Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere

Introduction
Russell A. Berman

Media and Architecture at the Birth of the Public Sphere
Daniel Purdy

Historicist Orientalism as a Public Absolute: On Herder's Typo-teleology
Jeffrey S. Librett

Toward an Anti-Monumental Literary-Critical Style: Notes on Walter Benjamin and Jean Paul
Sean Franzel

Marx, Heine, and German Cosmopolitanism: The 1844 Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher
Eleanor Courtemanche

Literary? Public? Proletarian: Öffentlichkeit and Erfahrung among the Haymarket Martyrs
Loren Kruger

Citizen-Soldiers and Militarized Nostalgia: Genres of War and Place in the 1950s Public Sphere
Jaimey Fisher

Offending the Public: Handke, Herzog, Hypnosis
Brad Prager

"A Certain Light, But Only a Juridical Light": The Legal Aesthetics of Thomas Bernhard's The Lime Works
Casey Servais

The Public Intellectual as Survivor: The Cases of Josef Haslinger and Kathrin Röggla
Katharina Gerstenberger

The Politics of "Theory" in a Late Twentieth-Century University: A Memoir
Arthur C. T. Strum

Openness as a Form of Closure: Public Sphere, Social Class, and Alexander Kluge's Counterproducts
Michael Bray

Humanities and the Public Sphere: Scholarship, Language, Technology
Russell A. Berman

Reviews

Hitchens's Crusade
Adrian Pabst