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Werner Hamacher. The Constitution of Community

Title:Werner Hamacher. The Constitution of Community
Date:06/02/2011Length: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