Publications

Books

  1. Peter Baehr (forthcoming 2015). Founders, Classics, Canons: Modern Disputes over the Origins and Appraisal of Sociology's Heritage. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction. 2nd, paperback edition with a Preface by Steven Lukes. 
  2. Peter Baehr (2010). Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 248. Author. 
  3. Peter Baehr (2008). Caesarism, Charisma and Fate. New Brunswick, N.J. Transaction, pp. 243. 
  4. Peter Baehr (1998). Caesar and The Fading of the Roman World: A Study in Republicanism and Caesarism. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction, pp.359. A Choice "Outstanding Book of 1998".

Edited Books

  1. Peter Baehr (forthcoming 2015). The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt. Editor and contributor. London/New York: Anthem. 
  2. Peter Baehr (2005). Eichmann and the Holocaust. (A truncated version of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem that first appeared in Peter Baehr [ed.] The Portable Hannah Arendt.) New York: Penguin, pp. 130. 
  3. Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter (2004). Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism. Co-editor and contributor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 308.
  4. Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells. (2002). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings (Co-editor/translator), New York: Penguin, pp. 392. Nominated for the Wolff (Translation) Prize, 2003.
  5. Peter Baehr (2000). The Portable Hannah Arendt. Editor. New York: Penguin,2nd ed. 2003, pp. 576 + lxii.
  6. Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells.(1995). Max Weber: The Russian Revolutions. Co-editor/translator. Cornell University Press, pp.287.

Journal Special Issues

  1. Peter Baehr (2014). A Conservative in Academe: Robert Nisbet and American Sociology. Special issue of The American Sociologist. Guest Editor and Contributor. 45:1.
  2. Peter Baehr (2011). Journal of Classical Sociology. Special Issue on the Thought and Legacy of Raymond Aron. Guest Editor and contributor. 11:2. 
  3. Peter Baehr (2005). Journal of Classical Sociology. Special Issue on the Centenary of Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic”. Guest Editor. 5:1. 
  4. Peter Baehr (2001). Citizenship Studies. Special Issue on Citizenship and Democracy in Hong Kong 5:2. Editor and Contributor, pp.131.
  5. Peter Baehr and Mike O'Brien. (1994). Current Sociology. Special Issue on Canons 42:1. pp.126. 

Book chapters

  1. Peter Baehr (forthcoming, 2015a). Movement, Formation, Maintenance: Totalitarian Variations. In otalitarian Societies and Democratic Transition (ed. Tomasso Piffer). Budapest/New York: Central European University Press.
  2. Peter Baehr (forthcoming, 2015b). Entries on “Community of Fate,” “Debunking,” “Grey Zone,” “Phobic Social Language,” and “Social Closure” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition (ed. George Ritzer). Oxford: Wiley.
  3. Peter Baehr (forthcoming, 2015c). British Sociology and Raymond Aron. In Sociological Amnesia: Cross Currents in Disciplinary History (eds. Alexander Law and Eric Royal Lybeck). London: Ashgate. R
  4. Peter Baehr (forthcoming, 2014). What Use are Europe’s Heritages in Looking to the Future? In HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College.
  5. Peter Baehr (2011). L’ideologia totalitaria: interpretazioni a confronto. In Società totalitarie e transizione all demcrozia (eds. Tomasso Piffer and Vladislav Zubok.) Bologna: Il Mulino, 73-105.
  6. Peter Baehr (2008). City under Siege. In Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City (eds. Harris Ali and Roger Keil). Oxford: Blackwell, 138-151.
  7. Peter Baehr (2006). Randall Collins. In John Scott (editor), Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists. London: Routledge, 84-90.
  8. Peter Baehr (2004). Max Weber and the Avatars of Caesarism. In Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism (Co-editor [with Melvin Richter] and contributor), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 155-174. R
  9. Peter Baehr (2002a). Entries on a) “Asian Values” and b) “Classics of Sociology” In William Outhwaite (ed.) Dictionary of Modern Social Thought. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  10. Peter Baehr (2002b). Freedom, Politics, and Social Science: Hannah Arendt in America. In David Kettler (ed.), Contested Legacies: The German-Speaking Intellectual and Cultural Emigration to the United States and United Kingdom, 1933-1945, Annandale-on-Hudson: Bard College,4-7.
  11. Peter Baehr (2001). The Grammar of Prudence. In Steven Aschheim (ed.), Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem (Berkeley: University of California Press, 306-324, (endnotes on 407-416). Translated into Hebrew in 2008 under the auspices of the Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem. R
  12. Peter Baehr and Richard Bellamy (2000). Carl Schmitt and the Contradictions of Liberal Democracy. Rethinking Liberalism. London: Pinter, 67-90.
  13. Peter Baehr (1999). “What Should Universities Do?” in Macau and its Neighbours Towards the 21st Century, edited by D.Y. Yuan. Macau: Macau University Press, 245-250.
  14. Peter Baehr (1993).Entries on: a) Bonapartism, b) Caesarism, c) Charisma, and d) Dictatorship in William Outhwaite and Tom Bottomore (eds.) Dictionary of Twentieth Century Social Thought, Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
  15. Peter Baehr (1988). Max Weber as a Critic of Bismarck. European Journal of Sociology, 29 (1), 149-164. (Reprinted in P. Hamilton (ed.) Max Weber: Critical Assessments, Vol. I, Routledge: 1991) R

