Werner Hamacher - Videos
06/07/2011
Length: 1:26:50
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses the work of French historian and psychoanalyst Pierre Legendre. Professor Hamacher covers language, speech, culture, right, justice, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, and the notions of the imaginary, the symbolic, and hypersymbolic. This is Professor Hamacher's open lecture in the 2011 academic year. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:17:12
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, delivers a lecture on John Milton's Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Professor Hamacher covers parts Genesis and Proverbs from the Bible, the historical struggle over divorce, sexuation, and language and the constitution of being. This is the eighth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2011
06/06/2011
Length: 1:12:45
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, leads a discussion on sexuation. Professor Hamacher discusses sexuation, gender, sex, the mother and father, juridical power, naming, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. This is the ninth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2011
06/06/2011
Length: 1:10:50
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses the possibility of justice in language. Professor Hamacher covers justice, language, the open, right, property, and Immanuel Kant. This is the final lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
06/06/2011
Length: 1:06:07
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses Paul Celan's unpublished 'Corruptibility Is No Hope'. Professor Hamacher integrates Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, the open, conversation, language, and the ambiguous heimlich. This is the tenth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
06/05/2011
Length: 1:11:11
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, continues with his discussion of Immanuel Kant's Doctrine of Right. Topics covered include the primordial right (the right before right) and the contingent nature of existence. This is the seventh lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2011
06/05/2011
Length: 1:30:27
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, continues his reading of Immanuel Kant's Doctrine of Right. Professor Hamacher covers such topics as right, having, being, being-there, ontology, Sigmund Freud, and Kant's transcendental idealism. This is the sixth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2011
06/04/2011
Length: 1:34:28
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses Immanuel Kant's Doctrine of Right. Professor Hamacher explores the right, law, form, universality, coercion, exchange, and the Kantian idea. This is the fourth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
06/04/2011
Length: 1:04:52
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, discusses the first 17 paragraphs of Immanuel Kant's Doctrine of Right. Professor Hamacher explores such topics as ownership, right, the founding of right, res nullius. Thomas Hobbes and his arguments in Leviathan are visited again as well. This is the fifth lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 1:40:01
Werner Hamacher continues his reading of Thomas Hobbes's major political-philosophical work, Leviathan. Professor Hamacher moves into Chapters XVI and XVII, guided by the question, How is a community constituted apart from each individual's renunciation of their rights and liberties? Hamacher ultimately provides an insightful reading of Hobbes's Leviathan as an account of what happens every time we speak. This is the third lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
06/02/2011
Length: 1:17:51
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, continues his reading of Thomas Hobbes's major political-philosophical work, Leviathan. Professor Hamacher provides a close reading of key passages in Chapters XIII and XIV, addressing the concepts of liberty, life, the right of nature, and the interdiction of the law of nature which requires of us a giving away of that right. This is the second lecture of Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:42:01
Werner Hamacher, literary theorist and philosopher, begins his reading of Thomas Hobbes's major political-philosophical work, Leviathan. He resituates Leviathan as an argument of a community or state's constitution through a contract and, more specifically, the use of language. This is the first lecture of Professor Hamacher's 2011 course, Justice in Language. European Graduate School EGS
Werner Hamacher, in a lecture called "the Right to have Rights" examines the notion of separation of Church and State. Christianity as it emerged as a world religeon, eschewed in principle all participation in all public/politica affairs. In the distinction bertween res publica and res intima, however, a particular kind of politicity is generated.