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Professor of English
Dr.Phil.Habil. 1983 (German and comparative literature), Konstanz; Dr.Phil. 1975 (medieval literature and literary theory), Heidelberg; M.A. 1968 (literature, history, and philosophy), Konstanz.
Research Interests: critical theory; rhetoric and law; literature and philosophy; metaphorology; canon formation 16th- to 20th C. Shakespeare, Keats, Joyce.
Affiliations: Advisory Board, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis; Executive Committee, International Walter Benjamin Association; Editorial Board, Law and Literature.
Fellowships/Honors: Distinguished Floersheimer Visiting Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York, 2006. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, EHESS Paris, 2002; IC Paris, 2003. Visiting Professor of Literature, Bergen and Oslo, 1993; MPI Berlin, 1992; NYU 1988; Freiburg, 1987; U of Oregon, 1986; U of Minnesota, 1985; Yale University, 1984-1985.
Selected Works:
Leaves of Mourning, Albany:
SUNY Press 1996. Ed. Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the
Political. New York:
NYU Press 1995. Ed. Memory Inc. New
York: ANY 1996. Hamlet, Hypothek der Macht. Berlin: Kadmos 2001,
2004. Figura cryptica. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp 2002. Latenzzeit. Berlin: Kadmos 2004. Ed. Walter Benjamin after
the 20th C. New York:
Cardozo Law School 2004. Ed. Derrida/America. New York: Cardozo Law School 2005. Metapher: Die Ästhetik in der Rhetorik. Munich: Fink 2007.
Diesseits der Oder. Berlin:
Kadmos 2008.
Recent research papers: Mass Times Acceleration, Qui parle 12 (2001). Chaos by Design: The Light/ Sound Constellation, MLN 118 (2003). Christ’s Case, Stigmata (2004). Richard II, Bracton, and the End of Political Theology, Law and Literature 16 (2004). L’inconcéptualité de l’être, Archives de Philosophie 67 (2004). The Enemy has No Future, Cardozo Law Review 26 (2004-5). Anagrammatics of Violence, Politics, Metaphysics and Death (2005). Arcanum Translationis, Tumult 30 (2006). Ghost of History: Hamlet’s Politics of Paternity, Law and Literature 18 (2006). Art Awaits Its Explanation: Recent Interest in Adorno, Revue de Philosophie (2007).
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