Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent book is American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas (2012).

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Written by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Photo showing the reflection of an indoor scene with American flags, silhouettes of people and an outdoor cityscape with a bridge at dusk.

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Politics and government

American dreaming 3.0

Embrace dreams as a counter to the naive realism of politics today, and they could become a potent democratic force

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

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Self-improvement

The lost hope of self-help

Habits – good or bad – were once a matter of ethical seriousness. Are they now just another technology of self-absorption?

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen