Articles & Chapters

We hope to maintain a complete bibliography of Postone’s published work. If you know of any texts not listed here, please contact us.

2021. “Teorizando el mundo contemporáneo: Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi y David Harvey,” Bajo el volcán: revista del Posgrado de Sociología, No. 4.

2020. “Capital and Temporality,” in Marcello Musto (ed.) The Marx Revival. Key Concepts and New Interpretations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2017. “Marx, Temporality, and Modernity,” in Joyce C.H. Liu and Viren Murthy (eds.) East Asian Marxisms and Their Trajectories. Routledge.

2017. “The Dualisms of Capitalist Modernity: Reflections on History, the Holocaust, and Anti-Semitism,” in Jack Jacobs (ed.) Jews and Leftist Politics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

2017. “Critical Theory and the Historical Transformations of Capitalist Modernity,” in Michael J. Thompson (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory. New York. Palgrave.

2017. “The Current Crisis and the Anachronism of Value: A Marxian Reading,” Continental Thought & Theory, Vol. 1, No. 4.

2016. “Work, time, and the working class,” Solidarity, No. 410.

2016. “Anti-semitism and reactionary anti-capitalism,” Solidarity, No. 407.

2015. “The Tasks of a Critical Theory Today: Rethinking the Critique of Capitalism and its Futures,” in Harry Dahms (ed.) Globalization, Critique, and Social Theory, Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Vol. 33. Emerald Group Publishing.

2013. “Marx neu denken,” in Rahel Jaeggi and Daniel Loick (eds.) Nach Marx. Philosophie, Kritik, Praxis. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin.

2013. “Repenser la critique du capitalism,” Cités 2013, No. 53.

2012. “Marx and Modernity: Rethinking Labor, Capital, and Capitalism,” Frontiers of History in China, Vol. 7, No. 3.

2012. “Thinking the Global Crisis,” South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 111, No. 2.

2011. “Die Antinomien der kapitalistischen Moderne – Reflexionen über Geschichte, den Holocaust und die Linke,“ in Nicolas Berg (ed.) Kapitalismusdebatten um 1900 – Über antisemitisierende Semantiken des Jüdischen. Göttingen: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

2010. “Zionism, anti-semitism and the left,” Solidarity, Vol. 3, No. 166.

2010. “History and the Critique of Capitalism,” transform!europe, 2010.

• French translation: “L’Histoire et la critique du capitalisme,” transform!europe, 2011.

• German translation: “Kritik des Kapitalismus und die „große Erzählung,” transform!europe, 2011.

• Greek translation: “Ιστορία και κριτική του καπιταλισμού,” transform!europe, 2011.

2009. “The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel,” in Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor (eds.) Marx and Contemporary Philosophy. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• French translation: “Le sujet de l’histoire: repenser la critique de Hegel dans l’oeuvre marxienne de maturité,” Actuel Marx, Nr. 50, 2ème semestre, 2011.

• Portuguese translation: “O sujeito e a teoria social: Marx e Lukács sobre Hegel,” Margen Esquerdo, Nr. 23, Sao Paulo, October 2014.

2009. “Théorie critique et réflexivité historique,” in F. Fischbach (ed.) Marx. Relire Le Capital. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

2008. “Rethinking Capital in Light of the Grundrisse,” in Marcello Musto (ed.) Karl Marx’s Grundrisse. Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy One Hundred and fifty years later. London and New York: Routledge.

2008. “History and the Critique of Capitalism,” in Philippe Desan (ed.) Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks, Vol. 4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2007. "Theorizing the Contemporary World: Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey," in Robert Albritton, Robert Jessop, Richard Westra (eds.) Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future. London, New York, Delhi: Anthem Press.

• Portuguese translation: “Teorizando o Mundo Contemporåneo – Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey,” Novos Estudos CEBRAP, No. 81, July 2008.

• German translation: “Kritische Kapitalismustheorie heute,” Supplement der Zeitschrift Sozialismus, No. 5, 2008.

