Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty and Staff

Books and Articles

                                                                                 Books (all peer reviewed):

Essential Writings of Paracelsus.  Leiden: Brill, 2007.  (976 pages).

Valentin Weigel: Selected Spiritual Writings.  Translation and Introduction.  In Classics of Western Spirituality.  New York: Paulist Press, 2003.  (238  pages)

Valentin Weigel (1533-88): German Religious Dissenter, Speculative Theorist, and Advocate of Tolerance.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.  (227 pages)

Paracelsus: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997 (238 pages).

German Mysticism From Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 1993 (290 pages).

Boehme: An Intellectual Biography of the Seventeenth-Century Philosopher and Mystic.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 1991 (268 pages).

The Paradox of the Employee: Variants of a Social Theme in Modern Literature. Germanic Studies in America.  Bern:  Peter Lang, 1980 (130 pages, revised dissertation).

                                 Book chapters or scholarly Journal or Festschrift Articles (* = peer reviewed):

*“Between God and Gibson: German Mystical and Romantic Sources in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ,” German Quarterly 78.4 (Winter 2005): 421-40. (19 pp.)

*“Arbeiten und Erkennen,” talk at the Paracelsus Society in Dresden, in Manuskripte—Thesen—Informationen (Dresden: Deutsche Bombastus-Gesellschaft, 2005): (11 pp.)

*“Cosmic and Terrestrial Aliens in the German Renaissance,” Daphnis. Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit (1400-1750). 33:1-2 (2004): 255-66.  [Only appeared in print this year] (11 pages)

*“Valentin Weigel and The Fourfold Interpretation of the Creation,” Daphnis 34:1-2 (2005): 1-22. (22 pages)

*“Boehme,” in Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, ed. Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Leiden: Brill, 2005): 183-192. (10 pages)

*“Weigel,” in Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, ed. Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Leiden: Brill, 2005): 1165-1166.  (2 pages)

*"Theorie und Mystik in der Nachfolge des Paracelsus," Morgen-Glantz (Yearbook Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft, 2002): 283-302.

"Weisheit als Weiblichkeit Gottes bei Paracelsus, Weigel und Boehme," Manuskripte, Thesen, Informationen (2002): 43-51.

*"Historische Finsternis und poetisches Licht in Böhmes Werk," in Erkenntnis und Wissenschaft. Jacob Böhme (1575-1624) Papers of the International Jacob Böhme Symposium, October, 2000.  Görlitz: Oettel, 2000.

*"Die Welt der Engel als Utopie des Friedens in Böhmes Aurora," Festschrift für Ernst-Heinz Lemper (1999):63-69.

*"Hofmannsthal and the Myth of European Rebirth," in Wir sind aus solchem Zeug wie das zu träumen...: Kritische Beiträge zu Hofmannsthals Werk, ed. Joseph P. Strelka  (Bern: Peter Lang, 1993): 377-386.

*"Schopenhauer und Böhme," Schopenhauer Jahrbuch 73 (1992):  7-17.

*"Jacob Boehme and the Thirty Years' War," Central European History 24 (1991): 213-221.

*(with Lawrence M. Principe).  "Jacob Boehme's Divine Substance Salitter: its Nature, Origin, and Relationship to Seventeeth Century Scientific Theories."  British Journal of the History of Science 22 (1989):  53-61.

*"Hofmannsthal, Pannwitz und Der Turm," Jahrbuch des Freien Deutschen Hochstifts (1988):  336-59.

*"Kafka und die Zeugnisse vom versunkenen Kakanien," Sprache im technischen Zeitalter 86 (1983):  320-37.

*(with Regina Kecht). "The Theme of the Chinovnik and the Antinomies of Order and Life in Nineteeth-Century Russian Literature," Russian Literature Tri-Quarterly 11 (1982) 309-32.

*"Tuitchev, Schelling, and the Question of Influence," in Germano-Slavica 3 (1981): 307-17.

*"Class Conflict in Das Schloss,"  Monatshefte 73 (1981):  35-50; reprinted in Longman’s Companion to Kafka, ed. William J. Dodd (London: Longman, 1995).

*(with C. Modu). "The Validity of the AP German Language Examination," Unterrichtspraxis 15 (1981):  116-26.

*"Das Lichtwerk," Sprache im Technischen Zeitalter 95 (1985):  241-55.