# 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

| Title | Publication Year | ISBN |
| The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society | 1970 | ISBN 978-1844674404 |
| All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity | 1982 | ISBN 978-0140109627 |
| Adventures in Marxism | 1999 | ISBN 978-1859843093 |
| On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square | 2006 | ISBN 978-1400063314 |
| Manhattan Picture Worlds | 2009 | ISBN 978-3866782440 |
| Modernism in the Streets: A Life and Times in Essays* | 2017 | ISBN 978-1784784980 |
*Edited and published posthumously

## Books Edited

| Title | Publication Year | ISBN |
| New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg | 2007 | ISBN 978-1861893383 |

## Introductions

| Title | Publication Year | ISBN |
| The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | 2011 | ISBN 978-0143106265 |

## 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)
* Susan Sontag's God That Failed in SoHo Weekly News (1982)
* 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)
* Taking to the Streets in Boston Review (1989)
* The Volume of Desperation in the Village Voice (1989)
* 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)
* Falling Towers: City Life after Urbicide in Geography and Identity: Living and Exploring Geopolitics of Identity (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)

## Reviews

| Year | Title | Publication | Subject |
| 1959 | Politics and Ideology On the American Right | Columbia Daily Spectator | Up from Liberalism, William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959) |
| 1960 | Interpreting and Changing: And No Perspective | Columbia Daily Spectator | European Socialism, Carl Landauer (1959) |
| 1961 | Sex, Love and the Individual | Columbia Daily Spectator | Wilhelm Reich: Selected Writings, an Introduction to Orgonomy (1960) |
| 1966 | "The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, 1870-1924" | Mosaic | The Lower East Side: Portal to American Life, 1870-1924, the Jewish Museum (1966) |
| 1970 | Must Man Go Mad in Order to Be Sane? | The New York Times Book Review | The Divided Self and Self and Others, R.D. Laing |
| 1972 | Weird But Brilliant Light on the Way We Live Now | The New York Times Book Review | Relations in Public, Erving Goffman (1971) ISBN 978-0465068951 |
| 1972 | A New Edition of a Great Work of Historical Imagination | The New York Times Book Review | To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson (1972) ISBN 978-0374278335 |
| 1973 | That Is the Land of Lost Content, I See It Shining Plain | The New York Times Book Review | The Country and the City, Raymond Williams (1973) ISBN 978-0195197365 |
| 1974 | Everybody Who's Nobody and the Nobody Who's Everybody | The New York Times Book Review | Working, Studs Terkel (1974) ISBN 978-0394478845 |
| 1975 | Erik Erikson: The Man Who Invented Himself | The New York Times Book Review | Life History and the Historical Moment, Erik H. Erikson (1975) ISBN 978-0393011036 |
| 1977 | Facades at Face Value | The Nation | The Fall of Public Man, Richard Sennett (1977) ISBN 978-0394487151 |
| 1978 | Family Affairs | The New York Times Book Review | Haven in a Heartless World, Christopher Lasch (1978) ISBN 978-0465028832 |
| 1979 | Marx: The Dancer and the Dance | The Nation | Marx's Fate, Jerrold Seigel (1978) ISBN 978-0691052595 |
| 1980 | From Paris to Gdansk | The New York Times Book Review | Fire in the Minds of Men, James H. Billington (1980) ISBN 978-0465024056 |
| 1982 | Misanthrope's Advice | The New York Times Book Review | The Eighth Night of Creation, Jerome Deshusses (1982) ISBN 978-0888790804 |
| 1983 | Harvey Pekar, Underground Man | Voice Literary Supplement | American Splendor, Harvey Pekar |
| 1984 | "The Bourgois Experience, Victoria to Freud: Volume 1, Education of the Senses" | Vanity Fair | The Bourgeois Experience, Peter Gay (1984) ISBN 978-0195033526 |
| 1985 | Georg Lukács's Cosmic Chutzpah | Voice Literary Supplement | Record of a Life: An Autobiographical Sketch, György Lukács (1983) ISBN 978-0860910718 |
| 1985 | La Cité, C'est Moi | The Nation | I, Koch, Arthur Browne, Dan Collins, Michael Goodwin (1984) ISBN 978-0396086475 |
| 1986 | Scenes from a Marriage | The Village Voice | Knocked Out Loaded, Bob Dylan (1986) |
| 1986 | Blowin' Away the Lies | The Village Voice | Live 1975–85, Bruce Springsteen (1986) |
| 1988 | Humanism and Terror | The Nation | Zion and State, Mitchell Cohen (1987) ISBN 978-0631152439 and The Yellow Wind, David Grossman (1988) ISBN 978-0224025669 |
| 1991 | L.A. Raw | The Nation | City of Quartz, Mike Davis (1990) ISBN 978-0860913030 |
| 1991 | After the Gold Rush: A Nostalgic Retrospect of the Sixties | Dissent | Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) |
| 1992 | Hitting the Streets | Los Angeles Times Book Review | Variations on a Theme Park, Michael Sorkin (1990) ISBN 978-0374523145 |
| 1992 | A View From The Bridge | Culturefront | Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, the Jewish Museum (1992) |
| 1995 | Waiting for the Barbarians | The Nation | 1920 Diary, Isaac Babel (1990) ISBN 978-0300059663 |
| 1995 | Kafka Family Values | The Nation | Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, Sander Gilman (1995) ISBN 978-0415911771 |
| 1996 | In the Night Kitchen | The Nation | A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin, Alfred Kazin (1996) ISBN 978-0060190378 |
| 1996 | The Bonds of Love | The Nation | From Bondage, Henry Roth (1996) ISBN 978-0297818458 |
| 1996 | Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject | New Politics | Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Meyer Schapiro (1994) ISBN 978-0807613566 |
| 1997 | Angel in the City | The Nation | Walter Benjamin: A Biography, Momme Brodersen (1996) ISBN 978-1859849675, Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings. Volume I: 1913-1926, Walter Benjamin (1996) ISBN 978-0674945852, and Benjamin's Crossing, Jay Parini (1997) ISBN 978-0805031805 |
| 1998 | Unchained Melody | The Nation | The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1998) ISBN 978-1859848982 |
| 1998 | The Last Page | Dissent | Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997) ISBN 978-0684842691 |
| 2000 | Lost in the Arcades | Metropolis | The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin (1999) ISBN 978-0674043268 |
| 2000 | Crossing Swords: Trees Growing in Brooklyn | Dissent | Crossing Swords (magazine) |
| 2002 | Dancing in the Dark | Dissent | Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays 1988-2001, Stuart Klawans (2001) ISBN 978-1560253655 |
| 2006 | "Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s" | Harvard Design Magazine | Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s, Michael Johns (2003) ISBN 978-0520234352 |
| 2006 | Tradition... Transgression!: Singer in the Shtetl and on the Street | Moderna Språk | Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004) ISBN 978-1598534559 |
| 2007 | Bringing Back Moses | The Architect's Newspaper | Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson eds. (2007) ISBN 978-0393732061 |
| 2008 | Review: Modernism | Columbia Magazine | Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay (2007) ISBN 978-0393052053 |
| 2008 | Modernism in the Streets | Dissent | Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, Peter Gay (2007) ISBN 978-0393052053 |
| 2009 | Orhan Pamuk and Modernist Liberalism | Dissent | Snow, Orhan Pamuk (2005) ISBN 978-0375706868 |