On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald

by Eric L. Santner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226735036
• ISBN13: 9780226735030
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.5"