Recent Publications
Paul Betts
German History Journal, 2004-
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited with Alon Confino and Dirk Schumann (New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2008)
Socialist Modern: New Perspectives on East German Everyday Culture, edited with Katherine Pence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008)
"Property, Peace and Honor: Neighborhood Justice in Communist Berlin," Past & Present, 2008, forthcoming
"Dreamworlds of Civility: Reflections on Post-1945 German Etiquette Book," in Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of World War II in Comparative European Perspective, ed. Frank Biess and Robert Moeller (New York: Berghahn, 2008).
"Die Politik des Privaten: Eingaben in der DDR [The Politics of the Private: Citizen Complaints in the GDR]," Demokratie im Schatten der Gewalt: Geschichten des Privaten im deutschen Nachkrieg, ed. Daniel Fulda, Dagmar Herzog, Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann and Till van Rahden (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2008).
"When Cold Warriors Die: The State Funerals of Konrad Adenauer and Walter Ulbricht," in Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. Alon Confino, Paul Betts and Dirk Schumann (New York/ Providence: Berghahn, 2008).
"Building Socialism at Home: The Case of East German Interiors," in Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics, ed. Katherine Pence and Paul Betts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
"The Rise and Fall of the American 'Soft' Empire," History Workshop Journal 63 (Spring 2007), pp. 335-342.
Christian Wiese
Authored books
2007 The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions, trans. Jeffrey Grossman and Christian Wiese Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 260 pp.
Edited books
2009 Hans Jonas, Verantwortung für Gott und das Leben. Religionsphilosophische Essays Frankfurt am Main: Insel Verlag, 250 pp., Awaiting Publication
2008 Hans Jonas, Memoirs University of New England Press, 320 pp.
2008 The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 550 pp.
2007 Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities - Encounters - Perspectives Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 658 pp.
Chapters in books
2008 'Revolt Against Escapism': Hans Jonas's Response to Martin Heidegger, in Heidegger's Jewish Followers: Essays on Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas, ed. Samuel Fleischacker (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press), pp. 151-177.
2007 'The best Antidote against Anti-Semitism'? Wissenschaft des Judentums, Protestant Biblical Scholarship, and Anti-Semitism in Germany before 1933, in Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness: Identities - Encounters - Perspectives, ed. Andreas Gotzmann and Christian Wiese (Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 2007), pp.
2007 Samuel Holdheim's 'most Powerful Comrade in Conviction': David Einhorn and the Discussion about Jewish Universalism in the Radical Reform Movement, in Redefining Judaism in an Age of Emancipation: Comparative Perspectives on Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), ed. Christian Wiese (Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers), pp.
Darrow Schecter
The History of the Left from Marx to the Present: Theoretical Perspectives, London, Continuum, 2007
Liberalisms and the Limits of Knowledge and Freedom: On the Epistemological and Social Bases of Negative Liberty', in History of European Ideas, 33, Issue 2 (2007), pp. 195-211