Bøger af Samuel Weber

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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, and others who have contributed to a redefinition of modern criticism, Samuel Weber presents a detailed and intricate explication of the text that challenges all standard interpretations of the novel. Traditional readings of La peau de chagrin, and of Balzac in general, have pursued a message in the novel, a reality beneath the allegory. Weber  demonstrates that Balzac's text can be grasped both as a mise en scne and as a play of representations that reflects no original truth, reality, or meaning beneath the text to which the representation can be referred and by which they can be authenticated. To unwrap Balzac in this manner is to discover that there is no thing inside, that there is only the 'wrapping.'Weber's conclusions are not only startingly original, but they also solve problems which have puzzled traditional readers of the novel since the earliest commentators of 1831. Unwrapping Balzac is a brilliant tour de force that will create controversy among Balzac scholars for years to come.

"Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mortality and vulnerability is not just an individual concern. The narratives examined in this book both confirm the desire to avoid this recognition as well as the different ways it asserts itself nevertheless"--

I believe that as Africans, we have an advantage in understanding the stories of Jesus because we have storytelling as a part of our culture. We like to think in story, explain things in story and listen to stories. If one of the elders of your village wishes to explain something to you that is very important, he will likely use a story or a parable of some kind to do it. When a chief wants to tell his village something that is very important, he will likely use a story as a means of communicating it. Unfortunately, this advantage has not often been used. As Westerners came into Cameroon as missionaries, many of them found the parables of Jesus to be hard to understand and difficult to explain (since storytelling was not a major part of their home cultures), and as a result the stories of Jesus were not greatly emphasized or used in their teaching. While this mistake is understandable, it does not need to be continually repeatedly or emulated. Jesus was a good storyteller and the majority of his public teaching was done in stories. He spoke to a Middle Eastern context which, like our African context, thought in story. Let us use the cultural advantage that we have as storytelling people and study the parables of Jesus together. It is likely that as we do so we will gain many great new insights into understanding and communicating the Good News, as well as discipleship and the Christian life.

This book investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Weber suggests that institutions are never entirely free of the necessity of consolidating their authority through an ambivalent process of reinstituting themselves, a process in which interpretation plays a crucial role.

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 againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target.

This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question the Aristotelian aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself.

This text argues that psychoanalysis is not just a theory of psychic conflict: it is a thought in conflict with itself. This is a study of Freud's defences of psychoanalysis and the conflicts into which psychoanalytic theory has been drawn.

A leading theorist on literature and media reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin's thought by focusing on the critical suffix "-ability" that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin's thought by way of his language.