David Kretz received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and Department of Germanic Studies. Before that, he studied philosophy, literature, and intellectual history in Paris, Berlin, and his hometown Vienna.
His current book-project restates the old idea of translatio as a form of historical agency adequate to anthropocenic modernity in that it allows us to think what it would mean to mourn large-scale world-loss, creatively and collectively. To this end, he reconstructs historical, practice-immanent translation concepts, combining hermeneutic, sociological, and computational methods, and then integrates these concepts into a contemporary philosophy of history, drawing on psychoanalysis, pragmatism, and critical theory.