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On creaturely life [electronic resource] : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald / Eric L. Santner.

By: Santner, Eric L, 1955-.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 219 p.).ISBN: 9780226735054 (electronic bk.); 0226735052 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation | Psychoanalysis and literature | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence | Melancholy in literature | Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence | Literature | Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944- -- Critique et interprétation | Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence | Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence | Psychanalyse et littérature | Mélancolie dans la littérature | LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German | Bellettrie | Psychoanalyse | Melancholie | 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> | Melancholie <Motiv> -- Leiblichkeit <Motiv> -- Sebald, Winfried Georg | Leiblichkeit <Motiv> -- Melancholie <Motiv> -- Sebald, Winfried GeorgGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: On creaturely life.DDC classification: 833/.914 LOC classification: PT2681.E18 | Z84 2006ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost

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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On creaturely life -- The vicissitudes of melancholy -- Toward a natural history of the present -- On the sexual life of creatures and other matters.

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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