Ebook: On creaturely life : Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
Author: Sebald Winfried Georg, Benjamin Walter, Rilke Rainer Maria, Sebald Winfried Georg, Santner Eric L
- Tags: Sebald W. G. -- (Winfried Georg) -- 1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation. Psychoanalysis and literature. Rilke Rainer Maria -- 1875-1926 -- Influence. Melancholy in literature. Benjamin Walter -- 1892-1940 -- Influence. Literature. Sebald Winfried Georg -- 1944- -- Critique et interprétation. Psychanalyse et littérature. Mél
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
- City: Chicago
- Language: English
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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, Read more...
Abstract: 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