LEADER 03254nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910459366403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-73849-6 010 $a9786612738494 010 $a0-226-73505-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226735054 035 $a(CKB)2670000000035046 035 $a(EBL)574772 035 $a(OCoLC)657326812 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424473 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11294618 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424473 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10471196 035 $a(PQKB)10648681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC574772 035 $a(DE-B1597)523192 035 $a(OCoLC)1135615340 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226735054 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL574772 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408899 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL273849 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000035046 100 $a20050920d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn creaturely life$b[electronic resource] $eRilke, Benjamin, Sebald /$fEric L. Santner 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-73503-6 311 $a0-226-73502-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOn creaturely life -- The vicissitudes of melancholy -- Toward a natural history of the present -- On the sexual life of creatures and other matters. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature 606 $aMelancholy in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature. 615 0$aMelancholy in literature. 676 $a833/.914 700 $aSantner$b Eric L.$f1955-$0967195 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459366403321 996 $aOn creaturely life$92288366 997 $aUNINA