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Samuel Weber Kafkas Hunter Gracchus 2014
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http://www.egs.edu/ Samuel Weber, American philosopher and literary theorist discussing Kafka's short story Hunter Gracchus in conversation with Theodor W. Adorno and the German poet Hölderlin. His analysis revolves around the question of human finitude, death and guilt in Kafka's literary modernity and the cinematic aspects of the tale Der Jäger Gracchus. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 Samuel Weber. • Samuel Weber, Ph.D., is an American philosopher and professor. He is the Paul de Man Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS) and the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Greatly influenced by the Frankfurt School, Samuel Weber is one of the leading American thinkers across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Born in New York, he has been a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Director of their Paris program in critical theory. He was also a visiting professor at many universities in France and Germany and taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and the Free University of Berlin. He also taught at the Johns Hopkins University in the United States. • Samuel Weber has authored many books, among them Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (1978, 1991). He has also written numerous articles, including: The Indefinite Article of the Love of a Phrase (Reading Ronell, 2009), Benjamin's -abilities: Mediality and Concept Formation in Benjamin's Early Writings (Benjamin-Studien, 2008), Reading Over A Globalized World (Encountering Derrida, 2008), The Politics of Protection and Projection (Religion Beyond A Concept, 2007), Replacing The Body: An Approach to The Question of Digital Democracy (Public Space and Democracy, 2001) and Benjamin's Style (Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Vol. I., 1998).
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