Journal Articles

  1. Peter Baehr. (2014a). Totalitarianism in America? Robert Nisbet on the ‘Wilson War State’ and Beyond. The American Sociologist,45 (1), 84-102. R
  2. Peter Baehr. (2014b). The Informers: Hannah Arendt’s Appraisal of Whittaker Chambers and the Ex-Communists. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 1 (1), in press. R
  3. Peter Baehr. (2013a). The Honored Outsider: Raymond Aron as Sociologist. Sociological Theory, 31 (2), 93-115. R
  4. Peter Baehr. (2013b). The Undoing of Humanism: Peter L. Berger's Sociology of Unmasking. Society, 50 (4), 379-390.
  5. Peter Baehr and Daniel Gordon. (2013c). From the Headscarf to the Burqa: The Role of Social Theorists in Shaping Laws Against the Veil. Economy and Society, 42 (2), 249 - 280. R
  6. Peter Baehr. (2013d). The Problem of Unmasking in Ideology and Utopia. Sociologica: Italian Journal of Sociology On-Line,1,1-32. R
  7. Peter Baehr and Daniel Gordon. (2013e). From Secularism to Reciprocity: Banning the Veil in France and Beyond. E-International Relations, , September 16. 
  8. Peter Baehr and Daniel Gordon. (2012a). Unmasking and Disclosure: Contrasting Modes for Understanding Religious and Other Beliefs. Journal of Sociology, 48 (4), 380-396. R
  9. Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells. (2012b). Debating Totalitarianism: An Exchange of Letters between Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin. History and Theory 51 (3), 364-380. R
  10. Peter Baehr and Daniel Gordon. (2012c). On the Edge of Solidarity: The Burqa and Public Life. Society, 49 (5), 457-467.
  11. Peter Baehr. (2011a). Imagining Sociological Theory,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 36 (2), 213-218. (review essay).
  12. Peter Baehr. (2011b). Marxism and Islamism: Intellectual Conformity in Raymond Aron’s Time and Our Own,” Journal of Classical Sociology, 11 (2), 173-90. R
  13. Peter Baehr. (2011c). Purity and Danger in the Modern University. Society, 48 (4), 297-300.
  14. Peter Baehr. (2010a). China the Anomaly. European Journal of Political Theory, 9 (3), 267-286. R
  15. Peter Baehr. (2010b). Leon Botstein on Hannah Arendt and Max Weber: An Interview. Max Weber Studies, 10 (1), 95-100.
  16. Peter Baehr. (2009a). Tribes and Terror in the Middle East: A Conversation with Philip Salzman. Society, 46 (5), 394-7.
  17. Peter Baehr. (2009b). The Novelty of Jihadist Terror. Society, 46 (3), 210-13.
  18. Peter Baehr. (2009c). The Fabrication of Man. History of the Human Sciences, 22 (2), 121-127. R
  19. Peter Baehr. (2008a). An American University in Afghanistan: An Interview with Athanasios Moulakis. Society, 46 (1), 9-11.
  20. Peter Baehr. (2008b). What are the ‘knowledge-conditions’ of sociology? A Response to Gary Wickham and Harry Freemantle. Current Sociology, 56 (6), 943-951. R
  21. Peter Baehr. (2007a). Philosophy, Sociology, and the Intelligentsia: Hannah Arendt''s Engounter with Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Knowledge. Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 19 (3), 341-373 (in Chinese and English). R
  22. Peter Baehr. (2007b). The ‘Masses’ in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism. The Good Society, 16 (2), 12-18.
  23. Peter Baehr. (2007c). Fascism, Ethnic Cleansing, and the ‘New Militarism': Assessing the Recent Historical Sociology of Michael Mann” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 10 (1), 99-113. R
  24. Peter Baehr. (2006a). Susan Sontag, Battle Language, and the Hong Kong SARS Outbreak of 2003. Economy and Society, Vol. 35 (1), 42-64. R
  25. Peter Baehr. (2006b). Pacifismo realista. Ventunesimo Secolo, October, 217-226.
  26. Peter Baehr. (2005a). Social Extremity, Communities of Fate, and the Sociology of SARS. European Journal of Sociology, 46 (2), 179-211. R
