Request Box 1
Box 1 Folder 1
Reviews by and of Berman, 1974-2010
Includes review of Terkel, Working, in NYTimes; 1991 issue of Dissent, with "Looking Back to the Sixties" (review of the documentary, Berkeley in the Sixties); and review of Solid in winter 2010 Architecture Boston
Box 1 Folder 2
Copies of Dynamo, Bronx Science literary journal, 1956-59
Three issues; one includes a piece by Todd Gitlin
Box 1 Folder 3
Artists' housing article in Feb. 1983 Village Voice, notes, drafts, 1982-83
Box 1 Folder 4
1960s letters, articles, 1967-69
Includes handwritten script of speech given at CCNY, 10/67; letter to the editor in 10/26/67 Voice; wonderful caricatures; article on Bob Dylan and Judaism in 5/21/69 Flame
Box 1 Folder 5
Misc. printed materials re: LES, 1972-88
Articles by Berman and others on the Lower East Side in NYTimes and Voice
Box 1 Folder 6
Voice piece and letters on the LES, 1982-83
Materials on artists' squats; photocopies of Berman's 7/12/83 Voice article on the LES; letter from City Planning Commission in response to the article; correspondence and letters to the editor from residents of the neighborhood, much of it critical of his article
Box 1 Folder 7
Copies of Columbia Spectator supplement, 1959-62
Includes articles by Berman and a draft of one book review (History of European Socialism); very delicate condition
Box 1 Folder 8
Articles by Berman, 1957-75
Includes Spring 1957 Dynamo (Bronx Science HS lit. journal); essay entitle "The Truth, The Self, and the World" in Spring 1961 CU literary journal King's Crown; article on Rousseau in Winter 1971-2 Partisan Review; article on Robert Moses in March 1975 Ramparts
Box 1 Folder 9
Articles by Berman, 1976-79
May 1976 issue of Political Theory, includes a piece on Rousseau and psychotherapy; April 1978 Bennington Review on the people in Capital (2 copies); obituary for Marcuse in August 11-18, 1979, issue of The Nation
Box 1 Folder 10
Articles by Berman, 1981-2001
1981 Berkshire Review, includes essay on modernity and modernism; "Why Modernism Still Matters," in Jan/Feb '89 Tikkun; review of Public Enemy in 10/22/91 Voice; essay on Rap Music in March/April 1993 Tikkun; Fall/Winter 2001 New Labor Forum essay on Philip Roth and the Left
Box 1 Folder 11
Articles by Berman, 1974-2002
Jan. 1974 American Review, "Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the '60s, and the Tragedy of Development"; March-April 1984 New Left Review, "Signs in the Street" response to Perry Anderson; Summer 2002 Dissent article on Bob Dylan and minstrelsy
Box 1 Folder 12
Email Correspondence, 2005-06
Correspondents include Michael Walzer, Todd Gitlin, Charles Taylor
Box 1 Folder 13
Email Correspondence, 2007
Correspondents include Jerry Cohen
Box 1 Folder 14
Email Correspondence, 2008
Correspondents include Jerry Cohen, Todd Gitlin, Morris Dickstein
Box 1 Folder 15
Email Correspondence, 2009
Correspondents include Jerry Cohen, Corey Robin
Request Box 2
Box 2 Folder 5
Email Correspondence, 2010
Correspondents include Morris Dickstein
Box 2 Folder 6
Email Correspondence, 2011
Box 2 Folder 7
Email Correspondence, 2012
Correspondents include Morris Dickstein, Michael Walzer, Todd Gitlin
Box 2 Folder 8
Email Correspondence, 2013
Correspondents include Morris Dickstein
Box 2 Folder 9
Australia 1997, 1997
Proposed visit summer 1997; includes invitations, correspondence regarding the possibility of presenting at conferences, universities
Box 2 Folder 10
Materials from Delft, NE, Workshop "Context and Modernity", 1990
Includes materials relating to the workshop and transcripts of papers delivered by Berman and others, readings and correspondence
Box 2 Folder 11
Amsterdam 1987, 1987
Maps, clippings, renderings, materials relating to conference on "The Future of the City"
Box 2 Folder 12
Various interviews, reviews in foreign-language publications, 1986-2002
Box 2 Folder 13
Helsinki Conference, 1989-90
Includes travel materials, drafts of Berman's address, "Who are the New Moderns?"
Box 2 Folder 14
Clippings & Correspondence: James Woodhuysen, 1987-90
Box 2 Folder 15
Various clippings, 1988-2002
Box 2
Journals, 1980s-2000
Notes on travels, readings, ideas for projects, personal matters
Request Box 3
Box 3 Folder 1
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1957-1961
Box 3 Folder 2
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1962-63
Box 3 Folder 3
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1980-1985
Box 3 Folder 4
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1986-87
Box 3 Folder 5
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1988
Box 3 Folder 6
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1989
Box 3 Folder 7
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1990
Box 3 Folder 8
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1991-92
Box 3 Folder 9
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1993-96
Box 3 Folder 10
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1997-98
Box 3 Folder 11
Uncatalogued Correspondence, 1999
Box 3 Folder 12
Uncatalogued Correspondence, undated
Box 3 Folder 13
Correspondence with Daniel Bell, 1962
Box 3 Folder 14
Correspondence with Isaiah Berlin, 1962
Box 3 Folder 15
Correspondence with B.L. Berman (mother and father), 1962
1 letter, contains copy of letter to L. Trilling, concerning a short story
Box 3 Folder 16
Correspondence with G.A. "Jerry" Cohen, 1962-1967
Box 3 Folder 17
Correspondence with Morris Dickstein, 1961-1999
Box 3 Folder 18
Correspondence with Eric Foner, 1963
Box 3 Folder 19
Correspondence with Lawrence Friedman, 1975-2002
Contains clippings and correspondence relating to Erik Erikson
Box 3 Folder 20
Correspondence with Todd Gitlin, 1969
Box 3 Folder 21
Correspondence with Paul Goodman, 1961
Box 3 Folder 22
Correspondence with Walter Metzger, 1961
Box 3 Folder 23
Correspondence with Susan Sontag, 1962
Box 3 Folder 24
Correspondence with Lionel Trilling, 1961
Box 3 Folder 25
Correspondence with Michael Walzer, 1993
Request Box 4
Box 4
Books (annotated)
Request Box 5
Box 5 Folder 1
Brazil Trip, 1987, 1987
Program schedules for AMPART Conference, visa and travel documents
Box 5 Folder 2
Brazil Trip, 1987: Clippings, 1987-88
Clippings from Brazilian newspapers, including mentions of Berman
Box 5 Folder 3
Brazil Trip, 1987, 1987
Materials relating to the conference, posters, travel items, speaking engagements in Brazil, 1987
Box 5 Folder 4
Materials relating to All That Is Solid, 1980s
Correspondence with publisher, book jackets, letters of appreciation and congratulation (includes Norman O. Brown, Immanuel Wallerstein, Martin Jay)
Box 5 Folder 5
Graphics: Alternates
Box 5 Folder 6
Graphics: pp. 1-8
For All That Is Solid; includes notes on "The Street," photo captions
Box 5 Folder 7
Reviews of All That Is Solid, 1982-83
Box 5 Folder 8
Reviews of All That Is Solid, 1982-83
Box 5 Folder 9
Reviews of All That Is Solid, 1982-83
Box 5 Folder 10
Oxford Journals, 1960-62
Notes on readings while studying at Oriel College, Oxford
Box 5 Folder 11
Press, 1980s-2000s
Box 5 Folder 12
Personal, 1980s-2000s
Photographs, Berman's haggadah, dream journals, children's drawings
Box 5 Folder 13
Assorted Correspondence, 1988-2013
Box 5 Folder 14
University of Oslo: Conference Materials, 1990
Includes a copy of Berman's remarks, correspondence, conference materials
Box 5 Folder 15
Notebooks and Notes, 2000s
Box 5 Folder 16
Various articles and lectures by Berman, 1965-2006
Includes book reviews, project proposals, book manuscript excerpts, conference papers, and published articles
Box 5
"Living in the Coops": An NEH Production Proposal, 2002
Michal Goldman Filmmakers Collaborative. Includes letter from the filmmaker thanking Berman for his help with the project.
Box 5
"Coney Island": A 60-minute Documentary Film by Ric Burns and Buddy Squires, 1989
NEH Grant Proposal for a documentary film.
Request Box 6
Box 6
Peiodicals
Request Box 7
Box 7 Folder 1
Clippings, materials, photographs relating to the S. Bronx, Late 1980s
Box 7 Folder 2
Mumford Lecture, "Emerging From the Ruins", 2013
Includes photographs, promotional materials, transcript of Berman's speech, correspondence, and electronic media
Box 7 Folder 3
Intro. to Communist Manifesto, Penguin Edition, 2010
Includes drafts, correspondence with publisher
Box 7 Folder 4
Jane Dickson, 1990s
Materials relating to the artist and her work
Box 7 Folder 5
Source material, correspondence, draft of "Sailors in the Square", 2000s
Box 7 Folder 6
Source material, correspondence, draft of "Sailors in the Square", 2000s
Box 7 Folder 7
Israel Trip, 2004
Conference on urban design
Box 7 Folder 8
Mexico City Trip, 2002
Press clippings and correspondence relating to Berman's address at UNAM
Box 7 Folder 9
Promotion, 2002
Correspondence relating to Berman's promotion to Distinguished Professor at CCNY
Box 7 Folder 10
Manuscripts and Syllabi, 2002-2011
Draft of afterword to Solid, 2010; draft of "When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People," 2011; course syllabus for The Trans-National City
Box 7 Folder 11
Wallace Katz, 2012
Drafts of book reviews by Katz; correspondence
Box 7 Folder 12
Times Square, 2000s
Manuscripts, miscellaneous ephemera
Box 7 Folder 13
Mexico, 2012
Correspondence regarding workshop at UAM
Box 7 Folder 14
Poland, 2012
Correspondence, clippings, and documents regarding a visit to Poland; includes correspondence with editors of Krytyka Polityczna
Box 7 Folder 15
Israel: "Does Modernism Have A Future?" Conference, 2012
Includes correspondence relating to Berman's trip; transcript of his address
Box 7 Folder 16
Dissertation and Article Comments, 2013
Dissertation chapters by students; article by Mitchell Cohen; correspondence relating to both
Box 7 Folder 17
Assorted articles by various authors, 1982-2004
Box 7 Folder 18
Jewish Philosophy Journals, 1990s
Box 7 Folder 19
Conferences Abroad, early 1990s, Early 1990s
Includes remarks, programs, and visitor information about various cities (Helsinki, Amsterdam)
Box 7 Folder 20
Commentary, November 1964, 1964
Enclosed is a letter (likely from Berman, perhaps never sent) in response to an article by the psychiatrist Leslie Farber
Request Box 8
Box 8 Folder 1
Jerry Cohen obit, etc., 8/2009, 2009
Drafts, correspondence relating to obituary for G.A. Cohen in Open Democracy
Box 8 Folder 2
"Ruins", 2009
Copy of an essay entitled "Urban Ruins: Life With Urbicide" as well as collected notes/ articles about ruins in the Bronx, postwar London, Haiti, China, NOLA
Box 8 Folder 3
Reaktion Publishers (1 of 3), 2006
Galleys and correspondence (mostly with co-editor Brian Berger) regarding New York Calling
Box 8 Folder 4
Reaktion Publishers (2 of 3), 2006
Galleys and correspondence (mostly with co-editor Brian Berger) regarding New York Calling
Box 8 Folder 5
Reaktion Publishers (3 of 3), 2006
Galleys and correspondence (mostly with co-editor Brian Berger) regarding New York Calling
Box 8 Folder 6
Clippings: Jews (1 of 3), 1970s-1980s
Clippings pertaining to American Jewry, especially black-Jewish relations; also an interesting piece, from March 1971, that he co-authored with Leonard Kriegel at CCNY, entitled "New Morning for American Jews," about the need to reintegrate Jewish spiritual life and culture with the currents of contemporary experience, and for the purpose of establishing a Jewish Studies department at CCNY; includes correspondence with an ultra-orthodox student; includes a copy of the first issue of Brooklyn Bridge, a radical and countercultural NYC Jewish paper
Box 8 Folder 7
Clippings: Jews (2 of 3), 1969-1984
Includes clippings. 1971 RAT article: "Oppression of America's Jews."Articles from Jewish Liberation Journal, 1970. Clipping by Berman entitled "Abe and Son 'Out on Highway 61'" in 1969 Flame, newspaper of the Radical Zionist Jewish Student Union, CCNY. Clippings on Jews, Israel, Judaism, Zionism, anti-Semitism.
Box 8 Folder 8
Clippings: Jews (3 of 3), 1970s
Includes more clippings on Judaism. Complete issue of Brooklyn Bridge, 2nd and 4th issues, and The Other Way (1971), a radical Jewish anti-Zionist magazine, The Flame (1971), Ellen Willis on liberal anti-Semitism, 1972 first issue of Nitzotz, a paper of the Radical Zionist Alliance.
Box 8 Folder 9
China (1 of 3), 2005
Clippings, photographs, notes, and copies of conference paper on China and modern culture. Includes conference program.
Box 8 Folder 10
China (2 of 3), 2005
News clippings, travel documents, correspondence (including Todd Gitlin) pertaining to China and Chinese conference, photographs. Articles by Benjamin Schwartz on China and Maoism from the early 1970s. Berman's conference paper, "Marx in China's Age of Development." Copies of article by Berman, "Marx in China," from Dissent, Spring 2006.
