Publications
Books
- Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil,
Doderer (Chicago, 2003)
- Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses,
co-translated and edited with Burton Pike (Chicago, 1990). [Paperback
edition, 1994.]
- Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture:
1880-1942 (Berkeley, 1980). [Second edition,
paperback, 1984.]
Work in Progress
The Austrian Tradition in German Culture: An Intellectual
History
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906 to
1929
Articles
- "Austrian Intellectual History and Bohemia," The Austrian History Yearbook 38 (2007).
- "Das Intellektuelle Leben Österreichs in seiner Beziehung sur deutschen Sprache und der modernen Kultur," Working Paper, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Fall 2006.
- "Thinking About Sexuality and Gender in Vienna," in Sexuality in Austria, volume XV of Contemporary Austrian Studies, ed. Günter Bischof/Anton Pelinka, Dagmar Herzog, Guest Editor, fall 2006, pp. 21-30.
- "Hugo von Hafmannsthal," Encyclopedia
of Europe: 1789-1914, ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter, Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, Fall 2006.
- "Robert Musil," Encyclopedia of Europe:
1789-1914, ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter, Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York, Fall 2006.
- "Cultural Memory and Intellectual History: Locating
Austrian Literature," accepted for publication in Gender, History
and Memory, Vol. 1 of Studies of the Twentieth Century Literature,
ed. Maria Regina Kecht.
- "Weininger and Doderer," accepted for publication
in Otto Weininger's Sex and Character: A Centenary Re-evaluation,
ed. Daniel Steuer.
- "Rekonfigurationen von Irrationalismus und Naturwissenschaft
im Denken Robert Musils," Musil Forum.
- "Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Human Sciences,"
in Metropole Wien, ed. Roman Horak, et. al., Vienna, 2000,
Vol. 2, pp. 34-37.
- "Being and German History: Historiographical Notes
on the Heidegger Controversy," Central European History,
Vol. 27, Nr. 4, 1994, pp. 479-501.
- "The Writer and Austrian Culture: Robert Musil
and Heimito von Doderer," in The Habsburg Legacy: National
Identity in Historical Persepctive, ed. Ritchie Robertson and Edward
Timms, Edinburgh, 1994, pp. 136-143.
- "Eros and Apperception in Heimito von Doderer's
Tangenten," Philosophie, Psychoanalyse, Emigration,
ed. Peter Muhr, et. al., Vienna, 1992, pp. 194-209.
- "Austria as a Region of German Culture: 1900-1938,"
Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XXIII, 1992, pp. 135-148.
- "Ruminations of a Slow-witted Mind," by Robert
Musil, trans. with Burton Pike, in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 17,
No. 1, 1990, pp. 46-61.
- "Science and Irrationalism in Freud's Vienna,"
Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1990, pp. 89-97.
- "Austrian Intellectuals in the First Republic:
Psychology, Philosophy, Literature," Austria Between Wars:
Dream and Reality, Washington, D.C., 1988, pp. 17-35.
- "Austrian History as a Field of Study in the United
States," in Modern Austrian Literature, Volume 20, Number
3/4, 1987, pp. 1-15.
- "Austrian Intellectuals and the Palace of Justice
Fire," in The Austrian Socialist Experiment, ed. by Anson
Rabinbach, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1985, pp. 151-156.
- "Robert Musil," in Great Foreign Language
Writers, St. Martin's, London, 1984.
- "Otto Weininger als Figur des Fin de siècle,"
Otto Weininger: Werk und Wirkung, ed. Jacques Le Rider and
Norbert Leser, Vienna, 1984, pp. 71-79.
- "Schopenhauer, Austria, and the Generation of
1905," in Central European History, March 1983, pp. 53-75.
Book Reviews
- Deborah R. Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, for The Journal of Modern History, forthcoming.
- Heinz Politzer, Freud and Tragedy, for Modern Austrian Literature, forthcoming.
- "Eros as a Metaphor: Author's Response,"
H-Net-HABSBURG, December 2005.
- Gassen und Landschaften. Heimito von Doderers 'Dämonen'
vom Zentrum und vom Rande aus betrachtet,
ed. Gerald Sommer (Schriften der Heimito von Doderer-Gesellschaft
3), for Austrian Studies, 13, 2005, pp. 276-278.
