Willi Goetschel

• Philosophizing For A friend – On Michel de Montaigne’s Essays on Life and Its Wisdom. METIS Wisdom Talks at ETH Zurich. September 30, 2024.
• Mastering Life – On poetry and Wisdom in Goethe’s Work and Life. METIS Wisdom Talks at ETH Zurich. September 29, 2024.
• Margarete Susman’s The Book of Job. With Ghilad H. Shenhav. Podcast Jüdische Geschichte. February 15, 2024.
• Smiling in the mattress grave – Henrich Heine’s wise way of living and dying. METIS Wisdom Talks at ETH Zurich. November 15, 2023.
• Spinoza’s ethics: The rules of life drawn with a ruler? METIS Wisdom Talks at ETH Zurich. November 7, 2023.
• Adorno in America. March 3, 2020. A Correction Podcast.

2020: Hermann Levin, Goldschmidt, Contradiction Set Free. Trans. John Koster. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

2019: Heine and Critical Theory. Bloomsbury: London, 2019.

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2013: The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.

2004: Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine. Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

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1994:  Constituting Critique: Kant’s Writing as Critical Praxis. Post-Contemporary Interventions. Transl. by Eric Schwab.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994. 

1990: Kant als Schriftsteller. Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 1990.

Margarete Susman: Beiträge zu Werk und Wirkung. Ed. Martin Kudla, Inka Sauter, Caspar Battegay, Willi Goetschel. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024.

Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature. Ed. Willi Goetschel and Gilad Sharvit. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020.

Hermann Levin Goldschmidt and Edith Moos, Mein 1933. Vienna: Passagen, 2008.

Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. Werkausgabe. [9 volumes] Vienna: Passagen.

• Vol. 1.  Philosophie als Dialogik. Frühe Schriften, 1993.
• Vol. 2.  Das Vermächtnis des deutschen Judentums, 1994.
• Vol. 3.  Die Botschaft des Judentums, 1994.
• Vol. 4.  Der Rest bleibt. Aufstze zum Judentum, 1997.
• Vol. 5.  Aus den Quellen des Judentums: Aufsätze zur Philosophie, 2000.
• Vol. 6.  Freiheit für den Widerspruch, 1993.
• Vol. 7.  Haltet euch an Worte: im ganzen! Texte und Thesen, 2013.
• Vol. 8.  Pestalozzis unvollendete Revolution. Philosophie dank der Schweiz von Rousseau bis Turel, 1995.
• Vol. 9. Weil wir Brüder sind: Jüdische Schriften 1935-1998, 2014.

Perspektiven der Dialogik. Zürcher Kolloquium zu Ehren von Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. Vienna: Passagen. 1994.

Wege des Widerspruchs. Festschrift für H. L. Goldschmidt.  Co-edited with John Cartwright and Maja Wicki-Vogt. Bern: Haupt, 1984.

Gayatri C. Spivak, Imperatives for Reimagining the Planet – Imperative für eine Neueinschätzung des Planeten. Mary Levin Goldschmidt-Bollag Memorial Lecture zur Flüchtlings- und Migrationspolitik. Vienna: Passagen. 1999. Second edition 2013.

Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, Toleranz in einem Zeitalter der Ungewißheit – Tolerance in an Age of Uncertainty. 2. Mary Levin Goldschmidt-Bollag Memorial Lecture. Vienna: Passagen, 2002.

2024

2023

• “Kellers Dissonanzen.” Gottfried Kellers Moderne, vol. 3: Kellers Welten: Territorien – Ordnungen – Zirkulationen. Ed. Sebastian Meixner. De Gruyter: Berlin, 2023, 145-162.
• Review Essay of the Completed Edition of Moses Mendelssohn’s Collected Works (Jubiläumsausgabe). H-Net, September 2023.
• “Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s Contradiction Set Free: Introduction to Special Theme Focus.” Philosophy Today 67: 3 (2023): 509-514.
• “Introduction to Heine and ‘World Literature.’” Introduction to the Special Theme Focus “Heine and World Literatrure.” The Germanic Review 98.1 (2023), 1–4.
• “Heine and Worl Literature.” The Germanic Review 98.1 (2023), 5-17.

