Liliane Weissberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 975679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liliane Weissberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liliane |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissberg |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSBERG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6084-0001 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shylock im Museum: Zur Ausstellbarkeit eines „literarischen Antisemitismus“
A few years ago, literary critics have defined a new area of research, literary anti-Semitism. These scholars analyze the material, and comment on its political nature and implications. Museum officials have a perhaps more difficult task, as they address a more general audience, and would like to inform as well as educate. Only fairly recently, anti-Semitic objects that were part of private collections made their way into public shows. Curators a…
Adorno Takes Notes: Sociology and Critical Theory in the Nineteen Forties
Many of the scholars who gathered at the Marxistische Arbeitswoche in 1923, and went on to found the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, were of Jewish background. At first, however, their work was hardly concerned with the social and political issues pertaining to Jews at that time. This changed in emigration. The present essay describes the shift in the Institute’s sociological research during its years in New York and its work o…
Leopold Zunz, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Names of the Jews
Kann das Judentum erneuert werden: Franz Rosenzweig und das Freie Jüdische Lehrhaus
Laudatio für Agnes Heller † aus Anlass der Verleihung des internationalen Friedrich-Nietzsche-Preises (Naumburg, den 19. Oktober 2019): Von der Notwendigkeit der Philosophie
Article Laudatio für Agnes Heller † aus Anlass der Verleihung des internationalen Friedrich-Nietzsche-Preises (Naumburg, den 19. Oktober 2019) was published on November 1, 2020 in the journal Nietzscheforschung (volume 27, issue 1)
Hannah Arendt besucht Karl Jaspers
Postcards from the Avant-Garde
Postcards from the Avant-Garde Liliane Weissberg (bio) I. The Traffic of Art In 1916, the cultural historian and book collector Aby Warburg inherited a small sum of money. The legacy came with strings attached. Warburg had already spent much of his own share of the Warburg family fortune on his library project, but the inheritance was to be spent for his personal enjoyment only. Instead of purchasing printed matter, library supplies, or travel ti…
Freuds Ringe
Scenes from a Friendship: On the Epistolary Exchange between Gershom Scholem and Siegfried Unseld
Gershom Scholem had already had contact with Peter Suhrkamp at the Suhrkamp publishing house. It was Suhrkamp's successor Siegfried Unseld, however, who established a close relationship between the press and this important scholar of Jewish religion. Under Unseld's direction, Scholem's work was published or reissued by Suhrkamp, and Scholem served as an adviser to Suhrkamp's publication list in philosophy and Jewish Studies. Largely through Schol…
Patient and Painter: The Careers of Sergius Pankejeff
Patient and Painter: The Careers of Sergius Pankejeff Liliane Weissberg (bio) Who was the “Wolf Man”? The person behind this pseudonym may seem familiar to many; after all, “Wolf Man” is the name offered by Sigmund Freud to a patient whose case he discussed in his study of 1918, “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” (“Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose”). This text is, in turn, one of Freud’s most famous case studies as it offers a…
Figurationen der Moderne: Mode, Pornographie und Sport
Der Band thematisiert den Zusammenhang von Kultur und Geschlecht in der literarischen Moderne. Mit der auf den ersten Blick vielleicht überraschenden Zusammenstellung von Mode, Sport und Pornographie werden drei gesellschaftliche Bereiche in den Mittelpunkt gerückt, deren Praktiken und Diskurse durch den gesellschaftlichen Modernisierungsprozess seit dem Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts hervorgebracht und verändert werden. Sie tragen aber auch selbst…
Der Code der Leidenschaften: Fetischismus in den Künsten
Der Fetischismus ist ein Schlüsselphänomen der modernen Gesellschaften. Er bestimmt nicht nur religiöse und mentale Formationen, sondern auch die libidinösen Objektbeziehungen in der Konsum- und Massenkultur. Bemerkenswert unterbelichtet sind die Spielarten fetischistischer Formen und Praktiken in den Künsten, Medien und Literaturen. Diese Lücke schließt 'Der Code der Leidenschaften'. Das Phänomen des Fetischismus ist gewiss älter als sein Diskur…
Sind moderne Religionsgespräche auch jüdische Religionsgespräche
Ariadne’s Thread