- Charles Bambach, Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche,
National Socalism, and the Greeks, for The Journal of Modern
History, Vol. 77, No. 3, September 2005, pp. 757-759.
- Nietzsche: Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and
Abuses of Philosophy, ed. Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich,
for Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, Autumn
2003, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 203-209.
- Peter Thaler, The Ambivalence of Identity: The
Austrian Experience of Nation-Building in a Modern Society, for
Central European History, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2003, pp. 634-636.
- Robin Okey, The Hapsburg Monarchy: From Enlightenment
to Eclipse, for Central European History, Vo. 36, No.
1, 2003, pp. 142-144.
- Stefan Jonsson, Subject without Nation: Robert
Musil and the History of Modern Identity, for Central European
History, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2002, pp. 290-291.
- Chandak Sengoopta, Otto Weininger: Sex, Science,
and Self in Imperial Vienna, for Central European History,
Vol. 35, No. 4, 2002, pp. 608-611.
- Felix W. Tweraser, Political Dimensions of Arthur
Schnitzler's Late Fiction, for The Austrian History Yearbook,
Vol. 33, 2002, pp. 284-286.
- Johann Dvorák, Politik und die Kultur der
Moderne in der späten Habsburger Monarchie, for The Austrian
History Yearbook, Vol. 33, 2002, pp. 310-311.
- Allan S. Janik and Hans Veigl, Wittgenstein in
Vienna: Biographical Excursion through the City and its History,
for Central European History, Vo. 34, No. 1, 2001, pp. 128-130.
- Anson Rabinbach, In the Shadow of Catastrophe:
German Intellectuals between Apocalyse and Enlightenment, for Central
European History, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1999, pp. 247-249.
- Karlheinz Rossbacher, Literatur und Liberalismus:
Zur Kultur der Ringstrassenzeit in Wien, for The Austrian History
Yearbook, Vol. XXV, 1994, pp. 253-255.
- Sander, Gilman, The Jew's Body, for The
Journal of Modern History, September 1994, pp. 572-574.
- Kurt R. Fischer, Philosophie aus Wien, for
Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1993, pp. 179-182.
- Silvia Ferretti, Cassirer, Panofsky, and Warburg:
Symbol, Art, and History, trans. by Richard Pierce, for The
American Historical Review, October 1991, pp. 1224-1225.
- William J. McGrath, Freud's Discovery of Psychoanalysis:
The Politics of Hysteria, for The Journal of Modern History,
December 1987, pp. 888-890.
- Michael Worbs, Nervenkunst: Literatur und Psychoanalyse
im Wien der Jahrhundertwende and Jacques Le Rider, Le Cas Otto
Weininger: Racines de l'antiféminisme et de l'antisémitisme,
for The American Historical Review, October 1987, pp.
1001-1003.
- Peter Becher, Der Untergang Kakaniens: Darstellung
eines historischen Phänomens, for Musil Forum, 1985/86,
pp. 205-208.
- Hermann Broch, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time:
The European Imagination, 1860-1920, trans. by Michael P. Steinberg,
for The American Historical Review, June 1985, pp. 727-728.
- Barry Smith, ed., Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy
and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her Successor States, for
East Central Europe, Vol. 11, 1984, pp. 228-229.
- Friedrich Stadler, Vom Positivismus zur "Wissenschaftlichen
Weltauffassung," Ernst Mach in Österreich von 1895 bis 1934,
for East Central Europe, Vo. 11, 1984, pp. 226-227.
- Robert Musil, Oh Mach's Theories, intro. by
G.H. von Wright, for the Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XIX-XX/1,
1983-1984, pp. 388-389.
- Margit von Mises, Ludwig von Mises: Der Mensch
und sein Werk, for the Austrian History Yearbook, Vol.
XIX-XX/1, 1983-1984, pp. 385-386.
- J. C. Nyíri, ed. Austrian Philosophy: Studies
and Texts, for the Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XIX-XX/1,
1983-1984, pp. 382-385.
- Robert A. Kann (comp'l and ed.), Briefe an, von
und um Josephine von Wertheimstein, for the Austrian History
Yearbook, Vol. XIX-XX/1, 1983-1984, pp. 366-368.