2022

• “Introduction: Moses Mendelssohn’s ‘Living Script’ and the Question of Translation.” Special theme issue: “Moses Mendelssohn’s ‘Living Script’ and the Question of Translation.” Bamidbar: Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 1:15 (2022), 7-10.
• “Meaning and Translation: Mendelssohn’s ‘Living Script.’” Bamidbar: Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 1:15 (2022), 48-69.
• “Introduction” to Moses Mendelssohn’s “The Statue: A Psychological-Allegorical Dream Vision.” Bamidbar: Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 1:15 (2022), 98-111.
• „Margarete Susman.“ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Fall 2022 Edition). Edward N. Zalta (ed.).
• „Vordenkerin unserer Zeit.“ Special focus issue on Margarete Susman. Neue Wege 1.22 (2022): 16-20. Rpt. in leicht&Sinn, October 2022, 21-25.

2020

• “‘Ich bin die Tat von deinen Gedanken‘: Heine’s Nightly Musings.“ Heine-Jahrbuch 2020, 37-47.
• “Form und Beziehung: Zur kritischen Funktion der Wechselseitigkeit Simmel.“ Georg Simmel als Philosoph. Ed. Tim-Florian Goslar, Gerald Hartung, and Heike Koenig.
• Dankrede [Mendelssohns Projekt der Bildung als Emanzipation]. Moses Mendelssohn Preis der Stadt Dessau 2020. Dessau-Rosslau, 2020.
• “Spinoza, Heresy, and the Discourse of Modernity.” Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature. Ed. Gilad Sharvit and Willi Goetschel. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020, 209-227.
• “Introduction.” Together with Gilad Sharvit. Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature. Ed. Willi Goetschel and Gilad Sharvit. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020, 1-14.
• “Lessing, Mendelssohn e Jacobi. La disputa sul panteismo.” La fortuna di Spinoza in età moderna e contemporanea, vol. 1 Tra Seicento e Settecento. Ed. Carlo Altini. Pisa: Editione della Normale, 2020, 223-253. Trans. Stefano Suozzi.
• “Introduction.” Hermann Levin, Goldschmidt, Contradiction Set Free. Trans. John Koster. London: Bloomsbury, 2020, 1-16.
• “Adorno in the Palisades.” The Germanic Review 95 (2020): 47-54.
• “German Exiles in Los Angeles.” Introduction to special theme issue. The Germanic Review 95 (2020): 1-4

2019

• “Form and Relation: Difference and Alterity in Simmel.” The Germanic Review 94 (2019): 125-138.
• “Interdisciplinary Simmel.” With Daniel Silver. The Germanic Review 94 (2019): 75-78.
• “A Jewish Faust Commentary: Notes on Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption.” Goethe Yearbook 26 (2019): 251-266.
• “The Hyphen in the Theological-Political: Spinoza to Mendelssohn, Heine, and Derrida.” Religions 2019, 10, 21.

2018

• “From Difference to Alterity: ‘And’ in Rosenzweig and Goldschmidt.” Archivio di filosofia/Archives of Philosophy 86 (2018): 233-43.
• “Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History.” In Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion. Ed. Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit (Fordham: New York, 2018), 65-86.
• “Heine’s Displaced Philology.” The Germanic Review 93 (2018): 30-38.
• “Displaced Philologies: Introduction.” With David Suchoff. Special Theme Issue of The Germanic Review 93 (2018): 1-6.

2016

• “Versuch einer Korrespondenz: Uwe Johnson und Hannah Arendt.” Johnson-Jahrbuch 23 (2016): 117-128.
• “Dada Zurich 1916 and the Geopolitics of the Local.” The Germanic Review 91.4 (2016): 417-420.
• “Translation and the Text’s Alterity: Spinoza to Derrida.” Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures. Ed. Catriona MacLeod and Bethany Wiggin. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2016, 63-77.
• “Spinoza’s Dream.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3.1 (2016): 39-54.
• “Introduction: Jewish Studies and Postcolonialism.” With Ato Quayson. Special Theme Issue of Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3.1 (2016): 1-9.