Ariadne’s Thread Liliane Weissberg (bio) You’re dreaming of taking on a braid or a weave, a warp or a woof, but without being sure of the textile to come, if there is one, if any remains and without knowing if what remains to come will still deserve the name of text, especially of the text in the figure of a textile. —Jacques Derrida, “A Silkworm of One’s Own”1 In her memoirs, My Three Mothers and Other Passions, Sophie Freud describes a visit to…
Introduction: Freudian Genealogies
Heinrich Heine Writes about His Life
Heinrich Heine Writes About His Life Liliane Weissberg (bio) I. Phantom Wounds None of Heinrich Heine's (1797–1856) manuscripts suffered as much speculation or provoked as much anticipation during his lifetime as his projected memoirs, which he pursued over many decades. Indeed, already in 1823 the young Berlin law student who attended Hegel's lectures was eager to apply these lessons to a vision of his own life. In those years, Heine describes h…
Becoming Historians
Becoming Historians Liliane Weissberg (bio) George L. Mosse . Confronting History: A Memoir. With a foreword by Walter Laqueur. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 219. Gerda Lerner . Fireweed: A Political Autobiography. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 377. Eric J. Hobsbawm . Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. Pp. xv + 447. I. How does one become a historian? Thr…
Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing (review)
Dora Apel. Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002. 241 pp. 6 color, 63 b/w illus. ISBN 0-8135-3048-2, $65.00 cloth; ISBN 0-8135-3049-0, $28.00 paper
Cultural Writings of Franz Rosenzweig
These essays offer a glimpse into the cultural and social dimensions of Franz Rosenzweig's thought - an aspect of his philosophy that has too often been ignored by an over-emphasis on his status as a religious thinker
Romancing The Shadow: Poe and Race
Edgar Allen Poe’s strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works’ subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-cent…
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust
Die Geschichten vom Ba'al Schem Tov/Schivche ha-Bescht
Freud and the Legacy of Moses
Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
Keepers of Motherland is first comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. Dagmar Lorenz begins with an examination of Yiddish author Glikl Hamil, whose works date from late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and proceeds through such contemporary writers as Grete Weil, Katja Behrens, and Ruth Kluger. Along way she examines an extraordinary range of distinguished authors, including Else Lasker-Schuler, Rosa Luxemburg…
Varnhagen und sein später Schmäher: Über einige Vorurteile Arno Schmidts. Mit Seitenblicken auf weitere Personen und einem dokumentarischen Anhang
Language's Wound: Herder, Philoctetes, and the Origin of Speech
Let us, first, pursue the question of the origin: Haben die Menschen, ihren Naturfahigkeiten tiberlaBen, sich selbst Sprache erfinden konnen?' Johann Gottfried Herder answers this question, proposed by the Prussian Academy in 1769,2 with his Abhandlung uiber den Ursprung der Sprache, an essay that would win for its author a desired prize and recognition, and would be published by the Academy in 1772. Herder's work leaves little doubt about his an…
Dictations: On Haunted Writing
Dictations: On Haunted Writing." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 64(3), pp. 135–136
Postcards from the Avant-Garde
Postcards from the Avant-Garde Liliane Weissberg (bio) I. The Traffic of Art In 1916, the cultural historian and book collector Aby Warburg inherited a small sum of money. The legacy came with strings attached. Warburg had already spent much of his own share of the Warburg family fortune on his library project, but the inheritance was to be spent for his personal enjoyment only. Instead of purchasing printed matter, library supplies, or travel ti…
Patient and Painter: The Careers of Sergius Pankejeff
Patient and Painter: The Careers of Sergius Pankejeff Liliane Weissberg (bio) Who was the “Wolf Man”? The person behind this pseudonym may seem familiar to many; after all, “Wolf Man” is the name offered by Sigmund Freud to a patient whose case he discussed in his study of 1918, “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” (“Aus der Geschichte einer infantilen Neurose”). This text is, in turn, one of Freud’s most famous case studies as it offers a…
Ariadne’s Thread
Ariadne’s Thread Liliane Weissberg (bio) You’re dreaming of taking on a braid or a weave, a warp or a woof, but without being sure of the textile to come, if there is one, if any remains and without knowing if what remains to come will still deserve the name of text, especially of the text in the figure of a textile. —Jacques Derrida, “A Silkworm of One’s Own”1 In her memoirs, My Three Mothers and Other Passions, Sophie Freud describes a visit to…
Phantastische Literatur im ersten Viertel des 20. Jahrhunderts
