Samuel Weber

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

Career

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

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

With his study, Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's De-Positioning of Psychoanalysis , published in 1978 and written in German , Weber made a groundbreaking contribution to the reception of French psychoanalysis in Germany. Weber also translated works by the philosophers Theodor Adorno and Jacques Derrida into English.

Samuel Weber is currently involved in the discourse on the new media , for which he calls for an expansion of the concept of media. In his opinion, the intense perception of the media leads to a derealization ; it dissolves the traditional boundaries of social distance . As a consequence, phenomena such as fear , aggression , fascination or hope would then become evident in the user .

In 2005 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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Publications (selection)

  • Money is time. Thoughts on credit and crisis . Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-03734-094-3 .
  • Opportunity goals . Diaphanes, Zurich / Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-935300-99-5 .
  • Return to Freud. Jacques Lacan's Disposition of Psychoanalysis . Ullstein, Berlin 1978 a. Passagen, 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.
  • Freud legend. Three studies of psychoanalytic thinking . Walter, Olten 1979 a. Passagen, Vienna 1990, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-85165-547-6 .
  • Institution and Interpretation . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 1987 a. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2001.
  • Saussure and the Apparition of Language . In: Modern Language Notes 91, 1976, pp. 913-938.
  • Postmodernism and Poststructuralism . In: Aesthetics and Communication 17/63. Berlin 1986, pp. 105-122.

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , USA