2015

• “Heine’s Aesthetics of Dissonance.” The Germanic Review 90.4 (2015): 304-334.
• „Kommentar zu Heinrich Heine“ (Heinrich Heines Theorie des Judenhasses.). Birgit Erdle and Werner Konitzer (eds.), Theorien über Judenhass – eine Denkgeschichte: Kommentierte Quellenedition (1781-1931). Wissenschaftliche Reihe des Fritz Bauer Instituts. Frankfurt a.M. and New York: Campus, 2015.
• »Lebendige Schrift«:
 Zu Mendelssohns Theorie der Übersetzung als Selbstübersetzung. Wolfenbütteler Vortragsmanuskripte 20. Wolfenbüttel: Lessing-Akademie, 2015.
• “Franz Kafka’s ‘In der Strafkolonie.’” Introduction to the theme issue on Kafka’s “In der Strafkolonie.” The Germanic Review 90.2 (2015): 81-86.
• “Theory-Praxis: Spinoza, Hess, Marx, and Adorno.” Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy 2 (2013): 16-28.
• “Secularization Theories and Their Discontents.” With Nils Roemer. Introduction to the theme issue “Secularization.” The Germanic Review 90.1 (2015): 2-5.

2014

• “Another Abraham, another Sarah: Heinrich Heine’s The Rabbi of Bacherach.” Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence. Ed. Agata Bielik-Robson and Adam Lipszyc. New York and London: Routledge, 2014, 39-50.
• “Tangled Genealogies: Hellenism, Hebraism, and Discourse of Modernity.” Review essay of Miriam Leonard, Socrates and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud. Arion 21.3: 2014, 111-124.

2013

• „An Elective Affinity: Hans Eichner and Friedrich Schlegel.“ Hartwig Mayer, Paola Mayer, and Jean Wilson (eds.). Romanticism, Humanism, Judaism: The Legacy of Hans Eichner – Romantik, Humanismus, Judentum: Hans Eichners Vermächtnis. Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 2013, 29-45.
• “Thesen, Punkte, Form und Stil: wie anders philosophieren?“
• “Germany: From Restoration to Consolidation. Post-Romantic Classical and Romantic Legacies.“ Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 6. Ed. Rafey Habib. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 115-138.
• “Inside and Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig.“ German Jewry Between Hope and Despair 1871-1933. Ed. Nils Roemer. Lancaster: Academic Studies Press, 2013, 279-308.

2012

• “Philosophy from the Outside in: Rosenzweig’s Critical Project. Filozofija i Drustvo, XXIII (2012): 65-76.
• “Inszenierungen einer Figur: Lessing und die jüdische Spinozarezeption.“ Lessing Year Book 2012, vol. 39, 139-154.
• “Jewish Philosophers and the Enlightenment.” The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era. Ed. Martin Kavka, Zachary Braiterman, and David Novak. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 35-74.
• “”Reciting Jesus: Heine’s Nazarene Family Relations.” Ed. Christian Wiese and Martina Urban, German-Jewish Thought Between Religion and Politics: Festschrift in Honor of Paul Mendes-Flohr on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2012, 43-58.

2011

• “Writing, Dialogue, and Marginal Form: Mendelssohn’s Style of Intervention.” Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics. Ed. Reinier Munk. Berlin: Springer, 2011, 21-37.
• “Derrida and Spinoza: Rethinking the Theological-Political Problem.“ Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy 2 (2011): 9-25.
• “Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, Jacques Derrida, and the Project of Philosophy.“ Orietta Ombrosi and Petar Bojanic (eds.), Tra Torah e Sophia. Orizzonti e frontiere della Filosofia ebraica. Milano: Marietti, 2011, 286-304.
• “Einstimmigkeit in Differenz: Der Begriff der Aufklärung bei Kant und Mendelssohn.“ text + kritik 5 (2011): 79-98.
• “Die Kritische Theorie der Frankfurter Schule.“ Aufbau: Das jüdische Monatsmagazin 77.4 (2011), 21-23.
• “Was wird nun mit der Vergangenheit?, Zum Erinnerungsdiskurs in Uwe Johnsons Jahrestagen.“ Uwe Johnson Jahrbuch 18 (2011): 116-128.
• “Athens, Jerusalem, and the Orient Express of Philosophy.“ Bamidbar: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy1 (2011): 9-34.

