Michael P Steinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 273822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael P Steinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael P |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinberg |
| SIGNATURE | STEINBERG M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph
The Narcissism of Major Differences: Richard Wagner and the Peculiarities of German Antisemitism
With a focus on the unique combustibility of German antisemitism, this essay asks whether the road to the Nazi genocide can be understood in terms of a displacement onto the Jews of intra-Christian, Protestant-Catholic enmity and anxiety, and thus as a narcissism of major differences. Did the "othering" of Jews displace intra-Christian differences that had divided Germany since the Reformation and Thirty Years' War? Did hospitality and its succes…
Beethoven and His World
Political Philology
Written at the height of the Greek/German economic standoff of July 2015, this review article finds in Stathis Gourgouris's Lessons in Secular Criticism a powerful critique of some of the legacies of Europe's attachment to Greece as well as a reactivation of some of its potentials. Arguing for a newly articulated referentiality between the classical tradition and the streets of contemporary Athens, Gourgouris provides a kind of political philolog…
Seeing Hearing Thinking: Introducing the differences Dossier on Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt
This introduction to the differences dossier on Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt follows three registers simultaneously: the presentation and implied argument of the film, its foundation in Arendt's 1963 articles and book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, and the foci and arguments of the other authors included in the issue: Ariella Azoulay, Bonnie Honig, Pamela Katz, Adi Ophir, and Margarethe von Trotta
Kevin C. Karnes. A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Through three decades of celebrated lecture courses in European cultural and intellectual history at Wesleyan, Berkeley, and Princeton, Carl Schorske dazzled up to 600 students at a time (according to a confessedly envious recent recollection of his Berkeley successor, Martin Jay) with his combination of original analysis and charismatic theatricality. His principal courses were two: his own version of a generic nineteenth-century survey, and the…
Music and Melancholy
The Law of the Good Neighbor
This essay portrays the "law of the good neighbor" as the principle of the Warburg Library's collections - as the argument for their expansion and coherence, as well as the principle governing the scholarly practice inspired by the Warburg Institute and "Warburg school" of cultural analysis. The essay includes a tribute to Anne Marie Meyer (1919 - 2004), Warburg scholar and long-time affiliate of the Institute, with special emphasis on the questi…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
The Musical Fin-de-siècle and the Uses of Disenchantment
The Musical Fin-de-siècle and the Uses of Disenchantment Michael P Steinberg (bio) I The young Gustav Mahler proved to be a champion of the old Giuseppe Verdi. In January 1894 he introduced Verdi’s last opera Falstaff to Hamburg, less than a year after its La Scala premiere. A decade later, in May 1904, he conducted it in Vienna. The latter performance prompted the following notice in the London Musical Times: “For a work so full of delicate and …
Migratory Psychoanalysis
In September 2004 I participated in a conference in La Plata, Argentina, on the topic of "The State and the Politics of Memory: Archives, Museums, and Education." [1] The conference was convened by the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, an authority commissioned in 2000 by the provincial government of Buenos Aires (whose capital is La Plata) with the task of developing a public and comparative discourse of Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung, or coming t…
Hannah Arendt and the Cultural Style of the German Jews
Michael P . Steinberg Hannah Arendt and the Cultural Style of the German Jews BETWEEN BERLIN AND VIENNA In October 1943, in New York, halfway through her 18-year trajectory as a stateless person but already as a master of idiomatic, polemical English, Hannah Arendt composed a withering review of a popular memoir written by a fellow émigré thinker. The book was Die Welt von Gestem (The World ofYesterday). The author: Stefan Zweig, born in Vienna i…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Operatic Modernism
A survey of European trends and works suggests that the extent to which operatic modernism resists the pull of ideology may well depend on two factors: the post-Wagnerian recuperation of the primacy of voice and the proclivity of modernist operatic texts and music to engage (rather than repress) nostalgia. One work not usually included in modernist canons, Erich Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, presents an interesting model
Music Drama and the End of History
This essay is about Parsifal. It is about Amfortas's wound, the efforts to close it, and the meaning of the claim that it has finally been closed. That closure involves also the closure of music drama, the redemption of Wagnerian form now raised to the level of pure ideology. The essay's three-part argument involves the identification of three claims of cultural resolution and their internal contradictions. These claims I
