1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784920903321

Autore

Santner Eric L. <1955->

Titolo

On creaturely life [[electronic resource] ] : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald / / Eric L. Santner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-73849-6

9786612738494

0-226-73505-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

833/.914

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and literature

Melancholy in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On creaturely life -- The vicissitudes of melancholy -- Toward a natural history of the present -- On the sexual life of creatures and other matters.

Sommario/riassunto

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 and authority. Santner traces this theme of creaturely life from its poetic and philosophical beginnings in the first half of the twentieth century to the writings of the enigmatic German novelist W. G. Sebald. Sebald's entire oeuvre, Santner argues, can be seen as an archive of creaturely life. For Sebald, the work on such an archive was inseparable from his understanding of what it means to engage ethically with another person's history and pain, an engagement that transforms us from indifferent individuals into neighbors. An indispensable book for



students of Sebald, On Creaturely Life is also a significant contribution to critical theory.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780179803321

Titolo

Class issues [[electronic resource] ] : pedagogy, cultural studies, and the public sphere / / edited by Amitava Kumar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8147-4939-9

0-585-42504-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KumarAmitava <1963->

Disciplina

370.11/5

Soggetti

Critical pedagogy

Intellectuals - Political activity

Class consciousness

Culture - Study and teaching

Socialism and education

Postmodernism and education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796562803321

Autore

Gleeson Jim

Titolo

Writing Japanese Hiragana : an introductory Japanese language workbook / / Jim Gleeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, Japan ; ; Rutland, Vermont ; ; Singapore : , : Tuttle Publishing, , 2015

©2015

Edizione

[Revised edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (81 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

495.682421

Soggetti

Japanese language - English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia