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Publications of Thomas Pfau    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions & Responsible Knowledge.  University of Notre Dame Press, October, 2013 (692 pages pp.).

Edited Volumes

  1. Pfau, T. Incomprehensible Certainty Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image. , June, 2022 (784 pages pp.).  [abs]
  2.  Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History. Northwestern University Press, December, 2017 (360 pages pp.).
  3. Pfau, T. Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge. , January, 2013 (1-675 pp.).  [abs]
  4. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge, November, 2011 (246-246 pp.).
  5. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R. Romanticism and Modernity. Routledge vol. 21, 2011 (267-273 pp.). [doi]
  6.  Medium and Message in German Modernism.  vol. 2, 2006 (250 pp.-250 pp. pp.). (This special issue contains six essays by notable people working in 19th c. and 20c. literary studies, philosophy, and musicology.) [asp]
  7. Pfau, T. Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840.. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 (). (Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2005 (http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8432.html)) [pdf]  [abs] [author's comments]
  8. Pfau, T. Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. an anthology of twenty-one essays, Durham: Duke UP, 1998 ().
  9. Pfau, T. Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Romantic Cultural Production. Stanford UP, 1997 (xiii + 460 pages pp.). (http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=2902%20%20) [pdf]  [author's comments]
  10. T. Pfau, co-editor. Textual and Cultural Dissolution in English Romanticism. a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 95 no. iii, Summer 1996 ().
  11. Pfau, T. Idealism and the Endgames of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling. State U of New York P, 1994 (xiv + 293-xiv + 293 pp.). (Trans. and edited with a critical introduction)
  12. Pfau, T; translator, . Friedrich Hölderlin: Essays and Letters on Theory. State U of New York P, 1987 (xiv + 186-xiv + 186 pp.). (Trans. and ed., with a critical introduction)

Articles in a Collection

  1. Pfau, T. "Response to My Interlocutors." . April, 2024, 478-495. [doi]
  2. Aers, D; Pfau, T. "Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University." . September, 2021, 263-275.  [abs]
  3. Pfau, T. "Kantian Aesthetics as "soft" Iconoclasm." . June, 2021, 69-88. [doi]
  4. Pfau, T. "Absolute Gegebenheit: Image as aesthetic Urphanomen in Husserl and Rilke." Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature. November, 2020, 227-260. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Pfau, T. "“Superabundant being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger." . WILEY, January, 2019, 23-42. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Pfau, T. "“Seeing and being seen coincide” freedom as contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa and G. M. Hopkins." . Project Muse, January, 2019, 20-41. [doi]
  7. Pfau, T. "Expanding Romanticism's Spatiotemporal, Disciplinary, and Conceptual Boundaries." . January, 2019, 160-162.
  8. Pfau, T. "On attention." . March, 2017, 145-163.
  9. Pfau, T. ""Botched execution" or historical inevitability: Conceptual dilemmas in Brad S. Gregory's the unintended reformation." . September, 2016, 603-628. [doi]
  10. Pfau, T. "A Modern Coleridge: Cultivation, Addiction, Habits." . 2016, 134-138.
  11. Pfau, T. "Cosmopolitan Sociality and the Bildungsroman." . Duke University Press, May, 2015, 136-139. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  12. Pfau, T. "Rational Theology and the Catholic Critique of Modernity, 1780-1830." The Oxford Handbook on European Romanticism Ed. Paul, HKC; London,. October, 2014. (forthcoming)
  13. Pfau, T. "Wagner hören im Zeitalter kultureller Überdetermination: Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner." Jenseits von Bayreuth: Richard Wagner Heute Ed. Boernchen, S; Mein, G. Fink Verlag, March, 2014.
  14. Pfau, T. "’A certain mediocrity' Moral Sentiments and Early Behaviorism in A. Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments." Romanticism and the Emotions Ed. Faflak, J; Sha, R. Cambridge UP, February, 2014.
  15. Pfau, T. "History without Hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s Unintended Modernity." . November, 2013. [available here]
  16. Pfau, T. "review of Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)." . October, 2013. [Review_of_Tilottama_Rajan_Romantic_Narrative]  [abs]
  17. Pfau, T. "A Note on the pre-History of European Nihilism: Eroticism and Damaged Life in Don Giovanni." . October, 2013. [_A_Note_on_the_pre-History_of_European_Nihilism_Eroticism_and_Damaged_Life_in_Don_Giovanni_]
  18. Pfau, T. "Meta language and visual experience in The Stechlin." . WILEY, October, 2013, 421-443. [doi]
  19. Pfau, T. "Epochenwandel mit metaphysischen Anklängen: Metasprache und Bilderfahrung in Der Stechlin." . 2013, 420-442. [_]
  20. Pfau, T. "Mourning Modernity:: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form." . September, 2012. [doi]  [abs]
  21. Pfau, T. "review of David Collings, Monstrous Society: Reciprocity, Discipline, and the Political Uncanny at the end of Early Modern England (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP)." . March, 2012, 68-73.