Box 8 Folder 11
China (3 of 3), 2005
Includes entire conference proceedings, news clippings, correspondence relating to the conference, travel documents,
Request Box 9
Box 9 Folder 1
All That Is Solid Galleys (1 of 2)
Box 9 Folder 2
All That Is Solid Galleys (2 of 2)
Box 9 Folder 3
60s Radio Project, 1978
Proposals and materials relating to a radio project about the 1960s, with Paul Gorman/WBAI. Includes scripts, notes, content written by Berman
Box 9 Folder 4
60s Radio Project, 1978
Notes by Berman, WBAI materials on the project with list of interviewees
Box 9 Folder 5
On The Town Galleys (1 of 2)
Box 9 Folder 6
On The Town Galleys (2 of 2)
Box 9 Folder 7
Adventures in Marxism : Reviews, Misc. Materials and Correspondence, 1999-2000
Includes correspondence from Tariq Ali, a letter from a construction worker (Scott Smith) telling him how important the book was for him;
Box 9 Folder 8
Adventures in Marxism : Uncorrected Proof and Letter concerning errata, 1999
Request Box 10
Box 10 Folder 1
Reviews and Press: On The Town
Box 10 Folder 2
Index; Epigraphs; Table of Contents
Box 10 Folder 3
"Home Fires Burning": Times Square's Signs
Manuscript of Ch. 1 On the Town
Box 10 Folder 4
"Times Girl and Her Daughters"
Manuscript of Ch. 4, On the Town
Box 10 Folder 5
"The Street Splits and Twists"
Manuscript of Ch. 5, On the Town
Box 10 Folder 6
"Broadway, Love, and Theft: Al Jolson's Jazz Singer"
Manuscript of Ch. 2, On the Town
Box 10 Folder 7
"Living Inside the Deal" (last chapter)
Manuscript of Ch. 6, On the Town
Box 10 Folder 8
Preface: "100 Years of Spectacle"
Manuscript of Preface, On the Town
Box 10 Folder 9
"A Human Eye: Sailors in the Square"
Manuscript of Ch. 3, On the Town
Box 10 Folder 10
Articles, Lectures by Berman on Times Square
Box 10 Folder 11
Times Square Images
Box 10 Folder 12
42nd Street/ Times Square: Piece for Village Voice, 1995
Clippings, correspondence, and drafts of essay
Box 10 Folder 13
Misc. Materials: Times Square
Clippings, images, song lyrics, mostly about pornography, development, Broadway theater
Box 10 Folder 14
Columbia Conference on Times Square, 1997
Includes Berman's keynote address
Box 10 Folder 15
Australia, Summer 1997, 1997
Conference papers and notes, all on Times Square
Box 10 Folder 16
Women of Times Square, Feb. 2001
Paper delivered before Assn. of American Geographers
Box 10 Folder 17
Misc. Materials: Times Square and On the Town
Clippings, notes, images, and printed material
Box 10 Folder 18
On the Town: Scraps, Drafts and Discarded Material
Box 10 Folder 19
Tape Recording, "Modernism iof the City," with letter from Julie Rigg, Australian Broadcast Co., 1986
Box 10
On The Town Drafts and related material on Times Square
Request Box 11
Box 11 Folder 1
Student Papers, 2000s
Papers and notes by other people, mostly students of Berman
Box 11 Folder 2
", 2000s
Box 11 Folder 3
Barry Murdaco Dissertation, 2000s
Dissertation by a student of Berman's
Box 11 Folder 4
Published works by students of Berman, 2000s
Box 11 Folder 5
Students' papers, 2000s
Box 11 Folder 6
Jamie Aroosi: Marx and Kierkegaard, 2000s
Dissertation by a student of Berman's
Box 11 Folder 7
Arnold Zuboff, 1989
Works by a student, unpublished and published
Box 11 Folder 8
Adrian Piper, 1985-1990
Works by a student, unpublished and published
Box 11 Folder 9
Stephen Duncombe Dissertation, 1991
Dissertation by a student of Berman's
Box 11
Ipek Tureli: CD's
Ten CD's with movies shoot by Ipek Tureli in Turkey and Germany, with accompanying letter from Ipek Tureli
Box 11
H. Sinan Hosadam Dissertation, 2012
Dissertation by a student of Berman's
Box 11
Philip Kay Dissertation, 2011
Dissertation, about City College and the Popular Imagination, sent to Berman for review
Request Box 12
Box 12 Folder 1
NYC Pieces by Berman for Village Voice, 1989
Drafts, notes, published articles by Berman
Box 12 Folder 2
Berman: NYTimes Book Reviews, 1970s, 1970-1980
Review of R.D. Laing's Self and Others; Erving Goffman, Relations in Public; Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station; Raymond Williams, The Country and the City; James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men; includes handwritten letter from his high school English teacher, "Dr. Gordon," complimenting him on his review of the Goffman!
Box 12 Folder 3
Assorted Pieces from the Village Voice, 1980s, mid-1980s
Articles by Berman on Bruce Springsteen, Harvey Pekar, the Lower East Side
Box 12 Folder 4
Politics of Authenticity: Reviews, 1970-71
Reviews of Berman's book, including a very favorable review by Vivian Gornick in the Voice. Also includes a letter of congratulations, 10/1969, from Trilling, upon reading the manuscript!
Box 12 Folder 5
Review of Erik Erikson, Life History and the Historical Moment, 1975
New York Times review by Berman, includes reader responses and Berman's reply, as well as correspondence with Lawrence J. Friedman, Erikson biographer, and notes for the article
Box 12 Folder 6
Letters on Erikson review, 1974
Includes congratulatory notes from Paul Roazen, Todd Gitlin, Irving Louis Horowitz, and others, as well as highly critical responses
Box 12 Folder 7
Preface to Penguin edition of Solid, 1988
Several drafts, as well as a review (from 1979) or Jerrold Seigel's biography of Marx
Box 12 Folder 8
"Ruins and Reforms," Dissent, 1987, 1987
Drafts, published printing, notes and clippings for article by Berman about NYC history and policy
Box 12 Folder 9
"Springsteen: Blowin' Away the Lies," Voice, 1986, 1986
Drafts, published printing, notes and clippings for article by Berman about Bruce Springsteen
Box 12 Folder 10
"Humanism and Terror": Books on Israel for The Nation, 1988, 1988
Drafts, published printing, notes and clippings for review essay by Berman
Box 12 Folder 11
"In the Street or in the Cage: Intellectuals Today", 1988
For symposium on intellectuals in Expressen (Stockholm). Drafts, notes, and copy of the article by Berman
Box 12 Folder 12
"Le Cité, C'est Moi": Review of Ed Koch biography, 1985
Notes, drafts, published printing of article by Berman in The Nation
Box 12 Folder 13
Times Square piece for the Voice, 1986
Drafts, published printing, notes and clippings for article by Berman about development in TSQ
Box 12 Folder 14
"Scenes from a Marriage": Bob Dylan article in the Voice, 1986
Drafts, published printing, and notes for article by Berman about Bob Dylan
Box 12 Folder 15
Design After Modernism, 1988
Correspondence, reviews, and excerpt from Solid: for Design After Modernism, ed. John Thackera
Box 12 Folder 16
Letters on Urbicide/Ruins article in Voice, 1984-85
Includes correspondence from Herbert Gans, Carl Schorske
Box 12 Folder 17
"Falling Towers": NEH Creative Writing Fellowship Application, 1985
Includes draft of proposal for study of urbanism, grant application forms, letters of recommendation
Box 12 Folder 18
"Georg Lukács's Cosmic Chutzpah", 1985
Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, copies of Berman's article in the Voice Literary Supplement
Box 12 Folder 19
Urbicide, Village Voice, 1984
Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's article in the Voice
Box 12 Folder 20
"Shouts In the Street": Talk at Whitney Museum, 1984
Notes and copies of speech
Box 12 Folder 21
Kafka, 1950s-1980s
Notes, printed materials, and drafts of unpublished(?) piece on Kafka
Box 12 Folder 22
Perry Anderson vs. Marshall Berman in New Left Review, 1984
Two copies of Anderson's critical review of All That Is Solid in March/April 1984 NLR
Box 12 Folder 23
Public Realm Conference and Galleys for Dissent, 1985-86
Conference materials and papers, notes, from urban planning conference, Lexington, KY, 1985, and galleys for rrelated article, "Take It to the Streets," Dissent, 1986
Box 12 Folder 24
"Signs on the Street": Exchange w/ Perry Anderson, about Solid, 1984
Includes Berman's published reply to Anderson's review of All That Is Solid, in New Left Review 1984, along with several unpublished versions, notes and correspondence with NLR editor (Robin Blackburn). Also, correspondence with Anderson regarding the exchange!
Box 12 Folder 25
Politics of Art and Turf on Lower East Side, 1983
Notes, draft, and printed copy of article in the Village Voice on art and housing on the LES
Box 12 Folder 26
Peter Gay: Education of The Senses, 1983
Box 12 Folder 27
Harvey Pekar article for Voice Literary Supplement, 1983
Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's article in the Voice
Box 12 Folder 28
"Communism and Captive Minds": Response to Susan Sontag in Soho News, 1982
Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's response to Sontag's famous controversial equating communism and fascism, for Soho News
Box 12 Folder 29
"Feminism, Socialism, Freedom": Controversy with Jean Elshtain, Dissent, 1982
Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's exchange with socialist-feminist Jean Elshtain in Dissent; correspondents include Katha Pollitt and Irving Howe
Box 12 Folder 30
"Beyond the Finland Station", 1980
Review of James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men in the NY Times Book Review; includes correspondence (incl. Carl Schorske), notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's article
Box 12 Folder 31
Review of Jerrold Seigel, Marx's Fate, 1978
For The Nation. Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's review.
Box 12 Folder 32
"Over the Edge of Night", 1982
Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's review of Jerome Deshusses' The Eighth Night of Creation, for The New York Times
Box 12 Folder 33
Review of Christopher Lasch, Haven In A Heartless World, 1978
For The New York Times. Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, and copy of Berman's review.
Box 12 Folder 34
Review of Richard Sennett, Fall of Public Man, 1977
For The Nation. Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's review.
Box 12 Folder 35
"Liberal and Totalitarian Therapies in Rousseau", 1976
For Political Theory. Includes drafts, notes, and copy of published article.
Box 12 Folder 36
"The People in Capital", 1978
Box 12 Folder 37
"Robert Moses: on Caro, The Power Broker, etc.", 1974
Includes notes, manuscripts, correspondence, and published articles about Robert Moses that appeared in Ramparts
Box 12 Folder 38
Robert Moses: responses to article in Ramparts, 1975
Includes copy of Berman's article, responses, notes, and correspondence
Box 12 Folder 39
Studs Terkel, Working, 1974
Reviewed for NY Times. Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's review.
Box 12 Folder 40
Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, 1973
Reviewed for NY Times. Includes correspondence, notes, drafts, and copy of Berman's review.
Box 12 Folder 41
Review of Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station, 1972
Reviewed in the NY Times. Includes notes, drafts, printed matter, and copy of Berman's review.
Box 12 Folder 42
Review of Erving Goffman, Relations in Public, 1972
Notes, copies of review, and manuscript about Goffman's work
Box 12 Folder 43
Review of R.D. Laing, The Divided Self, 1970
For NY Times: notes, drafts, copies of published review
Box 12 Folder 44
Letters on Laing piece, 1970
Letters concerning his article on R.D. Laing, including some strongly worded criticisms from colleagues of Laing's
Box 12 Folder 45
Other articles, 1986-87
"Open-Minded Spaces," excerpt from Berman's speech at 1986 AAA Spring Symposium, printed in Old Oregon; Italian translation of a Berman lecture delivered in Bologna, Sept. 1986; and "The Place of the Poor," printed in Utne Reader, May/June 1987 (orig. published in Dissent)
Request Box 13
Box 13 Folder 1
Lower East Side: Union College Lecture, 1983
Includes drafts/transcript of the lecture, copy of related article that appeared in Village Voice
Box 13 Folder 2
R.D. Laing Article, 1970
Another copy of Berman's review of Divided Self in NY Times (see Box 13), copy of 1972 review of Goffman's Relations in Public; a copy of 1969 Astrological Review; and a manuscript and letter sent by an interested reader
Box 13 Folder 3
Boston Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1990s
Correspondence and materials relating to Berman's role as juror in the design contest for the Boston Holocaust Memorial
Box 13 Folder 4
Adventures in Marxism Materials, 1990s
Notes, drafts of preface, correspondence and materials relating to Adventures, as well as book contract (Verso)
Box 13 Folder 5
Bronx Museum 1999: Show on Art in Time of Troubles, 1999
Materials, clippings related to an exhibition at the Bronx MFA, where Berman contributed to a symposium on arts in the borough
Box 13 Folder 6
"Tompkins Square is Everywhere", 1989
Lecture on protests and lifestyles on the LES, delivered in Berlin; includes drafts and a copy of the lecture
Box 13 Folder 7
"Views from the Burning Bridge", 1999
Art in Bronx in its Times of Troubles, for Bronx Museum exhibition catalogue and for Dissent; includes galleys and proofs, related correspondence, printed materials
Box 13 Folder 8
Mike Rogin, Blackface, White Masks: 1998 APSA, 1998
Notes on paper delivery at American Pol. Sci. Assn. conference
Box 13 Folder 9
Vienna 1900/2000 Conference, 1995
Includes notes, correspondence, and materials from conference on modernism in Vienna
Box 13 Folder 10
"Modernism and Human Rights Near the Millenium", 1996
Draft of conference paper that was later published in Dissent (1995, Summer -- included here as well), includes press coverage of his visit to Buenos Aires, postcards, correspondence; also includes a printed copy of "Marx and the Future"
Box 13 Folder 11
Columbia University Reunion Speech, 1996
Written remarks for a panel, reflecting on his time at CU
Box 13 Folder 12
Mass Transit and Psychoanalysis, 1996
Transcript of his remarks from Vienna modernism conference, 1995, as well as screenplay (written 5/14/85) about Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and anti-semitism in Vienna
Box 13 Folder 13
"End of the Century": Conference at Library of Congress, 1994
Printed copies of all presenters' remarks, including Berman's address: "Modernism and Human Rights Near the Millennium"
Box 13 Folder 14
"Justice/Just Us": Rap and Social Justice in America, 1994
Delivered at Oxford Univ. Notes, drafts, and copies of his remarks, along with correspondence from Jerry Cohen enclosing a note delivered to him by a student of his who was in the audience for Berman's talk. Also includes a printed copy of an article for Tikkun, "Close to the Edge: Reflections on Rap," that grew out of this talk.