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys
Writing on the Wall: Letters of Rahel Varnhagen
In a letter to Karl August Varnhagen, Rahel Varnhagen, while describing herself, offers an advice to her husband: see, I love truth; am simple, strict, but soft; have no results beforehand in my eye and mind; and am always willing to grasp things innocently. Think therefore only of such a human being; and so, with your other talents and skills, in this large, literary, baked-together-with-lies world, there must be produced things that are worthwh…
Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and aesthetics in the Age of Reason
Desired Reconciliations: On Language as Experiment
Between 1817 and 1824, Goethe published several essays on morphology. Stressing the methodological importance of these essays, he wrote three prefaces to the first series, in which he describes his subject as one that provides descriptions of forms [Gestalten] and their changes or metamorphoses.' Subsumed under the category of Naturwissenschaften, morphology would offer the scientific rules to translate the specific experience of history, documen…
The Storm and Stress of Language: Linguistic Catastrophe in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger, and Schiller
Language's Wound: Herder, Philoctetes, and the Origin of Speech
Let us, first, pursue the question of the origin: Haben die Menschen, ihren Naturfahigkeiten tiberlaBen, sich selbst Sprache erfinden konnen?' Johann Gottfried Herder answers this question, proposed by the Prussian Academy in 1769,2 with his Abhandlung uiber den Ursprung der Sprache, an essay that would win for its author a desired prize and recognition, and would be published by the Academy in 1772. Herder's work leaves little doubt about his an…
Dictations: On Haunted Writing
Dictations: On Haunted Writing." The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 64(3), pp. 135–136
Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing
Geistersprache: Philosophischer und literarischer Diskurs im spaten achtzehnten Jahrhundert
Edgar Allan Poe
In Leben und Werk ist Edgar Allan Poe einer der originellsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mit seinen Erzählungen wurde er zum Schöpfer der "short-story" und der modernen Detekt
Edgar Allan Poe
Geistersprache: Philosophischer und literarischer Diskurs im spaten achtzehnten Jahrhundert
Stepping out: The Writing of Difference in Rahel Varnhagen's Letters
The term antisemitism was coined in the late 19th century and designates, as a political term, a negative attitude towards Jews that no longer finds its cause in issues of religion, but instead derives from a concept of human races and the difference of human natures. Hannah Arendt, in her preface to the first part of The Origins of Totalitarianism, entitled Antisemitism, elucidates this shift
Changing Weather: A Review Essay
Turns of Emancipation: On Rahel Varnhagen's Letters
Emancipation, the deliverance from bondage or controlling influence,' is a term that has its origin in the Roman family and describes not just the liberation of slaves but also the freeing of children from paternal power. It developed into a political term associated with contracts and laws and with the declaration of civil rights, and its use is highly charged ideologically. The eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for example, does…
Europe
Philosophy and the Fairy Tale: Ernst Bloch as Narrator
In his Von den Lebensaltern einer Sprache, an essay included in the collection Ober die neuere deutsche Literatur: Fragmente, published in 1766 and 1767 and revised in 1768,Johann Gottfried Herder describes the development of language by comparing its early stage to that of human childhood. Herder does not have any individual growth to maturity in mind, however. Language in its childhood is like a nation in its youth; it is of wild origin
Schreiben als Selbstentwurf
Varnhagen und sein später Schmäher: Über einige Vorurteile Arno Schmidts. Mit Seitenblicken auf weitere Personen und einem dokumentarischen Anhang
Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
Keepers of Motherland is first comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. Dagmar Lorenz begins with an examination of Yiddish author Glikl Hamil, whose works date from late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and proceeds through such contemporary writers as Grete Weil, Katja Behrens, and Ruth Kluger. Along way she examines an extraordinary range of distinguished authors, including Else Lasker-Schuler, Rosa Luxemburg…
The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust
Die Geschichten vom Ba'al Schem Tov/Schivche ha-Bescht
Freud and the Legacy of Moses
Romancing The Shadow: Poe and Race
Edgar Allen Poe’s strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works’ subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-cent…
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