Jeffrey Andrew Barash is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Amiens, France. His publications have focused on the themes of political philosophy, historicism and modern German thought. He has served as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bielefeld, Ernst Cassirer Gastprofessor at the University of Hamburg, Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hans-Georg Gadamer Professor at Boston College and Max Planck Fellow at the University of Konstanz. He is the author of Collective Memory and the Historical Past (Chicago UP, 2016) and Shadows of Being: Encounters with Heidegger in Political Theory and Historical Reflection. (Ibidem Verlag, 2022). He is also the co-editor of Die Vergangenheit im Begriff: Von der Erfahrung der Geschichte zur Geschichtstheorie bei Reinhart Koselleck. (Alber, 2021).