Hugh J. Silverman - Publications

Publications

Silverman has published more than 25 books, over 100 articles and book chapters, and has delivered over 400 invited lectures in North and South America, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Korea, and Taiwan.

His authored books include:

• Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction (Routledge, 1994), translated into German as Textualitäten: Zwischen Hermeneutik und Dekonstruktion (Turia + Kant, 1979), Italian as Testualità tra ermeneutica e deconstruzione with an introduction to the Italian Reader (Spirali, 2003), and Korean (2009) under the title of Textualities: Between Philosophy and the Arts.
• Inscriptions: After Phenomenology and Structuralism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 2nd ed., Northwestern University Press, 1997 ).

His more than twenty-three edited and co-edited books in English, German, Spanish, and Korean include studies of Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Sartre, Piaget, Žižek, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and postmodern theory. He is also known for his published translations and editions of Merleau-Ponty's writings into English.

As Editor of the Routledge Continental Philosophy series, volumes are both edited and introduced by Professor Silverman. Book titles include:

• (1988/1997) Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Merleau-Ponty
• (1989) Derrida and Deconstruction
• (1990) Postmodernism—Philosophy and the Arts
• (1991) Gadamer and Hermeneutics
• (1994) Questioning Foundations: Truth / Subjectivity / Culture
• (1998) Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier
• (2000) Philosophy and Desire
• (2003) Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime

His published articles include:

• “Re-Reading Merleau-Ponty”. Telos 29 (Fall 1976). New York: Telos Press.
• "'Wenn ich Fremder bin, gibt es keine Fremden:' Reflexionen über postmoderne Fremde," trans. Daniel Weidner, Psychoanalyse und Philosophie, Mitteilung des Instituts für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 51. Jahrgang, no. 1 (1996), 10-16.
• "Modernism and Postmodernism," Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Supplement). New York: Macmillan, 1996.
• "Postmodernismi Ja Elokuva: Roskaelokuvissa Econ ja Derridan kanssa," trans. Anita Seppä, Synteesi: Taiteidenvälisen Tutkimuksen Aikakauslehti (3, 1997), 89-97.
• "La scrittura avanti lo scrivere," trans. Alessandro Carrera. Intersezioni: Rivista di storia delle idee (Anno XIX, Dec. 1999), 417-420.
• "Le posmodernisme comme modernite 'fin de siecle' (ou: Le posmodernisme aux fins de l' 'in-difference')," trans. Arnaud Villani, Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, (Octobre-Decembre: No. 4, 2001), 67-78.
• "Living on (Borderlines): The Ethics of the Event of Lived Human Relations (Merleau-Ponty / Derrida)," Chiasmi International, 6 (2005),273-284.
• "Respons-abilities --- Between Three," Archivo di Filosofia - 2006, ed. Marco Olivetti (Accademia Editoriale, 2006), 479-89.
• "Respons-abilities for Legacies: Jacques - on vous suit à travers vos textes," Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Special Issue: Following Derrida: Legacies, Vol. 40, no 2 (June 2007), 297-306.
• "Tracing Responsibility: Levinas between Merleau-Ponty and Derrida," Journal of French Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 2007), 81-96.
• "Rückkehr der Postmoderne: Die Macht der Gespenster," trans. Sabine Malicha and David Ender, Corpus, Thema #11: SPECTERS°.°GESPENSTER, (October 2008), 17 pp.