Werner Hamacher

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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) and was previously Professor of German and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of "Pleroma—Dialectics and Hermeneutics in Hegel" and "Premises: Essays on Philosophy from Kant to Celan". He is also the editor of the series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics, published by Stanford University Press.

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• Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Lingua Amissa: The Messianism of Commodity-Language

[edit] See also

• List of deconstructionists