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Author Santner, Eric L., 1955-

Title On creaturely life : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald / Eric L. Santner.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 219 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001.
Criticism and interpretation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence.
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944- -- Critique et interprétation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence.
Rilke, Rainer Maria -- Rezeption -- Sebald, Winfried Georg.
Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Rezeption -- Rilke, Rainer Maria.
Benjamin, Walter -- Rezeption -- Sebald, Winfried Georg.
Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Rezeption -- Benjamin, Walter.
Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Melancholie <Motiv> -- Leiblichkeit <Motiv>.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Santner, Eric L., 1955- On creaturely life. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006 9780226735023 (DLC) 2005027453 (OCoLC)61757937
ISBN 9780226735054 (electronic book)
0226735052 (electronic book)
0226735028 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226735036 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780226735023 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226735030 (paperback ; alkaline paper)