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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

  1. Pfau, T. Incomprehensible Certainty Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image.  June 2022.  [abs]
  2.  Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History.  Northwestern University Press, December 2017.
  3. Pfau, T. Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge.  January 2013.  [abs]
  4. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R. Romanticism and Modernity.  Routledge, November 2011.
  5. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R. Romanticism and Modernity. 21 Routledge, 2011. [doi]
  6.  Medium and Message in German Modernism. 2 2006.  (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.  (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 95.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.  (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.  (Trans. and ed., with a critical introduction)

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Pfau, T. "Response to My Interlocutors." Modern Theology 40.2 (April, 2024): 478-495. [doi]
  2. Aers, D; Pfau, T. "Exploring Christian Literature in the Contemporary and Secular University." Christianity and Literature 70.3 (September, 2021): 263-275.  [abs]
  3. Pfau, T. "Kantian Aesthetics as "soft" Iconoclasm." Logos (United States) 24.3 (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.  2020. 227-260. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Pfau, T. "“Superabundant being”: Disambiguating Rilke and Heidegger." Modern Theology 35.1WILEY, (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." Logos (United States) 22.4Project Muse, (January, 2019): 20-41. [doi]
  7. Pfau, T. "Expanding Romanticism's Spatiotemporal, Disciplinary, and Conceptual Boundaries." Keats-Shelley Journal 68 (January, 2019): 160-162.
  8. Pfau, T. "On attention." Salmagundi 2017-Spring.194 (March, 2017): 145-163.
  9. Pfau, T. ""Botched execution" or historical inevitability: Conceptual dilemmas in Brad S. Gregory's the unintended reformation." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 46.3 (September, 2016): 603-628. [doi]
  10. Pfau, T. "A Modern Coleridge: Cultivation, Addiction, Habits." STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM 55.1 (2016): 134-138.
  11. Pfau, T. "Cosmopolitan Sociality and the Bildungsroman." Novel 48.1Duke 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,.  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, 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, 2014. 
  15. Pfau, T. "History without Hermeneutics: Brad Gregory’s Unintended Modernity." The Immanent Frame  (November, 2013) [available here]
  16. Pfau, T. "review of Tilottama Rajan, Romantic Narrative (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)." The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation  (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."  2 [_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." German Quarterly 86.4WILEY, (October, 2013): 421-443. [doi]
  19. Pfau, T. "Epochenwandel mit metaphysischen Anklängen: Metasprache und Bilderfahrung in Der Stechlin." German Quarterly 86.4 (2013): 420-442. [_]
  20. Pfau, T. "Mourning Modernity:: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form."   [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)." European Romantic Review 23.1 (March, 2012): 68-73.
  22. Pfau, T. "A certain mediocrity: Adam Smith’s moral behaviorism." Romanticism and the Emotions. Cambridge University Press, 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, 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.." Modern Philology 108.3University of Chicago Press, (February, 2011): E191-E194. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  25. Pfau, T. "Rethinking the image: With some reflections on G. M. Hopkins." Yearbook of Comparative Literature 57 (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."  108.3 [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." European Romantic Review 21.5Informa UK Limited, (October, 2010): 567-587. [doi]  [abs]
  30. Pfau, T; Mitchell, R. "European Romantic Review: Introduction." European Romantic Review 21.5Informa 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. 9 2010. 207-250.  [abs]
  32. Pfau, T. "The letter of judgment: Practical reason in Aristotle, the Stoics, and Rousseau." Eighteenth Century 51.3 (January, 2010): 289-316. [Gateway.cgi]  [abs]
  33. Pfau, T. ""All is leaf": Difference, metamorphosis, and Goethe's phenomenology of knowledge." Studies in Romanticism 49.1 (January, 2010): 3-41. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  34. Mitchell, R; Pfau, T. "“Romanticism and Form” special issue." European Romantic Review 21.5 (2010)
  35. Mitchell, R; Pfau, T. "NASSR 2009 Conference Volume." European Romantic Review 21.3 (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." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, no. 25 Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, (2009) [038767ar.html]
  40. Pfau, T. "The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading." STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM 48.1 (2009): 159-165. [Gateway.cgi]
  41. Pfau, T. "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Romantic Era." Comparative Literature 60.3Duke University Press, (June, 2008): 290-294. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  42. Pfau, T. "Beyond liberal Utopia: Freedom as the problem of modernity." European Romantic Review 19.2Informa UK Limited, (April, 2008): 83-103. [doi]  [abs]
  43. Pfau, T. "Review of Leon Chai, "Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era"." Comparative Literature 60.3 (2008): 290-94. [pdf]
