Tyson Ashley Retz

Førsteamanuensis i idéhistorie

Tyson Ashley Retz

Kontakt

Telefon: 51833021

E-post: tyson.retz@uis.no

Sted: HG O-237

Organisasjonsenhet

Fakultet for utdanningsvitenskap og humaniora

Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap

Kort om meg

Tyson Retz is an intellectual historian and philosopher of history with a PhD from the University of Melbourne (2016). His first book Empathy and History (Berghahn 2018) explains the role that the concept of empathy played in providing history with a philosophical foundation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Critical of the psychologism of that tradition, the book develops an alternative to 'empathetic understanding' based on Gadamer’s hermeneutical reception of Collingwood’s logic of question and answer.

His second book Progress and the Scale of History appears in the Cambridge Elements series Historical Theory and Practice. The Element explores the idea of progress within different conceptions of history from antiquity to the present day. Retz is also the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles that share a concern with the philosophical traditions underpinning different conceptions of history. He is currently an editor of the Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method digital resource, and he sits on the board of the History Education Research Journal.

Visiting appointments have taken him to the University of British Columbia (2014), Tallinn University (2018) and the University of Oslo (2021). In 2024-25, he is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Vienna. 

PhD supervisions: Jacob Tom (2021-24), 'Radical Moderation: Time and History in Twentieth-Century Norwegian Literature'.

Peer-reviewed scholarly works:

Books

  • Progress and the Scale of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018. In paperback in 2022 with a foreword by Allan Megill. 

Articles / chapters

  • 'The Past in Question: History as Past and Present Problem-Spaces', Journal of the Philosophy of History 18, 2 (2024), 213-22.
  • 'Idea or Concept? Progress in Comparative Methodological Perspective', Journal of the Philosophy of History 17, 3 (2023), 452-71.
  • 'Teaching History on the Scale of the Anthropocene: Three Ethical Challenges', Historical Encounters 9, 2 (2022), 7-17.
  • ‘Progress’, in Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, eds Stefan Berger, Berber Bevernage, Maria Grever, Tracey Loughran, Tyson Retz, Edward Wang and Ogechukwu Williams. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
  • 'Inside Historical Re-enactment', in Historical Re-enactment: New Ways of Experiencing History, eds Mario Carretero, Brady Wagoner and Everado Perez-Manjarrez, 185-201. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022.
  • ‘Didactics’, in Routledge Companion to Historical Theory, ed. Chiel van den Akker, 414-29. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • 'The Open Future in Peril: the Anthropocene and the Political Agent of Humanistically Oriented Historiography', Rethinking History 25, 4 (2021), 440-57. 
  • ‘Empathy’, in Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method, eds Stefan Berger, Berber Bevernage, Maria Grever, Tracey Loughran, Edward Wang and Ogechukwu Williams. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
  • ‘Teaching Empathy and the Critical Examination of Historical Evidence’, in Historical Thinking for History Teachers, eds Tim Allender, Anna Clark and Robert Parkes, 89–101. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2019.  
  • and Stuart Macintyre, ‘The Honours Conception of History’, History Australia 15, 4 (2018), 804–22.
  • ‘Why Re-enactment is not Empathy, Once and for All’, Journal of the Philosophy of History 11, 4 (2017), 606–23.
  • ‘The Structure of Historical Inquiry’, Educational Philosophy and Theory 49, 6 (2017), 606–17.
  • ‘At the Interface: Academic History, School History and the Philosophy of History’, Journal of Curriculum Studies 48, 4 (2016), 503–17.                              
  • ‘History, the Philosophy of History and History Education’, Agora (Sungraphô) 50, 1 (2015), 4–11.
  • ‘A Moderate Hermeneutical Approach to Empathy in History Education’, Educational Philosophy and Theory 47, 3 (2015), 214–26.

Edited works:

  • Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method (digital resource), section editor "Historiography, Theory and Method"
  • guest editor, Educational Philosophy and Theory 49, 6 (2017), history education special issue. See also the introduction. 

