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Books

Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2012

European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.

Marx, the Young Hegelians and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999 (paperback edition, 2001; Chinese-language edition in preparation)

Edited Volumes

‘Saupreußen’, Theme issue of Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, vol. 5, no. 4 (Winter 2011),  eds. Warren Breckman, Jonas Maatsch, and Thorsten Valk

Idioten’, Theme issue of Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, vol. 4, no. 2 (Sommer 2010), eds. Warren Breckman, Jost Philipp Klenner, and Wolfert von Rahden

The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory. Essays in Honor of Martin Jay, eds. Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Elliot Neaman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009

Book Chapters

“Žižek, Laclau und das Ende des Postmarxismus,” in Unbedingte Demokratie, ed. Andreas Hetzl. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlag, 2011, 199-214

“Politics, Religion, and Personhood: The Left Hegelians and the Christian German State,” in Politics, Religion and Art: Divisions and Debate in the Hegelian School, ed. Douglas Moggach. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011, 96-117

 “History and Indeterminacy: Making Sense of Pasts Imperfect,” Indeterminacy: The Mapped, the Navigable, and the Uncharted, ed. Jose V. Ciprut. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009, 267-287

“The Return of the King: Hegelianism and Post-Marxism in Žižek and Nancy,” in The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory. Essays in Honor of Martin Jay, eds. Warren Breckman, Peter E. Gordon, A. Dirk Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Elliot Neaman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2009, 117-136

“Die Rückkehr des Königs: Radikaldemokratische Adaptionen eines hegelianischen Motivs bei Jean-Luc Nancy und Slavoj Žižek,” Der französische Hegel, ed. Ulrich Johannes Schneider. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2007, 205-218

“Politik in symbolischer Tonart: Pierre Leroux, der romantische Sozialismus und die Schelling-Affäre,” Hegelianismus und Saint-Simonismus, eds. Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Ludwig Siep, Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Norbert Waszek. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 2007, 201-228   (A French version of this volume is in preparation by Paragon.)

“The Symbolic Dimension and the Politics of Young Hegelianism,” The New Hegelians.  Politics and Philosophy in the Hegelian School, ed. Douglas Moggach. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 67-90

“The Post-Marx of the Letter,” After the Deluge: New Perspectives on Postwar French Intellectual and Cultural History, ed. Julian Bourg. New York: Lexington Books, 2004, 73-100

“Democracy Beyond Nation and Rule?  Reflections on the Democratic Possibilities of Proceduralism,” After National Democracy:  Rights, Law and Power in America and the New Europe, ed. by Lars Tragardh. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004, 143-169

“Emancipation and the Bounds of Meaning: Reading, Representation and Politics in Young Hegelianism,” European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism, ed. by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe. Amersham: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2004, 75-85

“Diagnosing the ‘German Misery’:  Radicalism and the Problem of National Character, 1830-1848,” Between Reform and Revolution:  Studies in the History of German Socialism and Communism, ed. by D.E. Barclay and E.D. Weitz. Oxford:  Berghahn, 1998, 33-61

Articles

“Forum: History of Political Thought,” German History, vol. 30, no. 1 (2012), 75-99

“Ein Fetisch in London,” Gegenworte: Hefte für den Disput über Wissen. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 24 (Herbst 2010), 37-39

 “A Matter of Optics,” Lapham’s Quarterly, vol. III, no. 4 (Fall 2010), 177-185

“Times of Theory: On Writing the History of French Theory,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 71, no. 3 (July 2010), 339-361

“Les hégéliens de gauche et l'État chrétien germanique: politique, religion et personnalité,” La Revue française d' histoire des idées politiques, no 31 (1er Semestre, 2010), 57-80

“Secular Revival,” Lapham’s Quarterly, vol. III, no. 1 (Winter 2010), 203-212

“Die deutschen Radikalen und das Problem des Nationalcharakters 1830–1848,” Marx-Engels Jahrbuch, (2009), 176-207

“The Uses of ‘Creatio ex nihilo’: On the Postmodern Revival of a Theological Trope,” Ideas in History, vol. IV, no. 2(2009), 39-61

Creatio ex nihilo: Zur postmodernen Wiederbelebung einer theologischen Metapher,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, vol. 1, no. 2, (Summer 2007), 13-28

“Konzeption und Geschichte des Journal of the History of Ideas,” Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2007), 106-113

“Demokratie zwischen Entzauberung und politischer Theologie: Zur Rückkehr der Religion im französischen Postmarxismus,” Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 30, 3 (2005), 293-315

“Democracy Between Disenchantment and Political Theology: French Post-Marxism and the Return of Religion,” New German Critique, 94 (Winter, 2005), 72-105

“Zwischen postmoderner Melancholie und postmarxistischer Trauerarbeit: Ernesto Laclau und Chantal Mouffe,” Dialektik. Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, 1 (2005), 51-78

“Politics in a Symbolic Key:  Pierre Leroux, Romantic Socialism and the ‘Schelling Affair’,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 2, no. 1 (Apr. 2005), 61-86

“Emancipation and the Bounds of Meaning: Reading, Representation and Politics in Young Hegelianism,” The European Legacy, vol. 8, no. 4 (August 2003), 425-439

“The Sign of Humanity:  Reading, Representation and Politics in Young Hegelianism,”
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of
European Ideas, ed. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Aberystwyth, 2003; CD-ROM)

“Die Entthronung des Selbst: Marx, die Junghegelianer und der Streit um den
Begriff der Persönlichkeit,” Dialektik: Enzyklopädische Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, 1 (2002), 5-30

“Eduard Gans and the Crisis of Hegelianism,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 62, 3 (July 2001), 543-564  [Winner of the Selma V. Forkosch Prize for the Best Article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas]

