On creaturely life : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xxii, 219 pages)
9780226735054, 9781282738492, 9786612738494, 0226735052, 1282738496, 6612738499
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English
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