Peter Fenves
Department of German and Critical Thought

Peter Fenves, (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins), Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Adjunct professor of Philosophy and Political Science. His main interests are in continental philosophy; the relation between literature and philosophy; contemporary theory, especially Derrida. He is the author of A Peculiar Fate: Metaphysics and World-History in Kant (1991); Chatter: Language and History in Kierkegaard (1993); Arresting Language: From Leibnitz to Benjamin (2001); Late Kant: Essays on Failure (forthcoming); editor of Raising the Tone of Philosophy: Late Essays by Kant, Transformative Critique by Derrida (1993) and The Spirit of Poesy (2000). He is also the translator of Werner Hamacher's Premises.Fenves co-directs (with Samuel Weber) the program in Critical Theory.

p-fenves@northwestern.edu