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1 online resource (xxii, 219 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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On creaturely life -- The vicissitudes of melancholy -- Toward a natural history of the present -- On the sexual life of creatures and other matters. |
Summary |
In his Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that animals enjoy direct access to a realm of being--the open--concealed from humans by the workings of consciousness and self-consciousness. In his own reading of Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges--what Eric Santner calls the creaturely--have a biopolitical aspect: they are linked to the processes that inscribe life in the realm of power an. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. |
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence.
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Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944- -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence. |
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. |
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence. |
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Rilke, Rainer Maria -- Rezeption -- Sebald, Winfried Georg. |
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Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Rezeption -- Rilke, Rainer Maria. |
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Benjamin, Walter -- Rezeption -- Sebald, Winfried Georg. |
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Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Rezeption -- Benjamin, Walter. |
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Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Melancholie <Motiv> -- Leiblichkeit <Motiv>. |
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature. |
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Melancholy in literature.
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Melancholy in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Santner, Eric L., 1955- On creaturely life. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006 9780226735023 (DLC) 2005027453 (OCoLC)61757937 |
ISBN |
9780226735054 (electronic book) |
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0226735052 (electronic book) |
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0226735028 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226735036 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226735023 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226735030 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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