Werner Hamacher. Right to Have Rights 2004 1/11

http://www.egs.edu/ Werner Hamacher, theorist and philosopher, speaking about the Right to Have Rights and political theology, philosophy, history, society, politics, humans as political and social beings, religion, literature, res publica, res intima, public sphere, Hannah Arendt. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Werner Hamacher.

Werner Hamacher (born 1948) is a German literary critic and theorist influenced by deconstruction. Hamacher is currently a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature (Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft). Professor Hamacher taught for more than a decade at the Humanities Center and the German Department of the Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at Yale University, the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, the Franz Rosenzweig Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the École Normale SupÉrieur in Paris. He received his B. A. in 1971, his M. A. in 1972, and his Ph. D. in 1977 from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Werner Hamacher has published widely about the interrelations between philosophy, literature, and politics, expanding his analyses into the fields of art, psychoanalysis, law, and historiography. He has researched extensively on the following topics: German and comparative literature, the Enlightenment through the present, aesthetics, hermeneutics, philosophy of language and history as well as the margins of literature.

Professor Hamacher is the author of publications such as Pleroma: Reading in Hegel, Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan, Entferntes Verstehen, and Maser. Bemerkungen im Hinblick auf die Bilder von Hinrich Weidemann. Professor Hamacher has also edited many volumes, including Paul Celan, Paul de Man: Wartime Journalism 1939-1943, Responses on Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism, and Nietzsche aus Frankreich, contributed to numerous books and journals and lectured widely. He is the editor of the prestigious philosophical sector of the Stanford University Press Series, Meridian -- Crossing Aesthetics , was co-editor of the German Issue of Modern Language Notes (MLN) and serves on the editorial board of COMPARa/iSON and CONTRETEMPS.

His work bridging literature and philosophy focuses on German texts of modernity. Along with Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida and other contemporary critical thinkers, Professor Hamacher's approach brings together several themes, topics and texts while engaging the reader in theoretical investigations of a highly interdisciplinary nature.

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