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