Experimenting : essays with Samuel Weber / edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wortham, Simon.

Hall, Gary, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weber, Samuel, 1940-.

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

History.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Deconstruction.

Weber, Samuel, 1940---Criticism and interpretation.

Weber, Samuel.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

Summary:

The work of Samuel Weber has greatly influenced thinkers in literary, critical, and cultural theory; media, communication, theater, and cultural studies; new media and technology; psychoanalysis; and philosophy. He played an important role in the process of translation, publication, and interpretation that brought "theory" to prominence. His texts have been especially important to the deconstructive tradition, given his early recognition of the importance of Jacques Derrida. Taught by Theodor W. Adorno, he is equally at home in the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, in the German literary and philosophical tradition, or in psychoanalysis. This book brings together essays by eminent scholars seeking to assess the impact of Weber's writings. It also contains two new and previously unpublished essays by Weber himself: "'God Bless America!'" and "'Going Along for the Ride: Violence and Gesture-Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes.'"

Contents:

Introduction: Experimenting / Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall

"God bless America!" / Samuel Weber

Of debts, dreams, and jokes : or, weberian theatricality / Simon Morgan Wortham

Technica speciosa : some notes on the ambivalence of technics in Kant and Weber / Peter Fenves

Surfing technics : direction and dispersion in the age of information / R.L. Rutsky

IT, again : how to build an ethical virtual institution / Gary Hall

Ambivalence : media, technics, gender / Marc Redfield

Modernism and the medium : on Greenberg and Weber / Andrew McNamara

It walks : the ambulatory uncanny / Susan Bernstein

On risk-taking in the psychoanalytic text : the reality test / Avital Ronell

Going along for the ride : violence and gesture : Agamben reading Benjamin reading Kafka reading Cervantes / Samuel Weber.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-262) and index.

"Selected works in English by Samuel Weber": pages 263-266.

ISBN:

9780823228140

0823228142

9780823228157

0823228150

OCLC:

154762609