Werner Hamacher
Werner Hamacher (German: [ˈhaːmaχɐ]; born 1948) is a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction. Hamacher studied philosophy, comparative literature and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin and the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), where he got in touch with Jacques Derrida.[1] From 1998 to 2013 he was a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature (Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft),[2] and since 2003 at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[1]
He was previously Professor of German and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and taught for a number of years at New York University. He is the author of "Pleroma—Dialectics and Hermeneutics in Hegel" and "Premises: Essays on Philosophy from Kant to Celan" and the editor of the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics, published by Stanford University Press. He translated a selection of essays by Paul de Man into German.
Translations
- Hamacher, Werner. Para-la filología / 95 Tesis sobre la Filología, Buenos Aires, Miño y Dávila editores, 2011.
- Hamacher, Werner. Lingua amissa, Buenos Aires, Miño y Dávila editores, 2012.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Werner Hamacher. Faculty Webpage at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography.
- ↑ Werner Hamacher. at Frankfurt University. Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (German)
External links
- Werner Hamacher. Faculty Webpage at European Graduate School
- Werner Hamacher. at Frankfurt University. Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. (German)
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