Box 13 Folder 15
Postmodernism article for Oxford Companion to World Politics, 1993
Includes notes, draft of article, as well as contract with publisher
Box 13 Folder 16
"Hitting the Streets: The Used Left and the City Now", 1992
Lecture delivered at Rice University, expanded into an article for the LA Times; includes conference brochures, correspondence and press relating to the conference, and notes for Berman's lecture
Box 13 Folder 17
Panel on Robert Moses, Stony Brook Museum, 1995
Notes and conference brochures
Box 13 Folder 18
Panel for NY AIA at Rockefeller Univ., 1995
Box 13 Folder 19
Irving Howe Memorial Address, 1994
Different versions of a memorial address for Howe, with press coverage of the memorial confernece at CUNY Center for the Humanities, April 1994
Box 13 Folder 20
NYC History TV Project: Steeplechase Films, 1994
Materials relating to Berman's tenure as a consultant for a Ric Burns documentary on NYC history
Box 13 Folder 21
"Myths of the City", 1994
Notes for an address at a conference in Amsterdam
Box 13 Folder 22
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Philadelphia, 1993
Notes for Berman's response to a panelist, including a copy of the conference program and the paper
Box 13 Folder 23
Contretemps w/ Peter Steinfels on Family, 1996
Copy of a letter Berman sent in reply to Steinfels's NY Times thinkpiece (included) complaining about a recent cover illustration for The New Yorker (also included)
Box 13 Folder 24
"Life and Death in the Bronx", 1993
Essay for program accompanying "The Day the Bronx Died," by Michael Henry Brown, performed at the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT; includes notes, correspondence, and other materials
Box 13 Folder 25
"Tribalism and Humanness", 1992-93
Talk at Conference, "Theory, Culture, and Society," Pittsburgh, 1992, and CUNY, 1993; includes notes, drafts, printed copies of various texts; also includes conference materieals, correspondence w/ Simon Frith regarding an invitation to a seminar in Scotland (declined)
Box 13 Folder 26
"Cry of the City", 1992
Paper given at CUNY, Savannah College of Art and Design; different drafts, notes, related clippings, conference materials
Box 13 Folder 27
"Modernism," Santiago, Chile, 1991
"Chilean version" of conference paper entitled "Why Modernism Still Matters" (orig. an article in Tikkun, Jan/Feb 1989)
Box 13 Folder 28
Modernism/Postmodernism TV Proposal w/ Todd Gitlin, 1990-91
Proposal for a TV documentary on modernism and postmodernism, co-authored with Gitlin; includes correspondence, clippings, printed copies of relevant articles by both authors
Box 13 Folder 29
"Culture of the Lower East Side", 1991
Incomplete essay about Stephen Crane's novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Box 13 Folder 30
Bullet Space, 1990
Materials relating to an artists' squat on Tompkins Square Park, and the TSP Riot; possibly for an article in the Village Voice
Box 13 Folder 31
ADPSR Forum, 1991
Notes and materials from conference held by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility/New York
Box 13 Folder 32
Urban Ground: Landscape Architecture in the City, Harvard Univ., 1991
Conference materials and notes
Box 13 Folder 33
Memo Regarding Stanley Aronowitz's Proposal for a Graduate Program in the History of Ideas, 1989
Sent to the CUNY Chancellor; includes copy of the proposal
Box 13 Folder 34
"Who Are the New Moderns?" Talk at Helsinki, 1990
Box 13 Folder 35
Modernism/Postmodernism: Paper at APSA, San Francisco, 1990
Box 13 Folder 36
Bob Rosen: Interactive Computer Program on Urbanism, 1989
Correspondence w/ Rosen regarding the postwar history of NYC, includes articles and related printed material
Box 13 Folder 37
"Modernism in the Streets," Amsterdam, 1987
Notes, copy of remarks, responses to questions
Box 13 Folder 38
"Modernist Metropolis," Milan Triennale and Boston Review, 1988-89
Transcript of remarks for 1988 Milan Triennale, later adapted for Boston Review article (included here). Includes notes, correspondence, related materials.
Box 13 Folder 39
Paper on modernism for Tikkun conference, 1988
Paper entitled "why modernism still matters," also includes paper by Andreas Huyssen on Anselm Kieffer
Box 13 Folder 40
Review of David Caute, Year of the Barricades, 1988
Written for Times, 1988, but abandoned "mid-journey." Notes included
Box 13 Folder 41
Crisis of Modernity: Spanish Socialist Conference, Madrid, 1985
Includes address delivered at the conference, as well as correspondence, notes, printed materials relating to the conference
Box 13 Folder 42
"Marching as to War", 1984
Article for Village Voice on Reagan's re-election
Box 13 Folder 43
"Destruction and Renewal in Modern Life", 1984
Lecture, Univ. of Houston. Includes notes and a copy of his remarks.
Box 13 Folder 44
Crisis of Capitalism, CUNY Political Science Conference, 1983
Comment on paper by James Mangia
Box 13 Folder 45
"Urban Crisis in History", Late 1970s
Manuscript, unpublished, undated, with notes. "Shortly after fiscal crisis (uses Partisan Review article material on Rousseau; some of it prefigures "Urbicide")
Box 13
Review of Mike Davis, City of Quartz, 1991
Copy of the entire issue of The Nation that includes Berman's piece
Request Box 14
Box 14 Folder 1
"Modernism Today," Bologna, 1986
Drafts of Berman's talk, "Why Modernism Still Matters," press coverage (Italian) of his visit, notes, and bound copy of his remarks
Box 14 Folder 2
Talk on Art and Politics, SVA, 1983
Notes, clippings, materials related to panel presentation of "The Political Content of Art" at the School for Visual Arts
Box 14 Folder 3
"Populism and the Self": Paper at Rutgers Conference on Populism, 1979
Notes and conference materials
Box 14 Folder 4
Culture and Counterculture: Symposium on Radical Perspectives, CUNY, 1982
Notes and conference materials
Box 14 Folder 5
"Post-modernism Melts Into Air," Symposium on Postmodernism, Richmond, VA, 1982
Notes and conference materials
Box 14 Folder 6
Marcuse Memorial Panel, APSA Conference, Washington, DC, 1980
Notes, copy of Berman's obituary for Marcuse in The Nation
Box 14 Folder 7
Male Identity and Anxiety in 18th c. Thought: Montesquieu and Rousseau, 1979
For 18th c. Studies Association, Toronto. Notes for presentation.
Box 14 Folder 8
"Marx on Work and Identity," for Social Experience, 1976
Drafts and notes for article.
Box 14 Folder 9
"Jewish Sons and Mothers," YIVO Conference, 1979
Notes, printed materials, and conference materials relating to presentation at YIVO Conference. Also included is a copy of another presenter's paper w/ Berman's comments
Box 14 Folder 10
Thesis Outlines and Ideas, Late 1960s
Notes for Berman's dissertation, which would later be published as The Politics of Authenticity
Box 14 Folder 11
Giuliani vs. the Brooklyn Museum, 1999
Clippings, copy of piece by Berman in Art in America
Box 14 Folder 12
Giuliani and Public Space, 1999-2001
Clippings relating to Mayor Giuliani and public space
Box 14 Folder 13
"The Lonely Crowd": Postwar NYC, for Burns Brothers' PBS Documentary, NYC, 1999
Notes, draft, transcript for television program about NYC history and post-war modernism
Box 14 Folder 14
"Where Will Critical Culture Come From?", 1999
For Dissent. Includes copy of the article as well as critical responses from Todd Gitlin, Ellen Willis, Russell Jacoby, Andrew Delbanco, and others.
Box 14 Folder 15
"Views from the Burning Bridge", 1999
Catalogue Essay, Bronx Museum show on the Bronx: notes, clippings, drafts, printed materials
Box 14 Folder 16
Don DeLillo, Underworld (for Dissent), 1998
Box 14 Folder 17
150th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, for The Nation, 1998
Includes copy of The Nation that includes Berman's article, along with correspondence, drafts, xeroxed copies of the article, and an Arabic translation of the piece
Box 14 Folder 18
Walter Benjamin for The Nation, 1997
Drafts, published printing, notes and clippings for review essay by Berman
Box 14 Folder 19
"Views from the Burning Bridge", 1999
Catalogue Essay, Bronx Museum show on the Bronx: notes, clippings, drafts, printed materials
Box 14 Folder 20
"Picasso Surviving" (for Dissent), 1996
Notes, drafts, published printing of article, and negatives of images
Box 14 Folder 21
The Bonds of Love: Review of Henry Roth, From Bondage, 1996
For The Nation. Includes drafts, notes, correspondence, and printed copies of the article.
Box 14 Folder 22
"The Presence of the Subject": on Meyer Schapiro, 1995
For New Politics. Includes drafts, notes, and printed copies of the article.
Box 14 Folder 23
Review of Alfred Kazin, A Lifetime Burning In Every Moment: Selections From Journals, 1938-1995, 1996
For The Nation. Includes drafts, notes, and printed copies of the article.
Box 14 Folder 24
"Waiting for the Barbarians": Review of Isaac Babel, Diary, 1920, 1995
For The Nation. Includes drafts, notes, correspondence, and printed copies of the article.
Box 14 Folder 25
Times Square, lecture in Sydney, 1997
Box 14 Folder 26
Henry Roth and the Bible, 1994
Copy of remarks presented at Brandeis University, with related articles and letters
Box 14 Folder 27
"And A Little Child Shall Lead Them": Henry Roth and the Jewish Family Romance, 1994
For Linda Nochlin, ed., The Jew In the Text.
Box 14 Folder 28
"Don't Kidnap Me, I'm A Professor": Looking at Brazil, 1993
Box 14 Folder 29
"Modernism and Human Rights Near the Millenium", 1995
Conference paper that was later published in Dissent [see also box 14]
Box 14 Folder 30
"Kafka Family Values": Review of Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, 1995
For The Nation. Includes drats, correspondence, published article.
Box 14 Folder 31
Symposium on Israel-Palestine Peace Accord, Tikkun, 1993
Box 14 Folder 32
Rap - Tikkun, 1993
Drafts, correspondence, notes, and copy of published article on rap music in Tikkun.
Request Box 15
Box 15 Folder 1
"Human Rights and Modernism," Library of Congress, 1994, 1994
Drafts, correspondence, notes, printed material, and copy of remarks given at "End of the Century" conference
Box 15 Folder 2
Irving Howe Memorials: Dissent, 1993; CUNY, 1994, 1993-1994
Drafts, printed materials, and copy of published article about the life and legacy of Irving Howe
Box 15 Folder 3
Irving Howe Memorial, Dissent, 1993
Drafts, printed materials, notes
Box 15 Folder 4
"Children of the Future," Dissent, 1993
Notes, published material, and drafts of article published in Dissent
Box 15 Folder 5
"Why Modernism Still Matters," for Modernity and Identity, 1992
Box 15 Folder 6
"Marx for the 90s", 1996
Remarks delivered in Peru: draft, correspondence
Box 15 Folder 7
"Berkeley in the 60s," for Dissent, 1991
Drafts, notes, correspondence, printed material relating to a review of 1960s documentary published in Dissent
Box 15 Folder 8
"Media, Modernism, and Democracy", 1993
Delivered in Porto Allegre, Brazil. Notes, correspondence, printed matter, conference materials, drafts.
Box 15 Folder 9
Public Enemy, Village Voice, 1991
Notes, drafts, related press, printed matter, and copies of published article, "Bass in your face," by Berman.
Box 15 Folder 10
"A View From the Bridge", 1992
Review of exhibit on Blacks and Jews at the Jewish Museum, printed in Culture Front magazine. Includes, notes, drafts, copy of exhibition program, correspondence, and published printing of Berman's article
Box 15 Folder 11
"The New Moderns", 1990
Notes, correspondence, copies of others' remarks, and copy of Berman's remarks for symposium on modernism in Architectural Design
Box 15 Folder 12
"The Last Modern Century", 1991
Piece for symposium, New Perspectives Quarterly. Includes notes, drafts, printed material, correspondence.
Box 15 Folder 13
"Can These Ruins Live?", 1989
Correspondence, notes, drafts of article on Tim Rollins & K.O.S. and the South Bronx, for Parkett.
Box 15 Folder 14
"L.A. Raw": Review of Mike Davis, City of Quartz, 1991
For The Nation. Drafts, notes, printed copies of published review.
Box 15 Folder 15
"Why Modernism Still Matters," in Tikkun, 1989
Includes drafts, notes, printed copy of published article, as well as responses from Jeffrey Isaac and others, and Berman's reply to Isaac.
Box 15 Folder 16
Lower East Side, 1989
Notes for a paper, "Modernism in NY: Lower East Side," CUNY Conference
Box 15 Folder 17
"Taking to the Streets", 1989
Printed copy of Berman's article about urbanism, for Boston Review
Box 15 Folder 18
"Why Modernism Still Matters," for Modernity and Identity, 1989
Final version of "Modernism" essay, and 1st draft, for edited volume.
Box 15 Folder 19
"Missing Foundation: The Volume of Desperation", 1989
Drafts, correspondence, notes, printed material, and copy of published article on Tompkins Square Riots in Village Voice
Box 15 Folder 20
"Eternal City": Review Essay in Voice Literary Supplement, 1989
Drafts and notes for article reviewing books on urbanism.