Cultural History or Cultural Studies: Can “the Farmer and the Cowman” be Friends
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Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria, 1919-1933. Lee Congdon
The Musical Absolute
Musicality What is living and what is dead in writings on music? In recent years, ways of answering this question have changed. In 1977, musicologist Rose Rosengard Subotnik published a groundbreaking article, provocatively entitled Is Music Criticism Way It Is?' This initial question immediately divided into three: Why, it is asked, does Adorno show next to no informed awareness of music before Bach? Why is he so reluctant to engage in purely mu…
The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theater and Ideology, 1890-1938
The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma . Russell A. Berman
Jewish Identity and Intellectuality in Fin-de-Siecle Austria: Suggestions for a Historical Discourse
Michael P. Steinberg, Jewish Identity and Intellectuality in Fin-de-Siècle Austria: Suggestions for a Historical Discourse, New German Critique, No. 43, Special Issue on Austria (Winter, 1988), pp. 3-33
Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft in der Provinz: Salzburg im Dritten Reich . Ernst Hanisch
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time. The European Imagination, 1860-1920
Moeller van den Bruck (1876-1925): Un nationaliste contre la revolution. Denis Goeldel
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920
The Twelve Tables and Their Origins: An Eighteenth-Century Debate
Music and Melancholy
Seeing Hearing Thinking: Introducing the differences Dossier on Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt
This introduction to the differences dossier on Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt follows three registers simultaneously: the presentation and implied argument of the film, its foundation in Arendt's 1963 articles and book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, and the foci and arguments of the other authors included in the issue: Ariella Azoulay, Bonnie Honig, Pamela Katz, Adi Ophir, and Margarethe von Trotta
The Law of the Good Neighbor
This essay portrays the "law of the good neighbor" as the principle of the Warburg Library's collections - as the argument for their expansion and coherence, as well as the principle governing the scholarly practice inspired by the Warburg Institute and "Warburg school" of cultural analysis. The essay includes a tribute to Anne Marie Meyer (1919 - 2004), Warburg scholar and long-time affiliate of the Institute, with special emphasis on the questi…
Hannah Arendt and the Cultural Style of the German Jews
Michael P . Steinberg Hannah Arendt and the Cultural Style of the German Jews BETWEEN BERLIN AND VIENNA In October 1943, in New York, halfway through her 18-year trajectory as a stateless person but already as a master of idiomatic, polemical English, Hannah Arendt composed a withering review of a popular memoir written by a fellow émigré thinker. The book was Die Welt von Gestem (The World ofYesterday). The author: Stefan Zweig, born in Vienna i…
The Politics and Aesthetics of Operatic Modernism
A survey of European trends and works suggests that the extent to which operatic modernism resists the pull of ideology may well depend on two factors: the post-Wagnerian recuperation of the primacy of voice and the proclivity of modernist operatic texts and music to engage (rather than repress) nostalgia. One work not usually included in modernist canons, Erich Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, presents an interesting model
The Twelve Tables and Their Origins: An Eighteenth-Century Debate
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time. The European Imagination, 1860-1920
Moeller van den Bruck (1876-1925): Un nationaliste contre la revolution. Denis Goeldel
Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft in der Provinz: Salzburg im Dritten Reich . Ernst Hanisch
Jewish Identity and Intellectuality in Fin-de-Siecle Austria: Suggestions for a Historical Discourse
Michael P. Steinberg, Jewish Identity and Intellectuality in Fin-de-Siècle Austria: Suggestions for a Historical Discourse, New German Critique, No. 43, Special Issue on Austria (Winter, 1988), pp. 3-33
The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma . Russell A. Berman
The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theater and Ideology, 1890-1938
The Musical Absolute
Musicality What is living and what is dead in writings on music? In recent years, ways of answering this question have changed. In 1977, musicologist Rose Rosengard Subotnik published a groundbreaking article, provocatively entitled Is Music Criticism Way It Is?' This initial question immediately divided into three: Why, it is asked, does Adorno show next to no informed awareness of music before Bach? Why is he so reluctant to engage in purely mu…
Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria, 1919-1933. Lee Congdon
Cultural History or Cultural Studies: Can “the Farmer and the Cowman” be Friends