- James Shedel, Art and Society: The New Art Movement
in Vienna 1897-1914, for The American Historical Review,
April 1983, pp. 426-427.
- Response to three reviews, for a discussion of my Robert
Musil in Musil Forum, August 1982, pp. 231-234.
- Alexander Rüstow, Freedom and Domination:
A Historical Critique of Civilization, for The Journal of
Modern History, June 1982, pp. 339-341.
- David Gross, The Writer and Society: Heinrich Mann
and Literary Politics in Germany, 1890-1940, for The American
Historical Review, April 1981, pp. 413-414.
- Brigitte Hamann, Rudolf: Kronprinz und Rebell,
for The American Historical Review, April 1980, pp. 421-422.
Papers and Panels
- Chair, Panel on "Prostitution, Racial, Others,' and the Transgression of National Boundaries in Central Europe, 1900-2006," German Studies Association, San Diego, California, October 6, 2007.
- Chair, Panel on "Art, Design and Architecture around 1900," Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, April 14, 2007.
- Chair and Commentator, "Unsettled Subjectivities: Husserl, Capek, Broch, and the Austrian Intellectual Experience, 1890-1938," American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 6, 2007.
- Discussant, Workshop on "Body, Technology, and Society in Prewar Germany," Minerva Institute for German History, Tel Aviv University, Israel, May 28, 2006.
- Chair, Panel on "Pathologies of Heimat and Calamity: W.G. Sebald Reads Austrian Literature," Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 22, 2006.
- Chair, Panel on "Race and Masculinity in Weimar
Culture," Second International Workshop on Gender in German Jewish
History, University of California, San Diego, December 13, 2005.
- Chair, Panel on Kundera, Bernhard, and Bachmann, Modern
Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference: "Transcending
the Borders," University of Montana, April 23,2005.
- "Austrian Literature and Bohemia,"Modern
Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference: "Transcending
the Borders," University of Montana, April 22,2005.
- "The Austrian Tradition in German Culture,"
European Studies, UC San Diego, March 9, 2005.
- "Die Geistesgeschichte Österreichs,"
Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw, Poland, January 20,2005.
- Das Intellektuelle Leben Österreichs in seiner
Beziehung zur Deutschen Sprache und der Modernen Kultur, "Internationales
Forschungsinstitut Kulturwissenschaften, "Vienna, Austria, December
13, 2004.
- "Cultural Memory and Intellectual History: Locating
Austrian Literature," Modern Austrian Literature, Rice University,
April 23, 2004.
- "Intellectual History and the 'Other' Germany,"
New Research and Writing in Modern German History, University of California,
Berkeley, February 28, 2004.
- "Eros and Inwardness in Vienna," The Humanities
Dialogues, with Stephen Cox, UCSD Center for the Humanities, October
22, 2003.
- "Weininger and Doderer," for a Conference
on Otto Weininger's Sex and Character: A Centenary Re-evaluation, University
of Sussex, United Kingdom, June 29, 2003.
- "Reading, Thinking, Writing: Notes on Historical
Method," Methods of Inquiry, Marshall College, UCSD, March 5, 2003.
- "The Long Twentieth Century: Vienna 1900 and the
World of 2003," Institute for Continued Learning, UCSD, February
14, 2003.
- "Eros and Inwardness in Vienna," Faculty
Luncheon, UCSD, November 27, 2002.
- "Rekonfigurationen von Irrationalismus und Naturwissenschaft
in Wien: Naturwissenschaft im Denken Robert Musils," for a Symposium
of the International Robert Musil Society in Saarbrücken, Germany,
June 6, 2001.
- "Thinking about Sexuality and Gender in Vienna:
1900-1955," Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Temple School
of Medicine, February 9, 2001.
- Commentator for session on "The German Other,"
American Historical Association Convention, Boston, January 5, 2001.
- "Between Austria and Germany," Southern California
German History Workshop, University of Southern California, November
10, 2000.
- "Intellectual History and the Humanities,"
Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, San Diego, April 8, 2000.
- Commentator for session on "Invisible Minorities?
Ethnicity, Film and Literature in Postwar Japan and Germany," Association
for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 10, 2000.