  22. Pfau, T. "A certain mediocrity: Adam Smith’s moral behaviorism." Romanticism and the Emotions. Cambridge University Press, January, 2012, 48-75. [doi]  [abs]
  23. Pfau, T. "The Appearance of Stimmung: Play as Virtual Rationality." Stimmung: zur Wiederkehr einer ästhetischen Kategorie? Ed. Gisbertz, A. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, March, 2011. [pdf]
  24. Pfau, T. "Paul H. Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We AreWordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are. Paul H. Fry . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+240.." . University of Chicago Press, February, 2011, E191-E194. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  25. Pfau, T. "Rethinking the image: With some reflections on G. M. Hopkins." . January, 2011, 117-147.
  26. Pfau, T. "The Bildungsroman." The Blackwell Encylopedia of Romantic Literature Ed. Burwick, F; Goslee, N; Hoeveler, D. Blackwell, 2011, 124-132. [_]
  27. Pfau, T. "Review of Paul Fry, Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are." . 2011, 191-94. [Review_of_Paul_Fry_Wordsworth_and_the_Poetry_of_What_We_Are]
  28. Pfau, T. "William Paley." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 4 vols. Ed. Burwick, F; Goslee, N. Blackwell, 2011. [_]
  29. Pfau, T. "Bildungsspiele: Vicissitudes of socialization in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship." . Informa UK Limited, October, 2010, 567-587. [doi]  [abs]
  30. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R. "European Romantic Review: Introduction." . Informa UK Limited, October, 2010, 545-551. [doi]
  31. Pfau, T. "Between sentimentality and phantasmagoria: German lyric poetry, 1830–1890." German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899. January, 2010, 207-250.  [abs]
  32. Pfau, T. "The letter of judgment: Practical reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau." . January, 2010, 289-316. [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
  33. Pfau, T. ""All is leaf": Difference, metamorphosis, and Goethe's phenomenology of knowledge." . January, 2010, 3-41. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  34. Mitchell, R; Pfau, T. "“Romanticism and Form” special issue." . 2010.
  35. Mitchell, R; Pfau, T. "NASSR 2009 Conference Volume." . 2010.
  36. Pfau, T. "Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven)." Die Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos der EuropEuropäischen Moderne Ed. Gaier, U; al, E. Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010, 123-41. [pdf]
  37. Pfau, T. "Bildung: Etiology, Function, Structure (with some reflections on Beethoven)." Die Romantik: ein Gründungsmythos der EuropEuropäischen Moderne Ed. Gaier, U. Bonner Universitätsverlag, 2010, 123-41. [pdf]
  38. Pfau, T. "Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form." The Oxford Handbook on the Elegy. 2009. [pdf]
  39. Pfau, T. "Review of Colin Jager The Book of God: Secularization and Design in the Romantic Era." . Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 2009. [038767ar.html]
  40. Pfau, T. "The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading." . 2009, 159-165. [Gateway.cgi]
  41. Pfau, T. "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Romantic Era." . Duke University Press, June, 2008, 290-294. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  42. Pfau, T. "Beyond liberal Utopia: Freedom as the problem of modernity." . Informa UK Limited, April, 2008, 83-103. [doi]  [abs]
  43. Pfau, T. "Review of Leon Chai, "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era"." . 2008, 290-94. [pdf]
  44. Pfau, T. "From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism." . BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, November, 2007, 101-122. [doi]
  45. Pfau, T. "Of ends and endings: Teleological and variational models of romantic narrative." . Informa UK Limited, Spring, 2007, 231-241. [doi]  [abs]
  46. Pfau, T. "The philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, skepticism, and Coleridge's catastrophic modernity." . Johns Hopkins University Press, Winter, 2007, 949-1004. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  47. Pfau, T. "Review of The Wordsworthian Enlightenment, ed. Helen R. Elam & Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2005)." . 2007. [available here]
  48. Pfau, T. "Review of George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche (Chicago: U of Chicago Press)." . Spring, 2007, 439-44. [pdf]
  49. Pfau, T. "Beyond the Suburbs of the Mind: The Political and Aesthetic Economy of the Body in Malthus and Wordsworth." . 2007, 629-69. [pdf]
  50. Pfau, T. "Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century." . 2007. [pdf]
  51. Pfau, T. "The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought." . 2007. [html]
  52. Pfau, T. "Editor’s Introduction: Medium and Message in German Modernism." . October, 2005, 69-71. [doi]
  53. Pfau, T. "From Mediation to Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism." . October, 2005, 141-180. [doi]
  54. Pfau, T. "Rationality as Bewegung: From Kantian Autonomy to Hegel’s Self-Regulating System." The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism Ed. Ferber, M. Blackwell, 2005. [pdf]
  55. Pfau, T. "Nineteenth-Century Lyric German Poetry." Camden House History of German Literature, volume 9 Ed. Koelb, C; Downing, E. vol 9 of Camden House History of German LiteratureCamden House, Spring, 2005, 201-242. [pdf]
  56. Pfau, T. "From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism." in "A Companion to European Romanticism" Ed. Ferber, M. Blackwell CompanionsBlackwell, 2004.
