Eric L Santner: 3 books
The Royal Remains
The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
"The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign—and the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In The Royal Remains, Eric L. Santner argues that the "carnal" dimension...
On Creaturely Life
Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
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...
The Neighbor
Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud made abundantly clear what he thought about the biblical injunction, first articulated in Leviticus 19:18 and then elaborated in Christian teachings, to love one's neighbor as oneself. “Let us adopt a naive attitude towards it,” he proposed, “as though...