Élisabeth Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Élisabeth Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Élisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5458-8426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abenteuer. Imagination und Wissensformation zwischen Fortschrittseuphorie und Kolonialismuskritik
Humboldt oder wie das Reisen das Denken verändert. Von Oliver Lubrich. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2022. 525 Seiten. €34,00 gebunden. Polarreisen zwischen Empirie und Imagination. Von Dorit Müller. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2022. 430 Seiten + 83 Abbildungen, teilweise farbig. €34,80
Shared Breath, Common Sense
Emanuele Coccia's The Life of Plants proposes to "reopen the question of the world" through the deceptively simple, yet radical fact that all breathing living beings breathe because of plants. Refuting the metaphysical assumption that breath as spirit ( psyché rather than pneuma ) inhabits a higher ontological order than matter, Coccia fundamentally adjusts the claim of animal superiority over plants. As original as this approach might appear in …
Conjuring Green
Taking its point of departure in a childhood memory of Derrida around raising silkworms, this essay explores the urgency invoked in the same memory of ‘conjuring green’. Following the polysemy of the French verb ( conjurer means to ‘ward off’, ‘cause (a spirit or ghost) to appear’, ‘implore’, and literally, ‘swear together’), the conjured green binds the child and later the writer surreptitiously to both the community and language of Islam, in wh…
Everything is Breath
"Everything is Breath":Critical Plant Studies' Metaphysics of Mixture Elisabeth Weber (bio) In her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin W. Kimmerer contrasts two creation stories that are thoroughly incompatible. One starts with an all-powerful male creator calling the world and its vegetation and animals into existence through words, and forming the first human beings from clay; th…
Kill Boxes
Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the hooded man from Abu Ghraib became iconic, subsequent chapters take up less culturally visible scenes of massive violations of human rights t…
Penser la paix, peut-être, vielleicht, perhaps, ulai, la'alla
Ages of Cruelty
For Jacques Derrida, one of the most urgent tasks of philosophy today is to think "sovereignty" and the ways in which it is inseparable from the two "ages" of cruelty of today's wars: one techno-scientific, from which the "cruor" of blood seems to have been wiped away, and another, bloodily "archaic," reacting savagely to the first. Derrida and the French-Tunisian psychoanalyst Fethi Benslama assert that these two "ages" of cruelty are closely in…
Bonds
Die seit fünf Jahren aktuelle Finanz- und Schuldenkrise wird häufig moralisch kommentiert. Diese verbreitete Praxis bezieht sich auf die Gewissheit, dass manche Straftaten durch Geldzahlungen gesühnt werden können, also durch Verwandlung einer rechtlich-moralischen in eine finanzielle Schuld, und umgekehrt versäumte Geldzahlungen – zum Beispiel Steuerhinterziehungen – durch Haftstrafen geahndet werden können. Ökonomische sind häufig moralische En…
Dreaded by everything within us that desires a kingdom
Living Together
Contributors: Jacques Derrida, Gil Anidjar, Ellen Armour, Michal Ben-Naftali, Richard Falk, Michal Govrin, Kevin Hart, Dana Hollander, Priya Kumar, Joseph Massad, Marc Nichanian, William Robert, Sherene Seikaly, Elisabeth Weber, Raef Zreik
Speaking about Torture
Introduction Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber: For the Humanities I. America Tortures Lisa Hajjar: An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception and Denial Alfred McCoy: In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History II. Singularities of Witness Reinhold Gorling: and society (translated from German by Glenn Patten) Susan Derwin: What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell us about Today Elis…
Die Verletzbarkeit des Menschen
Folter muss heute als eine beabsichtigte Traumatisierung verstanden werden. Gezielt nutzt sie das aus, was Gesellschaften möglich macht: die basale Offenheit und Verletzbarkeit des Menschen. In ihrer Verweigerung von Empathie zielt ihre Gewalt darauf, Affekte auszulösen, die nicht mehr sozial gebunden werden können. So kettet sie die Betroffenen dauerhaft an sich. Diese gewaltsame Politik der Affekte betrifft nicht nur die Opfer und die Täter, so…
Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
Research Article| September 01 2011 Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp Elisabeth Weber Elisabeth Weber University of California, Santa Barbara Elisabeth Weber teaches German and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include French philosophy and theory, psychoanalysis, and trauma-studies. She is the author of a book on Emmanuel Levinas, Verfolgung and Trauma (Persecution…
