Background
Rapaport, Herman was born on February 15, 1947 in Schiedam, Netherlands. Son of Josef Max and Betty Margaret (Van Wien) Rapaport. came to the United States, 1956.
( As the spell of Jacques Derrida grows stronger, with mo...)
As the spell of Jacques Derrida grows stronger, with more translations and analyses appearing every season, it is possible--and necessary--to determine what in his work is truly new and what continues philosophical and literary traditions. Although Martin Heidegger ahs been mentioned before as a precursor of deconstruction, Herman Rapaport is the first to develop the connections between the writings of the German philosopher and Derrida. Heidegger and Derrida discusses the French philosopher's adoption of certain Heideggerean themes and his extension or overturning of them. But Rapaport does more than show how deconstruction builds on the philosophical foundations laid by Heidegger (and also by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud). In the most comprehensive study of Derrida's works to date, he tackles the problem of writing an intellectual history about a figure who has put into question the possibility of such a construction and acknowledges Derrida's concerns with Jewish history in relation to Western thought.
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comparative literature educator
Rapaport, Herman was born on February 15, 1947 in Schiedam, Netherlands. Son of Josef Max and Betty Margaret (Van Wien) Rapaport. came to the United States, 1956.
Bachelor, California State University, Fullerton, 1969; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California Irvine, 1978.
Assistant professor, Loyola University, Chicago, 1979-1984; associate professor, U. Iowa, Iowa City, 1984-1989; professor, U. Iowa, Iowa City, since 1989; chairman, comparative literature program, U. Iowa, Iowa City, since 1990. Consultant Yale University Press, Chicago U. Press, Nebraska U. Press, Oklahoma U. Press, Minnesota U. Press, Princeton University Press.
(A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane'...)
( As the spell of Jacques Derrida grows stronger, with mo...)
Member Modern Language Association, International Association Philosophy and Literature, Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy.
Married Susanne Louise Feret, April 25, 1981. 1 child, Aaron Gabriel.