Werner Hamacher

Werner Hamacher (born 1948) is 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 got in touch with Jacques Derrida. He is currently a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature ("Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft") and at the European Graduate School. 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 is 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.

External links

* [http://www.komparatistik.com/ Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft]
* [http://www.indefinitepenetration.com/archives.htm Lingua Amissa: The Messianism of Commodity-Language]

ee also

*List of deconstructionists