Fending Off Idolatry
Fending Off Idolatry: Ceremonial Law in Mendelssohn's Jerusalem Elisabeth Weber University of California, Santa Barbara In a 1923 letter to Martin Buber published under the title "Concerning the Law," Franz Rosenzweig asks: Did any Jew prior to [the Western Orthodoxy and the liberalism of the reformers of the nineteenth century] really think—without having the question put to him—that he was keeping the Law, and the Law him, only because God impo…
Suspended from the Other's Heartbeat
Research Article| April 01 2007 Suspended from the Other's Heartbeat Elisabeth Weber Elisabeth Weber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (2): 325–344. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2006-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Elisabeth Weber; Suspended from the Other's Heartbeat. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2007; 106 (2)…
Deconstruction is Justice
This provocative assertion, from Derrida's Force of Law (945), sharply contrasting with the decades-old criticism of deconstruction as an aesthetisizing apolitical and ahistorical exercise, recapitulated in 1989the stakes of an infinite task and responsibility that, in spite of and because of its infinity, cannot be relegated to tomorrow: "[...] justice, however unpresentable it may be, doesn't wait. It is that which must not wait" (ibid., 969). …
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
With this essay, Eric Santner, the author of Stranded Objects and My Own Private Germany, offers another powerful, erudite and inspiring exploration of an uncharted area of modern German thought. The goal of this truly captivating study is, in the author's words, to bring Rosenzweig's and Freud's projects, which have "never been seen as inhabiting the same intellectual universe, into a sustained 'conversation'" (23). By exploring the "spiritual d…
Introduction
Points de suspension
Ages of Cruelty
For Jacques Derrida, one of the most urgent tasks of philosophy today is to think "sovereignty" and the ways in which it is inseparable from the two "ages" of cruelty of today's wars: one techno-scientific, from which the "cruor" of blood seems to have been wiped away, and another, bloodily "archaic," reacting savagely to the first. Derrida and the French-Tunisian psychoanalyst Fethi Benslama assert that these two "ages" of cruelty are closely in…
Deconstruction is Justice
This provocative assertion, from Derrida's Force of Law (945), sharply contrasting with the decades-old criticism of deconstruction as an aesthetisizing apolitical and ahistorical exercise, recapitulated in 1989the stakes of an infinite task and responsibility that, in spite of and because of its infinity, cannot be relegated to tomorrow: "[...] justice, however unpresentable it may be, doesn't wait. It is that which must not wait" (ibid., 969). …
Points de suspension
Introduction
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
With this essay, Eric Santner, the author of Stranded Objects and My Own Private Germany, offers another powerful, erudite and inspiring exploration of an uncharted area of modern German thought. The goal of this truly captivating study is, in the author's words, to bring Rosenzweig's and Freud's projects, which have "never been seen as inhabiting the same intellectual universe, into a sustained 'conversation'" (23). By exploring the "spiritual d…
Deconstruction is Justice
This provocative assertion, from Derrida's Force of Law (945), sharply contrasting with the decades-old criticism of deconstruction as an aesthetisizing apolitical and ahistorical exercise, recapitulated in 1989the stakes of an infinite task and responsibility that, in spite of and because of its infinity, cannot be relegated to tomorrow: "[...] justice, however unpresentable it may be, doesn't wait. It is that which must not wait" (ibid., 969). …
Fending Off Idolatry
Fending Off Idolatry: Ceremonial Law in Mendelssohn's Jerusalem Elisabeth Weber University of California, Santa Barbara In a 1923 letter to Martin Buber published under the title "Concerning the Law," Franz Rosenzweig asks: Did any Jew prior to [the Western Orthodoxy and the liberalism of the reformers of the nineteenth century] really think—without having the question put to him—that he was keeping the Law, and the Law him, only because God impo…
Suspended from the Other's Heartbeat
Research Article| April 01 2007 Suspended from the Other's Heartbeat Elisabeth Weber Elisabeth Weber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (2): 325–344. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2006-026 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Elisabeth Weber; Suspended from the Other's Heartbeat. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2007; 106 (2)…
Die Verletzbarkeit des Menschen
