The Fool's Truth: Diderot, Goethe, and Hegel

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Introduction and Table of Contents

This is the table of contents and introduction to the edited volume Theodor Adorno, published by Ashgate as part of the International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought. Posted in OpenBU at author's request and with publisher's consent

Recent Hegel Literature: The Jena Period and the Phenomenology of Spirit

This is an offprint version of the article published in Telos (1981). The version made available in Digital Common was supplied by the author and is made available with permission of the publisher, Telos Press.Publisher's Versiontru

Cenotaphs in Sound: Catastrophe, Memory, and Musical Memorials

Originally published at http://proceedings.eurosa.org/2/schmidt.pdfThis paper examines the peculiar status of musical compositions that are intended to serve as memorials of victims of political violence. It considers four examples of this genre: John Foulds' World Requiem (1923), Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw (1947), Steve Reich's Different Trains (1988), and John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls (2002)

The Eclipse of Reason and the End of the Frankfurt School in America

Originally published in New German Critique: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?viewby=journal&productid=45622. Copyright Duke University Press

German Enlightenment

This article is available (in Hebrew translation) in: “Niemieckie oświecenie” (German Enlightenment), in Filozofia Oświecenia. Radykalizm – religia – kosmopolityzm (Enlightenment Philosophy: Radical, Religious, and Cosmopolitan, edited by Justyna Miklaszewska and Anna Tomaszewska (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2016) 65-94. The author retains English rights to the article, and has submitted it for inclusion in OpenBU

'This New Conquering Empire of Light and Reason:' Edmund Burke, James Gillray, and the Dangers of Enlightenment

This article examines the use of images of “light” and “enlightenment” in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France and in the controversy that greeted the book, with an emphasis on caricatures of Burke and his book by James Gillray and others. Drawing on Hans Blumenberg’s discussion of the metaphor of “light as truth,” it situates this controversy within the broader usage of images of light and reason in eighteenth-century frontispieces and (drawing on the work of J.G.A. Pocock and Albert O. Hirschman) explores the ways in which Burke’s critique of Richard Price operates with a rhetoric that views Price as part of an enlightenment that was inherently “radical” and, hence, a threat to the “enlightenment” that, in Burke’s view, had already been achieved

Program Note: Benjamin Britten, War Requiem

This is a program note to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, performed by the Boston University Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (David Hoose & Scott Allen Jarrett, conducting) at Symphony Hall, Boston University on November 24, 2014. This program note appears in OpenBU courtesy of its author