April 24, 2008
French-American Relations: Remembering D-Day after September 11. Lanham: University Press of America, 2008.
A major contention of French-American Relations is that the American experience during WWII illustrates “the decency of the American people” (Abraham Lincoln), and gives meaning to the special bond that exists between the two nations.
March 24, 2007
Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China. SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. 2007
Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine in contemporary China.
September 24, 2006
Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt (annotated translation): F. W. J. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006)
Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schelling’s enigmatic and influential masterpiece, widely recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism.
October 24, 2005
Musique et Poétique à l’Âge du symbolisme: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Claudel, Valéry. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2005.
September 1, 2004
Wagner’s Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2004.
Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has been one of the most performed operas ever since its premiere in 1868.
May 24, 2003
The Contemporáneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003
Salvador Oropesa offers original readings of the works of five Contemporáneos–Salvador Novo, Xavier Villaurrutia, Agustín Lazo, Guadalupe Marín, and Jorge Cuesta–and their efforts to create a Mexican literature that was international, attuned to the realities of modern Mexico, and flexible enough to speak to the masses as well as the elites.
May 24, 2000
Johannes Schmidt: “Die klare, helle Wahrheit.” Johann Gottfried Herders Christliche Schriften als Auseinandersetzung mit Gotthold Ephraim Lessings religionsphilosophischen Spätschriften (Hamburg 2000).
January 1, 2000
Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identität 1750-1871. Ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi. Cologne & Weimar: Böhlau, 2000.
August 7, 1999
La novelística de Antonio Muñoz Molina: sociedad civil y literatura lúdica. Jaén: Universidad de Jaén, 1999.
December 7, 1997
Lukács Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997.
Long recognized as one of the foremost literary critics of the twentieth century, the Hungarian-born Georg Lukács (1885-1971) shocked many by turning to Marxism in 1918