- "Eros and Inwardness in Vienna," Arts and
Humanities Faculty, University of California, San Diego, October 27,
1998.
- "Psychology and Literature: Robert Musil and the
Realm of the Feelings," CME Conference, Department of Psychiatry,
Reading Hospital and Medical Center, December 9, 1997.
- "Commencement Address," Revelle College,
UCSD, June 15, 1997.
- "European Culture between Vienna and Berlin: 1880-1914,"
Conference on the Music and Thought of Arnold Schoenberg," University
of Minnesota School of Music, May 18, 1996.
- "Otto Weininger on Judaism and Christianity,"
Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies, San Diego State University, March
6, 1996.
- "Beyond the Fin-de-Siècle: Germany,
Generations, and Genders," Symposium at the Center for Austrian
Studies, University of Minnesota, October 12, 1995.
- "Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Human Sciences
in Vienna around 1900," Workshop on Viennese Modernism, Wiener
Beiträge zur Moderne, Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung,
Vienna, May 26, 1995.
- "Otto Weininger on Judaism and Christianity,"
Modern Language Association, December 29, 1994.
- "The Writer and Austrian Culture: Robert Musil
and Heimito von Doderer," Symposium on "The Hapsburg Legacy:
National Identity in Historical Perspective," Institute of Germanic
Studies, London , September 24, 1992.
- "Eros und Apperzeption in den Tangenten,"
Symposium Lust und List des Erzählens. Heimito von Doderer (1896-1966),
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, November 26, 1991.
- "Otto Weininger's Critique of Modernity,"
NEH Institute on Vienna as a Cultural Response to Modernization, University
of Oregon, July 5, 1990 and July 2, 1991.
- "Presentiments of Anschluss: Reflections
of an Austrian Intellectual in 1919," Symposium on 1938: Understanding
the Past--Overcoming the Past, UC Riverside, May 7, 1988.
- "German Inwardness and Antirationalism: As Austrian
View of the German Soul," Colloquium on German Literature, McMaster
University, Canada, October 10, 1987.
- Chair, Panel on Fritz Mauthner, UC Riverside, May 8,
1987.
- "Science and Irrationalism in Freud's Vienna,"
Symposium on Twentieth-Century Austrian Culture, UC Riverside, May 8,
1987.
- "Austrian Intellectuals in the First Republic:
Psychology, Philosophy, Literature," Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C., February 9, 1987.
- "Science and Literature: Reason and Knowledge
in the Humanities," New Directions in Humanities, California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo, November 21, 1986.
- "Science and Irrationalism in Freud's Vienna,"
Institute for Continued Learning, UCSD, November 7, 1986.
- "High Culture and Popular Culture," San Diego
Humanities Conference, October 18, 1986.
- Chair, "European Theories and American Practice,"
session of Symposium in honor of H. Stuart Hughes, UCSD, May 23, 1986.
- "Austrian History as a Field in the United States,"
Symposium on the Reception of Austrian Culture in the United States,
UC Riverside, May 9, 1986.
- "The Ethos of Liberal Vienna and Thinking About
Sexuality," University of Oregon, April 26, 1985.
- "Austria as a Region of German Culture: 1900-1938,"
University of Vienna, June 20, 1984.
- "Thinking about the Historical Freud," University
of Washington, April 27, 1984.
- "July 15, 1927: Canetti, Doderer, and Fisher,"
at the Colloquium on Austrian Social Democracy, Harvard University,
Center for European Studies, February 11, 1984.
- "Conscious Mind and Unconscious Mind: Informal
Reflections on Nietzsche and Freud," UCSD Philosophy Club, November
11, 1983.
- "Eros and Apperception in Heimito von Doderer's
Tangenten," Western Association for German Studies, Madison,
Wisconsin, September 30, 1983.
- "Austria as a Region of German Culture: 1900-1938,"
at the Symposium on "Regions and Regionalism in Austria,"
Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, May 21, 1983.
- "Robert Musil and Intellectual History: Generations
or Traditions?" Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, December
28, 1982.
- "Eros and Mystik in Wien," Department of
Philosophy, University of Vienna, May 12, 1982.
- "Wien, Weininger und das Weib," Department
of Philosophy, University of Vienna, May 11, 1982.