Other articles:

  • ‘Historical Reenactment: Limitations and Possibilities’, Fortid 17, 2 (2020), 38–41.
  • ‘Limitaciones y posibilidades de la reconstrucción histórica’, Íber. Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales, Geografía e Historia 97 (2019), 35–40. 
  • ‘Against Empathy in History?’ Public History Weekly 6 (2018), 27.
  • ‘Doing Historical Empathy’, Agora 47, 3 (2012), 40–46.

Reviews and commentary:

  • ‘Tolstoy’s Anthropocene’, commentary on Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, ‘The Role of History in an Anthropocenic Knowledge Regime’, Public History Weekly 9 (2021), 1.
  • Review of Michael J. Kelly and Arthur Rose (eds), Theories of History: History Read across the Humanities. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Journal of Cognitive Historiography 5, 1–2 (2018–19). 4 pp.
  • Review of Georgios Patios, Kierkegaard on the Philosophy of History. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. International Network for Theory of History.

Media and interviews:

  • ‘The Question of Scale in History and History Education’, #PastFwd provocation, 13 November 2020.
  • I Bokhylla – ‘Theories of History’, Fortid 16, 4 (2019), p. 112-113
  • ‘How Empathy Can Help Students Grasp Past and Present’, Alpha Galileo, 12 March 2019.
  • Emerging Historians Q&A – Tyson Retz. Australian Historical Association.

Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2024)

The Past in Question: History as Past and Present Problem-Spaces.

Journal of the Philosophy of History.

ISSN 1872-261X.

Volum 18.

Hefte 2.

s.213-222.

DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341528

Retz, Tyson

(2023)

Idea or Concept? Progress in Comparative Methodological Perspective.

Journal of the Philosophy of History.

ISSN 1872-261X.

Volum 17.

Hefte 3.

s.452-471.

DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341508

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Didactics. I: The Routledge companion to historical theory.

Routledge.

ISBN 9780367421083.

s.414-429.

DOI: 10.4324/9780367821814-26

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Teaching history on the scale of the Anthropocene: Three ethical challenges.

Historical Encounters Journal.

ISSN 2203-7543.

Volum 9.

Hefte 2.

s.7-17.

DOI: 10.52289/hej9.202

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Progress and the Scale of History.

Cambridge University Press.

ISBN 9781009026758.

Hefte ..

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

Tolstoy's Anthropocene.

Public History Weekly.

ISSN 2197-6376.

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

Empathy. I: Bloomsbury history : theory & method.

Bloomsbury Publishing.

ISBN 9781350212510.

DOI: 10.5040/9781350970809.007

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

Progress. I: Bloomsbury history : theory & method.

Bloomsbury Publishing.

ISBN 9781350212510.

DOI: 10.5040/9781350915831.157

Retz, Tyson

(2020)

Historical Reenactment: Limitations and Possibilities.

Fortid.

ISSN 1504-1913.

Volum 17.

Hefte 2.

s.38-41.

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

Limitacions y posibildades de la reconstrucción histórica.

Iber: Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales, Geographía et Historia.

ISSN 1133-9810.

Hefte 97.

s.45-50.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2018)

Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education .

Berghahn Books.

ISBN 9781785339196.

Retz, Tyson

(2018)

Against Empathy in History?.

Public History Weekly.

ISSN 2197-6376.

Volum 6.

Hefte 27.

DOI: 10.1515/phw-2018-12489

Retz, Tyson; Macintyre, Stuart

(2018)

The honours conception of history.

History Australia.

ISSN 1449-0854.

Volum 15.

Hefte 4.

s.804-822.

DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2018.1514267

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Why re-enactment is not empathy, once and for all.

Journal of the Philosophy of History.

ISSN 1872-261X.

Volum 11.

Hefte 4.

s.606-623.

DOI: 10.1163/18722636-12341376

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

The structure of historical inquiry.

Educational Philosophy and Theory.

ISSN 0013-1857.

