Samuel Weber

Samuel Weber ( * 1940 in New York) is an American literary scholar specializing in comparative literature.

Career

Samuel Miles Weber, a student of Paul de Man, worked as a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a dramaturge at the Frankfurt Opera and the Old Schauspielhaus Stuttgart. Weber teaches as Avalon Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. He is director of the Paris Program in Critical Theory (Programme for Critical Theory. )

Weber works in particular to Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

With his published in 1978 and written in German language study return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's de- position of psychoanalysis Weber has made a pioneering contribution to the reception of French psychoanalysis in Germany. In addition, translated works of the philosopher Theodor Adorno Weber and Jacques Derrida into English.

Contemporary Samuel Weber participated in the debate on the new media, which he demands an extension of the concept of media. In his view, the intense perception of the media leads to a derealization and solve the traditional boundaries of social distance on. As consequences of phenomena such as anxiety, aggression, fascination or hope would the user then may be evident.

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  • 2003: Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Publications (selection)

  • Money is time. Thoughts on credit and crisis. Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-03734-094-3.
  • Targets of opportunity. Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-935300-99-5.
  • Return to Freud. Jacques Lacan's de- position of psychoanalysis. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin in 1978 and passages, Vienna 2000 ISBN 3-85165-424-2
  • Benjamin reading. In: Modern Language Notes, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, 1979, pp. 441-454
  • Unwrapping Balzac. A Study of " La Peau de Chagrin ". University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1979.
  • Institution and Interpretation. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1987 and Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2001.
  • Saussure and the Apparition of Language. In: Modern Language Notes 91, 1976, p 913-938.
  • Postmodernism and post-structuralism. In: Aesthetics and Communication 17 /63. Berlin, 1986, pp. 105-122.
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