Publications

Books:

Rousseau among the Moderns: Music, Aesthetics, Politics, forthcoming with Pennsylvania State University Press, spring 2013.

http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05958-7.html

Beyond Contractual Morality: Ethics, Law, and Literature in Eighteenth-Century France, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001.

Mass Enlightenment: Critical Studies in Rousseau and Diderot, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995

(co-editor) Critical Theory: The Essential Readings, New York: Paragon House, 1992.

Recent Articles:

“Narrative Time in the Blues: Son House’s ‘Death Letter’ (1965),” forthcoming in American Music.

“Diverting Water in Rousseau: Technology, the Sublime and the Quotidian,” The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 53., no. 1, 2012.

“Rousseau and the philosophes on Commerce,” in Rousseau et les philosophes, ed. Michael O’Dea, SVEC 2010.

“Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, ed. Theodore Gracryk and Andrew Kania, London and New York: Routledge, 2011.