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On creaturely life

Santner, Eric L., 1955-

On creaturely life Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald / [electronic resource] : Eric L. Santner. - University of Chicago Press, c2006. - 1 online resource (xxii, 219 p.)

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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Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001 --Criticism and interpretation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 --Influence.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Influence.
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944- --Critique et interprétation.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 --Influence.
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 --Leiblichkeit


Psychoanalysis and literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Literature.
Psychanalyse et littérature.
Mélancolie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--German.
Bellettrie.
Psychoanalyse.
Melancholie.
Melancholie --Leiblichkeit --Sebald, Winfried Georg.
Leiblichkeit --Melancholie --Sebald, Winfried Georg.


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