On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald by Eric L. Santner

On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald

Eric L. Santner

216 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced

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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 t...

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