Eric Oberle

Eric Oberle is an associate professor of history in the interdisciplinary humanities and communications faculty group on the Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University.  

Oberle received his doctorate in history and the humanities from Stanford University, and taught at Santa Clara University and at Washington University in Saint Louis before coming to ASU.  

His expertise areas include modern intellectual history, German and French history, political theory and social thought, the history of science and technology. His interests range from political, philosophical and cultural modernity; history of academic disciplines; politics and culture in Central and Western Europe; cultural and political reconstruction in post-World War II Europe; liberalism and its discontents to the Frankfurt School; Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment as trope and tradition; phenomenology and the birth of religious criticism; technology, society and the future of labor; profesional ethics and public policy .