Anselm Haverkamp

Anselm Haverkamp (born 1943) is a German literary critic. Having studied English literature, philosophy and history at the University of Konstanz, he gained his PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 1975. In 1989, he became Professor of English at the New York University, since 1996, he also teaches comparative literature at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt (Oder)). Influenced by post-structuralist thought, Haverkamp wrote several books on the theory of metaphor. He also published works on Friedrich Hölderlin, Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. He is the secretary-general of the International Walter Benjamin Society.

List of publications

* Ed.: "Deconstruction Is/In America: A New Sense of the Political." New York: NYU Press 1995, ISBN 0814735185
* "Leaves of Mourning : Hölderlin’s Late Work, with an Essay on Keats and Melancholy. Translated by Vernon Chadwick." Albany: SUNY Press 1996, ISBN 0791427390
* Ed.: "Memory Inc." New York: ANY 1996.
* Ed.: "Walter Benjamin after the 20th C." New York: Cardozo Law School 2004.
* Ed.: "Derrida/America." New York: Cardozo Law School 2005

External links

* [http://english.fas.nyu.edu/object/AnselmHaverkamp.html Haverkamp´s homepage at the NYU]

ee also

*List of deconstructionists