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Lecture: The Martyr and the Sovereign

11/22/2004

4:00 PM

3401 Dwinelle Hall

You are cordially invited to:

A lecture co-sponsored by the Department of German and the Institute of European Studies

SIGRID WEIGEL
Director, Zentrum fur Literaturforschung Berlin

THE MARTYR AND THE SOVEREIGN:
SCENES FROM A MODERN TRAGIC DRAMA READ THROUGH WALTER BENJAMIN AND CARL SCHMITT

One of the best known and most inspiring critics in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies in Germany, Professor Weigel will discuss paradigms of political performance.