  57. Pfau, T. "The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy." . Duke University Press, September, 2003, 360-363. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  58. Pfau, T. "Conjuring history: Lyric cliché, conservative fantasy, and traumatic awakening in German romanticism." . Duke University Press, Winter, 2003, 53-92. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  59. Pfau, T. "Review of Angela Esterhammer’s The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism." . Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000, 2003. [pdf]
  60. Pfau, T. "Review of Ian Balfour’s The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy." . Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002, 2003. [pdf]
  61. Pfau, T. "Review of Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance." . 2003, 265-67. [pdf]
  62. Pfau, T. ""From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism"."  Ed. Romanticism, BCT. Blackwell, 2003. (edited Michael Ferber)
  63. Pfau, T. "The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (review)." . Project MUSE, 2002, 72-76. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  64. Pfau, T. "Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus: Heine’s Literary Provocation to German-Jewish Cultural Identity." Romantic Poetry: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Ed. Esterhammer, A. John Benjamins, 2002, 427-44. [pdf]
  65. Pfau, T. "The voice of critique: Aesthetic cognition after Kant." . Duke University Press, September, 1999, 321-352. (Previously published by Romantic Praxis http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/philosophy/pfau1/tp1.html) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  66. Pfau, T. "Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance." . Duke University Press, June, 1999, 265-267. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  67. Pfau, T. "Review of Terence A. Hoagwood’s Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts." . Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996, 1999, 692-98. [pdf]
  68. Pfau, T; Hoagwood, TA. "Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts." . JSTOR, 1999, 692-692. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  69. Pfau, T. "Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism."  Ed. Pfau, T; Gleckner, RF. 1998, 1-37.
  70. Pfau, T. "Paranoia Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials." Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press Ed. Behrendt, SC. Wayne State University Press, 1997, 221 pages. [pdf]
  71. Pfau, T. "Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials." Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press Ed. Behrendt, SC. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
  72. Pfau, T. "Bringing about the Past: Prophetic Memory in Kant, Godwin, and Blake." . 1997. [html]
  73. Pfau, T. "Paranoian Historicized: Legal Fantasy, Social Change, and Satiric Meta-Commentary in the 1794 Treason Trials." Romanticism, Radicalism, and the Press Ed. Behrendt, SC. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.
  74. Pfau, T. "'Positive Infamy': Surveillance, Ascendancy, and Pedagogyin Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." . January, 1996, 220-242. [doi]
  75. Pfau, T. "'Searching their Hearts': Romantic Pedagogy, Social Ascendancy, and the Pleasures of Surveillance in Andrew Bell and Mary Wollstonecraft." . 1996, 220-46. [pdf]
  76. Pfau, T; Kercsmar, RR. "Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in Romanticism - Introduction." . 1996, 571-573. [Gateway.cgi]
  77. Pfau, T. "''Beyond the suburbs of the mind'': The political and aesthetic disciplining of the Romantic body." . Summer, 1996, 629-669. [Gateway.cgi]
  78. Pfau, T. "Review of Martha Woodmansee’s The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics." . New York: Columbia UP, 1995, 490-95. [pdf]
  79. Pfau, T. "Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse." Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory Ed. Rajan, T; Clark, D. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. [pdf]
  80. Pfau, T; Woodmansee, M. "The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics." . JSTOR, 1995, 490-490. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  81. Pfau, T. "Immediacy and Dissolution: Reflections on Moral Theory and the Logic of Critical Discourse." Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory Ed. Rajan, T; Clark, D. Albany: State U of New York P, 1995. [pdf]
  82. Pfau, T. ""Elementary Feelings" and "Distorted Language": The Pragmatics of Culture in Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads." . JSTOR, 1993, 125-125. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  83. Pfau, T. "The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." . 1992, 397-422. (Reprinted in Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship, ed. Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee [Durham: Duke UP, 1994]) [pdf]
  84.  "Tropes of Desire: Figuring the 'Insufficient Void' of Self-Consciousness in Shelley's Epipsychidion." . 1991, 99-126.
  85. PFAU, T. "TROPES OF DESIRE, FIGURING THE INSUFFICIENT VOID OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN SHELLEY 'EPIPSYCHIDION'." . 1991, 99-126. [Gateway.cgi]
  86. Pfau, T. "Review of Wordsworth's Art of Allusion by Edward Stein." . 1990, 496-499. [pdf]
  87. Pfau, T. "Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy’s The Literary Absolute." . 1990, 309-13. [pdf]
  88. Pfau, T. "Review of Edwin Stein’s Woodworth’s Art of Illusion." . 1990, 496-99.
  89. Pfau, T. "Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of Style and Interpretation." . 1990, 51-73.
  90. Pfau, T. "Review of Winfried Menninghaus’s Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion." . 1989, 729-33. [pdf]
  91. Pfau, T. "Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." . 1988, 1072-97. [pdf]
  92. Pfau, T. "Review of Andrej Warminski’s Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger." . 1987, 1212-15. [pdf]
  93. Pfau, T. "Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject." . 1987, 487-512. [pdf]
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