Volum 49.

Hefte 6.

s.606-617.

DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2015.1101365

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2016)

At the interface: academic history, school history and the philosophy of history.

Journal of Curriculum Studies.

ISSN 0022-0272.

Volum 48.

Hefte 4.

s.503-517.

DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2015.1114151

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

History, the philosophy of history and history education.

Agora (Melbourne).

ISSN 0044-6726.

Volum 50.

Hefte 1.

s.4 -11.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

A moderate hermeneutical approach to empathy in history education.

Educational Philosophy and Theory.

ISSN 0013-1857.

Volum 47.

Hefte 3.

s.214-216.

DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2013.838661

Formidling

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2024)

'It's the Historical Method, Stupid': Philosophy of History as Methodological Command.

Past the Post: Philosophy of History after Postmodernism ;

2024-05-06 - 2024-05-07.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2024)

‘The Responsible Agent: History and Existentialism’.

International Network for Theory of History (INTH) conference;

2024-05-21 - 2024-05-24.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2024)

Who Do You Think You Are? SBS Australian television series, episode 3 season 15. .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2024)

The Political Time of Nineteenth-Century Liberalism.

The Political Time of the Nineteenth Century ;

2024-06-07 - 2024-06-08.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2024)

Rebellion Against Determinism in Historical Perspective: The Underground Man’s Refusal of History.

Hermeneutics of the Underground: Returning to Dostoevsky in Turbulent Times;

2024-12-19 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2023)

Three Categories of Progress, Three Histories of the Twentieth Century.

Thinking the Twentieth Century conference;

2023-02-01 - 2023-02-03.

Retz, Tyson

(2023)

Idea or Concept? Progress in Comparative Methodological Perspective.

Philosophy of History Seminar;

2023-02-09 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2023)

Progress and the Scale of History.

University of Melbourne History Brown Bag;

2023-03-02 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2023)

"When Human Beings Began to Act Purposefully”: Belief in Progress as Belief in a Modern Age.

Periodisation and Time in History: Perspectives from Germany, Europe and the Middle East;

2023-03-29 - 2023-03-30.

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Organiser and chair, "Environmental Hermeneutics, Place and Rewilding" by Martin Drenthen (Radboud University, Netherlands).

Hermeneutics and Subject Education seminar series;

2022-03-24 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Progress and the Scale of History.

International Network for Theory of History conference;

2022-04-26 - 2022-04-29.

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Organiser and chair, ‘Environmental Hermeneutics and Ecocriticism'..

Hermeneutics and Subject Education seminar series;

2022-06-09 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Five Categories of Progress.

Practical Philosophy seminar;

2022-05-19 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2022)

Progress and Time.

LIFETIMES research seminar ;

2022-06-26 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

The Hermeneutics of Question and Answer.

Hermeneutics and Subject Education seminar series;

2021-02-17 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

Empathy and History.

Abt. Geschichtswissenschaft;

2021-05-19 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

The Idea of Progress in the Eighteenth Century.

History of Ideas MA seminar, University of Oslo;

2021-11-03 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

Progress and the Scale of History.

History of Ideas Lunchtime Seminar;

2021-11-12 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

The Idea of Progress.

History, Memory & National Identity MA course;

2021-11-29 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

Progress and the Scale of History.

Centre for Historical Culture research seminar;

2021-12-02 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2021)

The Concept of Progress: New Explorations.

Huizinga Institute masterclass;

2021-12-03 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2020)

Chair and discussant, Powerful Knowledge in Historical Teaching and Learning, guest seminar with Arthur Chapman (UK) and Kenneth Nodgren (Sweden). .

Powerful Knowledge in Historical Teaching and Learning ;

2020-02-12 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2020)

The Open Future as a Moral Imperative .

International Symposium History and Moral Encounters;

2020-10-12 - 2020-10-13.

Retz, Tyson

(2020)

The Question of Scale in History and History Education.

#Pastfwd International Conversations about History Education;

2020-11-13 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

How empathy can help students grasp past and present.

