Grace Lee Boggs Collegiate Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies; Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of German Studies
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Office Information:
435 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
phone: 7343687281
Comparative Literature; Western Europe; Philosophy and Theory; Classical Reception Studies; Gender and Women's Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Sports Culture; North America
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of PennsylvaniaHighlighted Work and Publications
The Laius Syndrome, or the Ends of Political Fatherhood
Silke-Maria Weineck
Reading Oedipus has never strayed far from the political: his story is, after all, the story of the rise and fall of a city, and even those readings that appear to disregard the polis altogether, presenting him as a figure of solitary desire, feed off and into theories of law, community, and violence. Psychoanalysis is the best example of that. Nonetheless, something changed drastically when Freud turned Oedipus Tyrannus into Oedipus Teknon, when the king becomes first and foremost the child, and the father turns into first and foremost an object of fantasy. Read more... Name of Periodical: Project... See More
Zuckende Verzeichnung: Alkmene und die Briefe
Silke-Maria Weineck
Name of Periodical: Beiträge zur Kleist-Forschung Year of Publication: 2007
Digesting the Nineteenth Century: Nietzsche and the Stomach of Modernity
Silke-Maria Weineck
Name of Periodical: Romanticism Volume Number: 12 Issue Number: 1 Year of Publication: 2006 Page Numbers: 35-43
Sex and History, Or Is There an Erotic Utopia in Dantons Tod?
Silke-Maria Weineck
Name of Periodical: German Quarterly Volume Number: 73 Issue Number: 4 Year of Publication: 2000 Page Numbers: 351-365
The Tragedy of Fatherhood
Silke Weineck
Theories of power have always been intertwined with theories of fatherhood: paternity is the oldest and most persistent metaphor of benign, legitimate rule. The paternal trope gains its strength from its integration of law, body, and affect—in the affirmative model of fatherhood, the biological father, the legal father, and the father who protects and nurtures his children are one and the same, and in a complex system of mutual interdependence, the father of the family is symbolically linked to the paternal gods of monotheism and the paternal ruler of the monarchic state.
If tragedy is...
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Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War through the Classics
Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck, editors
Many famous texts from classical antiquity—by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer—present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts also provide useful ways of thinking about the complexities and consequences of wars throughout history, and the concept of war broadly construed, providing vital new perspectives on conflict in our own era.
Our Ancient Wars features essays by top scholars from across academic disciplines—classicists...
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It's Football, Not Soccer (and Vice Versa): On the History, Emotion, and Ideology Behind One of the Internet's Most Ferocious Debates
Silke-Maria Weineck and Stefan Szymanski
Every four years, when the World Cup rolls around, the internet yells at the US that "it's football, not soccer." This short and light-hearted book lays out the contours of the debate, delves into the history of the word “football” and the emergence of the word “soccer,” explores some 20th-century data on the distribution of the two words and the surprisingly recent origin of the great schism, tells you about all the words the world actually uses to describe the game, gives you a glimpse of the convoluted fate of the word soccer in Australia, and tries to make sense of it all. Stefan...
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City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit
Silke-Maria Weineck and Stefan Szymanski
The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city’s major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prizewinning cultural critic.
From Ty Cobb and Hank Greenberg to the Bad Boys, from Joe Louis and Gordie Howe to the Malice at the Palace, City of Champions explores the history of Detroit through the stories of its most gifted athletes and most celebrated teams, linking iconic events in the history of Motown sports to the city’s shifting fortunes.
In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held...
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