- "Schopenhauer and the Austrians," Pacific
Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Los Angeles, August,
1980.
- "The Austrian Mandarin," UCSD, San Diego,
February, 1972.
Dissertations Directed
Karen D. Stuart, "Robert Musil and the (De) Colonilization of 'This True Inner Africa,'"
2007 (co-director).
Donald Wallace, "The Death of Civilization: Ethics and Politics in the Work of Hermann Broch,"
2006.
Erik Maiershofer, "The City Restored:
Memory, Civic Identity and Reconstruction in Augsburg, 1944-1955,"
2004.
Douglas McGetchin, "The Sankrit Reich:
Translating Ancient India for Modern Germans, 1790-1914," 2002.
Wendy Maxon, "The Body Dissasembled:
World War I and the Depiction of the Body in German Art, 1914-1933,"
2002.
Barnet Hartston, "Judaism on Trial:
Antisemitism in the German Courtroom (1870-1895)," 1999.
Andrew Zimmerman, "Anthropology and
the Place of Knowledge in Imperial Berlin," 1998.
Diana Reynolds, "Alois Riegl and
the Politics of Art History," 1997.
Carl Dyke, "Indeterminancy, Irrationality,
and Collective Will: Gramsci's Marxism, Bourgeois Sociology, and the Problem
of Revolution," 1995.
Jeffrey Hay, "The Colloquial Metaphysics
of Francis Hueffer and George Bernard Shaw," 1994.
Douglas Cremer, "Cross and Hammer:
The Catholic Workingmen's and Working Women's Associations in Germany,
1891-1933," 1993 (co-director).
Stefan Fodor, "What Kind of Nation?:
Political Associations in Bavaria during the Revolution of 1848-1849,"
1992 (co-director).
Gregory Elder, "Chronic Vigour: Evolution,
Biblical Criticism and English Theology," 1990.
Peter John, "A Sense of Wonder: Reassessing
the Life and Work of Ludwig Wittgenstein," 1988.
Gilbert Jones, "The Allied Reconstruction
of the Berlin Police, 1945-1948," 1986 (co-director).
Current Dissertations
John Hoon Lee, "From Old Austria
into the New Germany: The Case of Max von Millenkovich-Morold, 1866-1945,"
(Junel 2008).
Cecily Heisser, "Rosa Mayreder (1858-1938):
Vienna through a Woman's Eyes," (June 2008).
Joseph Busby, "Strategizing Human Rights: A
Comparative Study of International Refugee Policy after World War Two and the Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda" (Summer 2008).
Sjahari Pullom, "Imperial Education:
Institutions of Higher Learning and the Co-option of Indigenous Elites
in Spanish Mexico and the British Raj," (Winter 2009, co-director).
Nathan Slezak, "Literature, Criticism,
and the Making of Modern Prague, 1890-1918," (Winter 2009).
Other Creative Work
- Report on American Historical Association Meeting, 2007, Session 114: "Unsettled Subjectivities: Husserl, Capek, Broch, and the Austrian Intellectual Experience, 1890-1938,"
H-German, January 2007.
- Forum on Literature and German Studies,
German Quarterly.
- Columns in the Austrian Studies Newsletter, 2006-2007.
- "Interview on Arnold Schwarzenegger,"
KFMB-TV, San Diego, September 3, 2004.
- "Tribute to Rick Harmon,"
The Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2004, p. 504.
- "Interview of Christopher R. Browning,"
UCSD Guest-TV, April, 1997.
- "Evening," translation from
the German of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Abend", in Convergence
2, 1982.
- A Viewer's Guide to The Voyage
of Charles Darwin, University Extension, UCSD, 1980.
- "Schnitzler's Vienna," half-hour
interview on KPBS-TV, March, 1975.
Referee for NEH, Newcombe Dissertation
Fellowship, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Austrian History
Yearbook, Modern Austrian Literature, and The Journal
of Modern History. Editorial consultant for presses: Bedford Books,
California, Chicago, Cornell, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Modern German
Studies, Princeton, Purdue, and Wayne State. Member of the Book Prize
Committee in Austrian Studies for 1995. Executive Committee of the Society
for Austrian and Habsburg History, 2004-2007. Executive Secretary, SAHH,
2006-
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