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

History's Disciplinary Identity .

NOFA7​, Nordic Conference on​ Teaching and Learning in Curriculum Subjects;

2019-05-13 - 2019-05-15.

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

History, Science and Politics: Collingwood and Popper in the Interwar Years .

Between the Times: Is there an interwar intellectual history? ;

2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08.

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

History, Science, and the Concept of Progress in Twentieth-Century Political Thought .

Lund University History Guest Seminar;

2019-11-28 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

Empathy and Perspective Taking .

St. Svithun videregående skole;

2019-12-04 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

A Method for Progress: Popper and Collingwood.

Institute of Historical Research, Philosophy of History series ;

2019-12-12 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

I bokhylla - Theories of History .

Fortid.

ISSN 1504-1913.

Volum 16.

Hefte 4.

s.112-113.

Retz, Tyson

(2019)

Theories of History: History Read across the Humanities, reviewed by Tyson Retz.

Journal of Cognitive Historiography.

ISSN 2051-9672.

Volum 5.

Hefte 1-2.

DOI: 10.1558/jch.39544

Retz, Tyson

(2018)

Whose historical consciousness? .

History Educators International Research Network ;

2018-08-31 - 2018-09-02.

Retz, Tyson

(2018)

The poverty of whose historicism? .

Tallinn University;

2018-11-22 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2018)

Inside Historical Re-enactment.

International Workshop on Re-enactment;

2018-11-01 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2018)

Colligation in Historical Method.

Researching the Past (core history course in PhD program);

2018-05-24 - .

Retz, Tyson

(2018)

Emerging Historians Q&A—Tyson Retz.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Introduction to history education special issue.

Educational Philosophy and Theory.

ISSN 0013-1857.

Volum 49.

Hefte 6.

s.588-592.

DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1179555

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

The State of History as a Discipline in Australian Universities.

Australian Historical Association conference;

2017-07-07 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

The Logic of Question and Answer.

History and Philosophy of Science seminar series;

2017-09-13 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 6/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-23 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 7/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-25 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 5/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-18 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 3/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-16 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 4/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-17 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 2/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-11 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2017)

Empathy in Historical Understanding (lecture series 1/7).

Guest lecture;

2017-01-09 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2016)

Academic History and School History.

University of Melbourne Historical and Philosophical Studies Fellows Group;

2016-11-30 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2016)

Struggles over the Teaching of History in Australian Schools.

Melbourne Free University;

2016-10-06 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

Structural Concepts in the Teaching of History.

Historical Theory and History Education Symposium;

2015-11-19 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

At the Interface: Academic History, School History and the Philosophy of History.

Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia conference;

2015-12-05 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

The Structure of Historical Inquiry.

Australian Historical Association conference;

2015-07-06 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

The Logic of Question and Answer: the Twentieth Century’s Answer to Historicist Naïveté.

History of Twentieth-Century Historiography conference;

2015-06-18 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2015)

Empathy in Historical Method.

Researching the Past (core history course in PhD program);

2015-05-20 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2014)

Comments on historical consciousness .

Doctoral seminar in Curriculum and Pedagogy;

2014-11-05 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2014)

Manuel Gelman’s Contribution to French Language and Culture in Australia.

AGM of the Alliance Française de Melbourne;

2014-05-26 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2013)

Explaining Human Agency in History Education: Empathy or Rational Understanding?.

Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia conference;

2013-12-06 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2013)

Historical Empathy or Empathy-in-History? Conceptual Considerations.

Australian Historical Association conference;

2013-07-08 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2013)

Writing and Research.

Master of Teaching welcome lecture;

2013-03-13 - .

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2012)

Doing historical empathy.

Agora (Melbourne).

ISSN 0044-6726.

Volum 47.

Hefte 3.

s.40-46.

Retz, Tyson Ashley

(2012)

Reflections on Practice.

Catholic Education Office Graduate Teacher Conference;

2012-05-22 - .