Books

• Repetitions: the Postmodern Occasion in Literature and Culture, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987
• The End of Education: Toward Postshumanism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993
• Heidegger and Criticism: Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993
• The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Cold War, the Canon, and the Struggle for American Literary Studies, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995
• America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire, University of Minnesota Press, 1999
• In the Neighborhood of Zero, University of Nebraska Press, 2010

Papers

• Heidegger's Parmenides: Greek Modernity and the Classical Legacy, in Modern Greek Studies
• Heidegger, Nazism, and the Repressive Hypothesis: The American Appropriation of the Question, in boundary 2, vol. 17, 1990
• Althusser's 'Problematic' in the Context of the Vietnam War: Towards a Spectral Politics, in Rethinking Marxism, vol. 10, no. 3, 1998
• Rethinking the Postmodernity of the Discourse of Postmodernism, in International Postmodernism: Theory and Literary Practice ed. Hans Bertens and Douwwe Fokkema (Amsterdam: John Benjamin, 1997)