Werner Hamacher

Werner Hamacher ( born 1948 ) is a German comparatist and literary theorist. He is one of the few thinkers in Germany, which rezipieren the philosophemes and thinking strategies of poststructuralist deconstruction productive and which are perceived internationally. As one of the translators of writings Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, he made ​​important contributions to teaching these theorists.

Biography

Hamacher studied at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, comparative literature, philosophy, German and Religious Studies. Among his academic teachers in Paris was Jacques Derrida, who has just as Paul de Man, greatly influenced his work. He completed his studies with a thesis on Hegel's dialectical hermeneutics.

From 1984 to 1998 he was a professor of German and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Visiting professor, he held, inter alia, at Yale University, the University of Amsterdam and the École Normale Supérieure. From 1998 to 2013 he was Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, since 2003 also works as a Global Distinguished Professor at New York University.

Since 1992 he is the book series Meridian - Crossing Aesthetics out.

Publications (selection )

  • Pleroma. At Genesis and structure of a dialectical hermeneutics in Hegel.Ullstein, Frankfurt 1978 ( French 1997, English. 1998)
  • ( Mithrsg. ) Paul Celan. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 3-518-38583-6
  • Illegibility. In: Paul de Man: Allegories of reading. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1988, pp. 7-26;
  • (Ed. with Neil Hertz, and Thomas Keenan): Responses. On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1989, ISBN 0803223528
  • Premises. Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan. 1996, 1999 In German: Distant understanding. Studies on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan. Edition Suhrkamp # 2026 Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 0-674-70073-2
  • Aris Fioretos Ed.: Babel. For Werner Hamacher. Urs Engeler, Basel 2009 ISBN 3938767553 With complete publication list of WH

Translations

  • Jacques Lacan & Jean Hyppolite: writings on the denial. In Jacques Lacan: Writings, 3rd Walter, Olten 1979 ( with Ursula Rütt Ranger )
  • Nicolas Abraham & Mária Török: The Verbarium of the Wolf Man. Foreword by Jacques Derrida. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 1979
  • Paul de Man: Allegories of reading. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1988 ( with Peter Krumme )
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