Jeffrey Mehlman

Biographic Data

ID448701
NAMEJeffrey Mehlman
GIVEN NAMESJeffrey
FAMILY NAMEMehlman
SIGNATUREMEHLMAN J
AFFILIATIONSBoston University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS56
AUTHOR COUNT66
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • Wild Thought: "A New Translation of "La Pensée sauvage

    Claude Lévi-Strau, Claude Levi‐Strauss et al.BOOKWild Thought2020Cited by: 6

  • Schmaltz, Kitsch, and Context. Paul Reitter, Bambi’s Jewish Roots and other Essays on German-Jewish Culture

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEModern Judaism - A Journal of…2017

    The art of criticism is a knack for recontextualization, and one way of gauging the achievement of Paul Reitter—the author, before the volume here under review, of a monograph on the arch-Viennese satirist Karl Kraus—is in terms of the quotient of surprise his essays—in full Kraussian context—deliver. Such is the horizon toward which these pages—part review, part memoir—have been written and such the perspective I will evoke in their conclusion. …

  • A Vocabulary and Its Vicissitudes: Notes towards a Memoir

    Open AccessJeffrey MehlmanARTICLEParagraph2015

    A series of reflections on Laplanche and Pontalis's Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse, one of the precursor volumes of the Dictionary of Untranslatables, and specifically on Laplanche's effort to glean the most important lessons to be culled from that speculative volume on the translation of German into French. Laplanche, in Vie et mort en psychanalyse, posits that, until one gauges the significance of the chiasmus structuring the evolution of Freud…

  • Marcel Mauss and the French “Unconscious”

    Open AccessJeffrey MehlmanARTICLEModern Intellectual History2014

    In 2008, just prior to his hundredth birthday, an immortality of sorts was conferred on the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss when his Oeuvres were published—leather-bound, gold-embossed, on Bible paper—in Gallimard's Pléiade collection. He died the following year and we are now beginning to see, for the first time, assessments of his achievement—including the two volumes under review—in a world without Lévi-Strauss. Patrick Wilcken's stylishly …

  • The Joinovici Affair: The Stavisky of the Fourth Republic

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEFrench Politics Culture & Society2014

  • Un tandem de pouvoir dans Paris occupé

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLERevue d’Histoire de la Shoah2013

    After a consideration of the dangers with which an analysis of cultural anti-Semitism is fraught (manicheaism, moral exhibitionism), an effort is made to sketch the structure of one of the most charged sites of cultural interaction in occupied Paris, the salon of Florence Gould on Avenue Malakoff. Specifically, four figures and the quartet they together formed are examined: Florence Gould, Ernst Junger, Gerhard Heller, and Marcel Jouhandeau. The …

  • Structuralism, poetry, music: Lévi-Strauss between Mallarmé and Wagner

    Open AccessJeffrey MehlmanCHAPTERThe Cambridge Companion to…2009

    Lévi-Strauss was characteristically sceptical about the prospects for a 'structuralist' analysis of literature. His sense, voiced in an interview in 1965, was that what passed for as much was frequently little more than a 'play of mirrors', in which the detection of invariant forms tended to give way to a fascination with recurrent contents, and the merely contingent was apt to trump the structurally 'necessary' (Lévi-Strauss 1973a: 323). In that…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss

    Open AccessDenis Kambouchner, Michael E Harkin et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to Levi…2009

    Claude Lévi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age. Regarded as a crucial figure in the development of structuralism, his writings are studied across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy and literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss presents a major reassessment of his work and influence. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume engage with the controversies that have surr…

  • A Power Couple in Occupied Paris

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEModern Language Notes2007

    A Power Couple in Occupied Paris Jeffrey Mehlman (bio) I. capriccio tenebroso On December 7, 1941, as the world reeled from the shock of the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, Ernst Jünger, stationed with the German occupying forces in Paris, dropped by the Institut allemand in Paris and had a shock of his own. Céline was there, we read in Jünger's war diary, and proceeded to deliver himself of a diatribe on Germany's undue leniency in its policy …

  • Derrida: Notes Toward a Memoir

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLESubStance2005

    Derrida:Notes Toward a Memoir Jeffrey Mehlman (bio) We had quarreled some years back, so I was no longer in the loop. Still, I had known of Derrida's illness for about a year and was not altogether surprised to see the announcement of his death in the New York Times. Indeed the placement of the obituary on the first page struck me as altogether appropriate, a kind of vindication of the intellectual labors and enthusiasms of the generation, my own…

  • Against France: An American Novelistic Fantasy

    Open AccessJeffrey MehlmanARTICLEDiogenes2004References: 2

    There is a geography of the American Jewish novel that takes one farther afield from New York City than might have been intuitively expected. Consider the two writers who will be the focus of these pages. From the time of The Ghost Writer (1979), Philip Roth has been pre-eminently a novelist of the western Massachusetts region known as the Berkshires. His most recent major work, The Human Stain, is set in an imaginary campus in the Berkshires, st…

  • Anti-France: Un fantasme du roman américain contemporain

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEDiogène2003

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  • Sad News: L'Anti-Sémitisme Nouveau Est Arrivé

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEContemporary French Civilization2003References: 1

  • Chiasmus: A Memoir

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEParallax2002

  • Emigre New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944

    Alexander Bloom, Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in War-time Manhattan, 1940–1944. By Jeffrey Mehlman. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. x, 209 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-6286-8.) Get access Alexander Bloom Alexander Bloom Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 715–716, https://doi.org/1…

  • Emigre New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944

    William Cloonan, Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2000

  • Émigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944

    Stanley Hoffmann, Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEForeign Affairs2000

  • On Literature and the Occupation of France: Blanchot vs. Drieu

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLESubStance1998

    II and the Occupation in virtually opposite ways.' They have been pursued in the conviction that the most intriguing aspect of the period is the extent to which it and its writers furnish a matrix for developments that reached fruition much later-as though this were the moment in which the deck was reshuffled and a game begun that the French (and we) may still be caught up in. Sociologists of French elites, for example, have long traced certain f…

  • Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years

    Noah Isenberg, Noah W Isenberg et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1995

    In light of the legendary difficulty of Benjamin's works, it is a strange and intriguing fact that from 1929 to 1933 the great critic and cultural theorist wrote--and broadcast--numerous scripts, on the order of fireside chats, for children. Invited to speak on whatever subject he considered appropriate, Benjamin talked to the children of Frankfurt and Berlin about the destruction of Pompeii, an earthquake in Lisbon, and a railroad disaster at th…

  • Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

    Alan E Steinweis, Pierre Vidal-Naquet et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1994

    Assassins of Memory is a passionate and painstaking look at one of the more curious realities of recent French cultural life: the prominence accorded to the phenomenon of revisionism. An attempt on the part of a tiny group of fanatics, often masquerading as scholars and researchers, to deny the existence of the gas chambers and horrors of Hitler's genocidal policies, revisionism is quietly gaining adherents. The movement has been most visible in …

  • History and Memory

    Patrick H Hutton, Jacques Le Goff et al.ARTICLEHistory and Theory1994

  • The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project . Susan Buck-Morss Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Fredric Jameson

    Jeffrey MehlmanARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1993

  • Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

    Fritz Stern, Pierre Vidal‐naquet et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1993Cited by: 10

  • Jacques Lacan & Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985

    Julia Saville, Elisabeth Roudinesco et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1991

  • Mallarmé and 'seduction theory

    Open AccessJeffrey MehlmanARTICLEParagraph1991