- Passagen Verlag
The publishing house Passagen Verlag was founded in 1985 in
Vienna byPeter Engelmann . The primary intention of the publisher was the translation ofJacques Derrida 's work into German. Around the author Derrida, Peter Engelmann developed a program, which gathers relevant authors and authoresses of all disciplines, who identified themselves with the programdeconstruction ("Dekonstruktivismus") and "postmodernism " (Postmoderne). Peter Engelmann was honoured by the French State in February 2004 with the title "Commandeur dans l´ordre des Arts et des Lettres" for his work as publisher.The Passagen Verlag, the name
Passagen being an allusion toWalter Benjamin 's most important textPassagenwerk , publishes besidesDerrida authors such asJean-François Lyotard ,Gianni Vattimo ,Jean Baudrillard ,Paul Feyerabend ,Peter Eisenman ,Jacques Lacan ,Ernesto Laclau ,Chantal Mouffe ,Sarah Kofman , Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic,Slavoj Žižek ,Emmanuel Levinas ,Clifford Geertz ,Ginka Steinwachs ,Dennis Cooper , etc.External links
*http://www.passagen.at
*http://www.literaturhaus.at/buch/verlagsportraits/passagen.html
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