  44. Pfau, T. "From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism."  BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, [doi]
  45. Pfau, T. "Of ends and endings: Teleological and variational models of romantic narrative." European Romantic Review 18.2Informa UK Limited, (Spring, 2007): 231-241. [doi]  [abs]
  46. Pfau, T. "The philosophy of Shipwreck: Gnosticism, skepticism, and Coleridge's catastrophic modernity." MLN - Modern Language Notes 122.5Johns 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)." Romantic Circles  (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)." European Romantic Review 18.3 (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." South Atlantic Quarterly 95 (2007): 629-69. [pdf]
  50. Pfau, T. "Beyond Liberal Utopia: Freedom in the Nineteenth Century." European Romantic Review 19.1 (2007) [pdf]
  51. Pfau, T. "The Melancholy Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Thought." Romantic Praxis  (2007) [html]
  52. Pfau, T. "Editor’s Introduction: Medium and Message in German Modernism." Modernist Cultures 1.2 (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." Modernist Cultures 1.2 (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 Literature9Camden House, 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." Comparative Literature 55.4Duke University Press, (September, 2003): 360-363. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  58. Pfau, T. "Conjuring history: Lyric cliché, conservative fantasy, and traumatic awakening in German romanticism." South Atlantic Quarterly 102.1Duke 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." Criticism 44.1 (2003): 72-76 Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000, (2003) [pdf]
  60. Pfau, T. "Review of Ian Balfour’s The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy." Comparative Literature Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002, (2003) [pdf]
  61. Pfau, T. "Review of Emerson R. Marks, Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory since the Renaissance." MLQ (2003) . 60.2 (2003): 265-67. [pdf]
  62. Pfau, T. ""From Autonomous Subjects to Self-Regulating Structures: Rationality and Development in German Idealism"." Ed. Romanticism, BCT. Blackwell,  edited Michael Ferber
  63. Pfau, T. "The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (review)." Criticism 44.1Project 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." Modern Language Quarterly 60.3Duke 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." Modern Language Quarterly 60.2Duke 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." Studies in Romanticism 38.4Carbondale: Northern Illinois UP, 1996, (1999): 692-98. [pdf]
  68. Pfau, T; Hoagwood, TA. "Politics, Philosophy, and the Production of Romantic Texts." Studies in Romanticism 38.4JSTOR, (1999): 692-692. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  69. Pfau, T. "Reading beyond Redemption: Historicism, Irony, and the Lessons of Romanticism." Critical Introduction to Lessons of Romanticism, Duke UP 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." Romantic Proxis  (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." Romanticism 2.2 (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." Romanticism 2.ii (1996): 220-46. [pdf]
  76. Pfau, T; Kercsmar, RR. "Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in Romanticism - Introduction." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 95.3 (1996): 571-573. [Gateway.cgi]
  77. Pfau, T. "''Beyond the suburbs of the mind'': The political and aesthetic disciplining of the Romantic body." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 95.3 (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." Studies in Romanticism 34New 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." Studies in Romanticism 34.3JSTOR, (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." New Literary History 24.1JSTOR, (1993): 125-125. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  83. Pfau, T. "The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth." Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Review 10.ii (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." Keats-Shelley Journal XL (1991): 99-126.
  85. PFAU, T. "TROPES OF DESIRE, FIGURING THE INSUFFICIENT VOID OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN SHELLEY 'EPIPSYCHIDION'." KEATS-SHELLEY JOURNAL 40 (1991): 99-126. [Gateway.cgi]
  86. Pfau, T. "Review of Wordsworth's Art of Allusion by Edward Stein." Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990): 496-499. [pdf]
  87. Pfau, T. "Review of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean Luc Nancy’s The Literary Absolute." Studies in Romanticism 29.2 (1990): 309-13. [pdf]
  88. Pfau, T. "Review of Edwin Stein’s Woodworth’s Art of Illusion." Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990): 496-99.
  89. Pfau, T. "Immediacy and the Text: Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of Style and Interpretation." Journal of the History of Ideas 51.i (1990): 51-73.
  90. Pfau, T. "Review of Winfried Menninghaus’s Unendliche Verdopplung: Die Grundlegung der fruhromantischen Kunsttheorie im Begriff absoluter Selbstreflexion." MLN (German Issue) 104.3 (1989): 729-33. [pdf]
  91. Pfau, T. "Thinking before Totality: Kritik, Ubersetzung, and the Language of Interpretation in the early Walter Benjamin." MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 103.5 (1988): 1072-97. [pdf]
  92. Pfau, T. "Review of Andrej Warminski’s Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger." MLN (Comparative Literature Issue) 102.5 (1987): 1212-15. [pdf]
  93. Pfau, T. "Rhetoric and the Existential: Romantic Studies and the Question of the Subject." Studies in Romanticism 26 (1987): 487-512. [pdf]
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