Deconstruction and History: A Conversation with Ethan Kleinberg

This episode extends the previous discussion on historiography by focusing on two key questions in this field: What is usually left out of the writing of history? And is there a way to productively address the imbalance between the included and excluded elements in the writing of history? My guest is Ethan Kleinberg, who is the Class of 1958 Distinguished Professor and the Chair of the Department of History at Wesleyan University. This conversation is centered on his book Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past, which was published by Stanford University Press in 2017.