Title On creaturely life : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald / Eric L. Santner

Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 219 pages) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 fast Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001 fast Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 gnd Rilke, Rainer Maria 1875-1926 gnd Sebald, W. G. 1944-2001 gnd Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation. nli Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Influence. nli Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- Influence. nli Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001 -- analys och tolkning. sao Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- influenser. sao Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 -- influenser. sao Rilke, Rainer Maria -- Rezeption -- Sebald, Winfried Georg. swd Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Rezeption -- Rilke, Rainer Maria. swd Benjamin, Walter -- Rezeption -- Sebald, Winfried Georg. swd Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Rezeption -- Benjamin, Walter. swd Sebald, Winfried Georg -- Melancholie <Motiv> -- Leiblichkeit <Motiv> swd Subject Psychoanalysis and literature. Melancholy in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Melancholy in literature Psychoanalysis and literature Psychoanalyse Bellettrie. Psychoanalyse. Melancholie. Psychoanalysis and literature. Melancholy in literature. Psykoanalys och litteratur. Melankoli i litteraturen. Melancholie <Motiv> -- Leiblichkeit <Motiv> -- Sebald, Winfried Georg. Leiblichkeit <Motiv> -- Melancholie <Motiv> -- Sebald, Winfried Georg. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005027453 ISBN 9780226735054 0226735052 1282738496 9781282738492 9786612738494 6612738499

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