2010

• “Voices from the ‘Jewish Colony’: Sovereignty, Power, Secularization, and the Outside Within.“ Non-Western Thought and International Relations: Retrieving the Global Context of Investigations of Modernity. Ed. Robbie Shilliam. London: Routledge, 2010, 64-84.
• “An Elective Affinity: Hans Eichner and Friedrich Schlegel.” The Germanic Review 85.2 (2010).

2009

•  “Spinoza and the Claims of Modernity.” Review Essay, H-Net Reviews. September, 2009.
•  “Street, Life, and other Signs: Heine in the Rue Laffitte.” (Special Issue on Street Life ed. Ato Quayson and Joseph Barker). City & Society 21, issue 2 (2009): 230–244.
• German Studies in a Post-National Age. Charlotte and Robert Craig Lecture. Rutgers University. German Studies, 2009.
• “Aspects de la réception de Spinoza chez Moses Mendelssohn et Salomon Maimon.” Revue germanique 9 (2009): 105-114.

2008

• “Dialogik als kritisches Modell: Bild und Wort bei Edith Moos und Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.” Afterword to Hermann Levin Goldschmidt and Edith Moos, Mein 1933. Vienna: Passagen, 2008, 107-142.

2007

• Together with David Suchoff.  “Introduction.” Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. The Legacy of German Jewry. Trans. David Suchoff. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007, 1-20.
• “Spinoza’s Jewishness.” Conrad Grebel Review 2 (2007).
• “Mendelssohn and the State.” Modern Language Notes122:3 (April 2007): 472-92.
• “What is Jewish Philosophy? Some Remarks.” Notebook. A Discussion of Contemporary Jewish Issues. A University of Toronto Student Journal. #4 Spring 2007: 62-64.
• Three entries to Heinrich Heine: “Harzreise [Travel Pictures]“, “Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland [On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany]“, “Romanzero.” Literary Encyclopedia.

2006

• Heinrich Heine: unser postmoderner Zeitgenosse. Tachles, 17 February 2006.

2005

• Das Vermächtnis des deutschen Judentums: Hermann Levin Goldschmidts unzeitgemäße Betrachtung. Co-authored with David Suchoff. Neue Rundschau 4 (2005): 168-177.
• “Lessing and the Jews.” A Companion to the Works of Gottohold Ephraim Lessing. Ed. Barbara Fischer and Thomas C. Fox. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005, 185-208.
• “Dialogics: Difference and Alterity in Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s Thought.” 6th Hermann Levin Goldschmidt Memorial Lecture, 8 April 2005.
• “Schalet, schöner Götterfunken Zur Wiederkehr des 200. Todestag von Friedrich Schiller am 9. Mai (changed by the paper to:“Kritisch gegenüber allem Messianischen”). Tachles, 13 May 2005.
• “Architektur und Wohnlichkeit: das alternative Moment in Kants Vernunftbegriff.” Randfiguren. Spinoza-Inspirationen. Festgabe für Manfred Walther. Ed. Felicitas Englisch, Manfred Lauermann, and Maria-Brigitta Schröder. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2005, 40-53.

2004

• “Heine und der Traum.” Palimpseste. Festschrift für Norbert Altenhofer. Ed. Pascal Nicklas, Volker Bohn and Joachim Jacob. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 2004, 41-61.
• “Heine’s Critical Secularism.” Special issue on Critical Secularism, ed. Aamir Mufti. boundary 2 31.2 (2004): 149-171.
• “Heine’s Spinoza.” Special theme issue Spinoza in Dialogue, ed. Jeffrey Bernstein. Idealistic Studies 33.2-3 (2003): 207-221.
• “Zwischen Emanzipation, Vernichtung und Neuanfang: Jüdische Philosophen in der Schweiz.” Festschrift zum 100. Jubiläum des Bestehens des Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebundes. Ed. Gabrielle Rosenstein. Zürich: Chronos, 2004, 248-64.

