modern and twentieth-century philosophy; historical materialism; theory and history of ideology; modern European intellectual history; psychoanalysis and social theory

Charles Gelman
Charles Gelman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, currently completing a dissertation on the early work of Walter Benjamin. His research and teaching interests include modern and twentieth century philosophy; historical materialism; psychoanalysis and social theory; the intersections of philosophical aesthetics, epistemology, and political thought from Kant and Hegel to Benjamin and Adorno; and the cultural, intellectual, and socioeconomic history of modern Europe, with a particular focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and France.
The Extremist: Walter Benjamin and the Radical Critique of Society, 1912-1924
Jacques Derrida, "Admiration of Nelson Mandela, or The Laws of Reflection," translated, with introduction, Law & Literature 26, no. 1 (2014).
Walter Benjamin, "Letter from Paris: André Gide and His New Antagonist," translated, with an afterword, Barricade 1 (2018).
Louis Althusser, "On the Objectivity of History (A Response to Paul Ricœur)," translated, Décalages 2, no. 1 (2018).
Richard Sieburth, Jacques Lezra, Stefanos Geroulanos