Folter muss heute als eine beabsichtigte Traumatisierung verstanden werden. Gezielt nutzt sie das aus, was Gesellschaften möglich macht: die basale Offenheit und Verletzbarkeit des Menschen. In ihrer Verweigerung von Empathie zielt ihre Gewalt darauf, Affekte auszulösen, die nicht mehr sozial gebunden werden können. So kettet sie die Betroffenen dauerhaft an sich. Diese gewaltsame Politik der Affekte betrifft nicht nur die Opfer und die Täter, so…
Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp
Research Article| September 01 2011 Literary Justice? Poems from Guantánamo Bay Prison Camp Elisabeth Weber Elisabeth Weber University of California, Santa Barbara Elisabeth Weber teaches German and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include French philosophy and theory, psychoanalysis, and trauma-studies. She is the author of a book on Emmanuel Levinas, Verfolgung and Trauma (Persecution…
Living Together
Contributors: Jacques Derrida, Gil Anidjar, Ellen Armour, Michal Ben-Naftali, Richard Falk, Michal Govrin, Kevin Hart, Dana Hollander, Priya Kumar, Joseph Massad, Marc Nichanian, William Robert, Sherene Seikaly, Elisabeth Weber, Raef Zreik
Speaking about Torture
Introduction Julie Carlson and Elisabeth Weber: For the Humanities I. America Tortures Lisa Hajjar: An Assault on Truth: A Chronology of Torture, Deception and Denial Alfred McCoy: In the Minotaur's Labyrinth: Psychological Torture, Public Forgetting, and Contested History II. Singularities of Witness Reinhold Gorling: and society (translated from German by Glenn Patten) Susan Derwin: What Nazi Crimes Against Humanity Can Tell us about Today Elis…
Bonds
Die seit fünf Jahren aktuelle Finanz- und Schuldenkrise wird häufig moralisch kommentiert. Diese verbreitete Praxis bezieht sich auf die Gewissheit, dass manche Straftaten durch Geldzahlungen gesühnt werden können, also durch Verwandlung einer rechtlich-moralischen in eine finanzielle Schuld, und umgekehrt versäumte Geldzahlungen – zum Beispiel Steuerhinterziehungen – durch Haftstrafen geahndet werden können. Ökonomische sind häufig moralische En…
Dreaded by everything within us that desires a kingdom
Ages of Cruelty
For Jacques Derrida, one of the most urgent tasks of philosophy today is to think "sovereignty" and the ways in which it is inseparable from the two "ages" of cruelty of today's wars: one techno-scientific, from which the "cruor" of blood seems to have been wiped away, and another, bloodily "archaic," reacting savagely to the first. Derrida and the French-Tunisian psychoanalyst Fethi Benslama assert that these two "ages" of cruelty are closely in…
Penser la paix, peut-être, vielleicht, perhaps, ulai, la'alla
Kill Boxes
Kill Boxes addresses the legacy of US-sponsored torture, indefinite detention, and drone warfare by deciphering the shocks of recognition that humanistic and artistic responses to violence bring to consciousness if readers and viewers have eyes to face them.Beginning with an analysis of the ways in which the hooded man from Abu Ghraib became iconic, subsequent chapters take up less culturally visible scenes of massive violations of human rights t…
Conjuring Green
Taking its point of departure in a childhood memory of Derrida around raising silkworms, this essay explores the urgency invoked in the same memory of ‘conjuring green’. Following the polysemy of the French verb ( conjurer means to ‘ward off’, ‘cause (a spirit or ghost) to appear’, ‘implore’, and literally, ‘swear together’), the conjured green binds the child and later the writer surreptitiously to both the community and language of Islam, in wh…
Everything is Breath
"Everything is Breath":Critical Plant Studies' Metaphysics of Mixture Elisabeth Weber (bio) In her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin W. Kimmerer contrasts two creation stories that are thoroughly incompatible. One starts with an all-powerful male creator calling the world and its vegetation and animals into existence through words, and forming the first human beings from clay; th…
Shared Breath, Common Sense
Emanuele Coccia's The Life of Plants proposes to "reopen the question of the world" through the deceptively simple, yet radical fact that all breathing living beings breathe because of plants. Refuting the metaphysical assumption that breath as spirit ( psyché rather than pneuma ) inhabits a higher ontological order than matter, Coccia fundamentally adjusts the claim of animal superiority over plants. As original as this approach might appear in …
Abenteuer. Imagination und Wissensformation zwischen Fortschrittseuphorie und Kolonialismuskritik
Humboldt oder wie das Reisen das Denken verändert. Von Oliver Lubrich. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2022. 525 Seiten. €34,00 gebunden. Polarreisen zwischen Empirie und Imagination. Von Dorit Müller. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2022. 430 Seiten + 83 Abbildungen, teilweise farbig. €34,80
Philosophy (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (4 works)