  27. Peter Baehr. (2005b). Deciphering a Classic Text: The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism" 100 Years On. Shiso (in Japanese), No. 978, 6-27.
  28. Peter Baehr. (2005c). The Sociology of Almost Everything. (Debate with Randall Collins), Canadian Journal of Sociology Online Jan.-Feb.
  29. Peter Baehr. (2005d). Totalitarianism. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Vol. 6, 2342-2348. R
  30. Peter Baehr. (2005e). Personal Dilemma or Intellectual Influence? The Relationship between Hannah Arendt and Max Weber. Max Weber Studies, 5 (1), 125-130. R
  31. Peter Baehr. (2004). Schicksalsgemeinschaft in German Political Thought. Societas: A China Journal for the Philosophical Study of Public Affairs, 13, 181-200. R
  32. Peter Baehr. (2004a). Of Politics and Social Science: ‘Totalitarianism’ in the Dialogue of David Riesman and Hannah Arendt. European Journal of Political Theory, 3 (2), 191-217. R
  33. Peter Baehr. (2004b). In Search of Joanna Tse: Reflections on Heroism and Decency in Extreme Situations. Quest 3 (2), 13-35. R
  34. Peter Baehr. (2004c). On the Heroism of Decency. St. John’s Review, 72, 20-21.
  35. Peter Baehr. (2004d). Hong Kong, la Cina continentale e l’epidemia della Sars. Ventunesimo Secolo 6, 91-115.
  36. Peter Baehr. (2003a). City of Masks. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, March-April. 
  37. Peter Baehr. (2003b). Heart, Character, and a Science of Man. Political Theory, 31 (1), 117-125. R
  38. Peter Baehr. (2002). Identifying the Unprecedented: Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism and the Critique of Sociology. American Sociological Review, 67 (6), 804-831. R
  39. Peter Baehr. (2001a). The People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong’s New Political Dispensation. Citizenship Studies, 5 (2), 101-125. R
  40. Peter Baehr. (2001b). The Iron Cage and the Shell as Hard as Steel: Parsons, Weber and the Stahlhartes Gehäuse Metaphor in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. History and Theory, 40 (2), 153-169. R
  41. Peter Baehr. (2001c). Sentinels in a Pitch Black Night. Society, 38 (3), 80-84.
  42. Peter Baehr. (2000a). E.P. Thompson and European Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Retrospective. Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution, 3:1 March. R
  43. Peter Baehr. (2000b). Feature Review” of books by Ruth Cherrington, Bruce Gilley and Willy Wo-Lap Lam. China Review International, 7 (1), 7-18. R
  44. Peter Baehr. (1999a). An Ancient Sense of Politics”? Weber, Caesarism and the Republican Tradition. European Journal of Sociology, 40 (2), 333-350.
  45. Peter Baehr (1999b). Review essay of Randall Collins. The Sociology of Philosophies. A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, May. 
  46. Peter Baehr. (1994). Mundane Foundationalism and the Limits of ‘Radical’ Social Theory. Textual Practice, 8 (3), 516-526. R
  47. Peter Baehr. (1991). Peace Politics. Politics, 11 (1), 43-48. R
  48. Peter Baehr. (1990a). The ‘Masses’ in Weber’s Political Sociology. Economy and Society, 19 (2), 242-265. R
  49. Peter Baehr. (1990b). Critical Realism, Cautionary Realism. Sociological Review, 38 (4), 767-777. R
  50. Peter Baehr. (1989). Weber and Weimar: The Reich President Proposals. Politics, 9 (1), 20-25. R
  51. Peter Baehr. (1988). Peace and Political Theory: A Response to Paul Hirst. Economy and Society, 17 (1), 90-108. R
  52. Peter Baehr. (1985). The ‘Irrationality’ of the Arms Race. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2 (2), 231-241. R
  53. Peter Baehr. (1987). Accounting for Caesarism: Introduction to Gollwitzer. Economy and Society, 6 (2), 341-356. R
  54. Peter Baehr. (1979). Durkheim’s Review of Philosophie des Geldes. Social Research, 46 (2), 321-328. R

