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Dr Michael Mack - all publications

Articles: magazine

• Mack, Michael (2010). Why Herder Matters: The contemporary relevance Herder’s ‘law of compensation. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift (Vol. 60 2010): 27-51.
• Mack, Michael (2008). On the Contemporary Relevance of Elias Canetti’s Theory of Power. Orbis Litterarum 63 (December 2008) : 487-509.
• Mack, Michael (2008). The Significance of the Insignificant: Daniel Deronda and the Literature of Weimar Classicism. Modern Philology 105(4): 667-697
• Mack, Michael (2008). Toward a Redefinition of Europe's Political Identity: Spinoza's Non-hierarchical Vision. Telos 145 (Winter 2008): 67–86
• Mack, Michael (2006). Market economy and the abolition of singularity in Elliot Perlman’s Seven Types of Ambiguity. Antipodes. North American Journal for Australian Literature 20 (December, 2006) : 170-187.

Books: authored

• Mack, Michael (2012). How Literature Changes the way we think. Continuum.
• Mack, Michael (2010). Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud. Continuum.
• Mack, Michael (2003). German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses. University of Chicago Press.
• Mack, Michael (2001). Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's Responses to the Shoah. De Gruyter.

Books: sections

• Mack, Michael (2011). Towards an Inclusive Universalism: Spinoza’s Ethics of Sustainability, in Dimitris Vardoulakis. In Spinoza Now. University of Minnesota Press. 99-134.
• Mack, Michael (2010). Hannah Arendt's philosophy of plurality: thinking and understanding and Eichmann in Jerusalem. In Power, Judgment and Political Evil. In Conversation with Hannah Arendt. Danielle Celermajer & Andrew Schaap Ashgate. 10-25
• Mack, Michael (2009). “Modernity as an unfinished project: Benjamin and political romanticism”. In Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity. Andrew Benjamin & Charles Rice Melbourne: re.press. 59-76.
• Mack, Michael (2009). Between Elias Canetti and Jacques Derrida: Satire and the Role of Fortifications in the Work of W.G. Sebald. In W.G. Sebald: Schreiben ex patria / Expatriate Writing. Gerhard Fischer Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi. 233-256.
• Mack, Michael (2005). The Rational Constitution of Evil: Reflections on Franz Baermann Steiner’s Critique of Philosophy. In Genocide and Human Rights. John K Roth Palgrave Macmillan. 101-1016.
• Mack, Michael (2004). Canetti’s Response to the Shoah: Masse und Macht.” In Dagmar Lorenz. In The Elias Canetti Companion. Dagmar Lorenz Camden House. 280-312.
• Beth, Lord (Published). ‘Spinoza’s non-humanist humanism’. In Spinoza Beyond Philosophy. Edinburgh University Press.
• Mack, Michael (Published). Between Elias Canetti and Jacques Derrida: The Role of Fortifications in the Work of W. G. Sebald. In Schreiben ex patria / Expatriate Writing. Gerhard Fischer Radopi. 231-257.

Journal papers: academic

• Mack, Michael (2009). The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt’s philosophical critique of philosophy: Eichmann in Jerusalem. New German Critique 36(1_106): 35-60.
• Mack, Michael (Published). ‘Testing the Compatibility of psychoanalysis and contemporary Neuroscience: Freud between Spinoza and Kant’. Avello 2: The Unconscious(1): 3-29.