Anselm Haverkamp
Professor of EnglishDr.phil.habil. 1983 (German and comparative literature), Konstanz; Dr.phil. 1975 (medieval literature and literary theory), Heidelberg; M.A. 1968 (literature, history, and philosophy), Konstanz.
Office Address: 19 University Pl, 308 New York, New York (US) 10003
Phone: (212) 998-8848
Fax: (212) 995-4019
Areas of Research/Interest
literature and philosophy; metaphorology; law and literature; canon formation. Shakespeare, Keats, Joyce.
External Affiliations
Advisory Board, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis; Editorial Board, Law and Literature
Fellowships/Honors
Honorar Professor of Philosophy, LMU Munich, since 2009; Messenger University Lectures, Cornell University, 2008; Distinguished Floersheimer Visiting Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York, 2006. Visiting Professor of Philosophy, EHESS Paris, 2002; IC Paris, 2003. Visiting Professor of Literature, Bergen and Oslo, 1993; MPI Berlin, 1992; NYU 1988; Freiburg, 1987; U of Oregon, 1986; U of Minnesota, 1985; Yale University, 1984-1985.
Publications
Books
Ed. Deconstruction Is/In America. New York: NYU Press 1995.
Ed. Memory Inc. New York: ANY 1996.
Hamlet, Hypothek der Macht. Berlin: Kadmos 2001, 2004.
Figura cryptica. Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp 2002.
Latenzzeit. Berlin: Kadmos 2004.
Ed. Walter Benjamin after the 20th C. New York: Cardozo Law School 2004.
Ed. Derrida/America. New York: Cardozo Law School 2005.
Metapher: Die Ästhetik in der Rhetorik. Munich: Fink 2007.
Diesseits der Oder. Berlin: Kadmos 2008.
Begreifen im Bild. Berlin: August 2009.
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power. London: Routledge 2010.
Die Zweideutigkeit der Kunst. Berlin: August 2012
Recent research papers:
Mass Times Acceleration, Qui parle 12 (2001).
Chaos by Design: The Light/ Sound Constellation, MLN 118 (2003). L’inconcéptualité de l’être, Archives de Philosophie 67 (2004).
The Enemy has No Future, Cardozo Law Review 26 (2004-5).
Ghost of History: Hamlet’s Politics of Paternity, Law and Literature 18 (2006). Art Awaits Its Explanation: Recent Interest in Adorno, Phrasis 49 (2007).
Life in the Sonnets. Festschrift Hans Jörg Rheinberger (2011).
To Conceive of, in Pictures, Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 58/59 (2011).
The Scandal of Metaphorology, Telos 158 (2012).
A Narrow Thing within One Word. Theatrum Mundi (2012).