2003

• “Georg Simmel.” Key Thinkers on Art, ed. Chris Murray. London: Routledge, 2003, 245-250.
• “Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.” Metzler Lexikon Jüdischer Philosophen. Philosophisches Denken von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Andreas Kilcher and Otfried Fraisse. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler, 2003, 440-42.
• “Lessing’s ‘Jewish’ Questions.” Special issue of Germanic Review dedicated to Inge Halpert. The Germanic Review 78.2 (2003): 62-73
• Zu Adornos 100. Geburtstag. tachles 3.36, 5 September 2003.

2002

• “A Jewish Critic from Germany: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.” German Literature and Jewish Critics. Ed. Steve Dowden and Meike Werner.  Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002, 149-165.
• “Nightingales Instead of Owls: Heine’s Joyous Philosophy.”  A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, ed. Roger F. Cook. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002, 139-168.

2001

• “Lessing, Mendelssohn, Nathan: German Jewish Myth Building as an Act of Emancipation.” Lessing International: Lessing Reception Abroad.  Ed. John McCarthy, Richard Schade and Herbert Rowland. Lessing Yearbook 32 (2000): 341-360.
• “Spinozas Modernität: Kritische Aspekte seiner politischen Theorie.” Marcel Senn (ed.), Ethik, Recht und Politik bei Spinoza.  Zürich: Schulthess, 2001, 209-224.

2000

• “Causerie: On the Function of Dialogue in Fontane’s Der Stechlin.” Transl. by Eric Schwab. Ed. Marion Doebeling. Cultural Codes in Flux: New Approaches to Fontane. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 2000. (Translation of my article in Germanic Review 1995), 116-135.
• “Grounding Aesthetics.” New Germanic Critique. Special Isssue on 18th Century #79 (2000):137-156.

1999

• “Heines Spinoza: Ent/Mythologisierung der Philosophie als Projekt der Entzauberung und1 Emanzipation.” Aufklärung und Skepsis. Internationaler Heine-Kongress. Ed. Bernd Witte and Joseph Kruse. Stuttgart: Metzler, 571-585.
• “Models of Differences and Alterity: Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.” The German-Jewish Dilemma. From the Enlightenment to the Shoa. Ed. Edward Timms and Andrea Hammel. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 1999,  25-38.
• “Rhyming History: A Note on the ‘Hebrew Melodies’.”Germanic Review 74 (1999):271-282.
• “Universität, Partikularität und das jüdische Lehrhaus.”  Evelyn Adunka (ed.), Das Modell des jüdischen Lehrhaus.  Vienna: Passagen, 1999, 47-59. (Invited.)

1998

• “‘Land of Truth – Enchanting Name!’ Kant’s Journey at Home.” The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy. Ed. Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne Zantop. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998 321-336.

1997

• Entries on G.E. Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Georg Simmel, Karl Marx, Margarete Susman, and “Review” in theEncyclopedia of Essay. London: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, 476-478, 541-543, 554-556, 699-700, 773-774, 824-825.
• “Heinrich Heine: Poet, Critic, Exile.” Catalogue to the Exhibit at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, 1-3.
• “Love, Sex and Other Utilities: Keller’s Unsettling Account.”  Narrative Ironies.  Ed. by Raymond Prier and Gerald Gillespie.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, 223-235.
• “Negotiating Truth: On Nathan’s Business.” Lessing Yearbook 28 (1997): 105-123.
• “The Writings of Hermann Levin Goldschmidt.” Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996.  Eds. Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes. New Haven: Yale 1997, 704-709.
• “Zur Sprachlosigkeit von Bildern.” Bilder des Holocaust.Ed. Klaus Scherpe and Manfred Köppen. Vienna: Böhlau 1997, 131-144.

1996

• “Moses Mendelssohn und das Projekt der Aufklärung.”Germanic Review  71.3 (1996):163-175.