REVIEWS

  1. Peter Baehr. (forthcoming, 2014).“Victor Zaslavsky,” in Portraits of Victor Zaslavsky (Bologna: Il Mulino).
  2. Peter Baehr. (2013). Review of "Why Concepts Matter. Translating Social and Political Thought". European Legacy 18 (4), 77-81.
  3. Peter Baehr. (2010). Review of Pierre Birnbaum, “The Geography of Hope,” Canadian Journal of Sociology. 35 (1), 159-161.
  4. Peter Baehr. (2008). Review of Dmitry Shlapentokh, “The Proto-Totalitarian State: Punishment and Control in Absolutist Regimes,” International History Review, 30 (3), 603-4.
  5. Peter Baehr. (2008). Review of Sam Whimster , “Understanding Weber”. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 33 (3), 701-3.
  6. Peter Baehr. (2007). Review of Steve Fuller, “The New Sociological Imagination”. British Journal of Sociology 58 (3) September, 500-1.
  7. Peter Baehr. (2003). “Touched souls” Times Literary Supplement, 28 November, 24-25.
  8. Peter Baehr. (2003). “The Critical Path” Times Literary Supplement 31st January, 3-5. Feature article
  9. Peter Baehr. (2003). Review of “In the Grip of Freedom” by Cary Boucock, Canadian Journal of Sociology, 27 (4), 587-590.
  10. Peter Baehr. (2002). “A Wheel that has Come Off”. Times Literary Supplement 12th April, 3-4. Feature article
  11. Peter Baehr. (2001). “My Father's Watch” (memoir), TickleAce: A Journal of Literary and Visual Art, 36, 84-86.
  12. Peter Baehr. (2000). “The anti-politics of two-world theory”. Hannah Arendt Newsletter, 3, May 15-17.
  13. Peter Baehr. (2000). “Frieda and the Sphinx”. Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 11, 5-8.
  14. Peter Baehr. (1999). Review of Anthony Giddens and Christopher Pierson, “Conversations with Anthony Giddens”. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2 (3), 431-433.
  15. Peter Baehr. (1999). “In the Talking Shop”. Times Literary Supplement, August 27, 19.
  16. Peter Baehr. (1999). “After Revolution and Democratization: Conceptualizing the 18th Brumaires and Regimes of the Two Bonapartes,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, September, 24-5. (This Conference report also appears in an abbreviated form in Annales Historiques de la Revolution française, 3, 1999.)
  17. Peter Baehr. (1999). “Rallying to Little Rock”. Times Literary Supplement, February 5, 26.
  18. Peter Baehr. (1998/1999). “Nazi Germany and Totalitarianism”. Harvard International Review, 21:1 (Winter 1998/1999): 6-7.
  19. Peter Baehr. (1998). “The Erosion of Conscience in Nazi German”. Newsletter of the Association of Contemporary Church Historians, 4:12, (WWW.)
  20. Peter Baehr. (1997). “Sociology and Interpretation”. Contemporary Sociology, 26 (6), 134.
  21. Peter Baehr. (1997). “The Age of New Words”. Times Literary Supplement, October 3, 27.
  22. Peter Baehr. (1993). “A Commitment to Campaign,” British Sociological Review, 44 (2), 349-50.
  23. Peter Baehr. (1993). “Beyond Bricolage,” Semiotic Review of Books, 4 (2), 7-8.
  24. Peter Baehr. (1992). Review of books by L.A. Scaff, G. Oakes and P. Lassman and I. Velody, British Journal of Sociology 43 (1), 86-87.
  25. Peter Baehr. (1990). “Personality and Passion”. Times Higher Education Supplement, 23 March, 18, (Feature article, written with Richard Bellamy.)
  26. Peter Baehr. (1990). “A Legacy to be Treasured”. Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 Novembe, 23.
  27. Peter Baehr. (1989). “Military Presences”. Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 October 27, 27
  28. Peter Baehr. (1989). “The Mystery of Albert Speer”. Times Higher Education Supplement, 22 September, 15. (Short article based on my interview with Speer, Hitler’s architect and War Minister.)