Professor Weineck's first book The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche is available from SUNY Press.

Silke thinks of herself as a metaphorologist; she is especially interested in the relationship between philosophy, literature, and figuration from the 18th to the 20th century. She serves on the steering committee of "Context for Classics," a faculty initiative devoted to exploring the presence of antiquity in the modern world. Currently, Silke is completing a book on paternal subjectivity: The Laius Complex: Politics and Tragic Paternity examines fatherhood as the master trope of politics, working with texts from Sophocles to Lacan.

• "'Invisible Person': Carl Schmitt and the Master Trope of Power," forthcoming in Germanic Review.
  
• "The Laius Syndrome, or The Ends of Political Fatherhood," forthcoming in Cultural Critique, special issue on "Classical Reception and the Political."
  
• "Zuckende Verzeichnung: Alkmene und die Briefe," Beiträge zur Kleist-Forschung 2007.
  
• "Heteros Autos: Freud's Fatherhood," in: Dreams of Interpretation/The Interpretation of Dreams, ed. Catherine Liu, John Mowitt, and Thomas Pepper, University of Minnesota Press, 2007. German Version in KultuRRevolution 46 (2004), 40-47.
  
• "Dead Children: Ben Jonson Epitaph on my first sonne," in: Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe, ed. Basil Dufallo and Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan Press, 2007.
  
• "Digesting the Nineteenth Century: Nietzsche and the Stomach of Modernity," Romanticism, 12: 1 (2006), 35-43
  
• "Sex and History, Or Is There an Erotic Utopia in Dantons Tod?", German Quarterly, 73:4 (2000): 351-365.
  
• "The Eighth Elegy," transl. of Rainer Maria Rilke, Duineser Elegien VIII, American Poetry Review, Nov/Dec 2000.