Responding: A discussion with Samuel Weber

South Atlantic Quarterly

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 695-724

  Wortham, Simon Morgan ^a   Hall, Gary ^a  

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EID: 60950683077     PISSN: 00382876     EISSN: 15278026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00382876-101-3-695     Document Type: Note

References (22)

1. Samuel Weber, Moss Mediauras (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996)
2. Jacques Derrida, Speech and Phenomena, and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1973)
3. Sigmund Freud, "Beyond the Pleasure Principle," in Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, vol. 18 (London: Hogarth Press, 1968)
4. Jacques Derrida, "Signature Event Context," Glyph I (1977): 172-97
5. Jacques Derrida, Limited Inc. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988)
6. Soren Kierkegaard, Repetition: A Venture in Experimental Psychology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983)
7. Jacques Derrida, Dissemination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981)
8. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment (New York: Hafner Press, 1980)
9. This claim has since been retracted. The original claim on the Web is found at indymedia. org/front.php3/article-id=63288&group=webcast; and the retraction is at www.indymedia.org/front.php3/article-id=64366
10. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996)
11. Samuel Weber, "Capitalizing History," in Institution and Interpretation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 40-58
12. Karen DeYoung and Michael Dobbs, International Herald Tribune, September 17, 2001
13. The remarks of Robert Precht are worth noting in his context. Professor Precht served as public defender of one of those accused in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. His conclusion about the state of mind and motivations of those involved in this attack can serve as a valuable warning against easy stereotypes: " 'The things that struck me were the very complicated feelings the people who commit these acts have for America," he said. "Our leaders describe them as evildoers and say they hate everything our country stands for.... That was not my experience." He said several of the defendants admired the U.S. system of government and law and had a real knowledge of American history. But they resented U.S. policies. The dispute terrorists have with America is really more a political one and has nothing to do with Islamic beliefs, Precht said. Instead, he said, "these are simply people who develop political agendas and then dress them up in a cloak of righteousness" (Kathy Barr Hoffmann, "Attacks Remind Professor of 1993," AP, October 1, 2001)
14. Samuel Weber, Walter Benjamin's - abilities (unpublished manuscript)
15. See also Samuel Weber, Theatricality As Medium (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002)
16. Jacques Derrida, The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987)
17. Wlad Godzich, "Afterword: Religion, the State, and Post(al) Modernism," in Weber, Institution and Interpretation, 153-64
18. Samuel Weber, "The Limits of Professionalism," in Institution and Interpretation, 18-32
19. The Guardian, September 18, 2001
20. Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority," Cardozo Law Review: Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice 11.5-6 (1990): 920-1045
21. Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals (New York: Anchor Books, 1967)
22. Jacques Derrida, Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 129-36