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Music Drama and the End of History
This essay is about Parsifal. It is about Amfortas's wound, the efforts to close it, and the meaning of the claim that it has finally been closed. That closure involves also the closure of music drama, the redemption of Wagnerian form now raised to the level of pure ideology. The essay's three-part argument involves the identification of three claims of cultural resolution and their internal contradictions. These claims I
The Politics and Aesthetics of Operatic Modernism
A survey of European trends and works suggests that the extent to which operatic modernism resists the pull of ideology may well depend on two factors: the post-Wagnerian recuperation of the primacy of voice and the proclivity of modernist operatic texts and music to engage (rather than repress) nostalgia. One work not usually included in modernist canons, Erich Korngold's Die Tote Stadt, presents an interesting model
Migratory Psychoanalysis
In September 2004 I participated in a conference in La Plata, Argentina, on the topic of "The State and the Politics of Memory: Archives, Museums, and Education." [1] The conference was convened by the Comisión Provincial por la Memoria, an authority commissioned in 2000 by the provincial government of Buenos Aires (whose capital is La Plata) with the task of developing a public and comparative discourse of Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung, or coming t…
Hannah Arendt and the Cultural Style of the German Jews
Michael P . Steinberg Hannah Arendt and the Cultural Style of the German Jews BETWEEN BERLIN AND VIENNA In October 1943, in New York, halfway through her 18-year trajectory as a stateless person but already as a master of idiomatic, polemical English, Hannah Arendt composed a withering review of a popular memoir written by a fellow émigré thinker. The book was Die Welt von Gestem (The World ofYesterday). The author: Stefan Zweig, born in Vienna i…
The Musical Fin-de-siècle and the Uses of Disenchantment
The Musical Fin-de-siècle and the Uses of Disenchantment Michael P Steinberg (bio) I The young Gustav Mahler proved to be a champion of the old Giuseppe Verdi. In January 1894 he introduced Verdi’s last opera Falstaff to Hamburg, less than a year after its La Scala premiere. A decade later, in May 1904, he conducted it in Vienna. The latter performance prompted the following notice in the London Musical Times: “For a work so full of delicate and …
The Law of the Good Neighbor
This essay portrays the "law of the good neighbor" as the principle of the Warburg Library's collections - as the argument for their expansion and coherence, as well as the principle governing the scholarly practice inspired by the Warburg Institute and "Warburg school" of cultural analysis. The essay includes a tribute to Anne Marie Meyer (1919 - 2004), Warburg scholar and long-time affiliate of the Institute, with special emphasis on the questi…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
Kevin C. Karnes. A Kingdom Not of This World: Wagner, the Arts, and Utopian Visions in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Through three decades of celebrated lecture courses in European cultural and intellectual history at Wesleyan, Berkeley, and Princeton, Carl Schorske dazzled up to 600 students at a time (according to a confessedly envious recent recollection of his Berkeley successor, Martin Jay) with his combination of original analysis and charismatic theatricality. His principal courses were two: his own version of a generic nineteenth-century survey, and the…
Music and Melancholy
Seeing Hearing Thinking: Introducing the differences Dossier on Margarethe von Trotta's Hannah Arendt
This introduction to the differences dossier on Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt follows three registers simultaneously: the presentation and implied argument of the film, its foundation in Arendt's 1963 articles and book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, and the foci and arguments of the other authors included in the issue: Ariella Azoulay, Bonnie Honig, Pamela Katz, Adi Ophir, and Margarethe von Trotta
Political Philology
Written at the height of the Greek/German economic standoff of July 2015, this review article finds in Stathis Gourgouris's Lessons in Secular Criticism a powerful critique of some of the legacies of Europe's attachment to Greece as well as a reactivation of some of its potentials. Arguing for a newly articulated referentiality between the classical tradition and the streets of contemporary Athens, Gourgouris provides a kind of political philolog…
Beethoven and His World
The Narcissism of Major Differences: Richard Wagner and the Peculiarities of German Antisemitism
With a focus on the unique combustibility of German antisemitism, this essay asks whether the road to the Nazi genocide can be understood in terms of a displacement onto the Jews of intra-Christian, Protestant-Catholic enmity and anxiety, and thus as a narcissism of major differences. Did the "othering" of Jews displace intra-Christian differences that had divided Germany since the Reformation and Thirty Years' War? Did hospitality and its succes…
Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph
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