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Points of Departure: Samuel Weber Between Spectrality and Reading

Points of Departure: Samuel Weber Between Spectrality and Reading

McLaughlin, Kevin
Redfield, Marc
Fenves, Peter

Paperback

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0810133768
ISBN13: 9780810133761
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Since the late 1960s, when he introduced Theodor Adorno's work on literature and cultural critique to an English-speaking public, Samuel Weber has stimulated the discovery of new and unexpected links within a broad spectrum of humanistic disciplines, including critical theory and psychoanalysis, media studies and literary analysis, continental philosophy and theater studies. The international group of scholars who contribute to Points of Departure demonstrate the persistent fecundity of Weber's work. Centered around his essay on the Ghost of Hamlet, as reflected in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt, the volume is broadly divided into explorations of the nature of spectrality, on the one hand, and the dynamics of reading, on the other. Each of the twelve essays thus takes its point of departure from Weber's singular path between languages, cultures, and traditions--to quote Jacques Derrida, whose fictive interview with a passing journalist is published here for the first time.

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