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Brandon Bloch is College Fellow in Modern European History at Harvard University. Beginning in August 2020, he will be Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religion, Nation, and Democracy after Nazism.
In a sweeping history of Western philosophy, Jürgen Habermas narrates the progress of humanity through the unfolding of public reason.
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