Books by Susan Bernstein

Through interviews conducted with nonprofit agency managers in the New York City metropolitan area, this work describes their experiences with "contracting out," the principal way that the "reluctant" American welfare state has of providing public services through the private sector.

A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the 19th century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing on an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire.

Housing Problems provides fresh readings of major writers, Goethe, Walpole, Freud, Heidegger, Poe, H.D., and Oppen, by bringing together the fields of literature, philosophy and architecture.