1995

• “Ab/Deckerinnerung im grossen Stil.” Eine Streitschrift. Der Wettbewerb für das “Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas.Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (ed.). Berlin: Verlag der Kunst, 1995, 52-56.
• “Causerie: Zur Funktion des Gesprächs in Fontanes Der Stechlin“.  Germanic Review 70 (1995):116-122.
• “Juden”, “Enzyklopädie.”  Lexikon der Aufklärung.  Ed. Werner Schneiders.  München: C.H.Beck, 1995, 101-103 and 197-198.
• “Kritik und Frieden: Zur literarischen Strategie der SchriftZum Ewigen Frieden.”  Proceedings of  the 8th International Kant Congress.  Hoke Robinson (ed.). Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1995, vol. 2, 821-827. (Also published in Weimarer Beiträge 41 (1995):120-126) Revised and abbreviated version: “Kant’s Secret Clause.” Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1996.

1994

• “The Deutsche Encyclopädie.”  (With Catriona MacLeod and Emery Snyder).  Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century: 12 successors of the Encyclopédie.  Ed Frank A. Kafker.  Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century.  The Voltaire Foundation.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 257-333.
• “‘Gibt es eine jüdische Philosophie?’ Zur Problematik eines Topos.”  W.Goetschel (ed.), Perspektiven der Dialogik. Zürcher Kolloquium zu Ehren Hermann Levin Goldschmidts.  Vienna: Passagen, 1994, 89-109.
• “‘Jüdische Philosophie’ – ein Querverweis.” In Babylon14/15 (Winter 1994/95): 119-132.

1993

• “The Differential Character of Traditions.”Telos  # 95 vol. 26 (1993): 161-170.
• “Germanistik in den USA.”  [Introduction to theme issue] Weimarer Beiträge 39 (1993):325-343.
• “Zum Werk von Hermann Levin Golschmidt.”Weimarer Beiträge 39 (1993):60-68. (revised version of “Nachwort” to Goldschmidt, Werke 1, 283-290.)

1992

• “Formen des Widerspruchs. Zur Diskursausdifferenzierung in der Neuzeit.” Komplementarität und Dialogik.  Ed. Ernst Fischer et.al.  München: Piper, 1992, 78-97.
• “The Deutsche Encyclopädie and Encyclopedism in Eighteenth-Century Germany.”  (With C. MacLeod and E. Snyder). The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution.  Ed. Clorinda Donato and Robert Maniquis.  Boston: G.K.Hall, 1992, 55-61.

1991

• “Switzerland, for Example: 700 Years Old and Still Going Strong.”Telos #88 vol. 24 (1991): 155-166.

1987

• “Kafka’s Negative Dialectics.”Journal of the Kafka-Society of America (9) 1985: 83-106.

1986

• “Terra Fuentes.”-(Interview with Carlos Fuentes. With L. Dunton-Downer and C. Patell).- Harvard Review (1) 1986: 130-162.

1984

• “Zur Geschichte des Widerpruchs in der Neuzeit.” W. Goetschel, J. Cartwright, and M. Wicki-Vogt (eds.), Wege des Widerspruch. Festschrift für Hermann Levin Goldschmidt. Bern: Haupt, 9-40.

1981

• “Margarete Susman.” Helvetische Steckbriefe.  Ed. Werner Weber.  Zürich: Artemis 1981, 247-253.

1999        Heinrich Heine's Jewish Con/Texts. Special Theme Issue co-edited with Nils Roemer. The Germanic Review 74.4 (1999).

1997        Gershom Scholem. Special Theme Issue co-edited with Nils Roemer. The Germanic Review 72.1 (1997).

1993        Germanistik in den USA. Weimarer Beiträge 39 (1993).

1998        "Neue Literatur zu Moses Mendelssohn."  Lessing Yearbook 29 (1998):199-208.

1997        "Scholem's Diaries, Letters and New Literature on His Work. Review Essay."  Germanic Review 72:1 (1997): 77-92.

1989        "Neue Literatur zur Aufklärung."  German Quarterly 62 (1989): 235-241.

1983        "Ergebnisse des Lessing-Mendelssohn-Jahrs."  Studia Philosophica. 42 (1983):223-230.