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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,Communication Sciences |
| Keywords | Unheimliche, Medien, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Evanston |
| Institution | Northwestern University |
| Institute | Department of German |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Theodor W. Adorno | Institut für Philosophie, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Prof. Dr. Peter Szondi | Seminar für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Norbert Altenhofer | Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur II, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Prof. Dr. Hendrik Birus | Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (Komparatistik), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
| Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein | Amerika-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
| Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken | Institut für Romanische Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/1966 |
Programme(s)
| 1967 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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| 2003 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
Nominator's project description
| Professor Weber is an internationally renowned scholar of literature, an author of several books on literary theory translated into many languages. With interests ranging from Dreudian psycho-analysis to philosophical aesthetics and from cultural semiotics to media theory, Professor Weber has worked in areas of 20th centruy studies where innovative and provocative insights were often created by academic outsiders or exiles who blended various national traditions tof thought with each other and juxtaposed them to each other in order to conceive of the world in a yet different light. In Professor Weber's outstanding oeuvre, the violent and tragic history of 20th centruy literature and cultural critique has left many a mark. In his writing and in other scholarly activities he has worked incessantly to bring American, German and French academic communities into contact: by translating major scholarly works and explaining their specific cultural contexts; by organizing international conferences on cultural theories; by teaching and lecturing at many universities in Europe and elsewhere. He is going to spend his time in Munich working on a new book project on media theories and teaching in a new Ph.D. programme on Literary Studies. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2006 | Samuel Miles Weber: Gelegenheitsziele - Zur Militarisierung des Denkens. diaphanes, 2006 |
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