Elliot Neaman

Elliot Neaman (born 1957) is a professor of history at the University of San Francisco, where he began teaching in 1993. He is an expert in modern European intellectual history, especially twentieth century Germany. Neaman is also one of the editors of a Festschrift for his mentor from UC Berkeley, Prof. Martin Jay, called The Modernist Imagination (Berghahn 2009).

Neaman's first book, A Dubious Past, Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism (UC Press, 1999) introduced a "critical reception history" of the German writer. Neaman has also written introductions to new translations of Ernst Jünger's works, including The Adventurous Heart, along with Eliah Bures. In 2015 a Swedish publisher, Edda, brought out the first English translation of Ernst Jünger's postwar novel A Visit to Godenholm, which is a veiled account of an LSD drug trip. Neaman wrote the introduction to the book. Neaman also writes about contemporary issues in European economics and foreign policy. In 2014 he co-published "LIght at the End of the Tunnel; the Eurozone's Sovereign Debt Problem in The Journal of World Economics.

Neaman's latest book is about the youth revolts in Germany in the 1960s and terrorism in the 1970s, Free Radicals; Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerillas and Germany's Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s (Telos Press, 2016).