View source for Samuel Weber

{{Short description|American philosopher}}
{{distinguish|Samuel Webber}}
{{multiple issues|
{{BLP primary sources|date=January 2011}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2010}}
}}
{{Infobox scholar
| image            = 
| image_size       = 
| other_names      =  
| birth_date       = 1940
| birth_place      =  
| alma_mater       = [[Cornell University]]
| influences       = [[Paul de Man]]
| main_interests   = Translator
| awards           = 
}}
'''Samuel M. Weber''' (born 1940,<ref name=Congress>{{cite web |title= Weber, Samuel, 1940- |url= http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78039263.html |publisher= [[Library of Congress]] |accessdate= 8 January 2011 |quote= (b. 1940) }}</ref> in [[New York City]]) is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at [[Northwestern University]], as well as a professor at the [[European Graduate School]] in [[Saas-Fee]], Switzerland.<ref name="egs">{{cite web | url=http://www.egs.edu/faculty/samuel-weber/biography/ | title=Samuel Weber Faculty Page at European Graduate School (Biography, bibliography and video lectures) | publisher=[[European Graduate School]] | accessdate=2010-09-25 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100822011059/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/samuel-weber/biography/ | archivedate=2010-08-22 }}</ref>

Weber began PhD studies at Yale University. Partly through correspondence with [[Herbert Marcuse]] he became interested in emerging German and French theoretical debates. He later transferred to [[Cornell University]] where he wrote a dissertation under the tutelage of [[Paul de Man]]. Weber co-translated the first English-language collection of essays by German philosopher [[Theodor Adorno]].  Since that time he has held professorships in Germany, France and the United States.

In the late 1970s and 1980s he played a leading role in introducing and interpreting the work of the French philosopher [[Jacques Derrida]] and the French psychoanalyst [[Jacques Lacan]], both in the United States and Germany. As a writer and editor with German colleagues such as [[Friedrich Kittler]], on projects such as the journal Diskursanalysen, Weber shaped early themes in what would become known as "German media theory." Weber is recognized as a noted philosopher, theorist and critic in his own right, whose work is characterized by fine-grained, deconstructive readings of literary and philosophical texts.  He is also the director of Northwestern University's Paris Program in Critical Theory.

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
Peter Fenves, Kevin McLaughlin, and Marc Redfield, editors, ''Points of Departure: Samuel Weber Between Spectrality and Reading'', 2016, Northwestern University Press

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100822011059/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/samuel-weber/biography/ Samuel Weber Faculty Page] at [[European Graduate School]]. (Biography, bibliography and video lectures)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100610223310/http://www.german.northwestern.edu/people/weber.html Samuel Weber Faculty Page] at [[Northwestern University]]
* [http://hydra.humanities.uci.edu/weber/ Samuel Weber] at [[University of California, Irvine]]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Samuel}}
[[Category:Continental philosophers]]
[[Category:20th-century American philosophers]]
[[Category:Northwestern University faculty]]
[[Category:Academic staff of European Graduate School]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:1940 births]]
[[Category:Translators of Jacques Derrida]]


{{US-philosopher-stub}}