Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber

Selected Works in English by Samuel Weber

s e l e c t e d w o r k s i n e n g l i s h b y s a m u e l w e b e r ‘‘The Madrepore.’’ MLN 87 (1972): 915–61. ‘‘The Sideshow, Or: Remarks on a Canny Moment.’’ MLN 88 (1973): 1102–33. ‘‘The Responsibility of the Critic: A Response.’’ MLN 91 (1976): 814–16. ‘‘Saussure and the Apparition of Language: The Critical Perspective.’’ MLN 91 (1976): 913–38. ‘‘The Divaricator: Remarks on Freud’s Witz.’’ Glyph 1 (1977): 1–27. ‘‘It.’’ Glyph 4 (1978): 1–31. Unwrapping Balzac. A Reading of La Peau de Chagrin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979. ‘‘Closure and Exclusion.’’ Diacritics 10.2 (1980): 35–46. ‘‘Translating the Untranslatable.’’ Introduction to Theodor Adorno, Prisms, translated by Samuel M. Weber and Shierry Weber. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1981. The Legend of Freud. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982. ‘‘The Limits of Professionalism.’’ Oxford Literary Review. 5.1–2 (1982): 59–74. ‘‘A Stroke of Luck.’’ Enclitic 6.2 (1982): 29–31. ‘‘The Critics’ Choice.’’ In Reading, Writing, Revolution, edited by Francis Barker et al., 147–58. Colchester: University of Essex, 1982. ‘‘Capitalising History: The Political Unconscious.’’ Diacritics 13.2 (1983): 14–28. ‘‘Reading and Writing—chez Derrida.’’ Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 45.1 (1983): 41–62. ‘‘The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions.’’ In Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, edited by Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan, 33–65. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. ‘‘Taking Place: Toward a Theater of Dislocation.’’ Enclitic 8.1–2 (1984): 124– 43. Republished in Opera Through Other Eyes, edited by David J. Levin, 107–46. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. ‘‘How Not to Stop Worrying.’’ Critical Exchange 15 (1984): 17–25. 263 264 Selected Works in English by Samuel Weber ‘‘The Debt of Criticism: Notes on Stanley Fish’s Is There a Text in This Class?’’ Critical Exchange 15 (1984): 17–26. ‘‘The Intersection: Marxism and the Philosophy of Language.’’ Diacritics 15.4 (1985): 94–110. ‘‘Literature—Just Making It.’’ Afterword to Jean–Francois Lyotard and Jean– Loup Thebaud, Just Gaming, translated by Wlad Godzich, 101–20. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1985. ‘‘Ambivalence: The Humanities and the Study of Literature.’’ Diacritics 15.2 (1985): 11–25. ‘‘Introduction.’’ Glyph 1 (New Series) (1986): ix–xii. ‘‘Caught in the Act of Reading.’’ Glyph 1 (New Series) (1986): 181–214. ‘‘Laughing in the Meanwhile.’’ MLN 102 (1987): 691–706. Institution and Interpretation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ‘‘The Foundering of Comparative Literature.’’ In Aspects of Comparative Literature , edited by Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes, 57–72. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998. ‘‘Introduction.’’ In D. P. Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, vii–liv. Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988. ‘‘The Monument Disfigured.’’ In Responses: Paul de Man’s Wartime Journalism, edited by Werner Hamacher et al., 404–25. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989. ‘‘Theater, Technics, Writing.’’ 1–800 (Fall 1989): 15–19. ‘‘Upsetting the Setup: Remarks on Heidegger’s Questing After Technics.’’ MLN 104 (1989): 976–91. ‘‘The Vaulted Eye: Remarks on Knowledge and Professionalism.’’ Yale French Studies 77 (1990): 44–60. ‘‘On the Balcony: The Theater of Technics.’’ In Bild–Sprache: Texte zwischen Dichten und Denken, edited by L. Lambrechts and J. Nowe, 283–97. Louvain , Belgium: Louvain University Press, 1990. ‘‘Criticism Underway: Walter Benjamin’s Romantic Concept of Criticism.’’ In Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory, edited by Kenneth R. Johnston et al., 302–19. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. ‘‘Genealogy of Modernity: History, Myth, and Allegory in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play.’’ MLN 106 (1991): 465–500. ‘‘Deconstruction Before the Name.’’ Cardozo Law Review 13.4 (1991): 1181–90. ‘‘The Media and the War.’’ Alphabet City (Summer 1991): 22–26. Republished in Emergences 3–4 (1992): 16–26. Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan’s Dislocation of Psychoanalysis, revised and expanded edition of the German original, translated by Michael Levine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 265 Selected Works in English by Samuel Weber ‘‘In the Name of the Law.’’ In Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, edited by Drucilla Cornell et al., 232–57. New York: Routledge, 1992. ‘‘Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt.’’ Diacritics 22.3–4 (1992): 5–18. Republished in Enlightenments: Encounters between Critical Theory and Contemporary French Thought, edited by Harry Kunneman and Hent de Vries, 141–61. Kampen...