“Democratic Theory Between ‘Autonomy’ and ‘Life-World’:  Cornelius Castoriadis and Claude Lefort,” Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, (Haifa, 2001; CD-ROM)

“Imgelemin Oznesi,” Tarih Yaziminda Yeni Yaklasimlar:  Kuresellsme ve Yerellesme, (Istanbul, 2000), 236-247 (“The Subject of the Imaginary”)

“Cornelius Castoriadis contra Postmodernism:  Beyond the ‘French Ideology’,” French Politics and Society, vol. 16, 2 (Spring, 1998), 30-42

“Nationalism, Individualism and Capitalism: Reflections on Liah Greenfeld’s ‘Worth of Nations’,” Critical Review, vol. 10, 3 (Summer, 1996), 389-408 [co-authored with Lars Tragardh, followed by a response from Liah Greenfeld]

“The National Discourse of Radical Internationalism in Vormärz Germany,” Selected Papers from the 1995 Consortium on Revolutionary Europe. Florida,
1996, 616-628

“Ludwig Feuerbach and the Political Theology of Restoration,” History of
Political Thought, vol. 13, 3 (Autumn, 1992), 437-462

“Disciplining Consumption: The Debate About Luxury in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914,” Journal of Social History, vol. 24, 3 (Spring, 1991), 485-505

Articles Forthcoming

“Claude Lefort and the Symbolic Dimension,” Constellations.  An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory

“Politique en Tonalité Symbolique: Pierre Leroux, Le Socialisme Romantique et l’Affaire Schelling,” Hegelianisme et Saint-Simonisme, eds. Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch, Ludwig Siep, Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Norbert Waszek. Paris: Paragon

Responses, Intellectual History: 5 Questions for 25 Intellectual Historians, eds. Frederik Stjernfelt, Morten Haugaard Jeppesen, Mikkel Thorup. Copenhagen: Automatic Press

“Intellectual History and the Interdisciplinary Ideal,” Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History for the Twenty-First Century, eds. Darrin McMahon and Samuel Moyn.  Oxford: Oxford University Press

Web Articles

“A Man of Parts,” Lapham’s Quarterly Online:
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/a-man-of-parts.php

“Canadian Rules,” Lapham’s Quarterly Online:
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/canadian-rules.php

“The Wall Came Tumbling Down,” Lapham’s Quarterly Online:
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/the-wall-came-tumbling
down.php

“Archiving the Future,” Lapham’s Quarterly Online: http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/warren-breckman-post.php

Reviews

Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. By Paige Arthur,” Journal of Modern History (forthcoming)

Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500-1970. By Francesco Boldizzoni,” American Historical Review, vol. 115, no. 1 (February 2010), 190-191
 
From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought.  By Julian Bourg,” Journal of Modern History, vol. 81, no. 1 (March 2009), 207-209

The Idea of the Self. Thought and Experience in Western Europe Since the Seventeenth Century. By Jerrold Seigel,” Journal of British Studies, vol. 46, 1 (Jan. 2007), 158-161

The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer. By Douglas Moggach,” European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 14, 1 (April 2006), 117-121

Defining Germany:  The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity.  By Brian E. Vick,” American Historical Review, vol. 108, no. 5 (December 2003), 1541-1542

Empire of Ecstasy:  Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910-1935. By Karl Toepfer,” Journal of Social History, vol. 36, 2 (Winter 2002), 467-469

Paris Fin de Siècle: Politique et Culture. By Christophe Charle,” Journal of
Social History, vol. 33, 4, (Summer 2000), 978-980

Reading Berlin 1900.  By Peter Fritzsche,” Journal of Social History, vol. 31, 3 (Spring, 1998), 716-718

The Origins of the Authoritarian Welfare State in Prussia:  Conservatives,
Bureaucracy, and the Social Question, 1815-1870.  By Hermann Beck,”
Journal of Social History, vol. 30, 3 (Spring, 1997), 769-771

Am Beginn der Konsumgesellschaft:  Mangelerfahrung, Lebenshaltung,
Wohlstandshoffnung in Westdeutschland in den fünfziger Jahren.  By Michael
Wildt,” Journal of Social History, vol. 29, 2 (Winter, 1995), 179-180

Berlin Cabaret.  By Peter Jelavich,” Journal of Social History, vol. 29, 1 (Fall, 1995), 416-417

Time and Money. The Making of Consumer Culture.  By Gary Cross,” Journal of Social History, vol. 28, 3 (Spring, 1995), 659-660

“Durchbruch zum modernen Massenkonsum.  Edited by Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg,” Journal of Social History, vol. 25, 4 (Summer, 1992), 886-888

Lebenswelt und Kultur der unterbürgerlichen Schichten im 19. und 20.
Jahrhundert.  By Wolfgang Kaschuba,” Journal of Social History, vol. 25, 4
(Summer, 1992), 905-907

After the Wall. East Meets West in the New Berlin. By John Borneman,” Toronto Star, April 13, 1991

Encyclopedia Entries

“Castoriadis, Cornelius,” Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys. Washington: Sage Publications, forthcoming

“Feuerbach, Ludwig,” Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys. Washington: Sage Publications, forthcoming

“Laclau, Ernesto,” Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys. Washington: Sage Publications, forthcoming

“Lefort, Claude,” Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys. Washington: Sage Publications, forthcoming

“Zeitgeist,” A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. by D.R. Woolf.
New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 1998

“Stein, Lorenz von,” A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. by D.R. Woolf.  New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 1998

“Weber, Marianne,” A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, ed. by D.R.

Woolf.  New York:  Garland Publishing Co., 1998

“Consumerism,” Encyclopedia of Social History, ed. by Peter N. Stearns, et. al. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1994