2007. “Critical Social Theory and the Contemporary World,” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1-2.

2006. “Rethinking the Critical Theory of Capitalism,” Principia Dialectica, No. 2.

2006. “Reflections on Jewish History as General History: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem,” in Raphael Gross and Yfaat Weiss (eds.) Jüdische Geschichte als Allgemeine Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.

2006. “Internationalismus und Antiimperialismus heute,” in Amon, Hartmut et. al. (eds.) Klassen und Kämpfe. Münster: Unrast Verlag.

2006. “History and Helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism,” Public Culture, Vol. 18, No. 1.

2004. “Critique and Historical Transformation," Historical Materialism, Vol. 2, No. 3.

2004. "Critique, State, and Economy," in Fred Rush (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Portuguese translation: “Critica, Estado e economia,”in Fred Rush (ed.) Theoria critica. Sao Paulo: Editora Idéias & Letras, 2008.

2003. “Geschichte und Ohnmacht: Massenmobilisierung und aktuelle Formen des Antikapitalismus,” in Moishe Postone, Deutschland, die Linke und der Holocaust – Politische Interventionen. Freiburg: Ça Ira Verlag, 2005, pp. 195-212.

2003. “Catastrophe and Meaning”(with Eric Santner), Introduction to Moishe Postone and Eric Santner (eds.) Catastrophe and Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2003. "The Holocaust and the Trajectory of the Twentieth Century," in Moishe Postone and Eric Santner (eds.) Catastrophe and Meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2003. “Lukács and the Dialectical Critique of Capitalism,” in Rob Albritton and John Simoulidis (eds.) New Dialectics and Political Economy. Houndmills, Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

• Portuguese translation: “Lukács e a crítica dialética ao capitalismo,” Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Política, No. 6, 2020.

2001. “Zur Kategorie der Arbeit: Anmerkungen zur Reformulierung Marxscher Kategorien," in Detlev Claussen, Oskar Negt, Michael Werz (eds.) Transformation der Arbeit. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Neue Kritik.

2000. "Hannah Arendts Eichmann in Jerusalem: Die unaufgelöste Antinomie von Universalität und Besonderem," in Gary Smith (ed.) Hannah Arendt Revisited: "Eichmann in Jerusalem" und die Folgen. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag.

2000. “Kritische Theorie und die Problematik der Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts,” Perspektiven, No. 36.

1999. "Kritische Theorie im Kontext: Kritik und die Verlaufskurve des 20. Jahrhunderts," Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften, Vol. 231, Nr. 4.

1999. "Contemporary Historical Transformations: Beyond Postindustrial and Neo-Marxist Theories," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 19.

1998. "Deconstruction as Social Critique: Derrida on Marx and the New World Order," History and Theory, Vol. 37, No. 3.

• German translation: "Dekonstruktion als Gesellschaftskritik,” Krisis, No. 21/22, 1998.

• Portuguese translation: “Desconstrução como crítica social,” Krisis, 2015.

1998. "Rethinking Marx (in a Postmarxist World)," in Charles Camic (ed.) Reclaiming the Sociological Classics. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers.

• Spanish translation: “Repensando a Marx (en un mundo post-Marxist),” in Jorge Garcia López et al. (ed.) Lo que el trabajo esconde. Madrid: Traficantes des Suenos, 2005.

1996. “Review: After Marxism by Ronald Aronson; Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, Carole C. Biewener,” Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 3.

1996. "A Comment: The End of the Postwar Period and the Reemergence of the Past," in Y. Michal Bodemann (ed.) Jews, Germans, and Memory: Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

1993. "Introduction: Bourdieu and Social Theory" (with Craig Calhoun and Edward LiPuma), in Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, and Moishe Postone (eds.) Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. Chicago and Cambridge: University of Chicago Press and Polity Press.

