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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Santner, Eric L., 1955- On creaturely life. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006 (DLC) 2005027453 (OCoLC)61757937 |
| Named Person: | Winfried Georg Sebald; Rainer Maria Rilke; Walter Benjamin; Winfried Georg Sebald; Rainer Maria Rilke; Walter Benjamin; Rainer Maria Rilke; Winfried Georg Sebald; Walter Benjamin; Winfried Georg Sebald; Winfried Georg Sebald |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric L Santner |
| ISBN: | 9780226735054 0226735052 |
| OCLC Number: | 657326812 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 219 p.) |
| Contents: | On creaturely life -- The vicissitudes of melancholy -- Toward a natural history of the present -- On the sexual life of creatures and other matters. |
| Responsibility: | Eric L. Santner. |
Abstract:
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.
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- Rilke, Rainer Maria, -- 1875-1926 -- Influence.
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- Literature.
- Sebald, Winfried Georg, -- 1944- -- Critique et interprétation.
- 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.
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- Melancholie <Motiv> -- Leiblichkeit <Motiv> -- Sebald, Winfried Georg.
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