapest: L’Harmattan), 120–147.

Simon, Z. B. (2010) A másik ugyanabban a világban. In Papp, G., Szijártó I. M. (eds.), Mikrotörténelem másodfokon (Budapest: L’Harmattan), 186–199.

Simon, Z. B. (2018), History Begins in the Future: On Historical Sensibility in the Age of Technology. In Helgesson, S., Svenungsson J. (eds.), The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2018), 192–209.

Simon, Z. B. (2019) The Transformation of Historical Time: Processual and Evental Temporalities. In Tamm, M., Olivier, L. (eds.), Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 71–84.

Tamm, M., Simon, Z. B. (2020) More-than-Human History: Philosophy of History at the Time of the Anthropocene. In J-M. kuukkanen (ed.) Philosophy of History: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 198–215.

Simon, Z. B. (2021) Judging the Past, Blaming the Past, Hailing the Past. In Zhang, B., Man, T. Y., Lin, J. (eds.), A Dialogue Between Law and History: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Facts and Evidence (Singapore: Springer, 2021), 129–150.

Simon, Z. B. (2022) Why We Can’t Know Anything about a Truly Posthuman Future. In F. P. Grunert (eds.), HumaniTies and Artificial Intelligence (European Commission, 2022), 179–183.

Simon, Z. B. (2022) Historical Understanding Today. In Simon, Z. B., Deile, L. (eds.), Historical Understanding: Past, Present, and Future (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 1–12.

Simon, Z. B. (2022) Planetary Futures, Planetary History. In Simon, Z. B., Deile, L. (eds.), Historical Understanding: Past, Present, and Future (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 119–129.

Simon, Z. B. (2023) Does the Past Still Matter? In Paul M. Dover (eds.) Engaging with the Past and Present: The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines (London and New York: Routledge),

Simon, Z. B. (2025) Utopias of Extinction. In Glückler, J., Garschagen, M., Panitz, R. (eds.) Placing the Future (Cham: Springer), 99-117.

Publications in peer-reviewed academic journals

Simon, Z. B. (2006) A mikrotörténészről: a történetírás konfliktusa a filozófiai abszolút ésszel. Sic Itur Ad Astra 18:1–2, 9–42.

Simon, Z. B (2008) Rekviem egy álomért. Budapest Review of Books 20:1, 22–27.

Simon, Z. B (2009) A módszer mellett – a kánon ellen. Sic Itur Ad Astra Issue 59, 277–287.

Simon, Z. B. (2011) A történetelmélet önigazolása. Aetas 26:1, 174–184.

Simon, Z. B. (2012) Egy régi-új történetfilozófia: historizmus a nyelvben? Kommentár 6:6, 121–127.

Simon, Z. B. (2013) Amire a történetírás elméletei nem képesek (és amit mégis elérünk másképp). Korunk 24:1, 87–93.

Simon, Z. B (2013) Tapasztalat, jelenlét, történelem. Aetas 28:1, 160–177.

Simon, Z. B. (2013) Reflexivitás a történetírásban. Korall 52, 169–186.

Simon, Z. B. (2013) Az újra mozgásba lendült történelem. 2000 25:9, 64–74.

Simon, Z. B. (2013) Experience as the Invisible Drive of Historical Writing. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 7:2, 183–204.

Simon, Z. B. (2015) Interpretáció és történetiség. Aetas 30:2, 172–197.

Simon, Z. B. (2015) History Set Into Motion Again. Rethinking History 19:4, 661–667.

Simon, Z. B. (2015) Microhistory: In General. Journal of Social History 49:1, 237–248.

Simon, Z. B., Kuukkanen, J-M. (2015), Introduction: Assessing Narrativism. History and Theory 54:2, 153– 161.

Simon, Z. B. (2015) The Expression of Historical Experience. History and Theory 54:2, 178–194

Simon, Z. B. (2015) History Manifested: Making Sense of Unprecedented Change. European Review of History 22:5, 819–834.

Simon, Z. B. (2016) We Are History: The Outlines of a Quasi-Substantive Philosophy of History. Rethinking History 20:2, 259–279.

Simon, Z. B. (2017) Why the Anthropocene Has No History: Facing the Unprecedented. The Anthropocene Review 4:3, 239–245.

Simon, Z. B. (2018) (The Impossibility of) Acting Upon a Story That We Can Believe. Rethinking History 22:1, 105–125.

Simon, Z. B. (2019) The Story of Humanity and the Challenge of Posthumanity. History of the Human Sciences 32:2 (2019), 101–120.

Simon, Z. B. (2019) Do Theorists of History Have a Theory of History? Reflections on a Non-Discipline. Historia da Historiografia 12:29, 53–68.

Simon, Z. B. (2019) Two Cultures of the Posthuman Future. History and Theory 58:2 (2019), 171–184.

Simon, Z. B. (2019) Historicism and Constructionism: Rival Ideas of Historical Change. History of European Ideas 45:8, 1171–1190.

Simon, Z. B. (2020) The Limits of Anthropocene Narratives. European Journal of Social Theory 23:2 (2020), 184–199.

Tamm, M, Simon, Z. B. (2020) Historical Thinking and the Human: Introduction. Journal of the Philosophy of History 14:3, 285–309.

Simon, Z. B. (2020) Utopia Without Us? Esboços 27:46, 377-389.

Simon, Z. B. (2021) The Role of History in an Anthropocenic Knowledge Regime. Public History Weekly 9:1. https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/9-2021-1/anthropocene-knowledge-regime/

Simon, Z. B., Tamm, M. (2021) Historical Futures. History and Theory 60:1, 3–22.

Steinmetz, W., Simon, Z. B., Postoutenko, K. (2021) Temporal Comparisons: Evaluating the World through Historical Time. Time & Society 30:4, 447–461.

Simon, Z. B. (2021) Domesticating the Future through History. Time & Society 30:4, 494–516.

Simon, Z. B., Tamm, M., Domańska, E. (2021) Anthropocenic Historical Knowledge. Rethinking History 25:4, 406–439.

Simon, Z. B. Thomas, J. A. (2022) Earth System Science, Anthropocene Historiography, and Three Forms of Human Agency. Isis 113:2, 396–406.

Simon, Z. B. (2023) The Anthropocene and the Planet. History and Theory 62:2, 320-333.

Simon, Z. B. (2023) Disconnective Futures: Uncertainty, Unfathomability, and the Collapse of Narrative Crisis Management. Frontiers of Narrative Studies 9:2, 208–231.

Simon, Z. B. (2024) Les temps humains de l’Anthropocène. [The Human Times of the Anthropocene] Les Temps Qui Restent No. 1. Les temps qui restent | Les temps humains de l’Anthropocène

Simon, Z. B., Tamm, M. (2024) The Opening of Historical Futures. History and Theory 63:3, 303–318

Simon, Z.B. (2025) Historical Futures and the Pull of the Past: On the Poverty of Imagination. Rethinking History. Early view article, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2025.2490390

Simon, Z.B. (2025) The Paradoxes of Anthropocentrism. ] Les Temps Qui Restent No. 5. Les temps qui restent | The Paradoxes of Anthropocentrism

 

Contacts: 

Email: zoltan.simon@istorija.lt 

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8763-7415