Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann is Professor for Late Modern European History at the University of California Berkeley.

His most recent book, Der Riss in der Zeit. Kosellecks ungeschriebene Historik (Suhrkamp, 2023, English translation forthcoming with Princeton UP) is an intellectual biography of Reinhart Koselleck and an exploration of the German historian’s premise that catastrophic experiences of time require a new theory of history. His previous two books traced the afterlives of Enlightenment concepts and social practices (sociability, civil society, cosmopolitanism) in the long nineteenth century and their late twentieth-century resurgence. Currently, he is working on a new history of human rights internationalism from imperial beginnings to its short-lived late twentieth-century global resurgence. Together with Samuel Moyn he is the editor of the Cambridge book series Human Rights in History.