Books

Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom (Penn State University Press, Series in Philosophy and Literature, 2010)

Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)

Articles

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“How the Philologist Became a Physician of Modernity: Nietzsche’s Lectures on German Education,” with Paul Reitter. Representations. 131:4 (2015): 68-104.

“See Page 481,” with Brad Pasanek, The Eighteenth Centuries, ed. David Gies and Cynthia Wall, forthcoming (University of Virginia Press).

“The Enlightenment Index,” with Brad Pasanek, forthcoming Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation 56:3 (Fall 2015): 357-380.

“Kant on the Discipline of Knowledge and the Unity of Knowledge,” forthcoming Performing Knowledge, ed. Mary Helen Dupie and Sean Franzel (Walter de Gruyter, Spring 2014).

“A Crisis of Purpose: Knowledge, Virtue and the University of the Future,” The Hedgehog Review 15:2 (Summer 2013): 79-91.

“Why Google is Not Making us Stupid . . . Or Smart,” The Hedgehog Review 14:1 (Spring 2012): 64-78.

 “Touching Books: Diderot, Novalis and the Encyclopedia of the Future,” Representations 114:1 (2011): 65-102.

“Goethe’s Morphology of Knowledge, or the Overgrowth of Nomenclature,” Goethe Yearbook 17 (2010): 153-177.

“Kant and the Feelings of Reason,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 42:4 (2009): 557-580.

“Languages, Cultural Studies and the Future of Foreign Language Education,” Modern Language Journal (92:2) 2008: 292-295.

“From Bildung durch Sprache to Language Ecology. The Multilingual Challenge,” with Claire Kramsch. Münchener Arbeiten zur Fremdsprachenforschung 22 (2008): 215-225.

“Lyrical Feeling: Novalis’ Anthropology of the Senses,” Studies in Romanticism 47:4 (2008): 453-478.

“The Problem of Framing in Foreign Language Education: The Case of German,” with Claire Kramsch, Tes Howell and Chantelle Warner. Critical Inquiries in Language Studies. Fall 2007. 

“Poesie as Anthropology: Schleiermacher, Colonial History and the Ethics of Ethnography,” The German Quarterly. Fall 79.4 (2006).

Book Reviews

Review of Louis Menand The Marketplace of Ideas and Mark Taylor Crisis on Campus, The Hedgehog Review 13:1 (2011): 88-91.

Revie Review of Stefani Engelstein, Anxious Anatomy, forthcoming Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography.

Review of John B. Lyon’s Crafting the Flesh, Crafting the Self, in German Studies Review, Winter 2008.

Review of Tom Gunning’s The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Modernity, in Medienwissenschaft Spring 2002.