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On Creaturely Life
Eric L. Santner
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Description for On Creaturely Life
Paperback. In his own reading of Rainer Maria 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 have a biopolitical aspect. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226735030
SKU
V9780226735030
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About Eric L. Santner
Eric L. Santner is the Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies and chair of the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life and coauthor of The Neighbor, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for On Creaturely Life
"Eric Santner's On Creaturely Life deserves a tribute, not a blurb. His intricate series of interlocutions between Rilke, Benjamin, Heidegger, Agamben, and Sebald make a kind of chamber music, rich with intellectual intuition and ethical clarity. Santner transforms and transposes the great themes of human and historical mediation in a range of keys - poetic, political, textual, juridical." - Homi ... Read more