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Samuel Weber | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 84–85) |
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| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Influences | Paul de Man |
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| Main interests | Translator |
Samuel M. Weber (born 1940,[1] inNew York City) is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities atNorthwestern University, as well as a professor at theEuropean Graduate School inSaas-Fee, Switzerland.[2]
Weber began PhD studies at Yale University. Partly through correspondence withHerbert Marcuse he became interested in emerging German and French theoretical debates. He later transferred toCornell University where he wrote a dissertation under the tutelage ofPaul de Man. Weber co-translated the first English-language collection of essays by German philosopherTheodor Adorno. Since that time he has held professorships in Germany, France and the United States.
In the late 1970s and 1980s he played a leading role in introducing and interpreting the work of the French philosopherJacques Derrida and the French psychoanalystJacques Lacan, both in the United States and Germany. As a writer and editor with German colleagues such asFriedrich Kittler, on projects such as the journal Diskursanalysen, Weber shaped early themes in what would become known as "German media theory." Weber is recognized as a noted philosopher, theorist and critic in his own right, whose work is characterized by fine-grained, deconstructive readings of literary and philosophical texts. He is also the director of Northwestern University's Paris Program in Critical Theory.
(b. 1940)
Peter Fenves, Kevin McLaughlin, and Marc Redfield, editors,Points of Departure: Samuel Weber Between Spectrality and Reading, 2016, Northwestern University Press
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