Samuel Weber is Avalon Professor of Comparative Literature at Northwestern University and Director of Northwestern”s Paris Program in Critical Theory. He is the author of numerous books, including The Legend of Freud, Institution and Interpretation, Mass Medianras: Form, Technics, Media, Theatricality as Medium, and Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking. (Fordham)
15 Ebooks by Samuel Weber
Samuel Weber: Theatricality as Medium
Ever since Aristotle’s Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the ‘mythos, ‘ o …
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€42.99
Samuel Weber: Targets of Opportunity
The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting ( …
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€29.99
Peter Szendy: Apocalypse-Cinema
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with gene …
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€34.99
Antje Pfannkuchen & Jeffrey Champlin: The Technological Introject
The Technological Introject explores the futures opened up across the humanities and social sciences by the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler. Joining the German tradition of media studies …
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€39.99
Samuel Weber: Unwrapping Balzac
This radically new reading of La peau de charin presents a case for Balzac as a modern rather than a traditional, realist writer. Using the principles and languages of Marx, Derrida, Freud, Barthea, …
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€21.75
Ludwig Jäger & Werner Holly: Sprache – Kultur – Kommunikation / Language – Culture – Communication
Das Ziel des Handbuchs ist es, die ‘kulturwissenschaftliche Lücke’ in der Sprachwissenschaft historisch und systematisch zu reflektieren sowie einen Beitrag zu ihrer Schließung zu leisten. Die Klärun …
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€430.00
Friedrich A. Kittler & Manfred Schneider: Diskursanalysen 2: Institution Universität
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€36.24
Samuel Weber: Preexisting Conditions
A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague tales Many are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penn …
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€31.99
Samuel Weber: Targets of Opportunity
The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (s …
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€30.87
Samuel Weber: Theatricality as Medium
Ever since Aristotle’s Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos …
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€45.22
Peter Szendy: Apocalypse-Cinema
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with gene …
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€35.58
Samuel Weber: Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy
In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed t …
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€74.80
Samuel Weber: Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy
In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed t …
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€73.68
Walter Benjamin & Samuel Weber: Benjamin”s -abilities
“There is no world of thought that is not a world of language, ” Walter Benjamin remarked, “and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language.” In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading t …
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€82.30
Diane Davis: Reading Ronell
Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction. I …
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€25.61
