| Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber Contributor(s): Wortham, Simon Morgan (Editor), Hall, Gary (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823228142 ISBN-13: 9780823228140 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $95.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: The work of Samuel Weber has greatly influenced thinkers in literary, critical, and cultural theory; media, communication, theater, and cultural studies; new media and technology; psychoanalysis; and philosophy. He played an important role in the process of translation, publication, and interpretation that brought "theory" to prominence. His texts have been especially important to the deconstructive tradition, given his early recognition of the importance of Jacques Derrida. Taught by Theodor W. Adorno, he is equally at home in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, in the German literary and philosophical tradition, or in psychoanalysis. This book brings together essays by eminent scholars seeking to assess the impact of Weber's writings. It also contains two new and previously unpublished essays by Weber himself: "'God Bless America!'" and "'Going Along for the Ride: Violence and Gesture-Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes.'" |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 801.950 |
| LCCN: 2007040880 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.37" W x 9.04" (1.14 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The work of Samuel Weber has greatly influenced writers and thinkers across the arts and humanities: including literary, critical, and cultural theory; media, communication, theater, and cultural studies; new media and technology; psychoanalysis; and philosophy. His remarkable and inaugural texts have been especially important to the deconstructive tradition, given his early recognition of the importance of the writings of Jacques Derrida. Taught by Theodor W. Adorno and Peter Szondi, he is equally at home in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, in the German literary tradition, or in psychoanalysis. Weber played an important role in the process of translation, publication, and interpretation that brought theoryto prominence in the United States. His work continues to reactivate and transform the legacy bequeathed to us by figures such as Kant, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger, de Man, and Derrida, not least by exposing the field of philosophy to contemporary questions in the arenas of media, technology, politics, and culture.This volume brings together a number of eminent scholars seeking to assess the intellectual impact of Weber's large body of writings. It also contains two new and previously unpublished essays by Weber himself: 'God Bless America!'and 'Going Along for the Ride: Violence and Gesture-Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes.' |
Contributor Bio(s): Wortham, Simon Morgan: - SIMON MORGAN WORTHAM is Professor of English at the University of Portsmouth. His books include Counter-institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (Fordham).Hall, Gary: - GARY HALL is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University.Morgan Wortham, Simon: - SIMON MORGAN WORTHAM is Professor of English at the University of Portsmouth. His books include Counter-institutions: Jacques Derrida and the Question of the University (Fordham). |