{"product_id":"on-creaturely-life-eric-l-santner-9780226735030","title":"On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald","description":"In his \u003ci\u003eDuino Elegies, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ecreaturely\u003c\/i\u003e--have a biopolitical aspect: they are linked to the processes that inscribe life in the realm of power and authority. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSantner 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn indispensable book for students of Sebald, \u003ci\u003eOn Creaturely Life\u003c\/i\u003e is also a significant contribution to critical theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric L. Santner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226735036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226735030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 6.02w x 0.70d","brand":"Eric L. Santner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946348577023,"sku":"9780226735030","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_122c6c3e-c8f7-4142-a48f-b0b8fc4a9e50.jpg?v=1681512635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-creaturely-life-eric-l-santner-9780226735030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}