Publications: James Schmidt

 

Books:

A Critical Guide to Kant's Idea for a Universal History [co-editor, with Amelie Rorty] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008)

Theodor Adorno (International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought) [editor] (London: Ashgate, 2007)

What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth Century Answers and Twentieth Century Questions [editor] (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press,1996)

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Between Phenomenology and Structuralism (London: MacMillan Press and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985)

Articles and Review Essays:

“Claiming the Enlightenment for the Left,” Government and Opposition 42:4 (2007) 626-632 [review of Stephen Bronner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Towards a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004)].

The Eclipse of Reason and the End of the Frankfurt School in America,” New German Critique #100 (Winter 2007) 47-76.

"Enlightenment," in Donald Borchert, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006).

"What Enlightenment Was, What it Still Might Be, and Why Kant May Have Been Right After All," American Behavioral Scientist 49:3 (2006) 647-663.

"'Not These Sounds': Beethoven at Mauthausen," Philosophy and Literature 29 (2005) 146-163.

"Mephistopheles in Hollywood: Adorno, Mann, and Schoenberg," The Cambridge Companion to Adorno, ed. Thomas Huhn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) 148-180.

"Inventing the Enlightenment: British Hegelians, Anti-Jacobins, and the Oxford English Dictionary," Journal of the History of Ideas 64:3 (2003) 421-443.

"Immanuel Kant: Texts and Contexts" (Review Essay), Eighteenth Century Studies 37:1 (2003) 147-161 [MUSE]

"The Legacy of the Enlightenment," Philosophy & Literature 26:2 (October 2002) 432-442. Review of Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hanns Reill, editors, What’s Left of Enlightenment? A Postmodern Question (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001) and Daniel Gordon, editor. Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History (London & New York: Routledge, 2001). [MUSE]

"Scholarly Associations and Publications," in The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) IV:28-33.

"Introduction" to Moses Mendelssohn, The First English Translations and Biography (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002) v-xxi.

"Projects and Projections: A Response to Christian Delacampagne," Political Theory 29:1 (February 2001) 86-90.

"What Enlightenment Project?", Political Theory 28:6 (December 2000) 734-757.

"Is Civility a Virtue?", in Civility, ed. Leroy Rouner. [Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion, Volume 21] (South Bend, Ind:University of Notre Dame Press, 2000).

"Genocide and the Limits of Enlightenment: Horkheimer and Adorno Revisited," in Genocide and the Contradictions of Modernity, ed. Bo Strath (Peter Lang/European University Institute Press, 2000

"How Historical is Begriffsgeschichte?," History of European Ideas25 (1999) 9-14 [Elsevier].

"Liberalism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Germany," Critical Review13 (1999) 31-53.

"Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment: Historical Notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment," Social Research 65:4 (Winter 1998) 807-838.

"Civility, Enlightenment, and Society: Conceptual Confusions and Kantian Remedies," American Political Science Review, 92:2 (June 1998) 419-27.

"Cabbage Heads and Gulps of Water: Hegel on the Terror," Political Theory, 26:1 (1998) 4-32.

"The Fool's Truth: Diderot, Goethe, and Hegel," Journal of the History of Ideas, 57:4 (1996) 625-644].

"Habermas on Foucault" in Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves, editor Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996).

"Civil Society and Social Things: Setting the Boundaries of the Social Sciences" in Social Research 62:4 (Winter 1995) 899-932.

"Kant and the Politics of Enlightenment: Reason, Faith, and Revolution," Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture Vol. 25 (1995) 239-258.

"Foucault's Enlightenment" (with Thomas Wartenberg) in Michael Kelley, ed. Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994) 283-314.

"What Enlightenment Was: How Moses Mendelssohn and Immanuel Kant Responded to the Berlinische Monatsschrift ", Journal of the History of Philosophy XXX:1 (1992) 77-102

"Kant, Mendelssohn, and the Question of Enlightenment", Journal of the History of Ideas L:2 (1989) 269-292.

"Habermas and the Discourse of Modernity" [Review Essay], Political Theory 17:2 (1989) 315-320 [JSTOR]

"A Raven with a Halo: The Translation of Aristotle's Politics ", History of Political Thought , VII:2, (1986) 295-319.