Box 15 Folder 21
Comments on Eli Sagan, "Democracy and Paranoid Positions", 1988
Copy of conference paper by Sagan, Berman's written remarks, and correspondence.
Box 15 Folder 22
"The Broad and Open Way": All That is Solid Melts Into Air Penguin Cover and Preface, 1988
Draft, printed copies of cover and new preface for Penguin edition of All That is Solid
Box 15 Folder 23
Graphics: All That Is Solid, 1988
Box 15 Folder 24
Zeev, the 2000s, 2011
Speech in honor of Zeev Dagan, CCNY President.
Box 15 Folder 25
Review of Tzvetan Todorov, Fear of Barbarians, for Common Review, 2010
Notes, correspondence, and drafts of Berman's review.
Box 15 Folder 26
Samuel Zipp, New York Projects, 2010
Notes for discussion of Zipp's book at CUNY
Box 15 Folder 27
"Falling," Essay on Urban Ruins for Restless Cities, ed. Matt Beaumont, 2010
Drafts of published essay
Box 15 Folder 28
"Waiting", 2009
Drafts of conference paper delivered at NYU Center for Comp. Lit. Includes notes, conference materials
Box 15 Folder 29
Thomas Wrede's Picture Worlds, 2009
Drafts, notes, and related materials for an essay about Thomas Wrede's photographs of NYC billboards, along with correspondence with Wrede
Box 15 Folder 30
Comedy After 9/11, 2008
Notes, printed materials, and draft of remarks for a discussion at the CUNY Center for Worker Education
Box 15 Folder 31
"The Modern Keeps Rolling Along", 2008
Review of Peter Gay, Modernism, for Columbia Magazine: drafts, notes, correspondence
Box 15 Folder 32
Orhan Pamuk essay, for Dissent, 2009
Box 15 Folder 33
Istanbul Conference at Berkeley, 2008
Additional copies of Pamuk essay, "Don't Be Afraid, These People are Modern," and correspondence, conference materials and travel documents relating to conference at UC-Berkeley, "Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?"
Box 15 Folder 34
"1968" Symposium in Dissent, 2008
Printed copies of Berman's contribution to Dissent symposium on 1968, as well as notes, printed materials, and publishers' contract
Box 15 Folder 35
In Memoriam: Betty Berman, 1994
Printed notices for Berman's mother's memorial service
Box 15
"Public Space: Urbanity, Streets, Costs", 1986
Copy of Fall 1986 issue of Dissent featuring Berman's article, "Take It To The Streets"
Request Box 16
Box 16 Folder 1
Comedy: NYC after 9/11, London, 2008
Drafts, correspondence, printed materials and conference materials relating to Berman's presentation at the London Literary Festival
Box 16 Folder 2
Trip to Berlin, 2007
Drafts, correspondence, printed materials relating to two talks on urban space in Berlin
Box 16 Folder 3
"Boundaries of Contemporary Thought" Conference, Porto Allegre, Brazil, 2007
Correspondence, travel documents, conference materials, drafts, printed materials, and copies of a lecture given by Berman, "The City Rises: Cities and Modernism" (actually televised in NYC and broadcast at the conference)
Box 16 Folder 4
"NYC Calling", 2007
For Dissent. Includes copy of the article as well as drafts, related materials, correspondence, and notes.
Box 16 Folder 5
Holy City, Profane City, 2006
Notes, images, printed materials and draft of an essay [unpublished?]
Box 16 Folder 6
Times Square Old and New, 2005
Copy of essay for Designer and Builder, later modified for Dissent, along with notes and correspondence
Box 16 Folder 7
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 2005
Notes, printed materials, correspondence, and copies of Berman's review of Singer's collected stories, for Moderna Språk (Sweden).
Box 16 Folder 8
Bad Vibes: Team parents, little league, 2005
Email correspondence; personal
Box 16 Folder 9
American City in the 1950s: Harvard Design Review, 2005
Drafts, correspondence, and printed copy of published review.
Box 16 Folder 10
Polish Interview, 2004
Transcript of interview with Agata Bielik-Robson and Cezary Michalski
Box 16 Folder 11
Japanese Interview, 2005
Transcript of interview for Japanese magazine Gendai-shiso
Box 16 Folder 12
"Did It Start with Troy": Ancient Legacies and Modern Implications in History of Genocide, 2004
Talk for Patai Program on Holocaust, CUNY Center for Worker Education. Includes conference poster and relevant printed material
Box 16 Folder 13
Irving Howe and the New Left, 2004
Draft, correspondence relating to Berman's contribution to edited volume, Irving Howe and the Critics
Box 16 Folder 14
"No Souvenirs": Trip to Israel, for Dissent, 2004
Notes, draft, and copy of Berman's piece about traveling to Israel. Includes extensive correspondence with Michael Walzer and with Jerry Cohen, relating to the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
Box 16 Folder 15
Arthur Miller, for Dissent, 2005
Drafts and printed copy of Berman's short piece on Miller
Box 16 Folder 16
"Seeing Through the Ruins": Essay on NYC for The Nation Book, 2003
Box 16 Folder 17
Intro to Dissent Anthology: "Fifty Years of Dissent", 2004
Drafts, copy of Berman's contribution to the anthology. Includes copy of others' essays.
Box 16 Folder 18
"Love and Theft: From Jack Robbin to Bob Dylan", 2002
Copy of piece for Dissent, includes correspondence, drafts, notes, and printed material
Box 16 Folder 19
Iraq Symposium, Dissent, 2003
Copies of Berman's contribution, with edits.
Box 16 Folder 20
Modernism, FIU-Miami, 2002
Correspondence, printed materials, copy of remarks on modernism delivered at Florida International University
Box 16 Folder 21
Modernity, Tikkun Conference, 2002
Copies of remarks, with correspondence with Tikkun editors.
Box 16 Folder 22
Essay for After the World Trade Center, edited volume, 2002
Includes correspondence, copy of Berman's article, "When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People," in Designer and Builder (later included in this volume). Sharon Zukin is among the correspondents.
Box 16 Folder 23
WTC: September 2001, Lingua Franca, 2001
Notes, drafts, correspondence, printed materials, for essay "When Bad Buildings…" for Lingua Franca
Box 16 Folder 24
Life After the World Trade Center: Conference at Columbia Architecture, 2002
Correspondence, notes, conference materials, printed materials, and printed copy of "When Bad Buildings…" (read at the event)
Box 16 Folder 25
Narratives of NYC, 1975-present, for "Gotham" Conference, CUNY, 2001
Notes, conference program, draft of remarks
Box 16 Folder 26
Times Square: "One Hundred Years of Spectacle", 2001
For conference at Yale Univ. Includes printed materials, copies of essay.
Box 16 Folder 27
Piece on Philip Roth for New Labor Forum, 2007
Notes, drafts, copy of essay.
Box 16 Folder 28
City and Everyday Life: Conference on "The Pragmatist Imagination" at Columbia Architecture, 2000
Drafts, correspondence, conference materials, notes, and copy of remarks
Box 16 Folder 29
Review of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, for Metropolis, 1999
Drafts, notes, correspondence, and published copy of review essay.
Box 16 Folder 30
"The Labor Movement: Is Anybody Home?", 2001
Box 16 Folder 31
From Piranesi to the Subway: "Architecture and Mystery" Conference, CUNY, 2001
Notes, correspondence, and drafts of Berman's remarks, and edits forHarvard Design Review .
Box 16 Folder 32
"Trees Growing in Brooklyn," for Dissent , 2000
Notes, drafts, correspondence, for an essay inDissent .
Request Box 17
Box 17 Folder 1
Poli Sci 275: Contemporary political theory, Spring 2010, 2010
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 2
Poli Sci 275: Contemporary political theory, Spring 2007, 2007
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 3
Poli Sci 275: Contemporary political theory, Spring 2008, 2008
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 4
Poli Sci 275: Contemporary political theory, Spring 2011, 2011
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 5
City and Self: CCNY School of Architecture, Spring 2003, 2003
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 6
City and Self: CCNY School of Architecture, Spring 2005, 2005
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 7
City and Self: CCNY School of Architecture, Spring 2011, 2011
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 8
City and Self: CCNY School of Architecture, Spring 2010, 2010
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 9
City and Self: CCNY School of Architecture, Spring 2009, 2009
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 17 Folder 10
City and Self: CCNY School of Architecture, Spring 2008, 2008
Teaching materials, student papers, grades. Includes photographs of Berman w/ students.
Box 17 Folder 11
"Dancing in the Dark," Review of Stuart Klawans Left in the Dark , for Dissent, 2002
Box 17 Folder 12
Robert Christgau Festschrift Essay: "The Jazz Singer: Love and Theft", 2002
Correspondence, drafts, including a testy exchange with Jeff Salamon
Box 17 Folder 13
New Preface, Politics of Authenticity, 2009
Drafts, notes, correspondence with Verso editor
Box 17 Folder 14
"Mass Merger: Whitman and Baudelaire, The Modern Street and Democratic Culture", 2009
Correspondence and printed copies of Berman's contribution to an edited volume on Walt Whitman: John Seery, ed., A Political Companion to Walt Whitman
Box 17 Folder 15
Afterword: All That Is Solid, 2010-11
Drafts and notes. Includes materials relating to various speaking engagements.
Box 17 Folder 16
Modernity Critique Humanism Conference: Cal. State - LA, 2010-11
Correspondence, conference materials
Box 17 Folder 17
Lecture at University of East London, 2010
Correspondence, notes, printed materials, and copy of remarks, "Urbicide: Living Through Ruins"
Box 17 Folder 18
London Literary Festival, 2010
Correspondence, materials relating to a speaking engagement in London
Box 17 Folder 19
Trip to England, 2007
Correspondence pertaining to trip to the UK
Box 17 Folder 20
Marx at Oxford, 2007
Notes, draft, materials relating to Berman's remarks at Oxford, on Romantic anti-capitalism
Box 17 Folder 21
Articles: 1960s and 1970s, 1960s-1970s
Printed copies of articles by various authors on subjects such as Marxism, existentialism, media, foreign policy, urban politics, popular music, intellectuals
Box 17 Folder 22
Résumé and Collected Articles, 1980s-1993
Berman's résumé, along with copies of essays written by Berman, mostly relating to modernism and the city. Includes copy of "My City Was Gone: City Life After Urbicide," delivered at Center for Humanistic Studies, UMN-Minneapolis, 1983; "Images of the Modernist Metropolis," delivered in Milan, Italy, 1988; printed reply to an Argentine professor contributing an interview to La Nacion newspaper, 1990; "Modernism/Postmodernism: Obscure Objects of Desire," delivered at APSA, San Francisco, 1990; "Context and Modernity," delivered at Technical University, Delft, NL, 1990; "In the Street or In the Cage: Intellectuals Today"; "Falling Towers: Urbicide and Human Values"; and others.
Box 17 Folder 23
Notes on the City and Modern Sensibility, 1988
Keynote Address for ICA conference, London (delivered by video); includes correspondence and drafts
Box 17 Folder 24
"Urbicide and Human Values: Abortive NEH Proposal", 1987
Writing samples, résumés, correspondence, and materials for submission to NEH
Box 17 Folder 25
My City Was Gone: City Life After Urbicide, delivered at Center for Humanistic Studies, UMN-Minneapolis, 1983
Notes, drafts, printed copy of remarks, and correspondence
Box 17 Folder 26
Living For The City: Notes Gathered, 2000s
Assorted notes, written fragments relating to modernism and the city
Box 17 Folder 27
Jewish Political Theories Course, Spring 1975-76, 1970s
Course materials, including copies of early essays by Berman: "Why the Brooklyn Bridge?" (1970); "The Gates of the Dream," later printed in Mosaic, Fall 1966; "Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Moses and the Jews"
Box 17 Folder 28
My City Was Gone: City Life After Urbicide, delivered at MIT School of Architecture, 1990
Box 17 Folder 29
CV and assorted items, 2000s
Copy of Berman's CV, CUNY employment contract, and various documents: syllabi; CUNY faculty profile; review of Kenneth Jackson,Robert Moses and the Modern City , printed inArchitects' Newspaper , July 2007; correspondence relating to the Greek polis and urbanism, 2010; printed copy of "When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People," forAfter the World Trade Center edited volume, 2002; and "The City Rises," forDissent , Summer 2003.
Request Box 18
Box 18 Folder 1
Marxism: Poli Sci 376, Fall 2011, 2011
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 2
Marxism: Poli Sci 376, Fall 2008, 2008
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 3
Marxism: Poli Sci 376, Fall 2006, 2006
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 4
Marxism: Poli Sci 376, Fall 2008, 2008
Teaching materials, student papers, grades. Incldues correspondene with students.
Box 18 Folder 5
Marxism: Poli Sci 376, Fall 2010, 2010
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 6
Marxism: Extra Readings, 2000s
Copies of course readings, includes Berman's annotations and notes
Box 18 Folder 7
Political Theory: Poli Sci 124, Fall 2007, 2007
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 8
Critiques of Capital: Poli Sci 820.02, CUNY, Fall 2010, 2010
Teaching materials, student papers, grades for graduate student course. Includes photographs of Berman with several students.