1993. "Germany's Future and its Unmastered Past," in Michael Huelshoff, Andrei S. Markovits, and Simon Reich (eds.) From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

1993. "Critical Theory and Political Economy" (with Barbara Brick), in Seyla Benhabib, Wolfgang Bonss, John McCole (eds.) On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press. [revised version of "Critical Pessimism and the Limits of Traditional Marxism," 1982]

1992. “Review: Modernity and the Holocaust. Zygmunt Bauman,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 1521–23.

1992. “Die deutsche Linke muß anerkennen, nunmehr Opposition in einer Großmacht zu sein. Interview mit Moishe Postone,” AK, Vol. 22, 11.März = Nr.340, pp. 4–5.

1992. "Deutsche Opfer-Mythologie: Thesen," Mittelweg 36: Zeitschrift des Hamburgers Instituts für Sozialforschung, No. 2, June/July, pp. 57–64.

1992. "Political Theory and Historical Analysis," in Craig Calhoun (ed.) Habermas and the Public Sphere. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

1990. "History and Critical Social Theory: Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, vol. 2," Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 2, March, pp. 170–176.

1990. "After the Holocaust: History and Identity in West Germany," in K. Harms, L.R. Reuter and V. Dürr (eds.) Coping with the Past: Germany and Austria after 1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

1987. “Narrative Structure and the Reading of Marx” (with Benjamin Lee), Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, No. 12; Chicago: CPS.

1986. “Towards a Reconstruction of the Marxian Critique of Modernity,” Working Papers and Proceedings of the Center for Psychosocial Studies, No. 3, Chicago: CPS.

1986. "Anti-Semitism and National Socialism," in Anson Rabinbach and Jack Zipes (eds.) Germans and Jews Since the Holocaust. New York: Holmes and Meier. [Revised version of "Die Logik des Antisemitismus", 1982]

• German translation: "Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus," in Dan Diner (ed.), Zivilisationsbruch, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag, 1988.

• French translation: "La Logique de l'antisémitisme," Temps Critique, No. 2, Autumn, 1990.

• German translation: "Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus: Ein theoretischer Versuch," Kritik und Krise, No. 4/5, Summer 1991.

• German translation: "Nationalsozialismus und Antisemitismus: Ein theoretischer Versuch," in Michael Werz (ed.) Antisemitismus und Gesellschaft: Zur Diskussion um Auschwitz, Kulturindustrie und Gewalt, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Neue Kritik, 1995.

• Spanish translation: “La lógica del antisemitismo,” in Moishe Postone, J.Wajnsztejn, B. Schulze (eds.) La crisis del Estado Nación: Antisemitismo-Racismo-Xenofobia. Barcelona: Alikornio ediciones, 2001.

• Greek translation: “Ethnikos Sosialismos kai Antisimitismos,” Hooliganizateur, Vol.3, Winter 2004.

• Portuguese translation: “Antisemitismo E Nacional-Socialismo,” Sinal de Menos, No. 8, Feb. 2012.

• Czech translation: “Antisemitismus a národni socialismus,” Analogon, No. 71 (III-2013) Prague (Czech Republic), 2013.

• Italian translation: Antisemitismo e nazionalsocialismo. Trieste: Asterios Editore, 2014.

• Swedish translation: “Antisemitism och nationalsocialism,” Krise och kritik, No.2/3. Uppsala, Sweden, April 2014.

• Hungarian Translation: “Antisemitizmus és nemzetiszocializmus,” Eszmélet, Budapest, Hungary, Nr. 105, 2015.

1986. "Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Garbage, the City and Death: Renewed Antagonisms in the Complex Relationship between Jews and Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany," (with Andrei S. Markovits and Seyla Benhabib), New German Critique, No. 38.

1985. “Theses on Fassbinder, Anti-Semitism, and Germany: a Frankfurt autumn,” Radical America, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 24–33

1985. “Bitburg: May 5, 1985 and after: a letter to the West German Left,” Radical America, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 10–17.

• German translation: “Bitburg. 5. Mai 1985 und danach. Brief an die westdeutsche Linke,” Bahamas, No. 10, 1993, pp. 26-28.

