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In his own reading of Rainer Maria 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 have a biopolitical aspect.

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"Eric Santner's On Creaturely Life deserves a tribute, not a blurb. His intricate series of interlocutions between Rilke, Benjamin, Heidegger, Agamben, and Sebald make a kind of chamber music, rich with intellectual intuition and ethical clarity. Santner transforms and transposes the great themes of human and historical mediation in a range of keys - poetic, political, textual, juridical." - Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University"

On Creaturely Life Rilke Benjamin Sebald

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226735030, 978-0226735030
      ISBN10: 0226735036

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In his own reading of Rainer Maria 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 have a biopolitical aspect.

      Trade Review
      "Eric Santner's On Creaturely Life deserves a tribute, not a blurb. His intricate series of interlocutions between Rilke, Benjamin, Heidegger, Agamben, and Sebald make a kind of chamber music, rich with intellectual intuition and ethical clarity. Santner transforms and transposes the great themes of human and historical mediation in a range of keys - poetic, political, textual, juridical." - Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University"

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