Werner Hamacher (German: [ˈhaːmaχɐ], 1948 – 2017) was 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 met and came to know 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 he was on the faculty of 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 was 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
- ^ a b 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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