1985. “Bitburg und die Linken: ein Brief aus Chicago,” Pflasterstrand, No. 211, pp. 12–13. [strongly abbreviated version of the Radical America version above]

 1985. “Review: Jean Cohen on Marxian Critical Theory: a discussion of Jean L. Cohen, Class and Civil Society,” Theory and Society, Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 233–246.

1985. "The Return of the Repressed: Lucas and Spielberg's Temple of Doom," (with Elizabeth Traube), Jumpcut, No. 30 [Reprinted in Elizabeth G. Traube, Dreaming Identities. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1992.]

1985. “Review: Jean Cohen on Marxian Critical Theory,” Theory and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2.

1985. “Labor as Social Mediation,” appeared in Benjamin Lee (ed.), Social Mediation: beyond the antinomy of the material and culture, Chicago: Center for Psychosocial Studies, pp. 2–13.

1982. "Critical Pessimism and the Limits of Traditional Marxism" (with Barbara Brick), Theory and Society, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 617–658.

• German translation: appeared in Wolfgang Bonß and Axel Honneth (eds.) Sozialforschung als Kritik, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1982, pp. 179–239.

1982. "Die Logik des Antisemitismus: ein theoretischer Versuch” (trans.: Renate Schumacher, Dan Diner), Merkur, Vol. 36, No. 403[CA1] , pp. 13–25.

1980. “Dann ist der Pessimismus eben realistisch . . .: 13 Jahre später; eine Diskussion mit Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Detlev Claussen, Tilman Fichter, Thomas Jahn, Franz Mettel, Moishe Postone und Bernd Rabehl.” [appendix to] Herbert Marcuse, Das Ende der Utopie: Vorträge und Diskussionen in Berlin 1967, Frankfurt am Main: Neue Kritik, pp. 159–191.

1980. “Review: Fremd im eigenen Land by Henryk M. Broder, Michel R. Lang,” New German Critique, No. 20, pp. 187–193.

1980. "Anti-Semitism and National Socialism," New German Critique, No. 19, pp. 97–115.

• ·      German translation: “Antisemitismus und Nationalsozialismus” (trans.: Renate Schumacher), Diskus: Frankfurter Studentenzeitung. Vol. 3/4 (Juni  1979).

• ·      German translation: “Antisemitismus und Nationalsozialismus” (identical with the above in Diskus), Autonomie, 14[CA1]. 1979, pp. 58–67

1978. "Necessity, Labor and Time: A Reinterpretation of the Marxian Critique of Capitalism," Social Research, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 739–788.

1977. “Stammheim und Tel Zaatar: Versuch über Moral und Politik” (as M. Lubetsky), Autonomie, vol. 10.[CA1] 1977/78, pp. 91–100.

• English translation:”Stammheim and Tel Zataar An experiment on morality and politics”, Determinate Negation. 2021.

1977. "Introduction" (with Barbara Brick), International Journal of Politics, Vol. VII, No. 2: Political Legitimacy in Advanced Capitalist Countries (Part II), pp. 3-8.

1976. “Review: Revolt im bürgerliche Erbe by Helmut Reinicke,” Telos, No. 29, pp. 239–245.

1976. “Friedrich Pollock and the 'Primacy of the Political': A Critical Reexamination," (with Barbara Brick), International Journal of Politics, Vol. VI, No. 3: Political Legitimacy in Advanced Capitalist Countries, pp. 3-28.

1974 "Dialectic and Proletariat: On M. Nicolaus' Introduction to the Grundrisse" (with Helmut Reinicke), Telos, Vol. 1974, No. 22, pp. 130-148.

• German translation: appeared in C. Pozzoli (ed.), Fischer Jahrbuch: Theorie und Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, No. 4: Faschismus und Kapitalismus, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Verlag. 1976, pp. 259–284.

• Italian translation: appeared in Dialettica e Proletariato. Florence: La Nuova Italia Editrice. 1978.