Box 18 Folder 9
Modernism, 1914-1999: MLS 708, Spring 1999, 1999
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 10
Irrationalism in Politics: Poli Sci 5383, Fall 2011, 2011
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 11
Irrationalism in Politics: Poli Sci 80302, Spring 2009, 2009
Teaching materials, student papers, grades
Box 18 Folder 12
Irrationalism in Politics: Poli Sci 864, Fall 2007, 2007
Student papers, teaching materials
Box 18 Folder 13
Papers: Harvard, 1963-64, 1963-64
Papers for graduate coursework at Harvard, for Berman's Government PhD. Includes: "The Politics of Passion: Montesquieu and Rousseau," for Judith Shklar (includes her corrections and notes); "Revolution, Regression, Reconciliation: A Political Theme in Freud," for Barrington Moore (includes his corrections and notes); "Wholism: The Ideal of the Whole Man for German Humanistic Thought and its Relation to Political Life: A Beginning," for Prof. Rodman (includes notes and corrections)
Box 18 Folder 14
Papers: Columbia, 1960, 1960
"Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Terror of History: The Dilemma of Karl Kautsky," for Prof. Fritz Stern, includes comments; "Madness and Selfhood in Bleak House," for Prof. Marcus, includes comments and an earlier draft ("Madness, Selfhood, and Freedom in Bleak House"); "Alienation, Humanity, and Man: The Early Writings of Karl Marx," for Prof. Fritz Stern, includes comments; "Labor and the Community in the Early Writings of Marx," for Prof. Rudolf Binion; "Some Notes Toward An Understanding of Coleridge's Religion," for Prof. Marcus, includes comments; "Carlyle's Philosophy of Clothes and the Dialectic of Liberation," for Prof. Marcus, includes comments; "Socialism and History: Preface to Some Reflections," for Profs. Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, includes comments, and a previous draft; "Nietzsche"; "Roles, History, Authenticity: Reflections on Some Themes in Hegel, Marx, and Genet," for Prof. Jacob Taubes, includes comments
Box 18 Folder 15
Papers: Columbia, 1961, 1961
"Unity and Duality in Coleridge's Speculative Thought," for Lionel Trilling, includes a typed letter and comments from Trilling; "The Resurgence of Pagan Myth and Symbol in the Book of Hosea," (ghost-written for Rita Slapion!), for Prof. Jacob Taubes; "Roles, History, Authenticity: Reflections on Some Themes in Hegel, Marx, and Genet," for Prof. Jacob Taubes, includes comments; "The Truth, the Self, and the World: Some Characteristic Problems of Romanticism," for Profs. Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, includes comments; "Rational Procedure and the Transvaluation of Knowledge: Two Investigations," for Prof. Ernst Nagel; also includes several drafts of a statement of purpose for an application for graduate study at Harvard, and a copy of the Columbia Spectator with a piece by Morris Dickstein
Box 18 Folder 16
Papers: Columbia, 1958-59, 1958-59
"Wordsworth and the Revolution: A Dialectical View of His Development," for Prof. Marcus, includes comments; "Intellect and the Fall of the House," for Prof. Walter Metzger, includes comments; "Moral and Spiritual Values and Religious Self-Consciousness," for Prof. Walter Metzger, includes comments; "Raskolnikov and Kirillov: Suspension of the Ethical," for Prof. Jacob Taubes, includes comments; "On the Possibility of Tragedy Today," for Mr. Fellows, includes comments; "The Transvaluation of Values, 1919: Two Investigations," for Prof. Walter Metzger, includes comments
Box 18 Folder 17
"Brave New Building" Senior Show, Bronx High School of Science, 1957
Notes and transcript for a play Berman wrote in high school
Box 18 Folder 18
Purim Play, Young Israel of Claremont Parkway, 1952
Notes and transcript for a Purim play Berman wrote in Hebrew School
Box 18 Folder 19
Religion 93, Prof. Jacob Taubes, 1961
Lecture Notes for Prof. Jacob Taubes, Religion 93 (apparently co-taught by Susan Sontag), at Columbia University
Box 18 Folder 20
Religion 107-108, Prof. Jacob Taubes, 1961
Lecture notes from Columbia College coursework
Box 18 Folder 21
Humanities A2: Prof. Jacob Taubes, 1958
Includes lecture notes, course handouts, some typed thoughts on Shakespeare, and a term paper: "Raskolnikov and Kirillov: The Suspension of the Ethical"
Box 18 Folder 22
Tutorial on "Religion and Politics," Oxford University, 1964-65
Box 18 Folder 23
Tutorial on "Civilization and the Critique of Civilization in the Bible," Oxford University, 1965
Box 18 Folder 24
Papers: Oxford, 1961, 1961
"Perspectivity and Truth: A Problem in Wittgenstein's Tractatus," for Prof. Quinton, inludes comments
Box 18 Folder 25
Undated papers, undated
Copies of a handout, "Goethe: The Self and Its Proper Relation to the World," for Berman's course, Political Sci. 78; and a handwritten list of Berman's publications through 1970.
Request Box 19
Box 19 Folder 1
Govt. 213, Harvard, 1963-64
Notes for Govt. 213A, "Social Theory" with Prof. Barrington Moore; includes term paper, "Freedom, Happiness and Nihilistic Art: A Study in Dostoevsky," with comments
Box 19 Folder 2
Max Weber: Oxford, 1965
Notes for a tutorial, "Topics in Weber," with Ellen Siegel
Box 19 Folder 3
"Theories of Totalitarianism", Late 1960s
Notes on readings, lectures: for coursework
Box 19 Folder 4
Totalitarianism in the USSR, 1966
Notes, clippings, course syllabus, for "Govt. 215: Problems of Totalitarian Dictatorship," Harvard
Box 19 Folder 5
Naziism, Mid-1960s
Notes, clippings: for coursework
Box 19 Folder 6
Govt. 104: "Problems in Political Theory," Prof. Michael Walzer, 1966-67
Course syllabus, notes, exam questions, paper topics, and handouts, Harvard University. Includes Berman's correspondence with Walzer, with whom he worked as a Teaching Assistant. Of especial interest: a note, to Walzer, critical of his interpretation of Rousseau. Also includes a student paper: "A Defense For A Conscientious Objector to the War in Vietnam," by Dodge Wells
Box 19 Folder 7
Naziism: Paper ghost-written for "Ellen", 1966
Includes noes, copy of paper.
Box 19 Folder 8
Coursework: Harvard, 1963-1965, 1963-65
Notes, course syllabi, exam questions for several courses
Box 19 Folder 9
American Political Thought, undated
Notes, probably from Harvard, mid-60s
Box 19 Folder 10
Reading Lists and Bibliographies, Mid-1960s
Includes copies of SDS publication, the Radical Education Project; course syllabi and reading lists, Harvard, mid-1960s
Box 19 Folder 11
Trip to Italy, June 2000, 2000
Travel documents, press clippings covering Berman's visit (in Italian), clippings, conference materials and printed matter
Box 19 Folder 12
Australia, 1999-2000
Interview with Berman in The Age (Melbourne); travel documents; press covering Berman's appearances while in Australia; email correspondence regarding appearance at the Melbourne Writers' Conference
Box 19 Folder 13
Brazil: Porto Allegre and Rio, 2001
Travel documents, correspondence, copy of Berman's CV
Box 19 Folder 14
Mexico, 2002
Travel documents, correspondence (includes discussion of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas)
Box 19 Folder 15
Rio: "Intellectuals and Modernity", 2009
Conference program, correspondence, drafts, copy of remarks
Box 19 Folder 16
Uruguay, 2008
Correspondence, conference poster, "Cities and Modernism" paper
Box 19 Folder 17
Contemporary Political Theory: Poli Sci 275, CCNY, 2002
Grades, student papers, copies of readings, syllabus
Box 19 Folder 18
CUNY Honors College, 2002
Correspondence and materials relating to Berman's course at the CUNY Honors College, "The Trans-National City"
Box 19 Folder 19
CUNY Honors College, 2001
Correspondence and materials relating to Berman's course at the CUNY Honors College, "Immigration/New York"
Box 19 Folder 20
City and Self: School of Architecture, 2002
Materials relating to Berman's course at the CUNY School of Architecture, Spring 2002
Box 19 Folder 21
Contemporary Political Thought, 2001
CCNY, Spring 2001; grades, student papers, correspondence, and printed matters relating to Berman's course
Box 19 Folder 22
The Irrational in Politics: CUNY, Spring 2001, 2001
Printed materials, student papers, syllabi, relating to Berman's course
Box 19 Folder 23
City and Self: Urban Design 6330 (Architecture), Spring 2001, 2001
Syllabi, printed materials relating to Berman's course
Box 19 Folder 24
Political Science 124: Introduction to Pol. Thought, 2000
Printed materials, student papers, syllabi, relating to Berman's course
Box 19 Folder 25
Visions of the City: Center for Worker Education, 2000
Grades, printed materials relating to Berman's course
Box 19 Folder 26
"Individual and the City," CLAS 411, 2000
Grades, printed materials relating to Berman's course; co-taught with Robert Twombly
Box 19 Folder 27
"Modernity," CLAS 411, 1998
Grades, printed materials relating to Berman's course; co-taught with Joshua Wilner
Box 19 Folder 28
Poli. Sci. 124: Center for Worker Education, 1998
Grades, printed materials relating to Berman's course
Box 19 Folder 29
Marxism, CUNY, 2000
Student papers, teaching materials
Box 19 Folder 30
Marxism, Poli Sci 376, CCNY, 2000
Student papers, teaching materials
Request Box 20
Box 20 Folder 1
Public Transit, 1980s
Clippings relating to the NYC subway
Box 20 Folder 2
Harlem, 1980s
Clippings relating to Harlem and urban development
Box 20 Folder 3
Tompkins Square Riots, 1989
Box 20 Folder 4
Architecture, 1970s-1980s
Box 20 Folder 5
NYC Neighborhoods, 1970s-1980s
Box 20 Folder 6
Brooklyn, 1970s-1980s
Box 20 Folder 7
West Side, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 8
Chelsea, 1983
Box 20 Folder 9
NYC Development & Gentrification: J-51, etc., Early 1980s
Clippings and research reports
Box 20 Folder 10
Closing of the Westway, 1985
Box 20 Folder 11
Murray Kempton, Sydney Schamberg, Russell Baker, et. al., 1980s
Box 20 Folder 12
Rental Housing, Late 1970s-1980s
Box 20 Folder 13
NYC Demography and Statistics, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 14
New York in general, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 15
Politics in New York City and State, Late 1970s-1980s
Box 20 Folder 16
NYC Labor Market, Early 1980s
Clippings and research reports
Box 20 Folder 17
Wall Street/ Crash of 1987, 1980s
Box 20 Folder 18
Labor Statistics and Unemployment, 1989
Box 20 Folder 19
New York Miscellany, 1989
Box 20 Folder 20
Controversy Over Park Use and Public Space, Late 1980s
Clippings and materials relating to public parks in NYC
Box 20 Folder 21
Politics: Andy Logan, et al., 1980s
Box 20 Folder 22
NYC Housing Policy, 1988-89
Clippings and research reports
Box 20 Folder 23
Homeless, 1980s
Box 20 Folder 24
Architecture, 1980s
Box 20 Folder 25
Public Housing, 1986
Box 20 Folder 26
Experimental and public housing, Late 1970s-1980s
Printed articles and research reports
Box 20 Folder 27
Conflicts over Development, 1980s
Box 20 Folder 28
Times Square and 42nd Street, 1989
Box 20 Folder 29
South Bronx, Late 1980s
Box 20 Folder 30
NYC and Culture, Late 1980s
Box 20 Folder 31
Poverty, Late 1980s
Box 20 Folder 32
Chinatown, 1989
Box 20 Folder 33
Central Park Rape Case, 1989
Box 20 Folder 34
Lower East Side, 1988-89
Clippings and notes on community board meeting, policy proposals by Jon McCabe. Includes copy of Loisaida publication
Box 20 Folder 35
Poli Sci 317x: "The First World City: Politics and Culture in New York", 1998
Proposal for interdisciplinary course at CCNY, syllabi, printed copies of readings, course materials, copy of Berman's article, "The Lonely Crowd: New York After the War," for Ric Burns, ed. New York: An Illustrated History (Knopf, 2003)
Box 20 Folder 36
Teaching Materials on the City, 1970s
Printed selections from Montesquieu, Dickens, Baudelaire, Pushkin, Whitman, Aragon
Box 20 Folder 37
City as Landlord, 1980s
Box 20 Folder 38
Landmarks, 1980s
Box 20 Folder 39
Jews in New York City, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 40
NYC Schools and Education, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 41
CUNY and Higher Education, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 42
NYC Seminar: NYU Institute of Humanities, 1982
Transcript of remarks, seminar materials, notes
Box 20 Folder 43
NYC Economic and Fiscal Problems, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 44
Business' Plans for New York, Early 1980s
Box 20 Folder 45
Urban Underground: Critique of 1969 City Planning Commission's Master Plan, 1970
Request Box 21
Box 21 Folder 1
NYC Business and Industry, Early 1980s
Box 21 Folder 2
"Setting Municipal Priorities", Early 1980s
Box 21 Folder 3
New York City: Fiscal Crisis, Late 1970s-1980s
Clippings, notes, printed materials relating to the fiscal crisis
Box 21 Folder 4
Cities, Urban Space, 1970s-1980s
Box 21 Folder 5
Syllabi for other people's courses on the city, 1970s-1980s
Box 21 Folder 8
Federal Govt. and Cities, Early 1980s
Box 21 Folder 9
Urban Politics: Poli Sci 210, 2001
Grades, notes, student papers, printed materials relating to Berman's course
Box 21 Folder 10
The Enlightenment: Poli Sci 274, 2001
Grades, notes, student papers, printed materials relating to Berman's course
Box 21 Folder 11
Poli Sci 702: Modern Political Theory, 1998
Grades, correspondence, student papers, syllabi, and printed materials
Box 21 Folder 12
"Modernity," CLAS 411, 1997-98
