Samuel Weber. Economic Theology. 2010http://www.egs.edu/, Samuel Weber American Philosopher and Professor talking about crisis of religious monotheism as a frame for understanding today's modern secular world of globalized capitalism. In this lecture, Professor Weber navigates through various economic theories and speculations, critiquing the narrow parameters of political, social and economic discourse, given the dire context of today's global economic crisis. Samuel Weber discusses the collapse of the US Market, in part, as a reflection of a larger failed system, its events, policies and theories. The failure of the globalized system includes the banishment or taboo of any discourse resembling a Socialist or Marxian systemic critique of the political economy. Samuel Weber analogizes this taboo to the 1517 reformation attack against the religious practice of selling or granting indulgences, a practice re-emerging amidst today's crises which is a literal and symbolic problem of a larger "sin" circumventing the established secular global institutions of today. Concluding with some quotes from Walter Benjamin, Samuel Weber implores that we observe some of the practices of Western Religion, such as salvation and despair, debt and guilt, as similar to the cult of capitalism, or, capitalism as a religion. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2010. Samuel Weber, Ph.D., is an American philosopher and professor. Professor Weber is the Paul de Man Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS), the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University, and one of the leading American thinkers across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Samuel Weber was born in New York. Samuel Weber has been a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Director of their Paris Program in Critical Theory. Samuel Weber obtained his doctorate from Cornell University in 1960, working with Paul de Man. He then pursued graduate education in Europe, primarily in Germany, and has been a professor in all, Germany, France, and the United States ever since. It was during his studies abroad that he first encountered the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He was strongly influenced by the work of Theodor W. Adorno, eventually coming to translate his major work of his critical theory -- Prisms -- into English. This translation, including an introduction by written by him, was of crucial importance in the reception of the work ofTheodor W. Adornoin the Anglophone world. Samuel Weber is not only distinguished for having introduced major elements of the Frankfurt School to English speakers; he also brought the Bhaktin circle and deconstruction to the attention of many in America, both through his work as co-founder and editor of the journal Glyph and his scholarly translations of original texts. In the 70s and 80s he became a prominent figure as he helped introduce and comment, primarily in the United States and Germany, on the work of the Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan. In fact, he translated Jacques Derrida's 'Signature Event Context' (1977) and 'Limited, Inc.' (1988). His book Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (1978, 1991), originally written in German, has been groundbreaking in the fields of psychoanalysis and literary theory. Several of his books are being brought out by Beijing University Press in Chinese translation. Samuel Weber was a visiting professor at many universities in France and Germany, and taught at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and the Free University of Berlin. In the United States, he taught at UCLA and Johns Hopkins University.Samuel Weber has also written many chapter in books, including: "The Indefinite Article of the Love of a Phrase" in Reading Ronell (2009). "Benjamin's --abilities: Mediality and Concept Formation in Benjamin's Early Writings" inBenjamin-Studien (German), 2008. "Reading over a Globalized World" inEncountering Derrida (2008). "The Politics of Protection and Projection" inReligion Beyond a Concept (2007). "Replacing the Body: An Approach to the Question of Digital Democracy" in Public Space and Democracy (2001). "Benjamin's Style" in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Vol. I. (1998). code pour embarquer la vidéo : >>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/FP8CJvuARDw <<< |