His publications incude studies of Althusser and Marx, Brecht and Adorno, Kleist and Schleiermacher, Benjamin and Klages, and Stifter and Hungarian politics. He is currently completing a book-length manuscript investigating Italy and the German literary imagination. Peter Fenves is a professor of German, comparative literature, philosophy, and political science at Northwestern University. His books include "A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant; "Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard;" and "Arresting Language--from Leibniz to Benjamin." He is the editor of "Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Immanuel Kant, Transformative Critique "by Jacques Derrida and the translator of Werner Hamacher's "Premises." He has written numerous articles on philosophy, literature, and literary theory."