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Shierry Weber Nicholsen Bio


Nicholsen, Shierry Weber Shierry Weber(b. 1941), visiting professor of German Studies, private psychoanalytic practice

  • Shierry's current website (2007) contributor to Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left, edited by John Bokina and Timothy J. Lukes (Kansas, 1994) translator of works by Adorno and other critical theorists, including Herbert's Five Lectures (1970). Her publications include:
    • "Aesthetic experience and self-reflection as emancipatory processes: two complementary aspects of critical theory" (UC Irvine Social Science Working Paper 65, 1975)Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics (MIT Press, 1997)
    • The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern (MIT Press, 2002)
    University of Washington faculty pagePh.D., Comparative literature, Cornell University 1975.M.A., Counseling, California State University at Northridge, 1974 .M.A., German literature, Cornell University 1965.
  • B.A., English literature, Cornell University 1963.
Index entries: Nicholsen, Shierry Weber
Updated: 2005