Marshall Berman bibliography

Marshall Berman was an American professor, author, critic, and essayist. Berman wrote three non-fiction books spanning philosophy, literary theory, urbanism, and history, as well as numerous published essays and reviews.

In 1982, Berman published All That Is Solid Melts into Air, which garnered immediate attention. Berman's work regularly appeared in publications such as The Nation, the Village Voice, Dissent, Partisan Review, and The New York Times Book Review.

Books

 * Edited and published posthumously

Essays and articles
• The Truth, The Self and The World: Some Characteristic Problems of Romanticism in King's Crown Essays (1961)

• Theory and Practice in Partisan Review (1964)

• Alienation, Community, Freedom in Dissent (1965)

• The Train of History in Partisan Review (1966)

• Abe and Son "Out on Highway 61" in The Flame (1969)

• Notes Toward a New Society: Rousseau and the New Left in Partisan Review (1971)

• Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the 1960s, and the Tragedy of Development in American Review (1974)

• Buildings Are Judgment ...or "What Man Can Build" in Ramparts (1975)

• Buildings Are Judgment II in Ramparts (1975)

• Liberal and Totalitarian Therapies in Rousseau: A Response to James M. Glass in Political Theory (1976)

• The People in Capital in Bennington Review (1978)

• "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air": Marx, Modernism, and Modernization in Dissent (1978) and Twenty-Five Years of Dissent (1979)

• Baudelaire: Modernism in the Streets in Partisan Review (1979)

• Herbert Marcuse in The Nation (1979)

• Modernity - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow in Berkshire Review (1981)

• Feminism, Community, Freedom in Dissent (1983)

• A Struggle to the Death in Which Both Sides Are Right in the Village Voice (1983)

• The Signs in the Street: A Response to Perry Anderson in New Left Review (1984)

• Roots, Ruins, Renewals: City Life After Urbicide in the Village Voice (1984)

• Dancing in the Dark in the Village Voice (1984)

• Taking Back the Night: City Planning Keeps Times Square's Glitz Alive in the Village Voice (1986)

• Take It to the Streets: Conflict and Community in Public Space in Dissent (1986)

• The Place of the Poor in Our Cities in Utne Reader (1987)

• Ruins and Reforms: New York Yesterday and Today in Dissent (1987)

• Among the Ruins in New Internationalist (1987)

• The Experience of Modernity in Design After Modernism: Beyond the Object (1988)

• Why Modernism Still Matters in Tikkun (1989) and Modernity and Identity (1992)

• The Volume of Desperation in the Village Voice

• A Response to Jeffrey C. Isaac in Tikkun (1989)

• Eternal City: Two Thousand Years of Street Smarts in Voice Literary Supplement (1989)

• Can These Ruins Live? in Parkett (1989)

• Where Are the New Moderns? in Architectural Design (1990)

• Modernist Anti-Modernism in New Perspectives Quarterly (1991)

• Bass in Your Face in the Village Voice (1991)

• Roundtable: Nationalism in a World of “Ethnic Cleansing” in Tikkun (1992)

• Architecture as a Universal Language in Places Journal (1992)

• The Twentieth Century: the Halo and the Highway in Modernism/Postmodernism (1992)

• Close to the Edge: Reflections on Rap in Tikkun (1993)

• Children of the Future in Dissent (1993) and Legacy of Dissent (1994)

• Remembering Irving Howe in Dissent (1993)

• Keeping the Gates Open in Tikkun (1993)

• Postmodernism in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (1993)

• “Don't Kidnap Me, I'm a Professor”: Looking at Brazil in Dissent (1994)

• Signs Square in the Village Voice (1995)

• Modernism and Human Rights Near the Millennium in Dissent (1995)

• In the Forest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York in Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times (1995)

• Temas de los tiempos modernos: Marx y el futuro in Quehacer (1996)

• "A Little Child Shall Lead Them": The Jewish Family Romance in The Jew in the Text (1996)

• Picasso Surviving in Dissent (1997) and etcétera (1997)

• Sign of the Times: The Lure of 42nd Street in Dissent (1997)

• Justice/Just Us: Rap and Social Justice in America in The Urbanization of Injustice (1997)

• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: On the Synthesis of Times Square in Harvard Design Magazine (1998)

• Views from the Burning Bridge in Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s (1999) and Dissent (1999)

• Ten Years After 1989 in Dissent (1999)

• Museums in the Age of Giuliani in Art in America (1999)

• The Lonely Crowd: New York After the War in New York, An Illustrated History (1999)

• Blue Jay Way: Where Will Critical Culture Come From? in Dissent (2000)

• It Happens Every Day in The Pragmatist Imagination (2000)

• The Labor Movement: Is Anybody Home? in Dissent (2001)

• Notes from Underground: Plato’s Cave, Piranesi’s Prisons, and the Subway in Harvard Design Magazine (2001)

• Women and the Metamorphoses of Times Square in Dissent (2001)

• Dancing with America: Philip Roth, Writer on the Left in New Labor Forum (2001)

• Missing in Action: Death and Life in New York in Lingua Franca (2001)

• Too Much Is Not Enough: Metamorphoses of Times Square in Impossible Presence (2001)

• Love and Theft: From Jack Robin to Bob Dylan in Dissent (2002)

• When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People in After the World Trade Center (2002)

• Marshall Berman Responds in Dissent (2003)

• The City Rises: Rebuilding Meaning After 9/11 in Dissent (2003)

• Standing in the Doorway: Dissent in the 21st Century in Dissent (2004)

• Israel: No Souvenirs in Dissent (2004)

• Marshall Berman Responds in Dissent (2005)

• The Last Page in Dissent (2005)

• A Times Square for the New Millennium: Life on the Cleaned-up Boulevard in Dissent (2006)

• Marx in China: Modern Art, Modern Conflicts, Modern Workers in Dissent (2006)

• Home Fires Burning: Times Square's Signs in DESIGNER/builder (2006)

• New York Calling in Dissent (2007)

• Guys, Dolls, and Deals: Old and New Times Square in The Suburbanization of New York (2007)

• 1968: Lessons Learned in Dissent (2008)

• »Ausghen« in der Stadt: Times Square, Potsdamer Platz und moderne Ubranität in New York - Berlin (2008)

• Here Comes Everybody in The New York 2030 Notebook (2008)

• Gerald Cohen (1941-2009) in openDemocracy (2009)

• Falling in Restless Cities (2010)

• “Mass Merger”: Whitman and Baudelaire, the Modern Street, and Democratic Culture in A Political Companion to Walt Whitman (2011)

• In Poland, Followed by Shadows in Dissent (2012)

• The Romance of Public Space in Beyond Zuccotti Park (2012)

• Emerging from the Ruins* in Dissent (2014) and Adventures in Modernism (2016)

• New York City: Seeing Through the Ruins* in Nonstop Metropolis (2016)


 * Published posthumously

Letters

 * Subject Slip-Up in The Harvard Crimson (1966)
 * Something Beautiful in The Village Voice (1967)
 * The Divided Self - Mr. Berman replies in The New York Times Book Review (1970)
 * Erik H. Erikson - Marshall Berman replies in The New York Times Book Review (1975)
 * The Authentic Rousseau in American Political Science Review (1975)
 * Lower East 'Sides' - Marshall Berman replies in the Village Voice (1983)
 * Hope for Labor in The New York Review of Books (1996)
 * Repression in Cuba in The New York Review of Books (2003)
 * The US and the Plight of the Iranians in The New York Review of Books (2007)