Grades, notes, printed materials relating to Berman's course, co-taught with Joshua Wilner
Box 21 Folder 13
The Irrational in Politics: CUNY, Fall 1997, 1997
Grades, notes, and printed materials relating to Berman's course
Box 21 Folder 14
Mass Media and Politics: Poli Sci 217, Spring 1997, 1997
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 21 Folder 15
Mass Media and Politics: Poli Sci 217, Fall 1993, 1993
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 21 Folder 16
Modernity and Postmodernism: Poli Sci 806.01, CUNY, Fall 1996, 1996
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 21 Folder 17
The Enlightenment: Poli Sci 274, Center for Worker Education, Spring 1997, 1997
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 21 Folder 18
Marxism, Poli Sci 276, Fall 1996-97, 1996-97
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 21 Folder 19
World Civilization: Spring 1996, 1996
Box 21 Folder 20
Utopian Thought: Center for Worker Education, Spring 1995, 1995
Box 21 Folder 21
Marxism, Poli Sci 276, Fall 1996, 1996
Student grades, course materials and readings
Box 21 Folder 22
Intro to Political Theory, Poli Sci 124, Fall 1996, 1996
Student grades, course materials and readings
Box 21 Folder 23
World Civilization: Spring 1996, 1996
Student papers, teaching materials, grades
Box 21 Folder 24
Poli Sci 275: Contemporary political theory, Spring 1996, 1996
Student papers, teaching materials, grades
Box 21 Folder 25
Poli Sci 229: Women in Politics, Fall 1995, 1995
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 21 Folder 26
Poli Sci 124: Fall 1995, 1995
Box 21 Folder 27
Political Science 210, "New York and Metropolitan Government": Spring 1995, 1995
Student papers, teaching materials, grades
Box 21 Folder 28
Modernism/Postmodernism, Poli Sci. 806.1, CUNY, Spring 1995, 1995
Student papers, teaching materials, course readings
Box 21 Folder 29
Mass Media and Politics: Poli Sci 217, Spring 1994, 1994
Student papers, teaching materials, course readings
Box 21 Folder 31
Intro. to Pol. Thought: Poli Sci. 124, Fall 1994, 1994
Course materials, readings
Box 21 Folder 32
Europe, 1789-1914, Liberal Studies (CUNY), Fall 1994, 1994
Course materials, readings, grades
Box 21 Folder 33
Rousseau: Poli. Sci. 806.02, Spring 1994, 1994
Course materials, readings, grades
Box 21 Folder 34
Marxism, Poli Sci 276, Fall 1994, 1994
Grades, student papers, clippings, readings
Box 21 Folder 35
Poli Sci. 275, Marx to the Present, Spring 1994, 1994
Student papers, teaching materials, course readings
Box 21 Folder 36
Poli Sci 274: The Enlightenment, Fall 1993, 1993
Grades, course materials, readings
Request Box 22
Box 22 Folder 1
Introduction to the City, Center for Worker Education, Spring 1993, 1993
Course materials, readings, notes
Box 22 Folder 2
20th Century Values, Liberal Studies (CUNY), Fall 1993, 1993
Course materials, readings, notes
Box 22 Folder 3
The Irrational in Politics: CUNY, Fall 1992, 1992
Student paper, course readings, grades
Box 22 Folder 4
Poli Sci. 276, Marxism: Spring 1993, 1993
Course materials, readings, notes
Box 22 Folder 5
World Civilization 102 : Spring 1993, 1993
Course materials, readings, notes
Box 22 Folder 6
World Civilization 102 : Fall 1992, 1992
Course materials, readings, student papers, grades
Box 22 Folder 7
Poli Sci. 275: Contemporary Political Thought, Fall 1992, 1992
Course materials, readings, grades
Box 22 Folder 8
Berlin and New York: Harvard School of Design, Spring 1992, 1992
Course materials, readings, grades
Box 22 Folder 10
Poli Sci. 275, Fall 1992, 1992
Box 22 Folder 11
World Civ., Fall 1992, 1992
Box 22 Folder 12
Political Thought, Center for Worker Education, Spring 1992, 1992
Course materials, readings, notes
Box 22 Folder 13
20th Century Political Thought, Spring 1991, 1991
Graduate seminar course materials and xeroxed readings
Box 22 Folder 14
Readings on Fascism from 20th Century Political Thought, Fall 1991, 1991
Graduate seminar course materials and xeroxed readings
Box 22 Folder 16
The City: New School Graduate Sociology Course, Spring 1991, 1991
Student papers, course materials and readings
Box 22 Folder 17
Core Social Science, Center for Worker Education, Spring 1991, 1991
Grades, course materials, printed materials, notes
Box 22 Folder 18
Social Problems, Center for Worker Education, Fall 1991, 1991
Box 22 Folder 19
Political Science 124: Introduction to Political Thought, CCNY, Spring 1991, 1991
Box 22 Folder 20
Poli Sci. 275, Spring 1991, 1991
Box 22 Folder 21
Poli Sci. 274, The Enlightenment, Fall 1991, 1991
Grades, course materials, student paper, printed readings
Box 22 Folder 22
Poli Sci. 274, The Enlightenment, Fall 1990, 1990
Grades, course materials, printed readings
Box 22 Folder 23
The City: Center For Worker Education 311, Fall 1990, 1990
Grades, course materials, printed readings
Box 22 Folder 24
The Irrational In Politics: Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud (Poli Sci. 806.1, Fall 1990), 1990
Grades, course materials, printed readings
Box 22 Folder 25
Poli Sci. 806.1: Modernism and Post-Modernism, Spring 1990, 1990
Grades, course materials, printed readings
Box 22 Folder 26
Poli Sci. 275: Contemporary Political Thought, Spring 1990, 1990
Student papers, course materials and readings
Box 22 Folder 27
Poli Sci. 124, Center for Worker Education, 1990
Grades, course materials, printed readings
Box 22 Folder 28
Democratic Theory: Fall, 1985, 1985
Readings, course materials for a graduate seminar
Box 22 Folder 29
Poli Sci. 279.2: Marxism and Socialism, 1984
Readings, course materials
Box 22 Folder 30
Poli Sci. 217: Mass Media and Politics, Spring 1984, 1984
Readings, course materials
Box 22 Folder 31
Capitalis and Anti-Capitalism, Spring 1983, 1983
Notes and course materials for a graduate seminar
Box 22 Folder 32
Radical Ideas and Movements, Graduate Center, Fall 1983, 1983
Readings, course materials
Box 22 Folder 34
The Culture of New York City: The New School, Spring 1988, 1988
Readings, course materials
Box 22 Folder 35
The City: An Introduction; Center for Worker Education, Spring 1987, 1987
Readings, course materials, grades
Box 22 Folder 36
Theories of the City, CUNY, Spring 1977, 1977
Readings, course materials
Box 22 Folder 37
Poli Sci. 124, Center for Worker Education, 1987
Grades, student paper, course materials
Box 22 Folder 38
Poli Sci. 274, Fall 1987, 1987
Grades, student paper, course materials
Box 22 Folder 39
Poli Sci. 276, Marxism, 1987
Grades, readings, course materials
Box 22 Folder 40
Poli Sci. 806.1: Irrational in Politics, 1987
Course materials, student papers, notes
Box 22 Folder 41
Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud: Fall 1986, 1986
Course materials, student papers, notes, readings
Box 22 Folder 42
Poli Sci. 274, Fall 1986, 1986
Course materials, readings
Box 22 Folder 43
Visions of the City: Center for Worker Education, Spring 1986, 1986
Course materials, readings
Box 22 Folder 44
Poli Sci. 279: Marxism, Spring 1985, 1985
Course materials, readings
Box 22 Folder 45
Poli Sci. 275: Spring 1986, 1986
Course materials, readings
Box 22 Folder 46
Radicalism, 1848-1917: Graduate Center, 1984, 1984
Box 22 Folder 47
Poli Sci. 806.1: Politics and Culture, Rousseau to Marx, 1988
Course materials, readings
Box 22 Folder 48
Poli Sci. 275: Spring 1988, 1988
Course materials, readings
Request Box 23
Box 23 Folder 1
CUNY Miscellany, 1982
Memorial service materials and press
Box 23 Folder 2
Labor College, Social Science Core, Fall 1982, 1982
Syllabi and course materials
Box 23 Folder 3
Reading Lists and Exams, 1969-1986
Reading lists, syllabi, exams, student papers
Box 23 Folder 4
Center for Worker Education Social Science 102, Spring 1983, 1983
Course materials, readings, and a report on the demographics of the students at the CUNY CWE
Box 23 Folder 5
Miscellany, undated
Copies of various readings
Box 23 Folder 6
Material on Community, undated
Copies of various readings
Box 23 Folder 7
Material on the Family, undated
Copies of various readings
Box 23 Folder 8
Center for Worker Education, Social Science: Outtakes, undated
Copies of various readings
Box 23 Folder 9
Material on Work, 1982-1983
Copies of various readings and correspondence pertaining to core course at the CWE
Box 23 Folder 10
Cities in 2000 Census, 2001
Box 23 Folder 11
Womin in the 1990s, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 12
Children, 1990-2001
Box 23 Folder 13
Culture Heroes: Allen Ginsburg, Woody Allen, Marx Bros., et al., 1997-2001
Box 23 Folder 14
Charles Schulz: Obituaries, Feb. 2000, 2000
Box 23 Folder 15
Families: 1990s, 1992-2001
Box 23 Folder 16
Mass Media, Early 1990s
Box 23 Folder 17
Globalization, 2001
Box 23 Folder 18
2003 Supreme Court: Gay Rights, Affirmative Action, Family Leave, etc., 2003
Box 23 Folder 19
Health, 2000s, 2000s
Box 23 Folder 20
Health, 1990s, 1988-2001
Box 23 Folder 21
Culture in the 1990s: Miscellany, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 22
NYC in the 1990s, Late 1980s, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 23
Work, ca. 2000, Late 1990s, early 2000s
Box 23 Folder 24
NYC Demography, 1990s, Early 1990s
Box 23 Folder 25
Labor and Employment, mid-1990s, Mid-1990s
Box 23 Folder 26
Labor Movement, 1996-2000
Box 23 Folder 27
Graffiti, 1984-1993
Box 23 Folder 28
Graffiti, 1990s, Early 1990s
Box 23 Folder 29
AIDS at 20 Years: Series in Newsday, 2001
Box 23 Folder 30
Homelessness, 1991
Box 23 Folder 31
Struggle for Decent Housing in NYC, 1989
Clippings: 6-part series in Newsday
Box 23 Folder 32
"Citizens of the Street", 1992
Printed materials, notes for talk on homelessness at Cooper Union
Box 23 Folder 33
Attacks on Welfare, 1996
Box 23 Folder 34
Suburbia, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 35
Hip-Hop, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 36
CCNY/CUNY, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 37
New Yorker covers and illustrations, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 38
Rap in the 1990s, 1990s
Box 23 Folder 39
Justice Brennan, 1997
Box 23 Folder 40
Labor and the Left, 1990s
Request Box 24
Box 24 Folder 1
Blacks in the '90s, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 2
10 Years of Koch, 1978-88, 1988
Box 24 Folder 3
New York after 9/11, 2001
Box 24 Folder 4
Urbanism in the 1990s, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 5
Cities, ca. 2000, 2000
Box 24 Folder 6
South Bronx, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 7
Lower East Side, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 8
Jeffries Scandal, 1990s
Clippings relating to Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Professor of black studies at CCNY, who was fired after making anti-Semitic remarks. Documents cover the legal battle that ensued. Includes a three-page letter from Berman to Newsday columnist Murray Kempton, attesting to Jeffries' anti-Semitism, and a copy of the article in which Kempton quotes from Berman's letter.
Box 24 Folder 9
CCNY/CUNY, 1990s
Clippings about CCNY, the CUNY system, and the Jeffries case. Includes a copy of Berman's proposal for a conference, "Race and Racism, Yours, Mine, and Ours: Proposal for Event to be Held at CCNY, Spring, 1991." Conference was indeed held, with Jeffries participating.
Box 24 Folder 10
CCNY Materials, 1990s, 2000s
Includes materials relating to conferences held at CCNY, Berman's work on the Advisory Committee of the Frances S. Patai Fund on the Nazi Holocaust, a proposal for an interdisciplinary program in the history of ideas. Also includes Berman's CV, a student essay with Berman's comments, a CCNY political science student handbook, and an index of citations of Berman's work.
Box 24 Folder 11
Trouble, 2005
Sexual harassment allegation: correspondence (including Morris Dickstein) and notes. Includes decorated folder
Box 24 Folder 12
Public Art, 1980s
Box 24 Folder 13
Psychology, 1992-2000
Box 24 Folder 14
New York Waterftont, 1990s
Clippings, invitation from the Municipal Art Society to participate in a panel on urban planning and the NYC waterfront
Box 24 Folder 15
Architecture in the 1990s, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 16
USA Demography and Economy, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 17
Casitas, Early 1990s
Box 24 Folder 18
Real Estate, Early 1990s
Box 24 Folder 19
Kempton, et al., 1990s
Clippings: various NYC columnists
Box 24 Folder 20
Wall Street Bust, Late 1980s, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 21
Xenophobia Around the World, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 22
1st Amendment, Early 1990s
Box 24 Folder 23
AIDS, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 24
Athens, undated
Printed articles on Athenian democracy
Box 24 Folder 25
Urbanism, undated
Assorted clippings, printed materials, syllabi
Box 24 Folder 26
Paris and the French Revolution Bicentennial, 1989
Box 24 Folder 27
Cities in the 1990s, 1990s
Box 24 Folder 28
Trickster material, ca. 1974, 1974
Notes, unpublished material
Box 24 Folder 29
Loewith, 1960s
Notes on Karl Löwith, from Hegel to Nietzsche
Box 24 Folder 30
Cambridge Be-In, 1967
Materials relating to Berman's involvement in planning a "Be-In" in Cambridge, MA. Includes notes, press coverage, a letter to the editors of theCrimson co-written by Berman, and correspondence with government officials regarding the event.