"Religion and the Social Fabric: Comments on Niklas Luhmann", Sociological Analysis 46:1 (1985) 21-26.

"Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Politics, Phenomenology, and Ontology" (Review Essay), Human Studies 6:3 (1983) 295-308.

"Luhmann in English"(Review Essay), Contemporary Sociology 12:2 (1983) 133-4.

"Paideia for the 'Bürger als Bourgeois ': The Concept of 'Civil Society' in Hegel's Political Thought", History of Political Thought , II:3 (1982) 469-493.

"Jürgen Habermas and the Difficulties of Enlightenment", Social Research 49:1 (1982) 181-208 [Italian translation in Communita 37:185 (1983)]

"Recent Hegel Literature: General Surveys and the Young Hegel", Telos #46 (1981) 113-148.

"Recent Hegel Literature: The Jena Period and the Phenomenology of Spirit ", Telos #48 (1981) 114-141

"Aspects of Technology in Marx and Rousseau" (with James Miller) in The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions , ed. Teresa de Lauretis, Andreas Huyssen, and Kathleen Woodward (Madison, Wisconsin: Coda Press, 1980) 85-94.

"Lordship and Bondage in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty", Political Theory , VII:2 (1979) 201-227 [JSTOR]

"Offensive Critical Theory?", Telos #39 (1979) 62-70.

"Reification and Recollection: Emancipatory Intentions and the Sociology of Knowledge", Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory , II:1 (1978) 89-111.

"Praxis and Temporality: Kosík's Political Theory", Telos #33 (1977) 71-84 [Swedish translation in Tekla #6, 1979, pp. 49-63]

"The Concrete Totality and Lukács' Theory of Proletarian Bildung ", Telos #24 (1975) 2-40 [reprinted as Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, Monograph #76] .

"Adventures of the Dialectic" (Review Essay), Philosophy of the Social Sciences 5 (1975) 168-180.


Reviews (excluding short notes):

Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) in Journal of the History of Philosophy XXXVIII:3 (July 2000) 451-2.

Mark Hulliung, The Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994) in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 34:3 (1996), 465-6.

Samuel Beer, To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 1993) in Boston Sunday Globe , February 28, 1993, B36

Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen, Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992) in Social Science Quarterly 74:2 (1993) pp. 451-2

David Frisby, Fragments of Modernity (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986) in The International Journal of Philosophy XXII:1 (1990) pp. 102-103

Georgia Warnke,Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Traditions, and Reason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987) in Social Science Quarterly 69:4 (1988) 1033-1034.

David Berlinski, Black Mischief: The Mechanics of Modern Science (New York: Morrow, 1986) in New York Times Book Review , Sunday, April 27, 1986, 23.

Gaston Bachelard, The New Scientific Spirit (Boston: Beacon Press, 1984) in New York Times Book Review , Sunday, March 24, 1985, 19.

Morton Schoolman, The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (New York: Free Press, 1980) and George Friedman, The Political Theory of the Frankfurt School (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981) in Ethics 93:2 (1983) 397-9.

Paul Connerton, The Tragedy of Enlightenment: An Essay on the Frankfurt School (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) and Phil Slater, Origin and Significance of the Franfurt School: A Marxist Perspective (London: Routledge, 1977) in Journal of Modern History 53:2 (1981) 307-9 [JSTOR]

Jürgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979) in Social Science Quarterly 61:1 (1980) 167-8.

Nicos Poulantzas, Classes in Contemporary Capitalism (London: N.L.B., 1978) and Eric Olin Wright, Class, Crisis, and the State (London, N.L.B., 1978) in Journal of Politics 41 (1979) 992-4.

Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977) in Social Science Quarterly 59:3 (1978).

Richard Bernstein, The Restructuring of Political and Social Theory (New York: Harcourt, 1976) in Telos #36, (1978) 192-7.

Barry Smart, Sociology, Phenomenology, and Marxian Analysis (London: Routledge, 1976) in Social Science Quarterly 58:1 (1977) 185-6.

John O'Neill, Making Sense Together (New York: Harper and Row, 1974) in Telos #26 (1976) 205-13.

John O'Neill, Sociology as a Skin Trade (London: Heineman, 1972) in Telos #14 (1972) 145-52.

 

Digital Media:

The Enlightenment: Reason, Tolerance, Humanity (Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, 2005).


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