Rate My Professor Désirée Weber

Weber teaches a variety of political theory courses at Wooster. Her contributions to scholarship include the critical introduction to the first English translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Word Book (Wörterbuch für Volksschulen), published in collaboration with artist Paul Chan in November 2020. In 2024, she contributed the chapter “Community in a Democratic Society” to the edited volume Wittgenstein and Democratic Politics: Education, Community, Practice (Palgrave Macmillan), which delves into Wittgenstein’s conception of community. Additional publications feature “A Pedagogic Reading of the Philosophical Investigations: Criteria, Judgment, and Normativity.” Weber engages in public scholarship, including a USA Today panel on policing in 2021 and collaborations with local agencies and alumni to advance progressive policy changes in 2022. She has supported student research projects, such as those enhancing accessibility to Austrian philosophers’ writings.