Box 24 Folder 31
Reviews of Politics of Authenticity , Early 1970s
Reviews and correspondence
Box 24 Folder 32
Articles on Loewith for Partisan Review , 1966
Drafts and edited version of Berman's review of Löwith,From Hegel to Nietzsche ; includes correspondence with William Phillips, editor ofPR
Box 24 Folder 33
"Rousseau and Contemporary Theories of Radical Democracy," Canadian Political Science Association Convention, 1971
Notes, drafts, and final version of Berman's conference paper
Box 24 Folder 34
Modernity/Postmodernity, CUNY Grad Center, 2001
Printed copies of readings, grades, student coursework
Box 24 Folder 35
Modernity/Postmodernity, CUNY, Fall 2001, 2001
Box 24 Folder 36
Poli Sci. 864: The Irrational in Politics, CUNY, Fall 2002, 2002
Printed copies of readings, student coursework, syllabus
Box 24 Folder 37
Poli Sci. 124, Fall 2002, 2002
Syllabi, readings, and other course materials
Box 24 Folder 38
Poli Sci. 864: The Irrational in Politics, CUNY, Fall 2004, 2004
Syllabi, readings, and other course materials
Box 24
Audio Cassette: "Sports for the People" and "New Rican Village", 1990s
Request Box 25
Box 25 Folder 1
Modernism and Postmodernism: Poli Sci. 803.02, CUNY, Spring 2004, 2004
Readings, course materials, student papers
Box 25 Folder 2
Poli Sci. 803.02: Marxism, Spring 2003, 2003
Readings, course materials
Box 25 Folder 3
Poli Sci. 275: Fall 2004, 2004
Readings, course materials, syllabus, student papers
Box 25 Folder 4
CUNY Fall 2005 Materials, 2005
Student papers, printed materials, other course materials
Box 25 Folder 5
The Enlightenment: Spring 2005, CUNY, 2005
Course materials, student papers, notes, readings
Box 25 Folder 6
Poli Sci. 275: 20th Century, Spring 2006, 2006
Course materials, student papers, notes, readings
Box 25 Folder 7
Arch. 62004, City and Self, Spring 2006, 2006
Course materials, student papers, notes; includes photographs of Berman in the classroom
Box 25 Folder 8
Assorted student papers, CUNY and Harvard, 1990-95
Box 25 Folder 9
Assorted student papers, 1990s
Box 25
David M. Smith Dissertation, 1996
Dissertation with Berman's comments
Box 25
Alan Hershkowitz Dissertation, 1986
Dissertation with Berman's comments
Box 25
Luc Nadal Dissertation, 2000
Dissertation with Berman's comments
Request Box 26
Box 26 Folder 1
Notes on 2/20/82 Dissertation, 1982
Box 26 Folder 2
Course Syllabi, 1970s, 1980
Syllabus for a course on Women's Studies at CCNY; draft and correspondence relating to a course on the American City
Box 26 Folder 3
Urbicide/Ruins, 1985-1994
Clippings, copy of Berman's talk "Falling Towers: City Life After Urbicide," delivered at MIT in 1990
Box 26 Folder 4
Clippings: Turkey, Orhan Pamuk, Islam, 2007-2008
Box 26 Folder 5
Course Readings, undated
Printed copies of reading selections. No course title or number listed. Includes annotations
Box 26 Folder 6
Various Publications: Cities and Urban Space, 1981-2004
Includes conference papers, journals, printed images, and photocopies of articles
Box 26 Folder 7
Clippings of Berman's book reviews and interviews, 1989-2000, 1989-2000
Interview with Berman in The Age, 8/26/2000, and copy of Berman's review essay, "Eternal City: Two Thousand Years of Street Smarts," in the Voice Literary Supplement, November 1989
Box 26 Folder 8
Ric Burns NYC Documentary Script, 1990s
Script for Ric Burns television documentary on the history of New York City. Includes a packet with the transcripts of two full interviews conducted with Berman in early 1996
Box 26
Course Syllabus, 1980
"Immigrants and Elites: The Social History of New York City," taught by Prof. Jim Watts
Box 26
"The American City," WNET/Channel Thirteen, 1981
Project overview of WNET/Channel Thirteen program on the history of the American city; includes correspondence between network staff and Berman
Box 26
American Review 19, January 1974, 1974
Includes Berman's essay, "Sympathy for the Devil: Faust, the '60s and the Tragedy of Development"
Box 26
Designer and Builder, Jan./Feb. 2002, 2002
Includes Berman's essay, "When Bad Buildings Happen to Good People, or Missing in Action: Death and Life in New York"
Box 26
Lingua Franca, November 2001, 2001
Includes Berman's essay, "Missing in Action: Death and Life in New York"
Box 26
Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design, Vol. 7, No. 4, 1988
Includes Berman's essay, "Architecture as a Universal Language"
Box 26
The New York Times Magazine, May, 15, 2005: The Architecture Issue, 2005
Includes an article that heavily cites Berman's All That is Solid, pp. 23-24
Box 26
Harvard Design Magazine, Winter/Spring 1998, 1998
Includes Berman's essay, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,: On the Synthesis of Times Square"
Request Box 27
Box 27
Annotated Books, 1958-2002
Includes: Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being; Spinoza's Ethics; The Marx-Engels Reader; a signed copy of Perry Anderson, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Lasting Peace; Marx's Early Writings; Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Ed., 2002); Marx and Engels, The Holy Family (inscribed, London 1962); a French volume of Rousseau (inscribed, Paris 1969); Descartes Selections; Rousseau's Complete Works, Vol. III (French; inscribed 1966); Rousseau, The Social Contract and the Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality; Erich Fromm, Marx's Concept of Man; Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (1966); Marx, Capital Vol. 1 (inscribed 1-1960); Jerrold Seigel, Marx's Fate; Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment; Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society (inscribed 1968); Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (inscribed, London, Nov. 1962); Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium (inscribed, Oxford, June 1963); Lucien Goldmann, Le Dieu Caché (in French; inscribed, Oxford, October 1962); Mira Morgenstern, Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (inscribed 1958)
Request Box 28
Box 28
Annotated Books, 1958-1980
Rousseau's Political Writings, ed. Frederick Watkins; Ronald Grimsley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Study in Self-Awareness (inscribed, Nov. 1966); Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Genesis (inscribed, Toronto, March 1964); Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (incscribed 1967, and includes pages of handwritten notes); Hobbes, The Citizen (inscribed 1958); Rousseau, Letter to d'Alembert on the Theatre; Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation; Vol. II: The Science of Freedom (inscribed 1969); Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism (inscribed 1966); The Portable Machiavelli; Hobbes, Leviathan; Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment; Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd (inscribed, New York, April 1964, and includes clipping of Susan Sontag, "On Paul Goodman," in 9/21/72 New York Review of Books); Ernst Cassirer, Rousseau, Kant, and Goethe (inscribed, Oxford, May 1963); G.A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence (includes a personal note from the author, 1980, and a clipping of an review of Cohen's book in May 1987 Saturday Night); Herodotus, The Persian Wars; Alfred Cobban, In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History (inscribed, New York, Sept. 1964); Locke's Second Treatise of Government; John Locke on Education, ed. Peter Gay; John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (inscribed Harvard, Feb. 1964); G.P. Gooch, English Democratic Ideas in the 17th Century; C.B. MacPherson, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (inscribed 1964); Michael Walzer, The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics; Hobbes' Leviathan, ed. Michael Oakeshott (inscribed, 1959); Sir Thomas More, Utopia (3 versions); Political Theory, Vol. 4, No. 1, Feb. 1976 (includes printed copies of other scholarly articles about Marxism and Communism, 1964-1979)
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Box 29 Folder 1
Edmund Wilson, Sade, 1965
Clipping of an Edmund Wilson essay on the Marquis de Sade in the Sept. 18, 1965 New Yorker
Box 29 Folder 2
Articles on Rousseau, Early Modern Political Thought, undated
Copies of scholarly articles, printed copies of selections from various texts
Box 29 Folder 3
Jean Starobinski, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparence et L'Obstacle", undated
Printed copy of Starobinski's writings on Rousseau, in French
Box 29 Folder 4
Jean Starobinski, section of "L'oeil Vivant", 1961
Printed copy of Starobinski's writings on Rousseau, in French
Box 29
Annotated Books, 1959-1966
Hegel, The Phenomenology of Mind (inscribed 1959); The Young Hegelians: An Anthology; The Philosophy of Hegel (inscribed, Oriel College, Oxford); The Marquis de Sade, Three Complete Novels: Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, Eugénie de Franval and other writings (inscribed 1966); Hegel, Early Theological Writings; Hegel's Philosophy of Right (inscribed 1960); Fichte, The Vocation of Man (inscribed 1959, includes pages of handwritten notes); Friedrich von Schiller, Naive and Sentimental Poetry, and On the Sublime; Herbert Marcuse, Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory; Diderot, Oeuvres Politiques (in French; inscribed 1966); Diderot, Oeuvres Philosophiques (in French, inscribed 1966); Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and his Master; The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf; Nonsense upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke, and Marx on the Rights of Man, ed. Jeremy Waldron; David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (inscribed 1960); David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (inscribed with Berman's Bronx address); The Political Thought of the German Romantics (inscribed, Oxford, May 1962); Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man (inscribed, Feb. 1964); Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (inscribed, Harvard, June 1964); Kant, Selections; Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (inscribed, Oxford, June 1962); Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics; Kant, The Metaphysical Principles of Virtue (inscribed, Harvard, April 1964)
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Box 30
Annotated Books
Hegel, The Philosophy of History; George Rudé, The Crowd in the French Revolution; Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (inscribed New York, January 1964); Montesquieu, Lettres Persanes (in French); Hegel, Reason in History; Franz Nauen, Revolution, Idealism and Human Freedom; Peter Gay, Voltaire's Politics (inscribed 1959); Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (includes a copy of Albert Memmi's review essay of books about Fanon in the 3/4/1971 NY Times Book Review); René Fueloep-Miller, The Mind and Face of Bolshevism; Isaiah Berlin, Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (includes notes on Berlin's lectures on Herder, at Oxford; and includes an essay by Berlin on Herder in the July 1965 issue of Encounter); Karl Löwith, From Hegel to Nietzsche (inscribed 1965); Franco Venturi, Roots of Revolution; Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker; Plato's Republic; Ernst Cassirer, The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (inscribed New York, March 1964); C. Wright Mills, Power, Politics, and People; Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France and Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man; Rousseau, Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (in French; inscribed, Montreal, Dec. 1965); Rousseau, Oeuvres Complètes vol. 1 (in French, inscribed 1966); Rousseau, Ouvres Complètes, vol. 2 (in French, inscribed 1966); Rousseau, Ouvres Complètes, vol. 4 (in French, inscribed Paris 1969)
Box 30
Assorted articles on Hegel, late 1970s, 1974-1980
Printed copies of articles and conference papers by Peter Stillman and Young Kun Kim
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Box 31
Annotated Books, 1950s-1971
Erving Goffman, Relations in Public (inscribed 1971); Hebrew prayer book (includes children's scribbles on the inner cover); Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance; Erving Goffman, Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction; Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations; Rousseau's Confessions (inscribed 1958); Rousseau, Émile; R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience; R.D. Laing, Self and Others (inscribed 1969); Laing, The Divided Self (includes handwritten notes); Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society; Erik Erikson, Young Man Luther (inscribed 1965); Erik Erikson, Identity: Youth and Crisis (inscribed 1992, includes a clipping); Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic; R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience & The Bird of Paradise; R.D. Laing and A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness, and the Family; Bruno Bettelheim, Symbolic Wounds; Identity and Anxiety: Survival of the Person in Mass Society, ed. Stein et al.; Erving Goffman, Asylums (inscribed Harvard, Feb. 1964); Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual (inscribed 1967); Irving Howe, Politics and the Novel (inscribed 1960); The Writings of Anna Freud (inscribed 1968); Erich Fromm, The Fear of Freedom; Wilhelm Reich, Selected Writings (inscribed "return to Marshall Berman c/o Columbia Spectator Supplement); Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism; Erving Goffman, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life (inscribed 1960, includes clipping of Berman's review of Goffmans' Relations in Public in the 2/27/1972 NY Times Book Review); various Hebrew School texts and workbooks
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Box 32 Folder 1
Selective Service, 1958-1961
Correspondence regarding Berman's registration with the Selective Service
Box 32 Folder 2
Public Space: Talk, Article, 1985
Includes notes, several drafts, edits of a talk, scraps, for "Take It to the Streets," a lecture that became an article in Dissent. Also includes comments from Michael Walzer. Also includes a lecture, "The Fall and Rise of Public Space: A Post-Capitalist Prospect," by Michael Rustin.
Box 32 Folder 3
Book Project and Grant Proposals, 1970s-1980s
Notebooks for project on NYC, with notes and clippings; 1979 Summer Seminar Proposal: Modernity and Anti-Modernity
Box 32
Partisan Review, Fall 1964, 1964
Includes Berman's review of Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
Box 32
El Uruguay: De La integración en el Territorio a 40 Años de la Ley Nacional de Vivienda, 2008
Includes material on Berman: an interview and reproductions of articles in Spanish
Box 32
The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?, 2007
Inlcudes Berman's essay, "Guys, Dolls, and Deals: Old and New Times Square"
Box 32
Turkish translation of Politics of Authenticity, 2009
Box 32
Polish translation of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, 2002
Box 32
Spanish translation of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, 2011
Box 32
Bound copy of Berman's dissertation, The Politics of Authenticity, 1968
Harvard University, Dept. of Government
Box 32
"Marx on Individuality and Freedom", 1963
Bound copy of Berman's B. Lit. Thesis, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Box 32
Ties, undated
Draft of an unfinished novel
Box 32
All That Is Solid: Advance uncorrected proofs, 1981
Box 32
All That Is Solid manuscript, 1977
Manuscript of Berman's book, including notes and correspondence with editors.
