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On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald New edition
Author(s): Professor Eric L. Santner (Author)
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: June 1, 2006
- Edition: New edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 0226735036
- ISBN-13: 9780226735030
Book Description
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.Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Eric L. Santner is the Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and coauthor of Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
