TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santner,Eric L.
TI  - On creaturely life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald 
SN  - 9780226735054 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PT2681.E18 Z84 2006eb
U1  - 833/.914 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sebald, Winfried Georg,
KW  - Rilke, Rainer Maria,
KW  - Benjamin, Walter,
KW  - Rilke, Rainer Maria
KW  - Sebald, Winfried Georg
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Psychoanalysis and literature
KW  - Melancholy in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Psychanalyse et littérature
KW  - Mélancolie dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bellettrie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Psychoanalyse
KW  - Melancholie
KW  - Melancholie <Motiv>
KW  - Leiblichkeit <Motiv>
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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