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Box 33 Folder 1
Letter from Lionel Trilling, 1969
Congratulation and praise for Berman's book, Politics of Authenticity
Box 33 Folder 2
Assorted Correspondence, 1967-1979
Correspondents include Susan Sontag, Sheldon Wolin, Morris Dickstein, Lionel Trilling, Jean Starobinski, and Christopher Lasch. Correspondence includes an exchange regarding Berman's participation on a panel in honor of Herbert Marcuse at the University of Maryland, 1979. The letter from Trilling is the same as is found in folder 4.
Box 33 Folder 3
Assorted Correspondence, 1968-80
Correspondents include Isaac Deutscher, Todd Gitlin, Daniel Bell, Jerry Cohen, Michael Rosen, Adam Hochschild, Irving Howe, and Isaiah Berlin.
Box 33 Folder 4
Assorted Correspondence, 1964-1979
Correspondents include Isaiah Berlin, Bertell Ollman, Meyer Schapiro, William Phillips, Jerry Cohen, Fritz Stern, Lionel Trilling, Daniel Bell, Steven Marcus, and Irving Howe.
Box 33 Folder 5
Letters: Harvard, 1963, 1963
Box 33 Folder 6
Letters: Harvard, 1964, 1964
Correspondents include William Phillips, James Joll, Daniel Bell, and Jerry Cohen
Box 33 Folder 7
Letters: Harvard, 1965, 1965
Correspondents include Bertell Ollman, Gerald Izenberg
Box 33 Folder 8
Letters: Harvard, 1966, 1966
Correspondents include Bertell Ollman, Gerald Izenberg
Box 33 Folder 9
Letters: Harvard, 1967
Box 33 Folder 10
Morris Dickstein Correspondence at Harvard, 1963-1966
Box 33 Folder 11
Correspondence: 1967-70, 1967-70
Correspondents include Bertell Ollman
Box 33 Folder 12
Correspondence: 1971, 1971
Correspondents include C.B. Macpherson, Benjamin Barber,
Box 33 Folder 13
Correspondence: 1972, 1972
Box 33 Folder 14
Correspondence: 1973, 1973
Correspondents include Michael Wallace, Peter Steinfels
Box 33 Folder 15
Correspondence: 1974, 1974
Box 33 Folder 16
Correspondence: 1975, 1975
Box 33 Folder 17
Correspondence: 1976, 1976
Correspondents include J.G.A. Pocock
Box 33 Folder 18
Correspondence: 1977, 1977
Box 33 Folder 19
Correspondence: 1978, 1978
Box 33 Folder 20
Correspondence: 1979, 1979
Correspondents include Michael Curtis
Box 33 Folder 21
Correspondence: 1980, 1980
Correspondents include Sheldon Wolin, Alice Kessler, Thomas Bender
Box 33 Folder 22
Undated Correspondence, undated
Box 33
Personal Correspondence and private notes, 1956-1964
Letters to girlfriends, family, and friends, including private notes and poems
Box 33
Assorted Correspondence, 1972-2000
Includes Irving Howe, Morris Dickstein, and G.A. Cohen
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Box 34 Folder 1
Articles on Postmodernism
Box 34 Folder 2
Collected essays about and by Isaiah Berlin
Box 34 Folder 3
Articles on Weimar and Nazi Germany
Box 34 Folder 4
Printed Matter: Socialism and the American Left
Box 34 Folder 5
Political Theory: various papers, articles
Box 34 Folder 6
Assorted articles on the French Revolution
Box 34 Folder 7
Essays on Nicos Poulantzas
Box 34 Folder 8
Articles on Post-Communist Europe
Box 34 Folder 9
Articles on Post-Communist Europe
Box 34 Folder 10
Articles on Post-Communist Europe
Box 34 Folder 11
Articles on the Russian Revolution
Box 34 Folder 12
Printed Matter: the Russian Revolution
Box 34 Folder 13
Marxism and Socialism
Box 34 Folder 14
Berman and Agnes Heller conversation transcript
Box 34
Collected essays, articles, and manuscripts on Marx, the internet, the Vietnam War, and 19th century Russian culture
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Box 35 Folder 1
Foreign Press Coverage of Berman, 1990s-2000s
Includes Swedish, Brazilian, Argentinian, Italian newspapers and journals
Box 35 Folder 2
Social Justice and Fin-de-siècle Urbanism: Oxford, March 1994, 1994
Correspondence with Andy Merrifield regarding a conference
Box 35 Folder 3
Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud: The Irrational in Politics, undated
Course syllabus, copies of readings
Box 35 Folder 4
Modernism/Postmodernism Talks, 1990, 1990
Conference remarks at American Political Science Assn., Socialist Scholars' Conference, and Architectural Design conference
Box 35 Folder 5
"Why Modernism Still Matters", 1989
Different versions, with edits
Box 35 Folder 6
Lecture by G.A. Cohen, 1991
Lecture entitled "Incentives and Community," with Berman's comments
Box 35 Folder 7
"A Little Child Shall Lead Them: The Jewish Family Romance from Samuel to Call It Sleep", 1994
Includes other assorted essays and materials.
[folder returned to donor, 9/30/2022. kws]
Box 35 Folder 8
Justice/Just Us: Oxford, 1994, 1994
Copy of Berman's address with additional, related materials
Box 35 Folder 9
Letters of condolence following the death of Berman's son, 1981
Corespondents include Judith Shklar, Isaiah Berlin, Lillian Hellman, Eric Foner, G.A. Cohen, and Adam Hochschild
Box 35 Folder 10
Materials for City Course
Printed copies of readings by various authors
Box 35 Folder 11
Email Correspondence, 2000s
Correspondents include Morris Dickstein, G.A. Cohen, Paul Buhle, Todd Gitlin, Mike Wallace, and Michael Walzer
Box 35 Folder 12
Article on Lower East Side for Mosaic magazine, 1966
Review of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum
Box 35 Folder 13
"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities": On American Judaism, 1977
Essay by Berman in Interchange magazine
Box 35 Folder 14
Correspondence with Ketaki Kushari Dyson, 1967-1979
Box 35 Folder 15
Personal crrespondence, 1966-74
Box 35 Folder 16
Personal crrespondence, 1963-64
Box 35 Folder 17
Personal crrespondence, undated
Box 35 Folder 18
Personal correspondence, 1961-62
Box 35 Folder 19
Personal correspondence, 1958-60
Box 35 Folder 20
Personal correspondence, 1957
Box 35 Folder 21
Email correspondence, 2008-2013
Correspondents include Sharon Zukin, G.A. Cohen
Box 35 Folder 22
Email correspondence, 2004-2013
Box 35 Folder 23
Letters, 2000-2007
Correspondents include Perry Anderson
Box 35 Folder 24
Letters, 1999-2012
Correspondents include Morris Dickstein
Box 35 Folder 25
Letters, 1998-2012
Correspondents include Bertell Ollman
Box 35 Folder 26
Letters, 1998-2006
Box 35 Folder 27
Letters, 1988-2001
Correspondents include Paul Berman
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Box 36
Books
Schiller, Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays; Lukács, The Meaning of Contemporary Realism; Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity; The Philosophy of J.S. Mill; Montesquieu, Selected Political Writings; Lukács, History and Class Consciousness; Eric Weil, Hegel et L'état; Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses (2 different editions); Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil; Machiavelli, The Prince and the Discourses; Tocqueville, Democracy in America; Kierkegaard, Either/Or; Autobiography of J.S. Mill; Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution; Sorel, Reflections on Violence; Marcuse, Eros and Civilization; Locke, Two Treatises on Government; Portable Nietzsche
Box 36
Books
Isaiah Berlin, Historical Inevitability; Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty; Peter Laslett and W.G. Runciman, Philosophy, Politics, and Society; Robert Paul Wolff, ed., Political Man and Social Man; The Works of Charles Dickens; Kafka, The Castle; J.D. Mabbott, The State and the Citizen; Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man; Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle; Carl J. Friedrich, The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective
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Box 37 Folder 1
Collected Articles by Berman, 1961-1997
Book reviews, articles, essays. [Issue of Mosaic Fall 1966, which contains "Life on the Lower East Side...', returned to donor. 9/30/2022. kws]
Box 37 Folder 2
Jacob Taubes' Bible Course, Columbia, 1959
Box 37 Folder 3
"Living for the City" Book Proposal, 1970s, 1970s
Box 37 Folder 4
1967 CCNY Course, Poli. Sci. 73, 1967
Texts and printed materials for a course on classical political thought
Box 37 Folder 5
Articles by Berman, 2003-2007
[Time Out NY, 2/2/2006 and Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer 2005 returned to donor, 9/30/2022. kws]
Box 37 Folder 6
Harvard Govt. Course on the Constitution, 1964-65
Box 37 Folder 7
Reviews of Berman's work, 1980s-2000s
Box 37 Folder 8
NEH Application for seminar on NYC, 1985
Box 37 Folder 9
"Metamorphoses of Times Square", 1997
Revised paper given in Sydney, AU
Box 37 Folder 10
Photocopies of covers to All That Is Solid in various languages, 1980s-2000s
For French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and English editions
Box 37 Folder 11
Collected correspondence and papers, 1976-2013
Includes letter from a Pittsburgh construction worker on All That Is Solid
Box 37 Folder 12
German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, 1965
Lecture and reading notes, Harvard
Box 37 Folder 13
Wholism: Goethe to Marx, 1960s
Reading and lecture notes, Harvard
Box 37 Folder 14
Rousseau Notes, 1960s
Reading notes, possibly related to Politics of Authenticity project
Box 37 Folder 15
French Liberals: Tocqueville, Guizot, 1960s
Reading notes, possibly related to Politics of Authenticity project
Box 37 Folder 16
Bentham, Mill, and Green, 1964
Reading and lecture notes, Harvard
Box 37 Folder 17
19th and 20th Century Intellectual History, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 18
Diderot, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 19
Diderot: articles, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 20
Rousseau and Mao: an essay by Hideo Otake, 1972
Graduate student paper sent to Berman in response to Politics of Authenticity, with introductory note
Box 37 Folder 21
Romanticism, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 22
Michael Walzer on Burke and French Revolution, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 23
Notes on Books and Articles for Thesis, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 24
Enlightenment, 1964
Course notes for a seminar taught by Judith Shklar, Harvard
Box 37 Folder 25
Montesquieu, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 26
Hegel and Marx, 1960s
Notes. Includes an undergraduate paper by Berman.
Box 37 Folder 27
Marx, 1960-1963
Three essays on Marx: 1961, Columbia, for Prof. Jacob Taubes; 1963, Harvard for Barrington Moore; 1960, Columbia for Rudolf Binion. Includes markings, edits, and comments from professors.
Box 37 Folder 28
Marx, 1960s
Published articles on Marx, including one by G.A. Cohen
Box 37 Folder 29
Romanticism: articles, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 30
Marx, 1960
Written work for Prof. Fritz Stern's history course, Columbia
Box 37 Folder 31
Rousseau Notes, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 32
Notes for Conclusion: Politics of Authenticity, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 33
Politics of Authenticity: Comments and Notes for Revision, 1960s
Includes comments and criticisms of draft from Michael Walzer, Maurice Goldsmith
Box 37 Folder 34
Romanticism essays, 1960-1964
Three of Berman's student essays on Romaticism, including one on "Wholism" in German Romantic Thought, for Prof. Rodman, Harvard, 1964; on Lessing, for Prof. Peter Gay, Columbia, 1960; and on Coleridge, for Profs. Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, Columbia, 1961. Also include a draft: "The Truth, the Self, and the World: Some Problems of Romanticism," written 1960 and expanded 1962.
Box 37 Folder 35
17th Century Radicals: Hobbes and Locke, 1964
Course and reading notes, Harvard
Box 37 Folder 36
Rousseau and the 18th Century: Articles, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 37
Reformation, 1960s
Reading and lecture notes
Box 37 Folder 38
Marx: Reading Notes, 1960s
Box 37 Folder 39
Machiavelli, Bodin, the Renaissance, 1960s
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Box 38 Folder 1
Curitiba, Brazil, 1995
A book of photographs of the city of Curitiba, with a letter and a clipping about Berman from a Brazilian newspaper. Also includes photographs of Berman in Curitiba
Box 38 Folder 2
Curitiba, Brazil, 1995
Materials relating to Berman's visit to Curitiba: clippings, printed materials, handwritten draft of a lecture entitled "The 24-Hour Street", correspondence, journal
Box 38 Folder 3
Brazil, 1986-87
Articles about and by Berman in Brazil (Portuguese)
Box 38 Folder 4
Articles about Berman, Brazil, Early 1990s
Box 38 Folder 5
Brazil trip, 1993
Correspondence, travel documents, and printed matter pertaining to Berman's trip to Brazil
Box 38 Folder 6
"Hitting the Streets", 1992
Article in the L.A. Times
Box 38 Folder 7
Miscellaneous Correspondence, printed matter, and photographs of Berman, 1990s
Includes correspondence with Bernard Yack, Michael Taussig. Includes photographs of Berman in New York City
Box 38 Folder 8
Articles in The Nation, 1996-1999
Includes two articles by Berman (on Walter Benjamin and Alfred Kazin) and one review of Adventures in Marxism, by Andy Merrifield
Box 38
Books
Euripides III, Four Tragedies; Walter Benjamin, Illuminations; Hans Gerth and C. Wright Mills, eds., From Max Weber; Frank Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World; Plato, The Last Days of Socrates; Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed; Dostoevsky, Noted From Underground and The Grand Inquisitor; Goethe's Faust; The Portable Nietzsche; James Joyce, Ulysses (2 editions); Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England; Curitiba (book of photographs, in Portuguese)
